Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • Figures for Galgos and Podencos – it will frighten you!

    This is the text of a presentation I made at the PAES International Conference on Animal Welfare in October 2016.

    Let’s look at estimated ANNUAL figures for uncontrolled breeding of galgos and podencos.

    GALGOS

    Back in the early 1990’s, a friend of mine who was a Daily Mail staff photographer, was visiting the Castile-la Mancha province. His guide walked him into an olive grove where Jim photographed the olive trees, most of which had a dead galgo hanging from them, which made headlines in the paper.

    In 2009 SOS Galgos (Barcelona) claimed on their website that 160 galgos were abandoned every day.

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  • 1st February – Dia di Galgo – Day of the Galgo

    Link to a video supporting Dia del Galgo

  • Baby rescued from a Seville slum

    Black galgo Chusa 400 30 1 2018
    From the Black Galgo association.

    ‘A few hours ago, we talked about how the puppies act when we rescue them, they tend to be gentle and they trust themselves… but it’s not always like that. Sometimes we see the deepest sorrow in a little face that should only “smile” with a curious look.

    We just found this little disoriented two-and-a-Half-Month-old baby on the streets of a slum. There is no more sadness in such a small body… it is tiny, malnutrition is palpable in every bony of her body.
    We love her with all the love that wakes us up a little girl so tiny and so confused… to try to make her understand that everything happened and that we will give her all the love she deserves and give her a family that will never make her feel lonely and scared as she was so far.

    Chusa, welcome to black greyhound. You don’t know, but we love you madly.
    We take you home, it’s a little cold here.

    Please, if you can welcome chusa in Seville, write to us.
    info.blackgalgo@gmail.com

  • Stop the export of Irish Greyhounds to Pakistan

    Please sign and share.

    The Irish greyhound breeders/trainers don’t give a monkeys where their dogs end up, once they can no longer earn them money. It’s blood money and what the dogs will suffer in Pakistan at the end of their lives doesn’t bear thinking about!

  • 21st Century Slaves

    Ceswir Htz 21st century slaves 400 30 1 2018
    Spain – January 2018. The poor hounds catch the hare and then the sub human bastard hunter torments them with the dead body!

  • Galgo Peluco with Scooby – hoping for a forever home

    Scooby Peluco 400 1 2018
    As we know, Scooby works tirelessly savin e hounds in Spain. Here’s one ready for adoption, Peluco. He’s so like my galga Carmela when I first got her 7 years ago. Read about him on this link and watch a video. Contact Scooby direct if you have room in your home and heart for him.

  • Dogs and bones

    DogChewingBone 400 Pixabay
    For many years I gave large raw marrow bones to my dogs as being good for their teeth and gums, until one day my Swedish Valhund managed to break off a piece small enough to get stuck in her throat. This necessitated an operation and vet fees.

    I always clean up poop from my dogs, every time they go out and do one. Can’t say I’ve ever notice white bits in it, apart from once a foster galga arrived from Spain who supposedly had been wormed…but definitely hadn’t! However, I thought you might be interested to read this article.

  • Malaga & Granada – stolen galgos and podencos

    Stolen galgo Granada 400 13 1 2018
    With the mass overbreeding of galgos and podencos together with the number abandoned and dumped in perreras, it’s strange to read about stolen hounds which have been recovered by the Guardia Civile. There have been two such posts on facebook of dogs recovered. Here’s the report about one group. This galgo is one over about 40 waiting to be reunited with their owners….who sadly are probably hunters!

    ‘We have received these photographs of numerous dogs, stolen in the provinces of Malaga and Granada, which were recovered by the Civil Guard after an operation they have carried out in recent months.

    Now, they’re trying to locate the owners of the animals, many of them without a microchip, so they return them. If you think you know any of these perretes, please contact us by sending us your data:
    asociacionporpatas@gmail.com tele Spain 0034 622623933

    The facebook page for this group of about 40 hounds is Perros robados recuperados if you are able to view on fb.

    The second instance was 5 galgos being walked by children which also turned out to be stolen. 4 of them are below. AND below that are some of the stolen podencos recovered in Malaga.

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  • 2 more victims of the over-breeding by Spanish galgueros!

    Scooby terrified galga 400 1 2018
    Two female Galgos rescued. One of them, the one that is hidden in the wooden box, is very afraid and the other one is a puppy of only about five months old.

    Both, like the other dogs that are in Scooby, need a new home where they can live happily forever. #ADOPT ??

    Please, help us to continue changing lives:
    Dogs for adoption http://bit.ly/2oa355c
    Join the teaming for only 1€/month http://bit.ly/2teaming
    Donate: http://bit.ly/2donat
    Thanks!!

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  • March in Cologne, Germany, 25thJanuary 2018

    Galgo Walk Germany 400 27 1 2018
    Calling all galgo and podenco adoptants, fosterers and people who simply love them…join this walk. Saturday 27th. of January at 12 o´clock in Keulen (Köln) Germany there is the 3rd. Galgowalk against the abuse of and hunting with galgos in Spain. If you have the time and oportunity, go there with your dog(s) and be their voice!!!