Update on Kiara, the galga with the axe injury on her back.
‘Back from her visit to the vets. Stitches out and healing well. Vet Paco is on holiday so any further tests will be decided on his return. An extra dose of anti inflammatories given and next she will start swim therapy.’
Still uncertain whether or not she will lose her tail.
To donate to vet fees for Kiara, paypal comdelrio@hotmail.com ‘donation Kiara’.
ACTIN do tremendous work on behalf of the abandoned and maltreated dogs in Spain. Their successes, when they come, will improve life for all dogs, including galgos and podencos. Please support ACTIN, become a member and share their work.
Pro-Galgo are moving their base to a finca where they will be creating a place for galgo and podenco owners and passionatas to visit and share time with these fabulous hounds. Read all about it here.
Not a galgo, but she could very well have been – stories similar to this happen to the galgos too. Read the miracle of HOPE, in the care of the ACTIN team.
A week or so ago, I posted about the problems a friend was having trying to adopt a little black galga from Scooby, and was refused. President of Scooby Fermin Perez Martin replied, explaining that because there are so many English and Irish greyhounds needing forever homes in the UK, Scooby does not send galgos there. I concur with his view, although I feel that when an exceptional home is offered to a ‘hard-to-place’ dog, an exception should have been made.
Danielle Hart, who translated my book on the Spanish Galgo into French, recently sent me the following tale. Any of my readers had experience of a pet wash?
‘I’m translating a magazine for convenience store owners and there is an article on this carwash in Ontario, Canada, that added a “petwash” to its services. Not sure if that’s popular in Europe, but here it’s a growing trend. People can wash their dogs in those petwashes at their local carwash. The dog looks like a Galgo. I was startled to see him. Or perhaps it’s a Greyhound? Hard to tell… But I thought I’d share it with you.’
Amongst the dozens of animals taken by Scooby on the latest Bullas rescue early this year were a lot of ferrets. To illustrate that construction work at Scooby never ends, here are some pix of the two houses they have built – one for the females and castrated ferrets and one for the whole males.
What these poor bitches suffer, when dumped by humans…storm drains, large trees, rubbish tips, they have their babies anywhere and then struggle to find food for them.
Read about Margo Easter’s latest visit to Scooby.
Regular readers will remember the story of Tico, the galgo badly injured and left for dead in a ditch in Seville Province. Luckily he was found and taken to the vet where the incredible team, together with dedicated round-the-clock care from Sandra Campos Cuevas, brought him back to life and put his poor injured body back together. Over the months it was thought he would never walk, never be without nappies because he was incontinent…Spanish vets more than any others work tirelessly to save these dogs…where certainly in the UK and here in France they would be pts.
I’ve just watched THE most amazing video – sadly only on facebook so I can’t share it with you – of Tico, no nappies, running and playing with two canine friends. Simply incredible. Sandra reports Tico is very happy. The bad news is that once again he has urine infection. It appears that the use of diapers, this problem will always end up appearing. So he needs some antibiotics again. This time at least, it has been 12 days without bleeding. It’s nothing serious … I think it’s an everyday thing for us.
Here’s a photo of Sandra with Tico. And I stick 2 fingers up at you, bastard galguero, who couldn’t take care of your hound and prevent his suffering!
