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Category: Regional news
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My Christmas and New Year greetings to you all
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Portugal Dog Rescue galgos – Esperanca out
Message from Ines Canavarro, Portugal Dog Rescue – they now have Esperanca safe but she has a broken leg, is on medication for pain control until she can be operated on. The police, mayor and municipal vet are working on a prosecution. No pix yet. (This is the last one of the family of Estrela, Duke, Foguete – all now safe. Foguete is no longer having fits! Yea!). Sorry – still a couple more to get out, see Ines’ update
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‘Close all perreras’ – the debate – and one in Murcia which SHOULD be closed
A post appealing for people to sign a petition to ‘Close All Perreras’ on my Save the Galgo facebook page generated a lot of discussion, after I posed the question – if the perreras are closed, what is your alternative solution to the problem of Spain’s abandoned dogs. Posted here are many of the responses.
Independently, Viv Wharton of ACTIN wrote this article“>this article.
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Galgo Tico in Seville – another fighter beating the galgueros
Look at this! A massage machine arrived for Tico for an early Xmas present. Sandra says ‘goodnight Tico’ and the best of all…Tico standing unaided!
I’ll be meeting up with Sandra in Seville on Sunday night so post any messages you’d like me to give her and I’ll print them off and put them in an Xmas card for her.
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Please help Portugal’s hunting dogs – sign the petition
Matt Lightfoot reports from Portugal.
Portugal has just approved a new law for animal cruelty (up to 2 years in prison) and for animal abandonment { up to 6 months in prison}. I was told it was only for ‘companion` animals, but see below Ines Canavarro of Portugal Dog Rescue says it is for all animals. There is an online petition to try and change it,
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Updates – Gala, Tico, Foguete
GALA: (from Cobie at Scooby) She gave milk so the vet made an echography and from the form of the uterus he could see that she had given birth very recently. A galguero would never murder a litter of real galgos so probably it wase mixes. He stole them from her, probably mad because of the mixes, murdered them and hung her in a tree to die.
Better nobody tells us who the bastard is who did this to her, because really, I swear…! She is not just sweet but super, super, super sweet and bravely trying to forget the horror which came over her the last few days!! Galgos…they are just amazing…! The first picture is Gala with her saviour, a few moments after he cut her loose from the tree, milles gracias de corazon!!!!! The other picture shows Gala enjoying the sun and the other dogs´company.
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Amanda Holden & Paul O’Grady teaming up with Pedigree
Amanda Holden and Paul O’Grady team up to help rescue dogs. And don’t forget to watch Paul O’Grady at Battersea Dogs Home in a special Xmas Day programme.
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Merida galgos saved by Scooby Medina – life is looking up!
The Merida galgos saved by Scooby Medina from being murdered.
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Galgos discarded by galgueros – safe with Scooby Medina
JOYA, a galga only 11 months old who broke her leg a few months ago during hunting and was no longer fit for hunting, as her galguero said, and brought to the Scooby residencia. She is doing great after she has been operated pn. In Scooby, Medina del Campo and for adoption. Contact Simonetta
This poor black galga GALA is maybe also not even one year old, found last week hanging in a tree but still alive!
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Nearly deaf, partially sighted – big cuddly puppy Pipa waiting at Scooby
Not a podenco or a galgo but nevertheless a very special young dog with Scooby Medina who needs a very special home. Here’s her story.
PIPA is a very special girl.She is a puppy(born in january 2013) living with the oldies.Pipa is deaf(if not completely,almost deaf),we think she doesn´t see perfectly and, once in a while,she has an epileptic attack.
But there are many other things that make her special and loved…