Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • ADANA, Badajoz, Spain – galgo lucky to be alive

    ADANA have rescued this badly injured galgo, suffering multiple bites – particularly to his testicles – and a torn neck. He also has a recent scar about 2cm wide which runs round the neck. The new neck wound is very deep to such an extent that you can see they veins. The tear is about 3cm long. To have survived such horrendous injuries – cause by being bait in a dog fight, or possibly also having been hung and released means this boy has a very strong survivor instinct. He has been named River. He’s in Badajoz, a particular hell hole for galgos.

    So, ADANA is appealing for help to pay the vet fees to help River on the road to recovery.
    You can make donations through their bank account or by Paypal Donations on the button on their website. If you click on the Union Jack top right hand corner of the homepage, you can read their news in English.

    WARNING – Upsetting photos

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  • Advice on donating to appeals

    Over the years of my involvement with the plight of the galgos and podencos – and dozens of other deserving dogs in Spain – I receive many appeals each week to raise funds to help refuges and in particular money for vet fees for badly injured/sick dogs. I’ve come across one or two people who I subsequently discovered were appealing for money for a dog which they in fact did not have and had no links to! So I try to only post appeals on behalf of associations, refuges and individual who I know and who are established.

    Vivienne Wharton of ACTIN has written this article on the subject, which contains some very good advice.

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  • Galgo Ed in Murcia – can you help

    AWSM Ed 250 2 2013Ed, the galgo in the front of the picture, has Erlichia AND Leishmania, so he was very lucky to have been picked up when he was found wandering around a village with Elsa the other Galga in the photo. He is being treated firstly for the Erlichia which has had this handsome guy lying in his bed over the weekend, eating ok but sleeping a lot and obviously feeling quite rough.. .and on top of all that he only has one ‘testicle’ AND his tail doesn’t work, as in ‘wag’, So WHEN all the medication has finished in about a month, he will also be castrated, which will be a bigger op than normal for a castration. He will have an xray on his back end to see if there is any damage or just some inflamation which is causing it.

    If you can help in anyway toward the vetenary care and medication it would be greatly appreciated. either to PayPal roberta-brown@sky.com or sherliebradley@yahoo.co.uk, collecting on behalf of AWSM. State it is for Ed. Thank you

  • Dogster tells the story of some rescued Galgos

    Some publicity for the galgos on the Dogster website. Please share far and wide to help the galgos. Next on the list, podencos!

  • Animales Rioja – land needed which doesn’t flood – please sign appeal.

    You will have read below about Animales Rioja having to move their 70+ dogs out of their rescue area because of severe flooding and non-stop rain. Their dogs are all fostered and boarded out in kennels, which they have to pay for. They are asking their local Town Council for help with a new piece of ground. Please sign this petition and share it as widely as possible for them.

    I just signed the petition “Ayuntamiento de Logroño: Cesion de terreno para crear un refugio para Animales Rioja” Our goal is to reach 15,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here

    I know you can do it! The ban gassing petition achieved over 70,000 in a week!

  • Martin Usborne, photographer and author, visits the galgos of Malaga

    Charl Carly perrera 250 1 2013Last summer I received the following email.

    ‘My name is Martin Usborne. I am a dog lover and professional photographer from London. I’ve recently decided to take a year out from earning to help animals, in particular dogs, and intend to write a book about my experience. I’ve just come back from India where I’ve been working with stray dogs. I want to ask the question: what happens if you drop everything and decide to follow your heart?

    I can’t get the horrible pictures of the poor rejected galgos out of my head and wanted to double check if there was anything I could do as I believe January is the time of year when they suffer most. If you think I might be able to visit Spain on a short trip and write about the issue and if possible participate in some hands on rescue please let me know.’

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  • Portugal Dog Rescue – Galga Estrela’s rescuers need help

    Portugal dog box 250 2 2013Do you remember the story of Estrela, the galga in Portugal suffering at the hands of an alcoholic an drug addict wife? Teresa de Sousa and her team did an incredible job rescuing Estrela, another galga, and their puppies. Teresa badly needs funds to build some kennels to keep sick dogs separate from the healthy ones. She needs 350 euros – not a fortune. Please help her achieve her goal. Here are the details, you can donate by Paypal or credit card.

    Update on Estrela. She is doing well in foster care, EU passport prepared, and it looks like she is going to come to me in France for temporary foster en route for her forever home in the UK. Teresa and Ines thank you all for your donations which helped them save the lives of the two galgas and their puppies.

  • Animales Rioja refuge flooded out – donations needed to pay for kennel fees for the dogs

    Animales Rioja refuge is flooded out, the dogs are being moved into kennels but the association desperately needs money to pay the kennelfees. Read here to donate

  • From Cordoba Perrera to France – The joyful galga Sahara

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  • Outrageous – Andalucia Junta authorises beating dogs to death – petition more links

    Some of you have had problems connecting to the link for the petition. So try these. Both pages bring the petition up. Over 50,00 names already.

    https://www.change.org/es/peticiones/cese-inmediato-de-la-matanza-de-perros-en-punta-umbr%C3%ADa-huelva-espa%C3%B1a?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=17631&alert_id=QcCDVVOteT_SraHKZpTMA+style=

    https://www.change.org/es/peticiones/cese-inmediato-de-la-matanza-de-perros-en-punta-umbr%C3%ADa-huelva-espa%C3%B1a?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=17631&alert_id=QcCDVVOteT_SraHKZpTMA+style=