Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • Holiday Accommodation in Spain? Death Row in Gesser, Cadiz!

    Gesser 1 250 25 1 2012Yet more galgos on death row, this time in Gesser perrera, Jerez (nr Cadiz). 30 here this week, due to be sacrificed shortly. 30 euros it costs, to get an animal out with chip, passport, rabies vacc and tick treatment. The one with the broken leg is now reserved, there is a pup with a deformed leg. There are more photos on www.perreras.org. More dogs coming in every day – hunting is due to finish and there will be hundreds more in perreras all over the country. The hunters do not care!

    If any associations can help with these dogs, please contact Maribel or phone Maribel between 9-5 605637101. More pix here

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  • Galgo Save Belgium, another group helping the galgos

    http://www.galgosavebelgium.be/galgonieuws%20uit%20Spanje/galgonieuws_fr.htm

  • Exclusive accommodation in Spain – rescue attempts for 74 galgos and podencos

    Gypsy galgo starved 1 150 1 2012No apologies for the ‘stupid’ title to this post. I have put in key words and want to reach as many people as possible looking at Spain, for whatever reason. Update on the rescue of 74 galgos/podencos – mostly galgos – from a gypsy in Murcia, who has a denuncia against him. Here is what Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol says.

    ‘Approx 74 galgos and pods. GdS managed to rescue 9 with the help of The Henrietta Foundation who will foster 4 of those for us. La Fortelaza took 8, and another lady there took approx 5 I think and has another 5-6 reserved but has to come back. GalgoConnection Spain in Valencia are taking 3. So there are approx 45 left that are all due to be taken away and put to sleep on Friday 27th January 2012. ‘ I believe although that date is not concrete.

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  • Dog-Walking in Spain – Spanish law explained

    Exercising galgos BBA couple of days ago I asked the question – what is the law in Spain on exercising galgos, if they are companion dogs. Andrew Hurrell, a founder of Noahs Arc in Mazarron, has personal experience of the problem; he shares it here with you.

    ‘Fury from Camposol ex pats regarding hunting fine of 300 Euros

    My partner and I worked tirelessly with a dog rescue for three years in the Murcia area, and fostered and rescued numerous Greyhound types (called Galgos in Spain) which were cast off by hunters at the end of each season; you can imagine that hunters are not the most well thought of individuals amongst the dog rescue fraternity in Murcia.

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  • Murcia – 70 galgos need rescuing from a Spanish gypsy – send a letter to the Hunting Federation

    70 galgos gypsy camp 250 21 1 201222 January 2012 – as I write a rescue is being carried out in Murcia. Up to 70 galgos in a gypsy camp. The gitano (Spanish gypsy) with these dogs was denounced (see my book to explain a denuncia) and the authorities said the dogs would all be put down unless they were rescued. These dogs are in poor condition, some chained to walls….the gypsies are very hard on the galgos. Several people belonging to rescue associations and refuges are involved in this operation.

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  • Galgo Marko – Pepis Refuge, Animals in Distress and Arca Noah to the rescue

    Marko 1 AID 250 20 1 2012Joe Safont-Ruiz of Animals in Distress tells the story of this poor boy.

    ‘A Galgo (Greyhound) was left tied up outside Pepis Refugio – The dogs were barking as normal but Alan and Jane knew the different barks and this meant a new arrival. Alan walked down to the gate with a small torch only to see two green glows at the gate; yes it was Marko (his new name).

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  • Spanish Legal Expert needed – law on galgos running free

    Cordoba galga mama 250 1 26 07This is a question for the legal experts to answer. A couple in Palencia found two starving galgos in a ditch a couple of years ago. They adopted them and walk them in the fields in a morning, letting them run free. As they are so well fed, they don’t tend to catch anything!

    The couple have now been told – by a man with two (unleashed) hunting dogs – that they are breaking the law by having the galgos run free in the campo, that they spoil the hunting. If he sees them running free again, he will file a report with the Guardia Civil.

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  • Dog Fighting – an innocent victim used as bait – Spanish galgos suffer

    Galga as dog bait 250 14 1 2012Because galgos are not aggressive dogs, unscrupulous people use them as bait for dog fighting. This galguita found a few days ago, is young, full of wounds and has a broken tail.

    There currently seems to be some uncertainty as to who actually has the galga,

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  • Federacion Espanola de Galgos – send a letter

    Don’t forget to join my letter-writing campaign – click here for the letter in Spanish, copy, paste and send off in your thousands!

  • Badajoz galgo – galguera threatens to kill him! Another disposable dog!

    Badajoz galgo 1 250 17 1 2012A volunteer in Badajoz pleads for help for another galgo. ‘ARWIN is a young galgo 16 months old… the galguera (female hunter) contacted us and said he will kill him in 48 hours if we can’t find anywhere for him.

    When we came to see the dog, we found he was terrified, he had a lot of bite marks on him, some healed, some more recent. I have asked the galguera please let us bathe him, heal the wounds and carry him to the vet… but she says the dog is not hers, and the dog has to go.

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