Latest news of the marvellous work Greyhounds in Need does for the galgos in Spain.
Category: Regional news
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Galga Roma, another victim of injury on Spain’s roads
This beauty is Roma, a gentle galga, as they all are, who was found abandoned and injured in Cuenca, probably a victim of a road accident. Barbara LeFranc of Le Bulletin des Levriers tells her story.
‘As we all know, in Spain there are many injured and dead dogs by the roadside, victims of road traffic accidents, where most people treat them as they would a gnat squashed on their windscreen. This is known around the world.
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Galgos Rocky and Marlo – from Jerez killing station to forever in the USA!
Here’s a lovely rehoming story – it’s amazing how rescued galgos cope with so many changes in their lives – different languages as they change countries, travelling hundreds of kilometres to new lives, flying across the Atlantic, then flying on again, across America!
Introducing Rocky and Marlo, rescued from Jerez killing station, cared for by Galgos Connection Spain, rehomed in the US.
Telma Shaw of GRIN says, ‘Here is the first picture of Rocky and Marlo, the Jerez boys that just arrived in the USA!!
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A life spent chained to a drum – galga in Valencia
Another picture of the hellish life inflicted on galgos in Spain.‘There are a lot of galgos kept here, sick, pups of about 5 months chained up, And a beautiful galga, living chained to a drum … and so afraid, that never leaves the drum. We don’t denounce them because we want to get them out. adoptadelaperrera@gmail.com Valencia
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IDOD Dog Walk – more pix
IDOD Dog walk in France 17 04 2011 – David’s photos on the 6.5 km walk – well, it was a bit longer than that, but I thought if I said so, people wouldn’t walk it! About 30 dogs and owners walked this route along lanes and tracks around St Pardoux, where we live.
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IDOD Dog Walk – walking lanes & tracks in France for rescued dogs in Spain
International Day of the Dog is now into its 6th year, always on the last Sunday in April. 2011 so happens to also be Easter Sunday, so I held my fundraising IDOD Dog Walk a week early on 17th April. The sun shone brightly on St Pardoux with over 50 dogs and their loving owners turning up for a leisurely stroll along the delightful lanes and tracks which surround this small village in Western France, where I live.
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Voice for the Voiceless – Sharon appeals on behalf of Noah’s Arc Murcia
Sharon Reynolds is based in the UK and works on behalf of the Noah’s Arc Animal Rescue shelter in Murcia, Spain. She has been involved with them and on a fundraising mission for the last 5 years and regularly visits the area. Here is her latest appeal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlN_SnRlyk
Please be assured that there are ‘NO’ bad images in this film and all the dogs featured are ‘safe’ and waiting to be adopted. I think you’ll agree that the soundtrack is both beautiful and appropriate and the end message fitting.
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Scooby Auction – donations needed before 15 May – please help
Dear friends,
It is hard to believe that this year will be our 3rd Scooby North America Auction. Actually, we are having 2 auctions this year. One in June and another in December. In the past two years, with your help we have raised enough money to help install a much-needed tile floor in the Hospital and Surgery Center and build numerous brick shelters in the paddocks at the Scooby Animal Refuge in Medina del Campo, Spain.
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Dying in Seville, save galgo lives in Seville
Spain, how proud and arrogant are your Royal House, your politicians! You turn your eyes away from the facts of life in your country. You acclaim your historic churches, cities, olympic villages. And yet you ignore the struggles for life which go on along your streets, in the countryside, stories which the world reads, pictures it sees on the Internet. You leave it to the volunteers who care, who pick up the detritus discarded by your hunters, ignored by those who close their eyes and walk by. Here is one such case, Loli tells it in her own words….
‘Abandoned galgos and puppies