Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • Little Podenca found in Badajoz – needs medical treatment for eyesight

    Podenca Andaluz Badajoz 03 2010 300 An appeal for someone to take this little podenca. She is a Podenca Andaluz, weighing 5 kgs – the same breed of podenca as my own Bebe, who weighs in at just 6 kgs. She was found in the hellhole of Badajoz, wherein is the worst perrera in Spain – Olivenza.

    The girl who found her writes:

    PODENQUITA: Abandoned in a village in the province of Badajoz, when I came upon her, I noticed something strange when she struck her head walking into walls or traffic signals, poor thing, I took her right away.

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  • Heartless Spanish hunter – podenca abandoned near Albacete, starving to death

    Albacete podenca 5 2010 250 This is yet another example of the despicable heartlessness of Spanish hunters; this podenca was abandoned about a month ago in a village 90 kms from Albacete. Some people are leaving her food, but she is obviously starving to death.

    These are the contact details if anyone can help get her and take her in.

    nosunad@repsol.com

    TELÉFONO: 662 08 84 43

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  • Cheap Spanish holidays in Aviles, room only, no food or maid service

    Aviles, Asturias 8 190 This is the ‘shelter’ at Aviles, Asturia. Cuencanimal and Associacion Salvanimal-France have sent this report.

    ‘The deplorable situation of these dogs and cats shows the lack of sensitivity that has Pilar Varela, mayor of the Municipality of Avilés, for animals

    When you get to where they are crowded, more than eighty dogs and cats are housed there, a strong smell hits you, anticipating the terrible images of the situation these animals are forced to exist in. A sign at the entrance warns that “No animals are picked up or delivered’. Dogs and cats barely survive in this hell of Avilés, sharing their space with tons of rubble and dirt, with rats, in cages consisting of pallets and mattresses.

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  • Baas Galgo head for Cordoba with donations for Spanish refuges

    Baas Galgo goods for Villa del Rio and Cordoba shelters 03 2010 250 News from Baas Galgo.

    As a result of the collaboration between Ronda’Shop, Doggymix and Baasgalgo,
    volunterers in Holland have fully loaded a van with support goods for the shelters, a tremendous amount of blankets, towels, medical products, collars, leashes, feeders, passports, microchips and a chip reader for Leticia (volunteer in the shelter).
    In addition there were 275 coats and 700 kilos of food.

    Read about the trip, what happens to all the goods, and the dogs they brought back, including the ones saved from the threat of embalming at the university.

  • Galgo puppy saved from death – victory for the rescuers – no more days in a Spanish hell

    Galgo puppy 03 2010 in foster 1 220 Fantastic news for a Monday morning! The little puppy in the perrera waiting to be killed is SAVED! It’s now in a foster home of a friend of Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo. As soon as I have more news, I will let you know. HURRAY!

  • Bone – podenco surviving against all odds – curse the people who did this to him

    To get the latest update on Bone, saved from the verge of death in a dog pound, now receiving veterinary care through Galgos France, click here.

  • Podenca puppies – loose on the streets of Cadiz – please help save them

    Podenca on streets of Cadiz 3 03 2010 250 This information has just come in. Please can someone take these little puppies off the streets before they get hurt.

    ‘It is from Nuria who works with the Rota refuge.

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  • 2 1/2 metres of water & mud – help Alberto near Cordoba, his refuge and his dogs

    Andujar refuge alberto mud 03 2010 300 This is the latest news from Alberto at his refuge on the outskirts of Cordoba. The Guadalquivir river is in torrent, it has rained for 8 days again non-stop; the refuge is under 2 1/2 metres of water. He has 30 dogs in his refuge; the first ones he took out were the puppies and small dogs to another shelter 50 kilometres away. Then, when he went back for his other dogs, the water was up to his knees. He has saved the other dogs, but not the bedding, dog food etc. and has lost electricity power.

    The biggest problem now is to get a lorry which will remove all the mud deposited around the shelter. He is desperate for monetary aid and manpower – even his mother has lent some money to help. He built this shelter on his own, and he is totally on his own in looking after the dogs and doing all the work.

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  • Villa del Rio, Cordoba – latest pictures of the flooding at the refuge

    Latest pictures from Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo, when she and her team visited Villa del Rio refuge, Cordoba. Hard for me to remember that when I visited it last June 2009, the ground was baked so hard it had cracked. This is the refuge where 90 galgos were dumped by their galgueros last month, because they wouldn’t keep them over summer!

  • Amigos de Los Galgos – saving and rehoming galgos in France and Belgium

    Amigos de Los Galgos is an association which has been working tirelessly to help the galgos and podencos of Spain. 2 of the larger refuges they work with are Las Nieves refuge, and Pedro Munoz refuge in Cuidad Real. Here you can read about the number of galgos and podencos saved and rehomed in Belgium and France during 2009. Click on ‘translate’ for the English version.