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You may remember reading on Galgo News about some galgos in the perreira in Toledo who were due to be euthanaised. Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo and a team of volunteers set about rescuing them and placing them in refuges for adoption. Read about their trip.

Over a period of 7 days at the beginning of June, a team from Greyhounds In Nood, Belgium, travelled overland with a van load of goods through France to Spain and Madrid, to visit refuges in the area with hundreds of galgos. This is the story of their trip, fascinating and moving.

At one refuge, they were introduced to a 6-week old galga puppy which had been dumped in a rubbish bin, covered in vermin. At another refuge, there were more than 300 galgos.

This story makes the proposed introduction in Belgium in October of a law prohibiting the importing of dogs from outside that country even more appalling.

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A message via Charl, a plea for help for the galgos struggling in the perrera at Mairena del Aljarafe, in Sevilla.

‘So.. yet again the galgos are being disregarded en masse, firstly by their hunters, secondly at the public shelters they land into which practise euthanasia. I am not saying I am against or for this, what i am saying is, they are rarely given the opportunity to even be offered as pets, .. so sent on in order to be put down. Living in squalor while awaiting their number.

Mairena del Aljarafe is a town of Sevilla, there has been a plea made for 20 – 25 galgos kept in a society there, and from there they are taken on Tuesdays and Thursdays to be sacrificed. In the early pictures the water is green and the food was placed inbetween the faeces and urine, just thrown on the floor. Having been noted that someone has been taking photographs, the water is cleaner, but the points are still the same.

It’s not just here, it’s in hundreds of Spanish towns – but here is where the plea is at the moment. If you have a place which can offer a galgo a home, one it has probably never known, the rewards are tremendous. Theres no love like a galgo’s love. Email if you can help.

Here’s the story of my recent trip from my home in France to Cordoba and back, with a team from L’Europe des Levriers. We brought 14 galgos and a couple of podencos back with us, for fostering and rehoming in France.

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It was hot and sunny in Parthenay when I set off. ‘Hope you’ve got air conditioning in the car’, commented my co-driver. Well, of course I have, I just open the windows! ‘There’s rain forecast for Madrid and Cordoba’, she said hopefully; she doesn’t like hot weather.

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Can anyone help urgently – 4 galgos at the perriera in Toledo are due to be euthenased. Contact details below.

Menace d’euthanasie imminente a la perriera de TOLEDE EN ESPAGNE –

sauvons les 4 galgos martyres d’espagne en devant FA OU ADOPTANT

CONTACT patriciamartin41@wanadoo.fr – 06 63 61 51 26

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It never ceases to amaze me just how many abandoned dogs there are in Spain. Hundreds of beautiful dogs, pure bred and mixed breed, live in refuges all over the country, looked after by dedicated volunteers. Andalucia is a particularly dreadful place to be a dog! Here is a report about the Protectora de Granada, in Fuentevaqueros, which fights against cruelty to dogs, and their abandonment.

Suzanne explains. ‘I would like to let you know that there is a place in Granada, Protectora de Granada, in Fuentevaqueros , that fights against cruelties and abandon of dogs. Several are mixed dogs, other ones are pure breed dogs that are used for hunting by hunters and some tourist that go to Spain to hunt and then, after the hunting period, abandon them in the woods or in the streets.

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Back from the trip to Cordoba, to visit refuges and meet some amazing Spanish volunteers working in them, and to bring out some more wonderful galgos and a couple of podencos for rehoming in France. And I also met my first ‘hung galga’ in the flesh, rather than just through information on the Internet.

As yet unnamed, she was found hanging by a cord round her neck, struggling. The volunteers cut her down, and took her to the refuge, which is 60km south of Cordoba on the Seville road. She has been in the refuge for 2 weeks now, her physical wounds are healing a bit, but her mental state will take a lot longer. Arrangements have been made to bring her to France as soon as she has been named, microchipped and vaccinated.

Hi Folks

Just to say that I will be silent again for a few days, as I’m off to Spain via Madrid to Cordoba with L’Europe des Levriers to uplift some more galgos deserving of their forever families in mainland Europe, outside Spain.

It doesn’t solve the root problem – lack of control of breeding of galgos, living conditions of galgos, and disposal of them at the end of every hunting season. And it begs the question – if the galguerros – as is now the case – know that if they dump their galgos at the gates of a refuge or perrera, a volunteer association/refuge will take them in and try and rehome them, then it just encourages them to continue to do it!

So, it would be useful to have the comments of readers as to how you see a solution to the problem.

Give me your feedback.

Apanot is an animal refuge in Tenerife where Chugi is staying. With the horror stories coming out of mainland Spain, it is easy to overlook the Spanish islands. I’ve highlighted the sterling work of the SARA association on Lanzarote, now we learn about the plight of the podencos on Tenerife. There are dozens of them, many are females, shut in cages, volunteers struggling to help them, but NO ONE wants to adopt a podenca! And why? They are just as adorable as galgos, and make the most wonderful companions – I can speak from experience!

Apanot is desperate for adopters to come forward, or sponsors to travel to mainland Europe or Madrid. Please can you help these amazing volunteers who look after these wonderful dogs.

PLEASE HELP A PODENCA IN TENERIFE – Contact apanotenerife@hotmail.com
Bea:0034 (0)6 15 89 83 32 or Arantxa 0034 (0)6 36 73 51 56 www.perrosadoptar.es

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Although it is June now, there are still abandoned starving galgos loose on the streets of Spain, abandoned and cast out by the heartless galguerros at the end of January at the end of hunting. We have to all get together and DO something about this. However do the poor volunteers cope?

This is an appeal via my good friend Charl. Her contact has been notified of a galguita wandering around the town, food is chucked to her, but she is weak and scared. She needs rescuing before she becomes pregnant, but the4 vfolunteer has no room to take her, she is already paying out of her own pocket for veterinary care for others and fees for galgos in a perrera. Please can someone take her? Contact: natisabe@hotmail.com Tel Spain 0034 (0)6 39 25 69 49