Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • Galgos Rescue Almeria – no end to the abandonment

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    Sandy Galgoslover of Galgos Rescue Almeria writes.

    ‘Every year, thousands of animals worldwide are dumped and left to their own devices. Unfortunately, only a small part of these animals find happiness and a new future. That’s why support is so important for those who desperately need help to get a different and better life.

    2021 was a year with ups and downs, with laughter and tears, with many emotions and also with disappointments. A year with not only happy stories, but also sad stories of dogs that haven’t been able to enjoy their new life for long and have passed away much too young. Gitano, Felix, Rumba you’re gone but not forgotten. Also a year of deception, GRA was scammed by a company that sells storage containers. It hurts to lose money meant to improve the welfare of the animals.

    Thanks to help and support we managed to make 143 dogs and owners happy.

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  • Galga and babies in Southern Spain – the Hunter will kill them!

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    I won’t write what I wish to befall this hunter! Why did he allow the bitch to become pregnant knowing he wouldn’t keep the babies? What crass mentality!

    ‘This hunter is going to kill these babies! The female gave birth 2 days ago and he will keep for just a month or he will kill them all. They are more than 8 puppies, mum is hiding the puppies because they killed all previous litters’

    An appeal has gone out on facebook, let’s hope there is a shelter with room for them, even though they are all bursting at the seams.

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  • Catching an abandonded galgo

    Video of catching 2 abandonded dogs, one is a timid galgo, the other looks as though it has been used as a fighting dog, poor thing. The volunteers do a wonderful job of getting these poor abandoned souls to safety.

  • The dawn chorus of the galgos by Richard Skipworth

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  • 2 galgo Sisters with Amigo Galgos – hoping for a forever home

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    From Amigo Galgo

    BIMBA and LOLA; two Galgalese sisters in adoption. The first thing you thought when you saw their pictures is: “They are so beautiful! And they are. It’s true. Spectacular. And they are in every way.

    The red collar is Bimba and the green collar is Lola. They are two very young sisters. Two years old. And healthy like apples.
    They want to die with each other so we will never separate them. They are constantly looking for each other. They don’t know how to stay away from each other. Lola is more outgoing, more confident and sociable. Shyest baby, moves more carefully in places she doesn’t know. Lola treats her sister with immense cuteness; she carries toys, licks her ears and face… her gestures of love are very emotional. What sensitivity and delicacy they treat!

    It’s beautiful to see them playing, fun, enjoying, as if there were no more beings in the world. They. Always together.
    I said it; we shall not separate them. Who are we to break their hearts? They deserve to live and, in the end, die as they were born: together.

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  • Please sign and share widely

    A last push for more signatures to this petition before it’s sent to the Spanish Government. Please sign and share widely.

  • To the Galgueros of Spain

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    This is what you bastards regularly do to your dogs.

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  • Spain is still in the dark ages – no help for the hunting dogs – Government lies!

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    From Yo Galgo.

    Yeah!! The Government approves the processing of the Animal Welfare Law that includes hunting and working dogs, which will be treated like any other dog. Moreover, this law, approved a week ago in the Council of Ministers, will not only protect pets but all vertebrates as a whole. Wow!! Among other things, we celebrate that: Dog owners will have to become breeders and register as such if they want to breed animals. Whoever has five specimens must be registered as a zoological nucleus. Working dogs will have to meet conditions from the point of view of occupational risk prevention; they will not carry out professional activities until they are 18 months of age. All dogs must be registered as such in the Registry of Companion Animals. Hunting dogs that are kept or have access to the exterior of the houses and may have uncontrolled contact with others must be sterilized. As for giving away or selling a hunting dog to people not registered in the Breeders’ Registry, the dog must be spayed or with the commitment of its sterilization.

    ONLY this is the real truth!

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  • Hunting has ended in Spain for this season – abandoned hounds everywhere, shelters overrun

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    From Yolanda Jimenez Gordo

    ‘To you hunters that love your animals so much. Can you all really sleep peacefully?? They are still waiting for you, in the same place as you abandoned them, they are passing cold, hungry and desperate for not finding the miserable one who abandoned them. I just wish you suffer in life all the suffering you are going through them multiplied by ten, karma exists and you will pay for it.

    This is what happens when hunting work tools don’t work, they are abandoned, mistreated, killed.’

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    This weblink takes you to the story of the rescue of 119 dogs from a finca in Torrelaguna. Warning, upsetting pictures.

  • Greyhound transport South African style!!

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    From Bianca Castelman Peens on facebook.

    ‘This is a taxi with a trailer full of Greyhounds, 34 in a small open trailer on their way to race them. I got onto their trailer and held their trailer and taxi hostage while phoning Benoni SPCA and my amazing friend Martine Hampson who arrived within minutes. Drove on the trailer with them with people behind and in front of them to make sure they didn’t get away. When animal lovers stand together! All of them are now safe and being assessed by the vet and a case opened. To all the men who passed while I was standing alone between 10 men to the ladies who all stopped to help these babies, THANK YOU!!

    PLEASE people don’t just turn a blind eye to shit like this, do something!

    THANK YOU BENONI SPCA, YOU GUYS WERE AMAZING. Martine my friend, THANK YOU

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