From Galgos del Sol.
Monday mornings are always tough so lets start with a feel good video. Fandolia could have died if not rescued as she was in respitory distress. With kennel cough and pneumonia we had to watch her carefully. She’s waiting to go to her new home and in the meantime shes at the retirement home helping with the vege patch. She’s a very good judge of vegetable I must say! Now Fandolia can breathe again, life is better!
Two amazing galgos, horrendously injured after the bloody galgueros chucked them out.
Tickles the puppy is a survivor who was abandoned with two broken legs and left starving to death. By the time she came to us she was in shock with a low temperature. Her back leg was operated on and is thriving but the front leg is more complicated and likely won’t be operated as there is no op to help it. However shes still not using it all the time so decisions still need to be made. We are hoping she will get more comfortable with it with physio.
From being paralysed after being run over, galgo Jet decided he has things to do
From Sandy at Galgos Rescue Almeria.
‘On 11 February, this boy, Moro, was freed from his predicament. This boy was so battered, damaged both physically and mentally, and yet he still had the strength to fight. Now barely two months later, we see a very different Moro.
This boy has become a beautiful black pearl. This was possible thanks to your support, help, compassion….. and in particular our host family. Thank you fosterers Raymond Faber & Ilse for the good care and for fighting together.
Do you remember the terrible sights of this poor galgo covered in ticks – I’ve never seen such a bad case in all the 16 years I’ve been involved with galgo and podenco rescue.
After a concerted effort by Galgos Rescue Almeria and their team of vets, Eden made an amazing recovery and this is a heartwarming photo of her in her forever home.
Regular readers will remember the story of the galga starving and covered heavily in ticks, who luckily went into the care of Galgos Rescue Almeria. Sandy Galgoslover now give an update.
‘Galgo’s Rescue Almeria is feeling emotional.
Being born as a galgo in Spain means a life of deprivation, neglect, abuse, humiliation…..
We can try to repair the damage and prepare them to integrate in a world unknown to them. After a period of rehabilitation, many can build a new and different life, although some carry permanent mental damage.
How Eden’s life began we will never know, what we do know is how it goes from the day she was freed. There were rumors, stories circulated, but we never imagined that there was a place worse than hell where animals were left to their fate in a horrific way. The date August 4, 2022 is etched in our brains as a day we will never forget. Anger, emotions….. so many feelings haunted our minds when we rescued Eden from this place. It was terrible to see, when we arrived at the vet everyone was shocked. They had never seen anything like it.
And another story of the amazing work done by the Spanish volunteers to rescue and rehabilitate a poor galga left for dead.
A NEW MIRACLE CALLED RENEE. She was found half buried. As a consequence, her hind legs did not respond.
X-rays and other tests showed no injury to either her spine or her legs. But Renee couldn’t walk … Still we never gave up, and we set out to rehabilitate her paws and make her walk.
A miracle, an achievement of the entire team, and her enormous spirit of self-improvement have made Renee eventually walk. We can call it a miracle, because it certainly is. But it has also been the result of intense and hard work by her veterinarian Mariana and her physiotherapist Elena, who never threw in the towel, and by all of us who have always encouraged and helped her achieve it.
In all my 70+ years of living with dogs from puppies to old dogs, I have never felt the need to use a crate. But these days it’s become fashionable to use a crate if someone can’t train/control their dog. I think – well, human, how would you like to be shut in a cage?’ So this is a very informative article by Charl del Rio, founder of 112carlotagalgos in Alhaurin le Grande, Malaga, on this very subject and why one shoule NEVER use a crate on a galgo or podenco.
‘IMPORTANT INFORMATION
CRATES/TRANSPORTINES/BENCHES AND GALGOS
Please remember galgos are not greyhounds and come from an entirely different background. Many a galgo has been rescued from a severely dark place and time in their life. Many many are rescued from dark small hovels, under ground and in some cases with pallets on the top.
