Category: Rehoming stories

Meet Venus, a happy rehoming story.

Marisa Pérez, a volunteer with El Refugio Escuela who rescued my little Malaguena Podenca Andaluz, Bebe, from a Seville motorway, has been fostering this beautiful white galga. Marisa tells the story:

‘I found her just before the moment she was crossing the motorway and when I called her she started moving her tail so happy and came to me as knowing she was being saved. She weighed hardly 15 kilos when I carried her to my car. (On average a galgo weighs double that!)

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I don’t have a lot of details yet, but Rosario has finally been caught.

She was an abandoned galga in Spain, it took the Spanish volunteers several months to catch her. She was then vaccinated, blood tested, spayed and brought out of Spain into France in February 2008. Only a couple of hours after arriving at her foster home, she escaped.

Her foster family have searched and tracked her, tried to catch her, to no avail. Her foster mum lost weight with the stress and worry, not sleeping at night, waiting for a call that Rosario had been sighted.

She was finally caught on 21st July 5 months after she escaped, 5 months after living on the street, surviving.

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Amigio was found in Seville earlier in the year, very malnourished and sick. Thanks to help from Pro-Galgo, he is now a magnificent healthy galgo, happy in his forever home.

Read more about him, and others saved by Pro-Galgo.

With plans afoot to return to the UK, Sandi Leach says the last thing she and husband Will were planning to do was adopt another dog in France. That was before they met George.

Sandi explains: “Originally named Adonis by Nuria of Amigos de los Galgos, this big, black and white, gentle galgo captured our hearts.

It could have been something to do with the fact that he is almost the twin of our other galga Pye, despite the size difference, (she could stand underneath him if she wanted to).

They are so similar that people do a double take when they see them together.

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Brenda and Sara happily rehomed together, and settling into their forever home. Enjoy the rest of your lives, girls!

His story was the first one I ran. He had been saved from hanging. I’ve been trying to find out how he’s doing. Here’s an update. Good News!

Innocente was taken over to America in the middle of February, by GRIN – Galgo Rescue International Network. He is in a wonderful foster home in Florida and he will be adopted out through a friend of GRIN’s Greyhound group in Florida called Elite Greyhounds.

He is doing great and learning quickly how to live in a home and is even cat safe.

Here’s the article on GRIN: http://www.galgorescue.org/content/view/91/55/

You may remember little Noa, a black galga puppy who was knocked down on the road and both front legs were broken.

Luckily she was found and received excellent veterinary treatment, and has now found a forever home in America.

You can read Noa’s full story on Baas Galgo.

I’m pleased to be able to tell you all that Noel, the dog rescued from hanging to death, and the little 3-legged podenco Pruna have both now found forever homes with families in France, as have Sari and Jazmin.

I’m happy to say that Humo and Ebono, the galgo pups featured last month, have both found forever homes, as has Jazmin, the rough-haired podenco. Lucky dog, she spent Christmas in Britanny running on the beach, and New Year walking in the mountains of the Massif Centrale.

Gordon is a very handsome, pure white galgo, found wandering the streets of Badajoz with another galga, both miserable and very thin.

He was rescued and delivered, by van, to the home of Cristina, a volunteer with a rescue centre south of Madrid. She remembers his sad, honey coloured eyes as he came out of the van. This lovely lady fostered him for five months, restoring him to full health and teaching him his manners. He apparently would not tolerate cats at that time, hard to believe now as we watch him curled up with our rescued kitten.

After a false start with another adoptant…

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