Category: Rehoming stories

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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Overlooked by many prospective adopters, Karmel spent months in the refuge in Cuiddad Real hoping she would eventually catch someone’s eye.

Only 3 years old, she had probably been used as a breeding machine. She joined our family in July 2007, and the first thing she took over was the sofa.

Gentle, affectionate and very elegant, she is typical of her breed. She’s a bit of a magpie, collecting an assortment of items on her bed, including my husband’s shoes and T-shirts and a doormouse doorstop – she’s particularly fond of Dora, who is now beginning to look very grubby.

She has quite a stylish wardrobe of coats, depending on whether it is raining outside or cold inside at night, and hates having to walk on wet grass! She’s very much the ‘lady’ of the canine tribe, and wins the hearts of everyone who meets her.

Karmel’s dog coats came from www.weathertogs.co.uk who have a superb range of greyhound and whippet dog coats

Flora is a beautiful 18 month old galga who, after roaming the streets of Spain for eight weeks, was eventually caught and taken to a refuge south of Madrid.

She was very emaciated and ill with Leishmaniasis, which is a disease caused by sandflies, which infects the blood. She had several blood tests and treatment was put in place.

Once the tests revealed her health was improving, she was put up for adoption but, because of her nervous disposition, Leishmaniasis and her colour (she is black with white paws) she was often overlooked. But as soon as we saw her photo we knew that she was going to become ours.

She came from Madrid along with several other galgos who were going to new homes. We signed her adoption papers and took her home to meet Zak, our two-year old rescue dog, three cats, 18 hens and three ducks. She settled in very well and soon discovered what being young is and that life can be full of playtime.

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