Category: Rehoming stories

  • Kool Karmel

    KarmelOverlooked 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

  • Adorable Flora

    FloraFlora 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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