Galgo News

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  • Meet & Greet Spanish Galgos in France – a hunter’s experience!

    My friend Gigi is L’Europe des Levriers’ regional rep for Poitou Charentes, the area in which I live. We’ve run a couple of Meet & Greet publicity days in local supermarkets. A couple of weeks ago Gigi set up the stand was set up in the concours of a busy supermarket, when a French chasseur (hunter) approached and started sounding off strongly in favour of hunting, and berating her about her protest against the cruelty inflicted on the Spanish galgo.

    This understandably drew a crowd of shoppers who in turn verbally turned on the Frenchman who, realising he was on a definite losing leg, slunk off. Good on the shoppers, who donated even more sacks of dog food for EDL!

  • Update on Jerez Galgos – yet more dumped every day! Curse the hunters!

    All 15 of the first Jerez galgos were saved, to be immediately replaced by another 15. Everyone is overflowing with dogs, so only about half a dozen of these have been saved, and today Maribel reports another 14 have been dumped at the perrera for killing. It is just simply sickening. And the sad thing is that the more everyone who loves these dogs works to save them, the galgueros are laughing up their sleeves at the seemingly bottomless pit of foster homes and refuges willing to take them……….dump the dogs, let someone else sort the problem out!

    There are young dogs, old dogs, bitches used for breeding, pregnant bitches, injured dogs – the hunters don’t give a damn. And they don’t seem to realise, or even care, that this all gives a negative impression of Andalucia.

    Tonight our hearts bleed for those unable to be saved.

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  • Cadiz, no Spanish holiday for the galgos living here

    News came in last week about this galga taken to a vet for urgent medical treatment. It is suspected that the wounds were caused by a dog fight. Because of their calm non-aggressive nature, galgos are often used as bait to train fighting dogs! It is possible her uteris and womb are damaged, she has been operated on and is now in a foster home in Cadiz.

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  • Galga shot in the head – saved by the vet – the true Spain!

    Galga shot in the head 15 11 2010 350 This galga has been shot in the head. I don’t know the story behind how she was found – I’m waiting for the details – but suffice to say she was still alive when taken to the vet, who at the time of my receiving the photo, was operating to save her.

    The hunters in France, where I live, are lethal in more than one way! Around our home and land, their shooting days are Thursdays and Sundays. We keep our cat and dogs shut in the house on those days; the cat is shut in all day, much to her disgust; the dogs are only let out in the courtyard.

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  • Galgo puppy saved from hanging in Spain – educating the young is one answer

    Diana, an erstwhile fundraiser for Scooby Medina, has just returned from another trip to the centre. She has posted this story on her blog, about a young girl who rescued a galgo puppy from being hung. The low life Spaniard who was about to hang the dog is the type who would have killed the dog whatever its breed, and unfortunately there are tens of thousands of these men all over the world who would kill a dog without a second thought.

    It’s nice to be able to post a positive story, illustrating how educating the younger generations in every country that animal cruelty is not acceptable is a positive step.

  • Embalming Galgos – True or False?

    Unfortunately comments on this post were becoming personal against others, so I have had to remove it. However, I would advise that I am receiving more information on the subject through my personal email addresses.

  • Plea from an abandoned dog – two beautiful poems

    Here are two very moving poems sent to me by a reader of Galgo News, authors are unknown.

    Dear God please send me somebody who’ll
    care!

    I’m tired of running, I’m sick with despair.
    My body is aching, it’s so racked with pain.
    And Dear God I pray as I run in the rain,

    That someone will love me and give me a home.
    A warm cozy bed I can call my own
    My last owner neglected me and chased me away
    To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.

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  • A Troublemaker – In Spain – against the hunters and for the galgos!

    Hey folks. There are a couple of comments on the post about stopping the building of a greyhound racing stadium in Logan, Australia. They accuse me of being a troublemaker.

    Yippee! I’M A TROUBLEMAKER! What a great accolade, I can’t believe it! And if it involves improving the situation to the lives of the galgos and greyhounds around the world, Then Yippee, I’m a troublemaker!

    Hope you agree!

  • A time for family and reflections

    Hi Folks

    Just to let you know that the pages of Galgo News will be silent for a few days. I have spent so long on completing my book and getting it to the stage for printing – the latter is being done as I write – that I have not had time to visit my lovely family in the UK. So today I fly off to England to see my daughter, my son and grandsons, and give them all the biggest Mum Hug ever!

    Back in the land of computers next week.

    But you can still order copies of my book by clicking on the link here on the homepage.

  • Estepona galga update – more news from Spain

    You may remember the posts about the Estepona galga and Charl trying very hard to catch the poor galga. There has been an enormous amount of work going on behind the scenes of Galgo News, to try to catch the dog, sadly without success. You can read Charl’s report on her efforts here.