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Update on Karmel – 23/07

Karmel continues to cope without any medication, heading for her biopsy on Friday. She is brighter than she was last weekend, when on anti-inflammatories – but…………things are getting worse!

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This time last year, the first week of July, I travelled into Spain, to Ciudad Real, to get my galga Karmel. Little did I know upon what a journey I was embarking.

I chose my galga Karmel from the website of L’Europe des Levriers.

I chose her because the information was that she had been in the refuge for a few months, she had a puppy – not hers – snuggling up to her in her picture – and she was brindle, which was the same colouring as our French levrier X.

It was a journey which changed my life.

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Why do we love these galgos/greyhounds so much? For me it is their sleek lines, elegance of movement, regal stance, and most importantly all the love and affection they give to us unconditionally in spite of the cruelty most of them experience?

It’s because they also make us laugh – and remind us that they can sniff food out.

Yesterday I took 4 herby sausages wrapped in cling film out of the freezer, to defrost for a bbq dinner last night. During the day the sausages disappeared.

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The trauma that hundreds of galgos suffer throughout their short lives is, at times, almost unbelievable. Passion Levriers tells a tale.

To find out more about their work, and make a donation, Passion Levriers home page.

If you’ve read ‘About Me’, you’ll know my passion for greyhounds began many years ago in Suffolk. My passion for galgos, the Spanish greyhound, began just a year ago.

I didn’t realise what a journey I would be embarking upon.

I hadn’t heard about the hanging dogs. I didn’t know what a podenco was. I had no idea of the scale of the problem in the dog refuges in Spain, and of the valiant volunteers who work tirelessly under extremely difficult circumstances, to save the dogs the galguerros (Spanish hunters) dispose of like a cigarette end.

One year on, there are not enough words to describe how I now feel.

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Latest news is that the closure and withdrawal of animals is still going ahead.

Keep up to date with the story on the English language website for Centro Canino.

Also, emails to the Mayor have now been blocked, but you can still send your letter of protest through the post. Check links on main story for postal address details.

Latest news. Quick action by volunteers and rescue associations, already overflowing withg abandoned galgos, has resulted in the dogs being saved from being put down in the municipal dog pound.

Nuria, from Amigos de los Galgos, tells the story.

‘We are horrified, just we have received 17 galgos. There was a rescue mission in a gypsies field, where 8 galgos were found, 2 puppies, and one was near death from hunger, he was only bones.

6 galgos were taken to the refuge also by the hunter.

If we won´t take them in the Pedro Munoz refuge, they will be put to a horrible torture until death. So we are obliged to avoid that so could happen.

There is a high bill due to the vet, we owe too much money there, and for the food.

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14th February – Valentine’s Day for many.

But a day to die for 30 galgos in Cadiz. Here are just some of them.

Sacrificial lambs – their crime, being born a galgo in Spain.

Time is running out, I’ve emailed as many help associations as possible to try and find someone who could take them and house them.

Charlotte tells the tale, in her own words.

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Galgos and podencos are gentle, affectionate, calm breeds of dog, which makes the atrocities perpetrated against them all the worse.

It also makes it all the more important that those of us who care, support the fight to persuade the Spanish government to regulate and control the indiscriminate breeding of these dogs and create effective laws to prevent their abuse.

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