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  • ACTIN – animal cruelty exposed through the Courts – why they need your support

    ACTIN Snowdrop 250 8 2013ACTIN can now report on a case of severe maltreatment of galgos which they have been working on since august 2013. This is why they need your support, to pay their legal team fight such cases through the courts. The two galgos are now with 112carlotagalgos and they have sponsors. Charl has asked that any donations for them be sent direct to ACTIN to help them continue their work.

    Viv Wharton reports.

    In August 2013, Actin was alerted to a case of 3 dogs being kept in horrendous conditions. It is hard to prove cruelty and neglect in Spain because of the lack of an animal protection act or an official organisation in Spain. Since Actin’s conception one of its aims is to prove how many cases like this exist and to find the right way to deal with it effectively.

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  • Reality of life for a Spanish Galgo

    Charl dead galgo 250 8 1 2015Two galgos found, one already dead. Charl del Rio tells the story.

    A shameful existence of pain and horror. This poor poor couple of galgos… life is hard, dark, and cold .. this is the reality faced by many many many thousands of galgos. How many are out there tonight? Under the cold cold night and cold cold hands. Souls frozen .. owned by the devil himself.

    This is the story of reality. This is why we must all stand together and be strong. Be stronger. Firmer hand in hand we must fight and we must must win. For every soul out there needs protection and a voice.

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  • Letter to Senior Galguero – from a survivor

    Charl Noella 250 12 20143 more galgos have arrived at 112carlotagalgos finca. This is a piece of writing by Charl del Rio about Noella.

    Sr.Galguero

    So you thought you would break me. Did you think I’d return?

    I have stood alone, so alone, but I made it!

    You left me in the cold.. sooo sooo cold. Hungry. Sooooo hungry. Have you ever been that cold sr..galguero ? Sooo cold??? Sooo hungry? Have you ever. Ever been so so hungry?

    But you didn’t break me. I made it. I held on.. I fought. I Starved .. but I didn’t let go!

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  • 2014 Christmas Cards to help hounds

    Pepis Dog Refuge

    112carlotagalgos

    Scooby Medina

    Greyhounds in Need

  • Emergency appeal for donations for injured galga in Cadiz

    Charl Cadiz galga 250Charl del Rio of 112carlotagalgos received an urgent call today from a young woman in a village near Cadiz where she found this young galga with an horrendous back wound. The girl is staying with the galga whilst Charl organises for her to go straight to her vet in Malaga. Here’s what Charl says.

    ‘The rescue train has begun. Confirmed a female but bleeding a lot. So we have been in touch with a contact in Cadiz who has offered to go quickly and pick her up and bring her. We will meet up and head to the clinic. This is a nasty nasty wound which doesn’t look too old but in 40 degree heat infection and fever can set in very quickly. The girl who caught her tells me shes plagued with flies naturally and cooked flesh is not an easy thing to heal in this heat. So a little blind on whats coming in but we will do our absolute best.

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  • 112carlotagalgos need wheels – David jumps out of the skies! Sponsor him

    David did his jump – glorious day over La Rochelle, clear skies. Here are some photos of Christophe and Francois (the two professional parachutists at Altitudes) going through the briefing with David and a French guy doing his first jump as a birthday present. There’s also a short video here but please, it’s not very good…the sun was bright, I couldn’t see what was in my tablet screen, so I just pointed and hoped! You can see from the windsock the wind speed was about 24 kmh. Please sponsor him – 10,000 feet is a long way to fall out of a little plane over La Rochelle when the wind is blowing!

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  • Help for 2 galgos with head wounds – from Hellin and Cordoba

    Charl Lucas 250 6 2014Lucas is a podenco/galgo cross rescued from a street in Hellin. He will need a lot of medical care, it is believed that he has mange, ehrlichia and leishmania. He was stoned by a group of older kids. Needs isolation and lots of love and care to recover. If you can help his vet fees, please paypal comdelrio@hotmail.com

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  • A Safe Haven for Galgos in Malaga

    Read the story, no need to say more.

  • Help feed galgos at The Blue Greyhound ebay shop

    Can you help feed all these galgos at Pepis Refuge?

    And this is Reyes, saved from Badajoz perrera, young galgo covered in wounds, now in kennels waiting for space at 112carlotagalgos finca. She’s also got some new very traumatised ones too, so any help with feed bills will be appreciated.

  • Galga Zoe, left for dead – now in her forever home

    Charl Zoe 250Tribute to Zoe – by Charlotte del Rio

    Dear Sr.Galguero

    I was sitting here with my thoughts, looking back over time.
    Just a mere girl I was at your feet, the foot that booted me regularly. I wondered when the day would be, when I’d be free from the shame I felt.

    I wandered by your side Sr.Galguero as a good galga should and on many occasion I know you thought you broke me. You almost did!

    At just a year old I’d been born into hell, I knew nothing more than the life I led. Shamed, doomed, and hollow. Fear striking me at every move. How I lived on my nerves .. Oh how I did.

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