Save the Galgo – Stop the suffering
If you haven’t room for a galgo, how about adopting a a hand made one. Knitted Gordon galgos available in grey, coffee, brown (8″ tall)- 20 euros each, crocheted galgos (5″ tall) 15 euros each plus postage 4 euros Europe, 6 euros US.
Also Danger Dog complete with cape (12″ tall)- brown/white – 1 only – 25 euros, 6 euros postage Europe, 8 euros US.
Paypal band@bbrennan.eu stating knitted or crocheted/colour.
Gorgeous disabled galgo puppy Polar is the pin-up on the front of the 2014 Pepis Dog Refuge calendar. The calendars are superb quality, beautiful photos of rescued galgos and all proceeds go to help the dogs at Pepis. Here’s the link to purchase. Order now to be sure of getting one – or more.
Many thanks to Mandy Cash for taking me through the ‘complicated to me’ process of uploading a couple of short videos of my disabled galgo pup Polar at play with his best buddy Bracken. Hope you enjoy them and to see how he copes with his damaged hind leg. Meanwhile, galga Carmela sleeps through it all!
Here are some of the pix of David’s fabulous jump today, including the plane with the hole in the side out of which they jumped – and NOT the parachute they used! He’ll write his feelings about it all later. Please keep donating, we’re not quite there yet..
There’s been no let up in the number of galgos abandoned and dumped in the perreras. So many that I simply can’t post them all – 19 in one just one perrera recently, multiply that by the hundreds of perreras in Spain…and that’s just galgos. The figure quoted for dogs killed in perreras in the last year is 180,000! That’s 493 dogs every day, 206 dogs every hour, or 1 dog per minute.
The pressure on the refuges, the volunteers, the fosterers is tremendous – and the national and provincial governments STILL do nothing to implement a mass sterilization programme and educate people not to let their dogs mate.
One example of the pressure on the refuges is an appeal this week from Cristina of Arca de Noe of Albacete.
I visited Prodeanse shelter when I was in Seville last year. The team work to help dogs in a very bad area for abandonment and cruelty. This is their story of Nieves.
SEVILLA / / Nieves… Rescued from the Cerro de Dos Hermanas
Nieves gave birth to her 9 puppies on the morning of the 27 June.
She was treated with amoxicillin/clavulamico (antibiotic), meloxican (anti-inflammatory) and a vitamin complex since she was rescued. On July 1 she went to the vet as an emergency.
Polar is a small white galgo puppy, born in February 2013, who was abandoned outside Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville, in early April. He has a deformed back leg which, xray results show, is due to being broken when very young and then left to heal itself. Unless he has ongoing operations on his leg, it will not grow as he grows, which might lead to amputation. I decided to adopt him, as my French vet is marvellous at putting injured/deformed legs back together. The operations will be expensive and I am hoping people will help me with the cost of these, by coming up with some fundraising ideas.
Polar has had his bath today, apparently water went everywhere! On Thursday he leaves Pepis and his friends and begins his journey to France, arriving Friday afternoon.
Please help Pepis Dog Refuge Fence our Land for the Galgos (Spanish greyhounds)!
www.ebay.co.uk in Pet Supplies, Dog Supplies. Or you can donate here.
Alan and Jane thought they were going to retire when they moved to Spain. Instead, like so many other animal loving Brits, they could not turn away from the desperate situation for abandoned dogs and cats. They now have about 70 dogs at Pepis, and the latest arrivals are these 4 puppies, three of them very newly born and another little girl left at their gate yesterday. This means tremendous amount of work around the clock with feeds – those of us with children remember it well!
You will have read below about Animales Rioja having to move their 70+ dogs out of their rescue area because of severe flooding and non-stop rain. Their dogs are all fostered and boarded out in kennels, which they have to pay for. They are asking their local Town Council for help with a new piece of ground. Please sign this petition and share it as widely as possible for them.
I just signed the petition “Ayuntamiento de Logroño: Cesion de terreno para crear un refugio para Animales Rioja” Our goal is to reach 15,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here
I know you can do it! The ban gassing petition achieved over 70,000 in a week!