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  • The heartwarming story of galgos Gracie & Jake –

    Jake_and_Gracie_1 190With all the horror stories recently, it’s lovely to receive a heartwarming story of two galgos who found their forever home in the heart of Kathryn and her husband. Here she tells Gracie and Jake’s Story.

    I first found out about galgos seven years ago when I was reading about rescue dogs on the internet. I came across the Greyhounds in Need website and read all about the galgos. I had never heard of the galgos and their plight and what I read was heartbreaking. I thought that my husband and I would be able to give a galgo a good home and contacted GIN to say that we were interested.

    We had a home check and GIN said that we were suitable. They had some galgos coming across from Spain and they would be in quarantine in the UK and we could visit them.

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  • ‘Training’ galgos from motorised vehicles – Andalusian Minister of Justice comments

    In a hearing of the parliamentary commission of the Andalusian government, Emilio de Llera Suárez-Bárcena, minster of Justice and Interior Affairs, told the commission that they would not draft a regulation for the training of galgos with motor vehicles and nor did they ask the Veterinary Department of the University of Cordoba to study this matter. He responded to a question asked by the IU-GREENSdeputy, Alba María Doblas Miranda.

    On a personal note, the minister added that he is absolutely against the training of galgos with motor vehicles. “I do not know if it is damaging to the galgos, I am not a vet. But I find the image of this training repugnant and it hurts my feelings”. Read the story here.

  • Auction items needed by Sighthoundsforlife

    Ebro vets 250 13.3.2013We are sure you have all been following the harrowing story of Ebro, rescued injured from Badajoz perrera, both front legs broken, taken in by 112 Carlota Galgos and the wonderful love & care he has been receiving from Charlotte.

    Sighthoundsforlife are pleased to announce we shall be holding an auction shortly in aid of Ebro’s veterinary bills – we’re talking about 4 figures – so if anyone has anything they can donate to the auction, we will be extremely grateful.

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  • Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge – saving dogs and writing poems

    Besides saving galgos in the Seville province, Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge is also a poet. You can read some of his poems here.

  • Galgo Ky – AWSM need a sponsor for him, and a forever home

    Ky AWSM 250 3 2013Animal Welfare Support Murcia does a wonderful job in helping all types of dogs, puppies, pedigrees, puppies, xbreeds…they don’t discriminate. This is Ky, a galgo they have in their care who needs sponsoring. If you would like to sponsor this stunning galgo – or even ask to adopt him – details here. At the same time, they are working hard to save some dogs in a hellish situation and desperately need somewhere for the dogs to go, so that they can denounce the owner for cruelty, neglect and anything else they can throw at him. I know these dogs aren’t galgos, but I ask and ask for people to make a denuncia in cruelty cases. So please, share this appeal and contact any friends you have who could foster any of these dogs, or donate to them going into kennels.

  • 100,000 + galgos abandoned at the end of hunting every year – work it out for yourself!

    Boycott Spain 190 2013People say the figure of 50,000 galgos abandoned every year is exaggerated – usually it’s the hunters who say so, of course, as they don’t want the bad press. Vera of Galgos en Familia, Malaga province in southern Andalucia says, ‘Co-inciding with the end of the hunting season at this time of year, more than 5.000 galgos are abandoned by hunters in our province.

    It is estimated that 1,500 galgos are collected each year from the streets of Malaga province and the majority of these from the valley of Antequera, where they are used as tools to capture hares,a hunting activity that is banned in other european countries but is still very much allowed here in Spain.

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  • The Plight of the Spanish Galgo – in the spotlight in the UK Daily Mail

    I recently reported about professional British photographer Martin Usborne visiting Malaga to learn about the plight of the galgos. He is there again this week, visiting shelters in the Seville area, to photograph galgos for an exhibition later in the year. See Ebro walking here!

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  • Pepis Dog Refuge, Seville, sinking under the number of galgos – please help

    Pepis Refuge Sienna 180 3 2013Desperately urgent help needed. Pepis Dog Refuge, near Seville, has 18 galgos as well as other dogs, two of the galgas have just had pups, about 8 pups each, plus yesterday a hunter arrived at the gates with 5 galgos wanting them to take his dogs. They haven’t room, please can anyone help. Their Internet access is still down, they have to go to the local village to use the Internet. On this link is their address and telephone number. They also need donations towards food and vet bills, and homes for all these dogs. They have 80 dogs there now. Please help.

  • Galga raped in Seville!

    This is from my Facebook page Save the Galgo.

    ‘Sorry to bear bad news but this is the most disgusting thing I ever heard. In a marginal area in Seville a poor galga now named Abril has been raped by two men, if they can be called that. Abril is in Clínica Veterinaria blelavista in Seville. She has vaginal injuries and haemorrhages from the ordeal.

    She might need a foster home or a forever home. I do not know more details but what it says in the clinic page… When you think you have heard everything these bastards manage to disgust with more barbarities.’

    I remember reading a story a year or two back where some Spanish men raped a horse. I’m sure it’s not the only country where it happens, sadly.

  • Galgo pup Eros – saved from hanging!

    Eros Levriers du Sud 250 2 2013This pretty little pup is Eros, in the care of Levriers du Sud. Only 5 months old, he was found by a volunteer who was walking her dogs. She saw this little galgo on a tree branch. She went over and realized that he had been hung to the tree but was able to climb on a branch saving his own life! Resourceful little guy!

    It’s hard to believe that anyone would hang a young puppy… They can’t tell me that it’s because he was no good for hunting… he’s so young, he’s probably never hunted. It’s insane!