Urgently need somewhere for these 3 galgos, all female, to go. They are in Cadiz, seized from poachers. Contact corilayka@gmail.com
And I’ll add a note here that hunting is due to start next month, hunters are advertising puppies for sale at 50 euros on Milanuncios, and yet the perreras still have dozens and dozens of young healthy galgos on death row. At times I simply can’t keep up with posting them all – however do the volunteers cope.
These two young galgos were saves from Linares, are now in Resur, but could still be killed if no one takes them. Baeza refuge is full, and the other problem is that if the galgos went there, then it is quite likely they would be stolen – it’s that time of year! Donna is grey and white, Dunne has injuries everywhere which need treating. Please can anyone help us save them. Contact animalesdebaeza@gmail.com
At the beginning of the week Fermin Perez of Scooby went out to buy a new cement mixer; on his way back he picked up yet another abandoned galgo. And then a couple of days later, this small galgo puppy was found in a pinewood, abandoned! Cobie, of Scooby, says ‘I would like to talk in that wood to the person who left her all alone there, without water or food!! She is only skin and bones, dehydrated and malnourished, some 7 weeks old. Now she is ok after an infusion, she does not yet want to eat but the volunteers are going to buy and cook chicken, we hope she will eat it!
These two galgos were rescued from the Resur perrera by Animales de Baeza. They are in kennels because there is no room in the refuge and they could now be stolen if they are not taken. Their kennel fees have been paid for 2 weeks, plus vaccinations. Is there an association which can take them for foster and rehoming. The French association which helps her have already taken some galgos from her. Clara is the brindle one, Diana the black one. Please contact Mairie Teresa at Baeza, Jaen. Apparently there are still more galgos on death row in Resur, but her shelter is full. animalesdebaeza@gmail.com
August, and there are still galgos arriving in the killing station!
Here is a translation about the two hung galgos, found in Cartagena, in the same area as Bullas, where Operation Rehala took place in January.
These three beautiful galgos were taken from the Gypsies. Romeo, his wife Juliet & daughter ‘Star’ were abused & locked up in a tiny ramshackle kennel. Romeo and Juliet are soul mates really need to be homed together. Romeo (the rough haired galgo) is very nervous, but soon comes around after he’s got to know you. Juliet and Star (the white one) are both very friendly. For more information and if you can offer these lovely dogs a home, please contact Paradise Kennels.
The plight of the galgos has, it seems to me, been worse this year than ever before, and still, all through this summer, volunteers are rescuing starving and injured galgos. A volunteer says, ‘in a month and a half the hunting season with galgos starts again and already the galgueros are training their dogs like crazy to get condition on them, to get stronger muscles, more speed, only to leave them behind later in the fields or perreras if they don´t hunt as they want.
Please, adopt a galgo because there are still many left everywhere from the last season, all in need of a loving family and a forever home! For the end of the hunting with galgos in Spain!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nvLZ_USYQ&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OuZS61jVs&feature=relmfu (Olivenza is a privately owned killing station in Badajoz, Extremadura, you can read about it in my book From Heaven to Hell, The Story of the Spanish Galgo)
Earlier in the year I published links to the weblog of Nano Calvo, a truly exceptional photographer who adopted a galgo and wrote his story, Hounding Misery. Nano has now written the final chapter of the story of his galgo, and you can read it here. If you want to read the full story of Hounding Misery, you will find the links to each chapter at the bottom of the page.
Look at this absolutely stunning galga. Here’s her story. Literal translation, I’m afraid, as it’s late and I’m out all day tomorrow with my 5 hounds, at a fun dog show.
‘Hi I’m a dog of about seven months that my owner (Hunter)no longer need, due to my right leg breakage. I am very young but already I have fractured one of my legs, he forced me to run run and run and because of the effort that I broke the tendons…
also I have shot wounds on the body, that did it to scare me and so run more rapid…
now I have it a little himchada and cojeo when I get tired much
but I still enjoying running like a Madwoman as good gauge that I am.
This galga has been on the streets of Brenes, Seville for some months, too afraid to allow herself to be caught, so of course now she is pregnant. She has been befriended by a gentle German Shepherd, who is in danger of being taken and abused. This is the plea from Nat.
‘ I’ve seen this galga for a few months now, today I came very close but as soon as she saw a sudden movement, she fled. They are near a bar, where there are bad people and in danger of being abused and tormented by brats.
I desperately want to help them but I am overwhelmed with rescued dogs, I need help to catch the galga and take the two of them to a kennels or foster because in a couple of months she will have puppies.
