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  • Galgo Bracken – my latest foster dog, looking for his forever family

    Bracken close up 250 This beautiful boy is Bracken. He was rescued earlier this year, waiting outside a supermarket with a badly injured front leg – the bone was sticking out. Even though he must have been in awful pain, he was still gentle and affectionate to those who took him in their loving care and back to a place of safety. The refuge vet operated on him and he was placed in foster car whilst his injury healed.

    A couple of weeks ago he came to join my canine family at my home in France. He had been reserved by a lady in the UK but circumstances have changed and she can no longer take him. So he is now looking again for his forever home.

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  • Young Cadiz Galgo and Toledo Galga seek forever families

    Cadiz galgo 250 05 2011 More galgos needing help. This beautiful boy in Cadiz was rescued from the road luckily before being injured. This is what his rescuer says about him.

    ‘I met this galgo on Saturday night coming home, about 12 o’clock at night on the highway to San Fernando to Port Royal. The night was very bad, didn’t stop raining and I saw him on the shoulder. I stopped quickly and the poor man came running towards me moving his tail. At that moment I knew I could not leave it there.

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  • Update on Toledo hunter who hung his galgos – Baas Galgo contines the fight

    Here is the English translation of the statement of the hunter in Toledo accused of hanging and disposing of 3 galgos. Baas Galgo took out a denuncia and are pursuing the man through the court system. Fingers crossed that they win.

    ‘Madrid 25th of April; in the Torrijos Court (Toledo), this is the statement of the person who has been accused of hanging his galgos. He acknowledged in his Guard Civil´s statement that the two galgos with microchips belonged to him. Likewise, he acknowledged that he hung the galgos in his house and after he buried them in the place where they were found.

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  • Galgos del Sol – catching the abandoned galgos in Murcia

    Galgos del Sol is a small association formed in October 2010 by Tina Solera, who had spent the previous few years saving galgos and podencos which ended up in Los Infiernos dog shelter. In the past 7 months GdS have rescued and rehomed 53 galgos and podencos. But as with all associations, they exist on donations and fundraising. Here are four of the latest galgos to be rescued – from the side of a motorway, in the middle of a lorry transport area, terrified loose on the campo. Vet fees are mounting, please donate if you can help them.

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  • Pro-Galgo, the Seville galga and her babies – safe in Barcelona now

    Here’s a marvellous story of a Seville galga and her babies, rescued by Pro-Galgo. Here’s their story so far.

  • Life is cheap on the streets of Cuenca – galga Emy needs help

    Emy Cuenca head 04 2011 190 What a beautiful face. Another gorgeous galga abandoned and injured on the streets of Cuenca. Here is her story.

    ‘Emy was brought to us this morning from Cuenca. Emilio picked her up last night, completely terrified with a large wound in her leg. She had been wandering for several days tghrough the town but no one had stopped to help, not uncommon in this country of savages.

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  • Spanish Galgos injured, abandoned, mistreated, the Galgueros perpetrate the horror

    PERLA1[1] 24 03 2011 250 I don’t know how the volunteers and associations in Spain keep their stamina and emotions, I am getting more emails in this year than ever since Galgo News started in 2007 and I am sickened by the sheer volume of galgos in perreras, abandoned in the street, hung from trees, kicked and stoned, abandoned to be injured on motorways……..it is simply unbelievable that the authorities in Spain remain blinkered about how this affects the international perception of Spain.

    Here are some more stories……….help if you can.

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  • Hanged galgos in Toledo – Baas Galgo takes the murderer to Court

    Hanged galgo 4 16 03 2011 250 Sickening story of animal abuse but, at the same time, heartening if the perpetrator is brought to justice and severe penalties inflicted on him. Story received today from Baas Galgo.

    A man confessed to having hanged his greyhounds because “it was the custom to do so at the end of the hunting season”. The animals had a microchip, which helped to locate the culprit. This case is being investigated by the court of Torrijos and the hunter faces a prison sentence.

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  • Risa, saved from Jerez killing station, now looking for her forever home

    Cleo Risa crop 2 2011 011 210 This beautiful galga is Risa, about 14 months old, taken to the Jerez killing station by her galguero in December 2010, to be euthanaised along with dozens of other dogs. She was rescued on Christmas Eve with 3 other galgos, one just 5 months old, by 112carlotagalgos. She is now in foster at my home in Western France, looking for her forever home.

    She has her EU passport, is microchipped, vaccinated, sterilized, negative for Mediterranean diseases, and the results are awaited for her rabies antibodies blood test for possible adoption in Britain – although she is clear for adoption elsewhere in Europe now.

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  • Galgo rescuers brave snowstorms to save the innocents

    Link to the story of L’Europe des Levriers’ rescue at the end of January, in a snowstorm. They brought out many galgos and a couple of podencos from the refuge at Herencia, run by Rosario, including two puppies found hiding under a makeshift shelter, whom Rosario named Draco and Kyra. Draco has been adopted by an artist. As always, some of the dogs have to be left behind, waiting for the next rescue. Enjoy the pix.