Galgo News

Tag: Andalucia

  • 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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  • Two more lost souls on the streets of Badajoz, Spain

    Merida galga 2 05 2011 200 This beautiful galgo was roaming the streets of Merida, Badajoz, in terrible condition, without food, injured, very weak and very scared. A young woman has been feeding her, managed to get a collar on her, but she needs somewhere to go as the woman has too many animals already in her small appartment. If anyone has room for this beauty now named Mia, Please contact xana.50 @ hotmail.es Update – now in a shelter, needs a forever family. Wormed, microchipped and vaccinated. CONTACTO: asociacion_acudame@hotmail.com
    And another ….

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  • 5 puppies dumped in rubbish bins – life is cheap in Seville

    Seville puppy 1 05 2011 250 As I said recently, I simply can’t keep up with the appeal emails coming into my inbox. And I have been away for the past couple of days, collecting our next foster dog who is bound for his forever home in the UK in September, so now there are even more appeals. This one is just translated from Spanish via Google Translate without corrections. Sorry. But I am sure you will get the gist of the stories, and it will sicken you.

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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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  • Update from El Albergue on galga dumped in a rubbish bin

    Update on the galgo dumped in a rubbish bin. ‘It is a female galga, and is very serious, especially from a strong blow to the head but still alive. We are waiting to see how it evolves and will soon need a CT scan (scanner) of the head. She is now hospitalized at a veterinary clinic. Please, if you know who wants to help with veterinary expenses let us know, because in our humble association we can do no more, but the cases that come to us are so desperate that we can not ignore them and look the other way. A hug and thank you very much for your interest.’

    To donate, click on Donar on the website.

  • Galgo pup with gangrene – Pro-Galgo saves him – see his progress

    Wonderful news from Mo Swatek of Pro Galgo. Do you remember the story of the galgo puppy with gangrene in his tail and rear end. Here are 2 videos where you can see little TIGRE being a happy boy with his girlfriend CHANEL in his foster family (with a little luck they will keep him). His fosters say that he is a real monster pup but so loving and charming that they forgive him everythings

    http://www.facebook.com/v/1723521403830
    http://www.facebook.com/v/1723989575534

  • Shelter in Seville closing, anyone room for these dogs?

    This shelter in Seville is due to close and the dogs will be taken to the perrera. Can anyone take any of the dogs – I see there is a podenco in there, and a cocker spaniel……

    From: ainoa.21@hotmail.com

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  • Dumped in a rubbish bin in Seville, rescued by El Albergue – pray for him

    Seville esperanzacara head 30 04 2011 I’m just one person sitting at my computer, trying to keep up with the news coming in from Spain and the Spanish Islands about galgos and podencos…..just this afternoon, whilst I took a couple of hours out to mow the lawn, 9 emails came in about galgos and podencos….on death row in killing stations in Seville, Merida, Cordoba, and on top of that there are the appeals from individuals about abandoned galgos in Malaga, Cadiz, elsewhere in Spain – can anyone in those areas help catch them? I do my best, but I can’t always post them all.

    This story from a volunteer with the El Albergue asso sums up the galguero attitude to his dog.

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