Galgo News

Tag: Andalucia

  • Cordoba galga and puppies – anyone any room for them?

    Mami Cordoba 250 20 05 2011 Here is a nice story about a galga and her puppies – after two days of hard work and a long wait this family have been rescued. The pups were the first to be rescued, they are two females, Margarita and Alegría, and three males, Wolf, Flip and Taz. They’re small, about 2 or 3 months, and moderate size, have every appearance of galgos but with an abandoned galga mom, one can never be sure. The mom hasbeen called Mami; in order to catch her, one of the puppies was used as a decoy, to persuade her to follow the volunteers through streets in the city until they could catch her.

    She is a beautiful young dog, large size, white with black spots, has a lot of fear but wants to be loving. The family are now safe, but El Arca de Noe has nowhere to put them, can anyone help? If you can help write to elarcadenoecordoba@gmail.com

    UPDATE – I’m happy to report that this galga and puppies have now been taken in by two refuges.
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  • Galga Esperanza – from rubbish skip to veterinary hospital

    Esperanca head 250 Update on Esperanza, the galga beaten and left for dead in a rubbish bin. Click on ‘Translate’ on the righthand side and click ‘English’ or your native tongue for a translation. El Albergue are very grateful to everyone who has donated towards the veterinary care for this galga fighting for life. Herewith photos of her injuries.

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  • Life in the fast lane in Cadiz – not if you’re an injured galgo

    Cadiz galgo injured 1 250 16 05 2011 And another example of how so many Spaniards turn away from injured and abandoned animals. This galgo is injured,(right hind leg) very frightened, lying in a car park, just metres away from a hotel/restaurant. No one goes to help him. Can anyone find room for me to take him? mariavazquez.cadiz @ gmail.com

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  • Cordoba galga & puppies living under a motorway – help needed

    Cordoba galga w puppies 2 250 El Arca de Noe 16 05 2011 This appeal has come in from El Arca de Noe in Cordoba, they don’t have anywhere to put this galga and her puppies. Here’s the story, can anyone help?

    This case is very urgent and please help! This is a mama galga with several puppies, she delivered along a highway! There is little food so a villager in a neighborhood has managed to put a bit down. But Mommy has to go find more food, and puppies are left, and now 4 of them who crossed the road to follow her have been hit and killed.

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  • A week in the life of an animal rescuer in Spain – could you hack it?!

    Ali's_rope Tina 10 05 2011 250 Regular readers will know that wherever possible I praise the fantastic volunteers in Spain who give so much of their time and emotional and physical effort in helping the abandoned and mistreated animals, often at great cost to themselves.

    So many stories continue to arrive in my Inbox, not just for help for galgos and podencos but other dogs as well. As I speak, efforts are being made by volunteers to catch a family of podencos, other galgos loose on the streets of several towns…..it is never ending.

    This story is one example of a week in the life of a volunteer.

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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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  • 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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