Galgo News

Tag: Andalucia

  • The Shame of Spain – Gesser killing station on overtime!

    The shame of Spain – from tomorrow 18.1.11 starts mass sacrificing of 120 dogs and cats which are on this web page in waves of 20 to 30 a time until all are killed. if you would like to adopt one please contact below….. we need urgent help.. please diffuse case

    For dogs – Maribel
    For cats – peq.peludos@gmail.com | adopciones.khatucai@hotmail.com

    Teléfonos: (0034) 0690 08 90 92 (Susana)

    ¡¡¡MUY URGENTE!!! ¡¡¡SACRIFICIO MASIVO EN GESSER!!!

    About time we tried out putting the perpetrators of animal cruelty anywhere in the world into a killing station!

  • Liberty – 2 broken back legs, can you offer a foster home urgently?

    Liberty 4 16 01 2011 155 Sometimes the sheer stupidity of some people is unbelievable. You don’t have to be a hunter to be cruel, as this story shows. This galgo was rescued over Xmas by a woman who lives in a 3rd floor apartment in Benalmadena. Last week she went out and left a window ajar. The galgo pushed open the window, got onto the balcony and jumped!

    The galgo has been operated on by a hospital in Benalmadena, he has staples inside the leg and stitches outside. He has a hole left for drainage of liquid. He fell to the ground. The neighbour saw the dog, called the girl and he was eventually taken to the vet. The diagnosis is

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  • Galgos saved from death – please donate to vet fees

    Bombero and Cremo 1 17 01 2011 250 The perreras in Spain are full to bursting with abandoned dogs, especially galgos now that the hunting season is drawing to a close. Despite all the ones rescued from Jerez perrera, Cadiz, there are still more than a couple of dozen there, awaiting a painful death. At El Paraiso perrera, they are feeding the galgos, hoping someone will rescue them. Several have been taken to foster homes already, and two more were taken out last weekend. White ones, which were once regarded as THE most important galgo to the Spanish aristocracy.

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  • Baas Galgo and Ginn art auction – raising funds for Villa del Rio Shelter, Cordoba

    The Villa del Rio shelter in Cordoba is again suffering floods after the river burst its banks. To raise funds for the shelter, Baas Galgo in association with Ginn are organising an auction of artwork by Pam Emmerick. Click here to see the artwork and bid

    Sandra and Leticia do marvellous work at this shelter, I can’t praise them enough for what they do. But the thing I can’t get my head round is that it is owned by a hunter who also breeds galgos and sells them to the galgueros; a rich man! I visited it in June 2009.

  • Spanish Galgo hanged in Badajoz – the hell of Spain

    Hanged galgo 250 Extremadura 16 01 2011 Terrible news coming in all this weekend……and this is the worst. A galgo found hanged near Badajoz, which we know is a hellhole for all dogs. Here’s the link to the story. This is a Google translation.

    Extremadura environmentalists complained to the Office of Environment of Badajoz on the 14th of January after the discovery of a greyhound hanged in the town of Don Benito.

    The animal had been cruelly tortured with multiple blows all over his body and burns on the outside of the ears. He was hanged under the Secondary Canal aqueduct located in the area known as sows, of that municipality of Don Benito.

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  • Rehoming galgos – some lovely videos to watch

    Slovenia Sighthound World have been rehoming galgos and greyhounds for a few years now, and here are links to some lovely films of their rehomed dogs.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idt5kVgEU6A
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfjWQVJoBlg
    http://www.youtube.com/user/HrtjiSvet#p/u/1/YrDJJzrvIik

    And here’s a great video of Maisey, rescued by Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol; her badly injured leg had to be amputated. Galgos del Sol have dogs waiting for forever homes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3QNUsYRefk&feature=player_embedded
    And Aleta, also rescued by Galgos del Sol and now in her forever home.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csJDRITesao&feature=related

  • Scooby needs collars to sell – can you help?

    Galgo collar 250 With the hundreds of animals to care for, especially the lastest 130 galgos from Cadiz, Scooby is desperately needs to raise funds. Here’s a plea from Diane at Scooby.

    Dear Friends,

    The Scooby Shop at the shelter is in desperate need of fancy martingale collars. The shelter sells these collars to make money for the animals in the shelter. They are a huge hit at events and Scooby Open House Days as well as on adoption days. As you can imagine, they look beautiful on the Galgos!

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  • Spanish hunters abandon podencos too, please help them

    Anton 2 Tina 03 01 2011 250 I’m putting out an appeal for podencos, for people to offer them forever homes. There are three at Galgos del Sol (scroll down to Anton and Freya, and Lucky is a new arrival today, 4 pages of them on the Galgos France website, Ibizan Hound Rescue has many deserving podencos, and let’s not forget SARA Lanzarote in the Canary Islands – poor Mozaga has never known life outside of the refuge. Podencos suffer terrible maltreatment on the Spanish Islands, both Canaries and Balearic. Mostly their only hope is to be rehomed on mainland Europe or in the UK. Pepis Refuge is another small British-run shelter with many delightful podencos among their dogs looking for forever homes. And Phoenix Association in Dordogne, France, has Roda and Mindy who arrived in November from SARA Lanzarote and who are looking for forever homes in France.

    Please think of the podencos as well as the galgos.

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  • Left to die by Spanish hunters – look at them now, thanks to Baas Galgo

    Updates on a couple of galgos we’ve featured, left for dead by heartless huntersMarisol and Lady Carla. Lady Carla and her friend Canela will be rehomed in Belgium. And look at little pup Marisol now! Marvellous work by Baas Galgo and the team.

    Marisol 1 Jan 2011 250

    Lady Carla 4 and Canela to Belgium 01 2011 250

  • Denuncias, Sandra Baas tells you what do do – vitally important.

    I have just received this important piece of information from Sandra Baas, for those of you wonderful volunteers who may not know this.

    You can register a denuncia against every case of animal cruelty, even is you do not know who did it. This is because the hunters say that it is not true (mistreatment of galos) because there are no ‘denuncias’ in the Guardia Civil – and remember, members of the Guardia Civil and Seprona are also hunters. Baas Galgo register in the Guardia Civil every case of maltreatment of animals as a denuncia. Sandra says, ‘for the hunters I am a big nightmare and every time I have an article in the newspaper or magazines, they attack this way saying that the official numbers of Seprona are totally different from ours. Af course nobody knew before you can denounce without knowing the owner……lack of information.’So please, everyone involved in rescuing injured and maltreated animals, do what Sandra does and register a denuncia.