Galgo News

Tag: Andalucia

  • Help Galgos del Sol – shop via Easyfundraising and raise funds for galgos

    Galgos del Sol 12 2010 250 If you shop online, here’s a new way to raise money and donate to save galgos. Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol explains.

    ‘Hello, Like to shop online and want to raise funds for Galgos del Sol at the same time, then this is how!

    Just visit the Easyfundraising website using this link and register as a user. Easyfundraising provide links to the individual websites of over 2000 Brand retailers in the UK, all of whom are prepared to offer a donation to the charity of your choice when you link to their site via Easyfundraising and purchase online. The participating retailers include most well-known UK high street names like M&S, John Lewis, Debenhams and Boots, as well as Amazon, Argos and ebay plus a host of insurance and phone companies and supermarkets.

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  • Galgo Dino, 3 months old, in the care of El Arca de Noe Cordoba

    Maribel puppy 3 18 12 2010 250 This is Dino, 3 months old, abandoned in the street with an injured leg.

    El Arca de Noe explain. ‘I present to you Dino, a beautiful galgo puppy that instead of worrying about eating, playing and sleeping like any baby is concerned with survival, with only 3 legs and one badly injured, abandoned in a very dangerous town in Cordoba.

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  • Animal Protection Service launched in Alicante, Spain

    Just had this news in about an animal protection service launched in the Alicante area. It’s to be hoped they will have some ‘clout’ and be able to prosecute animal maltreatment cases. But it’s the problem of abandoned dogs with their microchips cut out which will be a difficult one to police. Still, it’s a start. Let’s wish them every success.

  • Galga Twiggy, leg broken, shot by an air gun, saved by Pepis Refuge, Spain

    Twiggy pellet 2 Pepis refuge 12 2010 250 This galga had her leg broken and was shot with an air rifle. She is being cared for at Pepis Refuge. This is her story.

    ‘The galga we have called Twiggy was found at Sado park hotel, Mollina, Malaga. She is 18mth old with a fantastic nature. She had her leg broken so it made it easier to shoot her with an air rifle, one pellet is deep into her stomach which cannot be removed as as an operation is too dangerous. The two pellets in her leg have been removed though the op has left a very large hole in her back leg. We are told she may never walk properly again.

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  • Update on Jerez Galgos – yet more dumped every day! Curse the hunters!

    All 15 of the first Jerez galgos were saved, to be immediately replaced by another 15. Everyone is overflowing with dogs, so only about half a dozen of these have been saved, and today Maribel reports another 14 have been dumped at the perrera for killing. It is just simply sickening. And the sad thing is that the more everyone who loves these dogs works to save them, the galgueros are laughing up their sleeves at the seemingly bottomless pit of foster homes and refuges willing to take them……….dump the dogs, let someone else sort the problem out!

    There are young dogs, old dogs, bitches used for breeding, pregnant bitches, injured dogs – the hunters don’t give a damn. And they don’t seem to realise, or even care, that this all gives a negative impression of Andalucia.

    Tonight our hearts bleed for those unable to be saved.

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  • Lomas, Ulises and Jerez galgos – Silvia is their guardian angel in Valencia

    Lomas[1] Tina 12 2010 250 This is Lomas, a handsome galgo picked up by Tina Solera. He has been to the vet, is now with Silvia in Valencia for treatment for filaria. He was full of ticks too, but the vet thinks, as he is muscular, that he has been running up until recently. He is in a foster home and, when the filaria test is negative, he will be looking for his forever home.

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  • Torremolinos, Spain – animal abuse behind the sunshine and sea!

    Parque Animal, in Torremolinos, was supposed to be a refuge, a place of safety for abused and abandoned animals in the area. Instead, the poor souls incarcerated there suffered further abuse and a life of hell. Click here to read the story.

  • Christmas Holiday in Seville? Not for the galgos nor the volunteers.

    Fermin Perez 12 2010 170 This is the story behind the 130 galgos arriving at Scooby Medina during the course of December. Cobie and Vera explain.

    In Andalucia in southern Spain, the Foundation Benjamin Mehnert association is very actively busy with saving galgos which are, in the eyes of their owners “worthless for hunting” and will, no matter what, get rid of them one way or another. Thousands are brought every year to the perreras, the killing stations, also called the waiting room for death, where their life is not worth one penny and so they are treated like that.

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  • Happy 3rd birthday Galgo News!

    Yes, 3 years since Craig and I launched Galgo News. Time to reflect on the past year, both highs and lows.

    High has definitely got to be the completion of my book and its launch – to date we’ve done 2 print runs, selling over 100 copies of the printed book and 10 ebooks. And I haven’t even started the next phase of promotion! I’ve just changed my publisher and am waiting to take collection of the next print run. The book has also now been translated into Spanish – publishing will start in January 2011. And a French translation is currently under way.

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  • Spanish Galgos Ulises, Maisey, Luna from El Paraiso – please donate to vet fees

    Naisey after operation 24 11 2010 250 More abandoned and rescued galgos……from the perrera, from the countryside, urbanizations……….they are being abandoned everywhere, and it is only November – still the middle of the Spanish hunting season! One of the galgas rescued from El Paraiso could be pregnant, so an urgent spaying operation has now been carried out. And Maisey, an abandoned injured galga – sadly her leg could not be saved, so she is yet another one with an amputation. And the vet fees need paying!

    Ulises was a galgo who had been living rough for months, no one could get near him. Eventually he was so ill he could be caught. He has leishmania, ehrlichia, rickets, a skin condition, but he is a fighter, as are the other two…..he wants to live and experience a forever home.

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