Tag: Badajoz

  • 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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  • Zafra, Badajoz, Spain – how can a man do this?

    Dode galgo in Zafra, Badajoz. (1) 250 Correct me if I am wrong, but there are few good things to come out of Badajoz, Extremadura. Mariangeles is one, other valiant animal rescue volunteers, those Spanish who abhor the practices of the hunters and the bad name they give the city, the road out…..

    Served his master, abandoned by his master, injured on the road, died of starvation and dehydration………….Zafra, Badajoz. And Badajoz had the audacity to apply for City of Culture status in 2016!

  • Cheap accommodation in Spain, book into a perrera!

    Gesser is another perrera in Jerez, southern Spain. It is built for 70 dogs but there are 190 there, mostly they will be killed. Amongst the dogs were 35 galgos taken there by the hunters. Pro-Galgo reports on their German website that 80 dogs were saved by various associations both in Spain and abroad. This is a basic translation.

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  • 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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  • Galga shot in the head – latest news

    You remember the galga shot in the face, being cared for by Pro-Galgo. Now called Fatima, it’s great news to report that she is healing and is now in her forever home. See pix here. Scroll down the page.

    You will also see pix of an afghan found abandoned, starving and filthy, in an empty house. The owners had taken their other dogs and left him behind. Pro-Galgo had him clipped and he is now in foster, looking for his forever home.

  • Galga shot in the head – saved by the vet – the true Spain!

    Galga shot in the head 15 11 2010 350 This galga has been shot in the head. I don’t know the story behind how she was found – I’m waiting for the details – but suffice to say she was still alive when taken to the vet, who at the time of my receiving the photo, was operating to save her.

    The hunters in France, where I live, are lethal in more than one way! Around our home and land, their shooting days are Thursdays and Sundays. We keep our cat and dogs shut in the house on those days; the cat is shut in all day, much to her disgust; the dogs are only let out in the courtyard.

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  • Sofie, galga from Badajoz, facial rebuild a success! Off to America

    Sofie pix 20 09 2010 250 You remember Sofie, the galga abandoned in Badajoz earlier in the year, whose lower jaw was brutally smashed by some sadistic person. We’ve followed her progress under the care of volunteer Silvia and her vet, as the galga had her jaw rebuilt. In another 2 weeks she will be winging her way across the Atlantic ocean to her forever home in America under the guardianship of GRIN. Read her story and see the latest amazing pictures of this survivor. Isn’t she beautiful?

  • Galga Sofie from Badajoz – latest news – on the road to recovery

    Sofie second operation 250 Fantastic news from GRIN – Sofie, the brindle galga abandoned on the streets of Badajoz, whose lower jaw was cruelly broken, had the steel rods holding her jaw together removed on 3rd September. Read the whole story, see the latest photo, here.

    At the end of September, Telma Shaw and Wally Lacy of GRIN fly to Spain and Sofie and Angie – the remaining dog from the Jaen 4 to be rehomed – will fly back to the US to begin their new lives.

    Wonderful news, and I add my thanks to those of GRIN.