Galgo News

Tag: Cadiz

  • Spanish holidays in Seville and Cadiz – not for the galgos?

    Milagritos 1 250 Appeals on behalf of two galgo puppies – one starving and sick – two galgas in Jerez killing station (one about to give birth), and one needing a space somewhere – refuge, foster…..

    Black galga needing somewhere to stay, shelter, foster, near a block of flats in Seville.
    macu19782010@hotmail.com

    Milagros is another poor victim of human selfishness, rescued from the worst of hells; Was a victim of the famous beggar that keeps puppies constantly locked in a dirty little carrier. We believe that the suffering of Milagritos ended the day we rescued him. But little did we know what was in store for him.

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  • Galgos in Seville, Valencia and Jerez perrera – their nightmare continues….

    Galga Seville 1 250 Loli 20 05 2011 4 galgos and a podenco in a village near Seville; Loli Dalo needs help with finding somewhere for them to go. Can anyone help her? 675146168 lolidalo@gmail.com lolidalo@hotmail.com or loli

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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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  • 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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  • Galgos Rocky and Marlo – from Jerez killing station to forever in the USA!

    GRIN Rocky & Marlo in US 04 2011 250 Here’s a lovely rehoming story – it’s amazing how rescued galgos cope with so many changes in their lives – different languages as they change countries, travelling hundreds of kilometres to new lives, flying across the Atlantic, then flying on again, across America!

    Introducing Rocky and Marlo, rescued from Jerez killing station, cared for by Galgos Connection Spain, rehomed in the US.

    Telma Shaw of GRIN says, ‘Here is the first picture of Rocky and Marlo, the Jerez boys that just arrived in the USA!!

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  • Young abandoned galgos, anyone any room for them?

    Gesser puppy 1 04 2011 180
    Gesser puppy 2 04 2011 180 Two galgo youngsters in the Gesser killing station, Cadiz. Affectionate.

    Contact Maribel (Spain)605637101 maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com Maribel 9 to 5.30 if you can squeeze them in somewhere. And

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  • Happy Ending Final Feliz – but not such a happy ending

    Story just received, illustrates some of the problems facing the volunteers who struggle to help the abandoned dogs of Spain.

    ‘For the last year we have been arranging car boot sales every Sunday in a place called El Marquesado, and successfully got an income for the animals that need help in our area. It has been very hard workload on all our volunteers, but they have done the job without complaining. This car boot sale has been held on what we thought was wasteland as this was an unfenced, abandoned area. We were unable to find out if anyone owned it.

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  • Spanish Galgos injured, abandoned, mistreated, the Galgueros perpetrate the horror

    PERLA1[1] 24 03 2011 250 I don’t know how the volunteers and associations in Spain keep their stamina and emotions, I am getting more emails in this year than ever since Galgo News started in 2007 and I am sickened by the sheer volume of galgos in perreras, abandoned in the street, hung from trees, kicked and stoned, abandoned to be injured on motorways……..it is simply unbelievable that the authorities in Spain remain blinkered about how this affects the international perception of Spain.

    Here are some more stories……….help if you can.

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  • Galgos, galgos, everywhere – the pressure on the refuges is relentless

    Every day I receive emails from Spain, galgos and podencos dumped, abandoned, injured, or hunters taking them to the perreras to be killed or to the shelters and threatening to kill the dogs if the volunteers don’t take them. Day in and day out, the pressure is never ending. I have lost count of how many dogs I have been told about in Jerez, Gesser, Mairena, Cordoba, Seville, Malaga perreras. Last weekend I drove down to the Spanish border and, along with a couple of other cars, brought back 20 galgos and a couple of podencos…many of them are now in foster and awaiting forever homes.

    Here are a couple of the latest appeals

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  • Happy Endings, Chiclana – hoping so for their podencos and galgos

    Happy Endings Chiclana 250 Happy Endings is a new association formed in southern Spain in the Chiclana area. Its founder, Margarita Gloersen is Norwegian and has been rescuing starving and injured dogs in the area for some years. This is their story.

    ‘My name is Margarita Gloersen from www.happy-ending-final-feliz.eu in Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz.

    I have been working with dogs since I arrived Chiclana in 2005. I am from Norway, and when I came I just could not believe my day to day experiences with animals lying in the road, killed by cars and all the others just left to themselves with no chances to survive in the long run. Sooner or later they would become run over by cars, since all the trash bins are alongside the roads.

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