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  • Barcelona Zoo – galgo statue

    Barcelona galgo statue 170The galgueros will always continue to deny any of them maltreat their dogs. There are a few who do not but they are as guilty insofar as they do nothing to prevent the majority who abandon, murder, starve their hounds. I have copied this from a post on my Save the Galgo facebook page.

    Trying to sell a distinction between killing and disposing of Galgos.

    The galguero federations across Spain have become very active in defense of the claims that galgos in the tens of thousands are abandoned and brutally abused and killed at the end of each hunting season.

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  • Adictos a los galgos y podencos – Spanish fans of galgos & podencos

    Pro-galgo and Mo Swatek have a new group – Adictos a los galgos y podencos – which already has over 2,000 members, all sighthound fans living IN Spain.

  • Galgo Puppy Nelson – saved by SOS Galgos, Barcelona – please help

    SOS Galgos Nelson 2 190Here is the story of Nelson, a 4-month old galgo pup, rescued and in the care of SOS Galgos.

    Nelson, a galgo puppy needs your help.

    Nelson got his name because he is a survivor. We found him at just one month old and almost dead. He had scabies, a broken rib, fractures at femoral, shinbone and calf, as well as osteoporosis due to his dehydration.

    His conditions needed an immediate traumatological treatment. We need your help to pay the costs of the emergency aid and postoperative care and as well for possible complications.

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  • Treatment for Canine Leishmaniosis – Pro-Galgo shares

    Pro Galgo Resu 250 12 2012I recently received an email from a researcher at the Royal Veterinary College in London on the subject of leishmaniosis in stray dogs in Spain and Portugal. This is Mo Swatek’s galga Recu, who was treated for the disease, and she writes with information on the leishmaniosis treatment prescribed by the Pro-Galgo vet.

    ‘We have in our group of 23 rescue dogs, 7 positive with canine leishmaniasis.

    All of them receive 100mg allopurinol per 10kg of body weight 2 times a day. some have received the new LEISGUARD treatment, others the injections of glucantime if the liver and kidney allows it.

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