Galgo News

Tag: Cordoba

  • Cielo, galga left for dead on the streets of Cordoba, rescued by La Guarida

    Cielo2 body Cobie 08 2010 250 It’s now nearing the end of August, soon the Spanish hunting season begins. And there are still galgos suffering and dying, abandoned at the end of the last hunting season.

    Here is the story of one of them. It has taken me 2 days to be able to post this story, I was so sickened at the suffering of Cielo and felt for the emotional and physical draining which the volunteers who rescued her must have suffered too.

    Written by Nuria Martin from the protectora La Guarida, Cordoba, translated for me by Cobie.

    Cielo (heaven) that’s how we called her the short time we lived with her, and the short time we shared her suffering. Her end…..

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  • Pregnant galga, abandoned on the streets of Cordoba – please help

    Pregnant galga Cordoba 3 08 2010 300 One of the things which really sickens me and also makes me exceedingly angry is the abandonment of animals – everywhere. I receive many emails containing appeals for help for abandoned animals, or mass cullings of stray dogs or wild mustangs. The reason there are so many unwanted animals is because of MAN, as in human. If there were not people like breeders of animals, dog and horse shows, circuses – to name just a few – there would not be the need for refuges and rescue associations.

    This is yet another example of irresponsibility and lack of care – a galga abandoned on the streets of Cordoba, prey to any dog which scents her when she comes into season. The result, she is still wandering the streets of Cordoba, heavily pregnant and about to give birth to yet more unwanted dogs.

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