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  • Starving, underweight, sick, just rescued in Murcia – can you help?

    Marie 1 Tina 29 03 2011 250 Latest guest of Galgos del Sol. Tina says ‘Marie was caught on the streets of Torre Pacheco. This is a town full of abandoned galgos where I am trying to catch Lorenzo. When I got the call i thought it might have been him they caught! It was Antonio who called me to see if we could take her so I said yes. She is injured, extremely underweight which you can’t appreciate in the photos and frightened. She will go to the vets at 5.30pm. We already know NO microchip. (UPDATE 30/03/2011 – she has not been vaccinated as she is too thin, blood test done and sent for analysis)

    If anyone can donate to vet fees, visit GdS website. To donate food, click on the Bettys Original logo on the right of the homepage.

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  • Starving, injured, escapee from hanging……the horror continues

    Starving galgo Ayendena 250 10 03 2011 Every day more horror stories come in from Spain, abandoned, injured and starving galgos – and the hunters still deny it goes on! Three appeals for help, if anyone can squeeze any of these dogs into a shelter or foster home, please contact the people direct.

    1. Galgo rescued by the Association AYANDENA in Seville, the greyhound is more dead than alive, with horrendous injuries to his hind leg, flesh is missing down to the bone. He urgently needs care, need help with veterinary costs. Irene Alcayde de Lamo

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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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  • Venancio, galgo rescued in Spain, adopted in Norway – can you help him?

    Venancio 1 250 Venancio is a galgo rescued in Spain, rehomed in Norway. Unfortunately he arrived with a problem which is going to be extremely costly to put right. Monette tells his story.

    I´m writing you with an appeal on behalf of a newly adopted galgo from Spain and his loving family. Venancio arrived Norway december 2010, where a young couple have adopted him. Unfortunately, it appears now that the damage Venancio suffered just before his departure from Spain is so bad, that the vet in Norway has given the family only two choices, either to put Venancio to sleep or to have him operated, – an operation which there is no way the family can effort!

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  • Jerez Perrera – some of the lucky ones to escape death row

    Jerez mama bebes 2 22 02 2011 250 Latest news from Jerez perrera. Mama and babies were on death row, others who have been saved and are on their way to refuges and shelters where the volunteers desperately need people to come forward to adopt these beautiful innocent souls.

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  • -Ken – latest news on this amazing survivor

    Video update on Ken, severely injured in a road accident, saved by Galgos del Sol, now with Silvia of Galgo Connection Spain for his rehabilitation. Silvia is also looking after Draco, another black seriously ill galgo.

  • GalgoConnectionSpain – help save Draco, a Jerez killing station survivor

    Draco 2 Silvia 02 2011 250 Jerez has two perreras, one municipal and one privately owned. This winter it has been difficult to keep up with the numbers of dogs in these places, especially galgos and some podencos. I haven’t been able to post them all on GN, but suffice to say that a few dozen have been taken out by rescue associations, before being killed. They range in age from a 5 month old podenca (Angela) to 1 and 2 year olds up to the mama breeding machines, 7 years upwards. Some of them are negative to diseases, others develope them after rescue and some are at the stage of simply wanting to give up on life.

    Draco is one poor boy, thin, sick and with a body covered in scars.

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  • Galgo Ken, surviving and fighting his way back to health – thanks Galgos del Sol

    Ken_rehab_3 18 02 2011 250 Yesterday I linked to an update on Nicholas, a great galgo survivor. Today I give you an update on Ken, another brave soul fighting to regain his health after being hit from behind by a vehicle. He has now been operated on and the vet is happy that there is now feeling in Ken’s back legs, and he is not in pain. Galgos del Sol continue to work closely with the vet and Ken – but it’s costly both in time, emotion and vet fees. If you can help with vet fees, donate by credit card to UK bank or Paypal to tinasolera@hotmail.co.uk.

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  • Scooby saves 100 more Seville galgos!

    Seville galgos 10 02 2011 250 Good news from Scooby – 100 of the Seville galgos rescued. Here’s their news.

    Dear Friends,

    What can we say… your support is amazing! The response that we got for our plea to help 100 galgos in Seville has been overwhelming. We are pleased to say that these precious souls will be rescued in the next 10 days. We will keep you posted on their progress via our Scooby News page.

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  • End of hunting season in Spain – galgueros dump their dogs en masse!!

    Galgo Rescue June 2009 050 210 I can’t keep up with it all on Galgo News, just too much to post; galgos and podencos abandoned throughout winter, refuges full to bursting, embalming galgos rears its ugly head again – more in another post – and now galgueros dumping their dogs at the refuges and shelters. Yet more galgos dumped in the perreras, and now cutting microchips out of the dogs before dumping. How do the volunteers cope?

    Now I’ll tell you about a man who could make a change but hasn’t.

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