Galgo News

Tag: El Arca de Noe

  • The Spanish nightmare continues – 180,000 dogs killed in the past year…

    El Arca de Noe Albacete 250 7 2013There’s been no let up in the number of galgos abandoned and dumped in the perreras. So many that I simply can’t post them all – 19 in one just one perrera recently, multiply that by the hundreds of perreras in Spain…and that’s just galgos. The figure quoted for dogs killed in perreras in the last year is 180,000! That’s 493 dogs every day, 206 dogs every hour, or 1 dog per minute.

    The pressure on the refuges, the volunteers, the fosterers is tremendous – and the national and provincial governments STILL do nothing to implement a mass sterilization programme and educate people not to let their dogs mate.

    One example of the pressure on the refuges is an appeal this week from Cristina of Arca de Noe of Albacete.

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  • El Arca de Noe, Cordoba – condemning the hunters – shame on these men!

    Cordoba galga 3 250 01 11 2011I try not to post really bad pix on GN because I don’t want to turn people away from reading about life for the galgos and volunteers in Spain. But I make no apologies for posting these photos of Lia, luckily she is with El Arca de Noe in Cordoba. Here’s the story and appeal, in the words of the volunteer.

    ‘WE HAVE RESCUED LIA AND SHE IS HOSPITALISED. SHE HAS LOST THE WILL TO LIVE, THE WOUND IS HORRIBLE, SHE IS BLEEDING FROM HER VAGINA A LOT. SHE CANNOT STAND UP. LIA WAS LETTING HERSELF DIE BUT WE REACHED HER IN TIME, ALTHOUGH WE DONT KNOW IF SHE WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE. BUT WE ARE TRYING AT LEAST.

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  • Cordoba galga & puppies living under a motorway – help needed

    Cordoba galga w puppies 2 250 El Arca de Noe 16 05 2011 This appeal has come in from El Arca de Noe in Cordoba, they don’t have anywhere to put this galga and her puppies. Here’s the story, can anyone help?

    This case is very urgent and please help! This is a mama galga with several puppies, she delivered along a highway! There is little food so a villager in a neighborhood has managed to put a bit down. But Mommy has to go find more food, and puppies are left, and now 4 of them who crossed the road to follow her have been hit and killed.

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  • 4 month old galgo puppy – help Baas Galgo with her recovery

    Marisol 2 Sandra Bas 12 2010 250 This is Marisol, the latest victim of cruelty and abandon taken in by the BaasGalgo Association. Weep with me for the suffering of this little creature and for the courage of Leticia who has her in her care.

    ‘Marisol is only four months old and already she is suffering from severe rickets, scabies, mange, malnutrition, bone problems, and to top it all she has a bad fever and her condition is critical. Marisol was found on the morning of the 9th of December in front of the entrance to the LIDL supermarket in Torrijos (Toledo).

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  • Hung galga loose on the streets of Cordoba – pray she can be caught

    This year there seem to have been more galgos abandoned and still loose on the streets and campo. Charl’s had this information in about a galga loose on the streets of Jaen, with injuries to her neck, quite obviously managed to survive a hanging. There are people in the area trying to catch her Read about it on her weblog.

    Anyone in the area who can help, please contact El Arca de Noe.