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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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  • 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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  • Pro-Galgo jewellery on sale to help the galgos and podencos

    Pro-Galgo have some fabulous new jewellery on sale in their on-line shop, to raise much needed funds for their galgos and podencos. I’ve got a necklace and some earrings and they are really lovely. Some nice bracelets too!

  • 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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  • Too late for one – but 4 more lives saved from the streets of Sevilla

    Pro Galgo 4 dogs Seville 250 11 2012Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo has sent the following appeal for help to pay vet bills for 4 dogs rescued off the streets of a village in Sevilla. They were too late to save one galga, with pneumonia and parvovirus, but the other galga, two podencos and a bodguero (like a Jack Russell) have been saved. You can read all about it here. You will find details of how to donate at the end of the story.

  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona – saving and rehoming galgos

    SOS Galgos English website 250 4 2012SOS Galgos in Barcelona have now got their new website in English. Click on this link – if it takes you to the Spanish website, just click on the Union Jack at the top of the page. They are still working on completing the information on some pages.

    You will see their claim – 160 galgos abandoned every day, that’s 58,400 galgos every year – so much for those people who have said to me ‘you exaggerate’ when I say 50,000. SOS Galgos is based in Barcelona city, in the veterinary clinic of Albert, which is where the operations – shown in the photos – were carried out.

  • Nana in Barcelona – receiving the best treatment

    Do you remember Nana, the little galgo puppy in the care of Pro-Galgo and being treated for an horrendous case of mange? She then succumbed to distemper, bravely fought on and has now recovered enough to feel happy to play with other hounds. Read her progress report here.

  • Protests in Spain 25rh March 2012 – Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia and more

    Protest 1 250 25 3 2012 Galgos sin FronterasOn Sunday 25th Mawrch 2012 at 1800, animal rights campaigners took to the streets in towns and cities throughout Spain to protest against the cruelty inflicted on animals in the name of tradition and fiestas. Here’s a translation the story.

    Madrid, March 25 (EFE). – Citizens of 31 Spanish cities organized through social networks have come this evening simultaneously on the street with their pets to seek tougher penalties for animal cruelty under the Criminal Code referred to in the “Second People’s Initiative not to animal abuse.”

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  • SOS Galgos & Galgos France – two more calendars for 2012

    SOS Galgos and Galgos France each have a 2012 calendar for sale.

    Two more 2012 calendars being sold for fundraising by French associations are Galgos Libres and Passion Levriers (Scroll down the page until you come to the details of how to order)

    Click on the links for the information.

  • Pro-Galgo; who let the dogs out? What the rescuers cope with.

    Hi folks. Back in touch after a week in the UK looking after my mother in law, who had suffered a very mild stroke. And can you believe this news from Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo. An example of what the Spanish volunteers and rescue workers have to cope with.

    Mo has already suffered flooding recently. Whilst she was out on Monday, someone broke into the house and let out all her dogs. Read the story here.