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  • Update on Jerez Galgos – some still wait on death row in Cadiz – please help

    Maribel jerez Charl 3 250 Work has been going on ‘behind the scenes’ at GN to help rescue the current Jerez Galgos. I am pleased to tell you that 8 of them have already travelled to Valencia to Galgo Connection Spain and all are negative for the Mediterranean diseases.

    Another 4 will be coming out on 24th December to Malaga and Asociacion para la Proteccion del Galgo Espanol – Charl del Rio. They will be going into a local kennels. These 4 need microchipping, vaccinating, castrating and blood testing, plus rent for the kennel.

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  • Help Galgos del Sol – shop via Easyfundraising and raise funds for galgos

    Galgos del Sol 12 2010 250 If you shop online, here’s a new way to raise money and donate to save galgos. Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol explains.

    ‘Hello, Like to shop online and want to raise funds for Galgos del Sol at the same time, then this is how!

    Just visit the Easyfundraising website using this link and register as a user. Easyfundraising provide links to the individual websites of over 2000 Brand retailers in the UK, all of whom are prepared to offer a donation to the charity of your choice when you link to their site via Easyfundraising and purchase online. The participating retailers include most well-known UK high street names like M&S, John Lewis, Debenhams and Boots, as well as Amazon, Argos and ebay plus a host of insurance and phone companies and supermarkets.

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  • Animal Protection Service launched in Alicante, Spain

    Just had this news in about an animal protection service launched in the Alicante area. It’s to be hoped they will have some ‘clout’ and be able to prosecute animal maltreatment cases. But it’s the problem of abandoned dogs with their microchips cut out which will be a difficult one to police. Still, it’s a start. Let’s wish them every success.

  • Galgos Support Holland rehome Spanish galgos

    Anja Schot galgos 10 12 2010 250 What a beautiful photo. It’s from Anja Schot of Galgo Support Holland.

    ‘On 5th December 2010 galga Martha and galga Raquel arrived at Rotterdam airport.
    Raquel, this sweety, 11 years old is adopted in Holland. Isn’t it great she has a second chance too? She is in paradise now and her new family love her very much. Wonderful there are people who want to take care of an old galgo too and give her love and respect. Raquel will be very happy with her loving family.

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  • Jerez perrera, Cadiz – another dozen galgos dumped yesterday!

    Good news about the second batch of galgos in the Jerez perrera. 6 are going to Valencia for care and rehoming, 4 are going to Malaga for care and rehoming and two are going together to their forever home in the UK. Holly and Faith, as they have been named, became bosom buddies when they were both rescued by Dioni. Their EU passport is now being prepared and then they will travel together into quarantine kennels in the UK, where their adopting family (who have been involved in greyhound rescue for decades) will be able to spend time getting to know them, preparing them to join the rest of their canine family.

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  • Galga Twiggy, leg broken, shot by an air gun, saved by Pepis Refuge, Spain

    Twiggy pellet 2 Pepis refuge 12 2010 250 This galga had her leg broken and was shot with an air rifle. She is being cared for at Pepis Refuge. This is her story.

    ‘The galga we have called Twiggy was found at Sado park hotel, Mollina, Malaga. She is 18mth old with a fantastic nature. She had her leg broken so it made it easier to shoot her with an air rifle, one pellet is deep into her stomach which cannot be removed as as an operation is too dangerous. The two pellets in her leg have been removed though the op has left a very large hole in her back leg. We are told she may never walk properly again.

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  • Torremolinos, Spain – animal abuse behind the sunshine and sea!

    Parque Animal, in Torremolinos, was supposed to be a refuge, a place of safety for abused and abandoned animals in the area. Instead, the poor souls incarcerated there suffered further abuse and a life of hell. Click here to read the story.

  • 15 souls on death row in Jerez, Cadiz – no winter sun holiday in Spain for them

    Jerez galgos 1 Vera 07 12 2010 250 Last week 15 galgos were saved from death row in the Jerez killing station, Cadiz. As soon as they had been removed, another 15 arrived, dumped by the brave courageous hunters (sarcasm!). Oh, these hunters think they are such BIG men! They are not men, they are not human, they are worse than scumbags, a cockroach I would squash beneath my shoe!

    Who is going to save these poor deserving terrified confused souls? 9 males, 6 females. All the shelters are collapsing under the mass abandonment this year. How many more can be saved?

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  • Christmas Holiday in Seville? Not for the galgos nor the volunteers.

    Fermin Perez 12 2010 170 This is the story behind the 130 galgos arriving at Scooby Medina during the course of December. Cobie and Vera explain.

    In Andalucia in southern Spain, the Foundation Benjamin Mehnert association is very actively busy with saving galgos which are, in the eyes of their owners “worthless for hunting” and will, no matter what, get rid of them one way or another. Thousands are brought every year to the perreras, the killing stations, also called the waiting room for death, where their life is not worth one penny and so they are treated like that.

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  • Spanish Galgo Felix finds his forever home in Holland

    Here’s a nice Happy Ending story about Felix, a galgo from El Refugio Escuelo, rehomed in Holland by Galgo Support Holland.

    Felix: “If I could save at least one”

    Many years ago I heard about the terrible things that happen to the dogs in Spain. It broke my heart and I sat at the computer looking for ways to relieve some pain.
    Thus I began donating money to local associations greyhound rescue and made little things to sell and raise money for the associations.

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