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  • Dumped in a rubbish bin – Spanish galga Esperanza’s fight for life

    Esperanza in surgery 250 08 05 2011 Latest update on Esperanza, the galga some bastard tried to kill and dumped in a rubbish bin. What an amazing fighter she is, hanging onto life, and what an amazing team of people are helping her.

    ‘Esperanza’s surgery has finished. She is alive but she needs intensive care. Surgery has not been easy. Vets put needles and surgical cement to rebuild her broken vertebra. There is reserved prognosis, at least, until a couple of days, because her life is still in danger. Her health condition is delicate. If everything is OK, a new period of ten days will start.

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  • Two more lost souls on the streets of Badajoz, Spain

    Merida galga 2 05 2011 200 This beautiful galgo was roaming the streets of Merida, Badajoz, in terrible condition, without food, injured, very weak and very scared. A young woman has been feeding her, managed to get a collar on her, but she needs somewhere to go as the woman has too many animals already in her small appartment. If anyone has room for this beauty now named Mia, Please contact xana.50 @ hotmail.es Update – now in a shelter, needs a forever family. Wormed, microchipped and vaccinated. CONTACTO: asociacion_acudame@hotmail.com
    And another ….

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  • 5 puppies dumped in rubbish bins – life is cheap in Seville

    Seville puppy 1 05 2011 250 As I said recently, I simply can’t keep up with the appeal emails coming into my inbox. And I have been away for the past couple of days, collecting our next foster dog who is bound for his forever home in the UK in September, so now there are even more appeals. This one is just translated from Spanish via Google Translate without corrections. Sorry. But I am sure you will get the gist of the stories, and it will sicken you.

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  • Art Auction in aid of the galgos – 6 – 16th May – please support

    Log kunstengalgos Holland 250 Please support this Auction for the galgos and podencos. It starts on Friday,6th May 2011 at 1200 and runs until 16th May 2011 at 1800. There are several organizations who have donated art for the auction. Greyhound Friends, Galgovrienden, Straydogs from Belgium, Residencia Scooby in Valladolid (Spain) and probably Greyhound Foundation. There are more than 60 items for the auction, from cheap to expensive art so something for everybody.
    Kind regards,
    Mieke van Erp www.kunstengalgos.nl

  • No Voice, No Choice – 6th August, Surrey – stand needed for galgo & podenco publicity

    NovoiceNoChoiceposterfinal[1] 190 Here’s news from Maria Daines, fantastic singer/songwriter and marvellous supporter of animals in need. If anyone is willing to organise a Galgo/Podenco publicity stand, please get in touch, maybe we can put volunteers in touch with each other through Galgo News and Podenco Post. The Galgos and Podencos need you to help.

    ‘We’ve been really busy working on the DDAWatch/Company of Animals ‘No Voice No Choice’ event coming up on August 6th in Surrey. I thought I’d better catch up with you all and invite you to have a stall (rescue and good causes can book a place for free) and if you can’t hold a stall on the day you’re most welcome to attend with or without your dogs, it’s also free entry to the public with plenty of car parking.

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  • Galgos France – new website

    Galgos France have a new website. Please take a look at both the galgos and podencos waiting for their forever homes, some of them still in the shelters in Spain.

  • Life is cheap on the streets of Cuenca – galga Emy needs help

    Emy Cuenca head 04 2011 190 What a beautiful face. Another gorgeous galga abandoned and injured on the streets of Cuenca. Here is her story.

    ‘Emy was brought to us this morning from Cuenca. Emilio picked her up last night, completely terrified with a large wound in her leg. She had been wandering for several days tghrough the town but no one had stopped to help, not uncommon in this country of savages.

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  • Mother & daughter galgas seeking forever homes

    Marta & Surnami 190 5 04 2011 Vanessa Luque has sent this appeal for homes for mother and daughter galgas which are currently in a refuge in Madrid, are becoming very introverted and withdrawn. Here’s what she says.

    ‘I usually publicise our dogs through my website and my Facebook profile … but there are now so many dogs in the kennels and it is causing problems. So I am appealing for these two galgas, an urgent rehoming case.

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  • IDOD Dog Walk – walking lanes & tracks in France for rescued dogs in Spain

    IDOD Dog Walk 17 04 2011 033 350 International Day of the Dog is now into its 6th year, always on the last Sunday in April. 2011 so happens to also be Easter Sunday, so I held my fundraising IDOD Dog Walk a week early on 17th April. The sun shone brightly on St Pardoux with over 50 dogs and their loving owners turning up for a leisurely stroll along the delightful lanes and tracks which surround this small village in Western France, where I live.

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  • Voice for the Voiceless – Sharon appeals on behalf of Noah’s Arc Murcia

    Noah's Arc new noah logo 170 Sharon Reynolds is based in the UK and works on behalf of the Noah’s Arc Animal Rescue shelter in Murcia, Spain. She has been involved with them and on a fundraising mission for the last 5 years and regularly visits the area. Here is her latest appeal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlN_SnRlyk

    Please be assured that there are ‘NO’ bad images in this film and all the dogs featured are ‘safe’ and waiting to be adopted. I think you’ll agree that the soundtrack is both beautiful and appropriate and the end message fitting.

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