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  • Abandoned, starving, ill, dying – on a Seville landfill

    Chiri Seville 400 1 2 2017In a village in Seville province – struggling to survive on a rubbish tip!

    Chirigota (Chiri) is a galga that some girls found and fed on a rubbish tip. They had to use gloves to catch her as she was very afraid and tried to bite them. She was in a very bad condition and the lady who rescued her, Inmaculada Gomez Gonzalez took her to an emergency Vet.

    Chiri was covered in bugs, weighed only 15 kilos – she should be nearer 25 kilos – is dehydrated, anaemic and her skin is flakey. She has been given intravenous serum and vitamins to hydrate and to make analytical Biochemistry and blood cell count as her gums are very pale. She is also on antibiotics, her temperature is normal, but she is still very frightened. She is about 3 years old.

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  • Sick galgo at the gates of Pepis Dog Refuge –

    Pepis Solo 400 5 1 2017Another little galgo pup at Pepis Refuge Gates. Jane Brian tells his story.

    ‘5 Jan 2017. Late last night the dogs in the refuge alerted us to a possible abandonment. We spent an hour searching around with the torch…but could not find anything. This morning when we were cleaning, the dogs started again so watching where they were looking barking we saw this little fella standing looking at us from outside the play area, so he could have been the reason for last night bless him. Unusual for just one so we had another search around but found nothing. He is very skinny and obviously scared. He will be visiting the vets this evening for a medical check-up. His name is Solo.

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  • Another abandoned galga – used and abused by a galguero

    Galga Savannah 2 350 9 11 2016Yet another galgo abandoned in the olive groves by Pepis Dog Refuge. Judging from her grey face and badly scarred body, she has had a very hard life. Galgos in this area are used for racing rather than hunting…makes one wonder how she got all those scars! Now she is safe with Jane and Alan Brian and has been named Savannah. If you can help feed her and the other galgos, donate here.

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  • Seville – cheap accommodation available in the campo

    Rosario galga puppies 2 390Rosario de la Guia tells the story of this rescue – an all too common one about an abandoned galga who gives birth to pups.

    Look at what we did to rescue this galga and her pups. In the field in a few bushes hidden. For 3 days carrying food and water 3 times a day. We caught them as  we couldn’t leave them to die of a heat stroke.  We found an urgent foster placing  but we need to welcome them also for adoptions for when they stop suckling.  They are in Seville.  There is an adoption contract and follow up.

    Contact Harris Garcia and Rosario or gmail nochelinda49@gmail.com

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  • Duathlon, 19th March 2016, Clumber Park, Nottingham – Sponsor Team Pepis!

    Black galgo pup 1 190 11 7 2015Pepis Dog Refuge in Pedrera, Seville, has an outstanding vet bill so far of nearly 4,000 euros!  That includes sterilization of dogs (the first thing to be done with the arrival of each new dog, to prevent unwanted puppies), vaccinations, dogs needing operations, medication…the list is endless.  

    It’s desperate that this bill is cleared and to that end Ellen Stevens and 2 friends have entered the team event in the Duathlon at Clumber Park, Nottingham, on 19th March 2016.  If you look on the Youcaring link below, you can read all about it.

    Please sponsor Team Pepis and share widely with family and friends.  Let’s raise the total and more if possible.

    Youcaring for Team Pepis

  • Pepis Dog Refuge – can you volunteer to help with the hounds?

    And another appeal on behalf of Jane and Alan Brian at Pepis.  If you are planning summer holidays, why not take a week and volunteer at the refuge.

    COULD YOU HELP?

    The main thing Jane and Alan need, almost as much as financial help, is volunteers. There is so much work still needs to be done at the refuge but while the dogs need taking care of day in day out, there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do anything else. The Rio Seco hotel in Pedrera is €20 per night for a single room and €40 for a double. Alan will collect you from the hotel and drop you home in the afternoon. Jane will provide you with lunch. As someone who has taken dogs from the refuge, another problem is the dogs just don’t have enough time spent with them. Sadly at the moment this is unavoidable when Jane and Alan have 70+ dogs to clean out and feed each day between just the two of them. Just helping for a few days can make all the difference and I can assure you you won’t regret it. Jane and Alan are incredibly welcoming and each and every dog there loves the company of humans.❤ Please please please, if you are in a position to help, please consider it. Contact them here.

     

  • Christmas for a galgo

    Seville perrera galgo 250 4 12 2015Yet another heartless bastard galguero…this poor galgo being dragged by its owner in Seville perrera, peeing on the floor the entire way, so scared. What did you do to displease your owner poor Galgo? Maybe you did nothing wrong but there is just no room for you anymore. You are innocent, you are loyal but it does not matter.

    While we rightfully focus on the horrid cases of abuse and abandonment that fill the pages on the internet and their rescue, especially at this time of year, sadly the stark reality is that the vast, vast majority of Galgos and Podencos find this as their final fate. If they are not taken care of by the hand of their owner they will be dropped off, or in this case dragged, in to a perrera where most will find the needle as the final reward for their innocence.

    The tip of the iceberg that we all see is tragically overwhelmed by the realities of the part underneath the surface.

  • Please buy a Christmas Dinner for the Galgos

    Xmas dinner 2015 253Please buy an Xmas dinner for the galgos at Pepis Dog Refuge

  • Are galgos carriage hounds?

    Carriage training galgos 3 190The Junta in Andalucia had no regard for the health and well being of galgos when they rescinded the law banning hounds being trained from motorised vehicles – whether vans, 4×4, quad bikes, motorbike. This ignoramus would have got round the ban anyway…can you believe this?!! How close are those galgos to the carriage wheels! They don’t stand a chance if he puts the horse into trot!!! I’d like to rope him to the back of that cart….seen in the area of Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville!

    You may just be able to see there are 3 dogs – the chain of the white one in the middle is going over the carriages leaf springs, and the only way for that poor dog to get on the inside again is to get right beside that carriage wheel!

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  • Tombola for Pepis Dog Refuge – buy tickets now – lovely prizes

    Martin book cover 300There are over 70 dogs at Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville, including galgos and podencos. This year alone 2 heavily pregnant galga bitches were dumped there, producing 19 pure galgo puppies; two more young galgos were thrown over the perimeter fence, luckily neither was injured; and this month a hunter brought his galgo as he no longer wanted him. Add to this the podencos who have been there since puppies, awaiting adoption, one recently dumped at the gates in a box. And now old girl Anka, a lifetime spent breeding puppies, kicked in the eye, dumped, and needing vet care. All these dogs need vaccinations, sterilising, chipping and more. PLUS it costs 700 euros/month to feed all these dogs.

    So I’m appealing to you on behalf of the hounds at Pepis Dog Refuge to help them by purchasing some tickets in this tombola. First prize is a copy of Martin Usborne’s superb book ‘Where Hunting Dogs Rest’, donated by and personally signed by Martin.

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