Galgo News

Tag: gypsies

  • Galgo, dumped in well to drown, Toledo should be ashamed!

    Galgo drowned in well land Sandra 10 2010 250 Spot the Well!!

    This weekend has been full of dreadful emails about the dogs in Spain. So I’m just going to do short posts and you can click on Continue to read more.

    This is from Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo. Letitia, the Guardia Civil employee who also helps at the Villa del Rio shelter in Cordoba (owned by a Spanish galguero!!) was contacted by a hunter on 17 October.

    ‘Galgo DIES IN A WELL IN A TOWN NEAR TOLEDO

    The beginning of the hunting season means new cases of animal abuse against the Galgos.

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  • French bastard dumps a neglected little dog in our courtyard in Deux-Sévres

    Lost Dog 10.2010 003 250 I call the Spanish hunters bastards, but some of the French are bastards too, as are so many of the English at the moment. We went out on our horses yesterday – the first time since May, as we don’t ride during the summer, it’s too hot and there are too many flies. We returned to find that someone had dumped a little dog in our enclosed courtyard whilst we had been out! I guess he is a X Bichon Frisée – cute little dogs but their coats need daily attention. This one could never have had a comb or brush near him! I’ll post pix of what we cut off him.

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  • Galga Lady Carla – fighting for her life with the help of Baas Galgo

    You may remember earlier in the year I posted an appeal from Baas Galgo for help to pay for veterinary fees for a badly injured galga, which they named Lady Carla. Here is an update on how she is getting on.

  • Saved from death in Spain – galgas rehomed by GRIN in America

    Sofie pix 20 09 2010 250 Telma Shaw and Wally Lacey of GRIN in the US recently travelled to Spain to visit volunteers with galgo and podenco rescue associations and refuges, and to take back with them four dogs which had been offered forever homes in the US. Here’s what Telma says.

    ‘ We are back!! An amazing trip meeting tons of people and visiting
    shelters, boarding facilities, a huge new project/kennel for the galgos near
    Sevilla (more news on that) and we brought back three galgos…..the sad news is that we had to leave Angie at Madrid airport because on the way from Valencia to Madrid, Silvie the other galga started barking up a storm and got Angie all agitated to the point of panic, biting the crate, bleeding, temp increased, panting terrible, heart palpatations etc etc..we had to wet her down and let her sit with us and it took her an hour to calm down..we could not in good conscience continue the trip to the US.

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  • Pointer bitch hung up to die in Villacanas, Toledo, Spain – bastard hunters!

    Yeni hung pointer Seprona 18 10 2010 250 I have just received the most sickening photographs of a pointer bitch, 7 years old, called Yeni. She was hung from a metal electricity pylond in Villacanas, Toledo, discovered this week. She was hung from the neck, with her tail and hind legs well on the ground. I dread to think how many days it must have taken before this poor bitch died – starved, dehydrated, eaten by insects……. Loli of the Pedro Munoz refuge in Ciudad Real has denounced this action to the Guardia Civil (read about denuncios in my book). Loli says she is so full of sadness at having been unable to do anything for this poor bitch, except to denounce the barbarity of the man who did this!

    CIUDAD ANIMAL
    www.ciudadanimal.org
    ciudadanimal@gmail.com
    proapeloli@gmail.com

    Some of the pictures are posted here, if you wish to look. Otherwise, do not click on ‘Continue to read….’

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  • Saved from Spain, rehoming rescued galgos in the Czech Republic

    ALVI Y BENITA 1 Czech ass 10 2010 250 The story of the Galgo Espanol is spreading further afield, and one of the newer associations involved in rehoming galgos is in the Czech Republic. Here is the latest news from them.

    ‘Hello Beryl,

    It has been already a while since we sent you our last e-mail. In the mean time we were very busy, there are more happy endings and more happy dogs in families now. You can take look at their pictures here:
    or the same in English

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  • Cordoba pregnant galga, saved, with her six puppies – forever homes needed

    Do you remember the story of the very pregnant galga, loose on the streets of Cordoba, rescuers vainly trying to catch her before she got injured. Well, we’ve got good news.

    Look at the link below in facebook which was sent to me by a very good friend, Ainara. I am sorry it is in Spanish…but you can see the photos of where she had her puppies…Thanks to the fact she hid, Arca de Noe of Cordoba could rescue them. Well done for all the volunteers who participated for so long in trying to rescue her!

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  • Galgo T-shirts for sale with Pro-Galgo – raising funds to save the dogs

    Pro-Galgo have some wonderful T-shirts for sale, to raise funds for the galgos and podencos in their care. Have a look at them on the website, with details of sizes and ordering.

  • Abandoned galgo puppies in Seville – foster homes urgently needed, gypsies hovering

    Galgo puppies in Seville 2 Charl 09 2010 250 Urgent message for anyone in the Osun, Seville area – or anywhere!!! These are 9 galgo puppies existing in a railway yard at the side of a road – the gitanos (gypsies) are hovering. There is no sign of their mother. They need to be lifted to safety to foster homes for adoption. It is extremely urgent, hunting is due to start shortly.

    Contact AINOA.21@HOTMAIL.COM
    EN EL TUENTI EN NAZA AGUILAR LEDESMA EN WWW.PROCANI.ORG O EN EL (Spain) 699402423

  • Pregnant podenca on a Spanish street – in danger of the hunters

    CRIS 7 SEPT Charl 250 Yet another little lady, abandoned on the streets to survive, with a bellyful of pups! The refuges are full to overflowing, but it’s important to get this podenca off the streets before she has her babies. Hunting is about to start, and it’s a dangerous time for them all to be out and insecure.

    The people who sent the plea for help for her cannot take her in as they already have several cases in the same position but they would finance her journey to another place if a foster home came up

    Contact asbaal.adopciones@gmail.com
    TF. (Spain) 676229686