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Tag: handicapped dogs

  • Update on Polar – handicapped galgo puppy from Seville

    Bebe Polar bed 250 1 1 2015For those of you regular readers who have followed the story of Polar, the handicapped galgo puppy left at the gates of Pepis Dog Refuge at 2 months old, here are the latest photos of him with his housemates, galgos Carmela and Bracken, and little Podenca Andaluz Bebe – the boss of the pack! Polar continues to delight us with his antics and annoy us with his mischief – especially with food, shoes, socks, bedding….the list goes on! He continues on a dose of MSM daily and shows no evidence of feeling pain in his joint. Indeed, to see him haring around the courtyard with Bracken, he has no handicap atall!

    Bebe’s bed is beside the woodburner – one reason is because it’s small so no one else can get on it! Bracken likes the red bed in front of the French doors. So if anyone else is on there he will go and stand over them or squeeze onto a bit of the bed, till they move!

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  • Nearly deaf, partially sighted – big cuddly puppy Pipa waiting at Scooby

    Pipa Scooby 250 12 2013Not a podenco or a galgo but nevertheless a very special young dog with Scooby Medina who needs a very special home. Here’s her story.

    PIPA is a very special girl.She is a puppy(born in january 2013) living with the oldies.Pipa is deaf(if not completely,almost deaf),we think she doesn´t see perfectly and, once in a while,she has an epileptic attack.

    But there are many other things that make her special and loved…

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  • Update on Polar – Clinic with Caroline Ingraham, Zoopharmacognosy

    Caroline Ingraham 1 250 15 10 2013Today Polar and I attended a day clinic with Caroline Ingraham – check her website here to discover the incredible work she does, including with the RSPCA and other animal welfare organisations in the UK as well as one or two Spanish vets.

    Her stay in our area of France included visiting farm animals and an equestrian livery yard. Today the subject was dogs. I’d been invited to take Polar along because of his disability. There were two other dogs present, French rescued dogs – one a little hunting dog like a beagle without a tail who had been very badly beaten, with no confidence atall, and the other a labrador x who had spent his early years on a short chain, forgotten about, who had jealousy problems.

    So we had 3 dogs with very different problems.

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  • Rufo & Ken, two galgos with Galgo Connection Spain – seeking their forever homes

    Rufo eye infec pup -4 190 This little chap has been named Rufo. He was found abandoned, suffering from a serious eye infection which rendered him blind. He was rescued and taken into the caring hands of Silvia of Galgo Connection Spain. His eye infection has been treated, his eyes are much improved – as you can see from these photos – although he is still receiving medication to clear the infection completely. Now he needs his forever home.

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