Galgo News

Tag: help the podencos

  • The horror of Las Cuadras, Seville – the reality of life for the animals there

    Las Cuadras EDL 250 01 2011L’Europe des Levriers is the French association from whom I adopted my 3 galgos and with whom I have worked on rescues. This is the story of the gypsy camp of Las Cuadras in Seville, as told by their President, Beatrice Monnet, on their website. At the end of this report, you can see a video of the Fundacion Benjamin Menhert on one of their rescues – 600 dogs taken out of the camp in one year!

    ‘Since its inception in 2006, L’Europe des Levriers has repeatedly denounced the terrible camp galgueros Las Cuadras in Seville. Cristina, our Vice President, regularly rescues galgos and podencos from this hell. We go to our kennels in Madrid every 3 or 4 months to bring these rescued dogs to France for adoption.

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  • SARA Protectora, Lanzarote – costs involved in adopting a cat or dog

    ZP podenco SARA 190 10 2011This is ZP, a 9 month old Podenco Canario. He’s in the SARA Protectora refuge on Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Unless adopted on mainland Europe, he is destined to spend the rest of his life in the shelter. Read on.

    SARA Protectora is the refuge on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. They take in dogs and cats – and the difficulty is rehoming them – very limited on the islands. Here is a guide as to the costs involved in rescuing a dog or cat.

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  • URGENT! Save this mama galga and her babies in Cordoba

    Cordoba galga puppies 250 2 10 2011This appeal just in today. ‘Subject: URGENT !!!!! Great danger. Save Mama Galga and babies. ABANDONed Córdoba – arqueologa83@gmail.com

    Write to, if you can foster or adopt: arqueologa83@gmail.com

    These pups are at high risk, their mom is a galga (still no pictures of her), she is lame in one leg. We assume she has run for food for her babies and
    goes in search of food leaving them alone with the risk that entails. Besides that, she goes through an area where there are many hunters and now it has started to rain.

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  • Urgent call – Seville – galgo puppy abandoned, anyone room for it?

    Galgo puppy Seville 250 10 2011Hunting in Spain has only just begun and already the slow and sick galgos are being dumped and abandoned. Here’s an urgent appeal for help for a 2-month old galgo puppy in Seville, abandoned tied by a rope to a fence.

    Sara found it, she has already two galgos at home, abandoned in the streets, and her partner won’t have another one. Please can any associations help? Thank you.
    Contact: (Spain) 650098639 saradivertida@hotmail.com

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  • Galga Greta seeks forever family – 112carlotagalgos appeal

    Greta 1 250 Tina July 2011 This is beautiful Greta, a galga rescued from the killing station, scarred in both body and mind. 112carlotagalgos has healed her and now she is ready for a forever family to continue her care, and with whom she can share her life. Here’s her story, contact Charl if you can offer her forever. UPDATE – Greta has now found her forever home in the UK and will travel there in January.

    On the same page, you can also read about the incredible Clara and how she nurtures and helps traumatised galgas like Greta.

  • Here we are again – galgos still in killing stations from last year’s hunting – now they’re loose again on Spain’s roads……

    Cadiz galgo 250 05 2011 It’s been a never-ending struggle for all the rescue associations in Spain, coping with thousands of galgos and podencos, as well as the thousands of other abandoned and maltreated dogs of Spain. And now, before last season’s detritus has been coped with, the bloody hunters are already abandoning this year’s rejects. Loose on the roads of Andalucia, Murcia….how can the bastards deny what we all know – the majority of them don’t give a bloody damn about the dogs they don’t want to keep.

    Be strong, Spanish volunteers, we are all with you as much as we can be.

  • Olivenza Perrera, Badajoz – Auschwitz for Galgos – and still the hunters deny any cruelty to galgos!!

    Olvenza perrera sign 250 The Hunting season in Spain is about to begin – for ‘hunting’ read also ‘coursing’. The poor rejected galgos and podencos from the 2010 season are still arriving in perreras across Spain for killing, or being abandoned and injured in road accidents.

    The Hunting Federations deny there is any cruelty connected with their members’ treatment of their galgos. They claim that all the scaremongering is because of ‘animal rights’ people lying. They continue to stick their heads up their a…s and ignore the fact that photos and videos abound on the Internet to prove a lie to their claims.

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  • Galgo Briken – leaving Scooby and Spain for forever in Germany

    Briken is a big galgo who’s been in Scooby Refuge virtually all of his 3 years of life. He’s shortly off to his forever home in Germany; you’ll love this video of him with his friends – his forever family have cats.

  • Galga Guapita gets better – podenca pup Lucia arrives

    Lucia 1 Tina 250 09 2011 Lovely video to watch about saving an injured galga. Well done, Galgos del Sol.

    The association have just taken in this 4 month old podenca puppy – this is what she brought on her back. Contact Galgos del Sol if you can offer her – or any of their other podencos/galgos, a forever home.

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  • Court Case against hunter accused of hanging his galgos – Baas Association fights on

    Fepaex.org galgodonbenito 250 You may remember in I reported that Baas Galgo were taking to court via a denuncia a hunter in Toledo who had hung his 3 galgos – he was identified because he left microchips in. This is the latest news from Sandra Baas.

    ‘It was agreed opening of oral proceedings in the case of the man who confessed to hanging his 3 galgos.

    The Court of Instruction No. 2 of Torrijos (Toledo) has agreed to open the trial against the man who confessed to hanging two of the 3 greyhounds found in a place nearby Fuensalida in February.The perpetrator is a neighbor of the same locality. The Fiscal Ministry demands a year in prison for a crime of animal abuse. The greyhound defense association, BaasGalgo, presented as the private prosecution with the lawyer Sergio Garcia-Valle, has requested a year in prison for each of the abused animals: three years in prison in total.

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