Tico’s bathtime! Here are words from Sandra.
Tico walked by, panicking, dark road of abandonment and distress, carried away by the swing of steps without any sense, direct to certain death. Suddenly, through the darkness, a light blinded him for a moment, “finally someone coming to my rescue,” he thought. But that illusion vanished, remained a wrenching pain that not only broke bones, but the soul. Suddenly HE shot hundreds of feet and HIS body joined the cold and rough asphalt.
Whilst I was in Spain for Xmas, I spent a few days at 112carlotagalgos and got to meet Duke, son of Estrela who I fostered for a short while before taking her to her forever home in the UK. He is now looking stunning but is still very nervous and retreats to his bed or the other end of the orchard whenever someone enters. Here you can see an update on how he is doing with Charl’s special touch.
Tara is just 1 year old and already experienced the trauma of being dumped in Badajoz perrera by her galguero. She has been rescued. Now renamed AMBER by Charl del Rio, she will be coming to 112carlotagalgos on 30/11/2013 with four other rescued galgos from Badajoz. Victor, Zach, Phoebe and Zara will be leaving the hell of the killing station too and travelling with Amber to start their new life at the finca under the loving hand of the Del Rio’s.
Poor little Zara is coming with a fractured leg and, with the cost of release fees, vaccines etc plus residency fees until pick up on Saturday not to even mention surgery for Zara, castration, other medical treatment needed the cost is massive.
A galgo family have been rescued by Prodeanse in Seville. There are 7 puppies, 2 boys and 5 girls and will be up for adoption, together with Iris, their stunning mother, and Noa, their beautiful black galgo. This little girl is Tania.
If you wish to be considered as a forever family, please contact Loli at Prodeanse.
Having recently said I was going to concentrate on publicising galgos and podencos already rescued and waiting for forever homes, I decided to post these galgos and a podenco on death row in Badajoz perrera – will be killed on 21 November – all under 3 years old.
sosperrerabadajoz@gmail.com
Over the weekend of 2nd November Fermin Perez travelled from Scooby Medina to take a dozen galgos to Scooby Italia and their forever homes. Here are some photos taken by the translators of my book into Italian, which was publicised at the meeting.
With 4 other dogs, it’s not easy training Polar, as he always wants to be with them. He’s learnt the basic sit and down but really needs to socialise with other dogs and people. So today was his first day at ‘doggy school’ and a whole new experience!
We had some crying in the car as I drove away from home. We very definitely had a tail touching tummy when we arrived and he was confronted by a dozen strange canines who had plenty of ideas about ‘behaving badly’!
Pesky pup Polar is definitely making his mark in our home – in more ways than one! Here he is practising the Polar Perch – left cheek resting on a nearby chair! The dogs aren’t allowed on the chairs in our living rooms – they have their own chairs in the adjoining barn – so this is Polar’s statement of ‘I’m not actually sitting on the chair!’
He is into everything, including things he shouldn’t be into! His worst misdeed happened when we were out with friends for the evening.
