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  • Treatment for Canine Leishmaniosis – Pro-Galgo shares

    Pro Galgo Resu 250 12 2012I recently received an email from a researcher at the Royal Veterinary College in London on the subject of leishmaniosis in stray dogs in Spain and Portugal. This is Mo Swatek’s galga Recu, who was treated for the disease, and she writes with information on the leishmaniosis treatment prescribed by the Pro-Galgo vet.

    ‘We have in our group of 23 rescue dogs, 7 positive with canine leishmaniasis.

    All of them receive 100mg allopurinol per 10kg of body weight 2 times a day. some have received the new LEISGUARD treatment, others the injections of glucantime if the liver and kidney allows it.

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  • Too late for one – but 4 more lives saved from the streets of Sevilla

    Pro Galgo 4 dogs Seville 250 11 2012Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo has sent the following appeal for help to pay vet bills for 4 dogs rescued off the streets of a village in Sevilla. They were too late to save one galga, with pneumonia and parvovirus, but the other galga, two podencos and a bodguero (like a Jack Russell) have been saved. You can read all about it here. You will find details of how to donate at the end of the story.

  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona – saving and rehoming galgos

    SOS Galgos English website 250 4 2012SOS Galgos in Barcelona have now got their new website in English. Click on this link – if it takes you to the Spanish website, just click on the Union Jack at the top of the page. They are still working on completing the information on some pages.

    You will see their claim – 160 galgos abandoned every day, that’s 58,400 galgos every year – so much for those people who have said to me ‘you exaggerate’ when I say 50,000. SOS Galgos is based in Barcelona city, in the veterinary clinic of Albert, which is where the operations – shown in the photos – were carried out.

  • Nana in Barcelona – receiving the best treatment

    Do you remember Nana, the little galgo puppy in the care of Pro-Galgo and being treated for an horrendous case of mange? She then succumbed to distemper, bravely fought on and has now recovered enough to feel happy to play with other hounds. Read her progress report here.

  • SOS Galgos & Galgos France – two more calendars for 2012

    SOS Galgos and Galgos France each have a 2012 calendar for sale.

    Two more 2012 calendars being sold for fundraising by French associations are Galgos Libres and Passion Levriers (Scroll down the page until you come to the details of how to order)

    Click on the links for the information.