Galgo News

Tag: rescue

  • Albacete perrera, two galgo pups on death row – anyone help?

    Albacete perrera galga pup Dama 1a 05 04 2011 250 Two galgo pups, a bitch and a dog, about 2 months old, in Albacete perrera. The little bitch has been painted in red! Please if anyone has room to rescue them, contact below if anyone can help.
    vicfisioperros@hotmail.com
    linaortu@hotmail.com
    ruth_perez30@hotmail.com
    tfno 618897182

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  • QuiQue and Risa – have you a special place in your home?

    QUIQUE2336 250 We regularly have galgos and podencos to stay overnight at our home in France, en route from Spain to their foster and forever homes. I love them all, but once in a while there is a special one. My husband took to this handsome chap on the rescue last weekend (19/03/2011). This is QuiQue, a magnificent rough-haired galgo, full of life and just craving for his forever home. Sadly we couldn’t even foster him as Floyd, our French lurcher, doesn’t like other large male dogs. QuiQue had been in a refuge for a year, if you can offer him a forever home, contact L’Europe des Levriers.
    And don’t forget my foster galga Risa, also looking for her forever home.

  • Starving, injured, escapee from hanging……the horror continues

    Starving galgo Ayendena 250 10 03 2011 Every day more horror stories come in from Spain, abandoned, injured and starving galgos – and the hunters still deny it goes on! Three appeals for help, if anyone can squeeze any of these dogs into a shelter or foster home, please contact the people direct.

    1. Galgo rescued by the Association AYANDENA in Seville, the greyhound is more dead than alive, with horrendous injuries to his hind leg, flesh is missing down to the bone. He urgently needs care, need help with veterinary costs. Irene Alcayde de Lamo

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  • Galgo rescuers brave snowstorms to save the innocents

    Link to the story of L’Europe des Levriers’ rescue at the end of January, in a snowstorm. They brought out many galgos and a couple of podencos from the refuge at Herencia, run by Rosario, including two puppies found hiding under a makeshift shelter, whom Rosario named Draco and Kyra. Draco has been adopted by an artist. As always, some of the dogs have to be left behind, waiting for the next rescue. Enjoy the pix.

  • Podencos with SARA in the Canary Islands – looking for forever homes

    SARA Pirulo 02 2011 190 It’s extremely hard to find forever homes for abandoned dogs on the Spanish Islands, particularly the beautiful, affectionate and loyal podencos. SARA Lanzarote have these two beauties who desperately need the chance of life outside a shelter. Andrea describes them.

    Pirulo is a very friendly and affectionate Podenco. He is obedient and will always watch out for the person that’s with him. He prefers to be cuddled and stroked than go to run or hunt, which is very special for these dogs. He is as well friendly with other dogs both male and female. He likes to be taken for walks, does not pull in the lead, we think he could even go without the lead.

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  • Navarra perrera – podencos on death row – hunting dogs don’t deserve to die!

    Urgent – podencos, setters and other hunting dogs in the Navarra – can anyone save any?

  • Zaragoza Killing Station – podencos need saving – please help

    Podenca Zaragoza 1 08 2011 250 The hunting season is now over and hunters are getting rid of their ‘4-footed tools’!
    These are the Perricos to be slaughtered in a few days at the Zaragoza perrera. This is the appeal I received

    ‘We are only two volunteers who have many dogs in kennels which we pay the fees and we can’t take any more dogs. We have all this responsibility on our shoulders and we desperately need adopters for the dogs in our care, and more so we need special people who can rescue these young podencos before they are sacrificed in a few days.

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  • End of hunting season in Spain – galgueros dump their dogs en masse!!

    Galgo Rescue June 2009 050 210 I can’t keep up with it all on Galgo News, just too much to post; galgos and podencos abandoned throughout winter, refuges full to bursting, embalming galgos rears its ugly head again – more in another post – and now galgueros dumping their dogs at the refuges and shelters. Yet more galgos dumped in the perreras, and now cutting microchips out of the dogs before dumping. How do the volunteers cope?

    Now I’ll tell you about a man who could make a change but hasn’t.

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  • Pleas on behalf of Podencos – hung, injured, starving, abandoned – Shame on the hunters!

    La Linea hanged with trap 1 02 2011 250 Here are some more podencos, abandoned, injured – one hung by a steel strap, another found with a metal collar, starving, needing help. Even two podenco puppies in a perrera in Seville! The hung podenco is at La Linea shelter in Cadiz, as is the old one abandoned at a petrol station. Adopt from La Linea through Podencoworld
    Contact here for the starving podenco at La Cazalla, 70km from Seville, and contact here for the puppies in the perrera in Seville. If anyone can help………..

    La Linea starving pod 1 02 2011 250

    Starving podenco 1 Seville 02 2011 250

    Seville perrera puppies 02 2011 250

  • Galgos dumped everywhere in Murcia! Please help pay vet fees

    Angela 190 sweet%20little%20pod Tina 01 2011 Abandoned galgos and podencos everywhere, as well as dumped in killing stations. Can you imagine dumping this little cutie in a killing station?! There is a team trying to catch the podencos in Valencia, (mentioned in a previous post), one of the dogs has disappeared; and there are dozens wandering the streets of Murcia.

    Galgos del Sol have been collecting some, and are trying to catch others – too frightened to be caught, so needing to be tempted into a trap. When are the hunters going to realise that the majority of Spaniards despise them for the bad press they give the country around the world. And when are the laws going to be applied.

    These dogs all rescued this week need their EU passports preparing

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