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  • Two podencas desperately needing forever homes

    FREYA Tina 09 2010 250 This is Freya, a podenca at Los Infiernos refuge, Murcia, where Tina is a volunteer. Tina explains ‘She is a podenco suffering terribly. She has been chewing at her own leg and has broken through the skin. She doesn’t want to eat and had lost a lot of weight but volunteers have been hand feeding her wet food so that is helping. I’ve had her moved to a more comfortable place in the refuge and she is improving but would like to see her leave asap. She is approx 10mths, great with people but nervous with other dogs until she gets to know them!’

    Please contact Tina direct.

    And don’t forget sweet Mary, currently in a kennels and desperate for her forever home. Contact Charl direct.

  • Romeo, saved in April, in danger from a galguero, looking for his forever home.

    Romeo 003 20 09 2010 250 Help, please, anyone in the Torre Pacheco, Murcia, area or anywhere. Tina has been seeking a forever home for handsome galgo Romeo since she rescued him in April. Today she was told that tomorrow he will be given to a hunter!! You can imagine her distress! Common with a lot of the volunteers in the refuges…..saving the galgos only for them to be stolen back for the hunters! Here’s her appeal

    ‘I currently have Romeo in my garden. If I didnt take him today then tomorrow he was leaving with a hunter… i couldnt let that happen. OH MY GOD, husband is going to kill me. So far he is great with Guapo and has been good as gold, out of the refuge he is calmer. he has no microchip, no vaccines and is castrated.

    Please help me, I cant keep him but if he stays in the refuge tomorrow he will be with a galguero.’

    UPDATE Silvia in Valencia rushed to the rescue, Romeo is now on his way to her. If you can adopt this stunning galgo, please contact her.

  • Galga Alerta, abandoned in Spain, awaiting her forever adopting family

    Aleta[1] Tina 08 2010 250 Here’s another beauty, rescued by Tina Solera and now at Los Infiernos refuge in Mercia.

    She’s desperately looking for her forever home. If you can offer one to her, contact Tina on parajelosinfiernos@hotmail.com

    ‘Aleta – 1 year old female found wandering the roads in Pilar. She had a skin condition and a badly injured tail but is now fully recovered after treatment and is ready for a new home.’

  • Cielo, galga left for dead on the streets of Cordoba, rescued by La Guarida

    Cielo2 body Cobie 08 2010 250 It’s now nearing the end of August, soon the Spanish hunting season begins. And there are still galgos suffering and dying, abandoned at the end of the last hunting season.

    Here is the story of one of them. It has taken me 2 days to be able to post this story, I was so sickened at the suffering of Cielo and felt for the emotional and physical draining which the volunteers who rescued her must have suffered too.

    Written by Nuria Martin from the protectora La Guarida, Cordoba, translated for me by Cobie.

    Cielo (heaven) that’s how we called her the short time we lived with her, and the short time we shared her suffering. Her end…..

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  • Update on Podenca Mary and introducing Galga Dana

    Mary 1 Charl 08 2010 250 Mary has now been bathed, wormed, flea treatment, ticks removed, and taken to the vet – age estimated just 5-6 months old. See how tiny she is, sitting next to the laundry basket! Not surprisingly, she has no microchip. She has tested negative for leishmania, just waiting for the results for ehrlichia and filaria. These should be back in a couple of days, and then she will be vaccinated etc. Once this has been done, she will go to the kennels with Dana.

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  • Mary, a young podenca rescued in Alhaurin, Spain, desperately needing help

    Alhaurin baby 1 Charl 08 2010.JPG cropped 250 A picture of sheer unadulterated terror in the eyes of this little dog! Charl del Rio found her at a petrol station, lost, terrified, hungry. She managed to catch her, called her Mary as she is like a little lamb, and now tells the story.

    ‘I went to visit the galgo Charlie after his castration, and on the way home I stopped at the petrol station in Alhaurin, where I found this little lost soul, a baby podenco which looks like a little fox, COVERED in pinchy thorns… it was late, I got to the petrol station and thought ill put petrol in the car. I stopped walking and she came up behind me. At a distance I thought she was older than she was, but I then could see she was just a baby.

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  • Pro-Galgo urgently need help – please donate

    Randy Pro-Galgo 08 2010 300 Does this break your heart or what? To see a beautiful affectionate loving galgo in this state! Luckily Pro-Galgo has come to his rescue. You can read his story and that of another galgo, plus a little Yorkie (whose owner died) on their website.

    Pro-Galgo still has 5 of the 28 Jerez galgos in kennels, which costs, and now they have vet bills for these three dogs. They are out of funds. Please, if you can contribute towards any of these costs – 700 euros will cover the fees for microchipping, vaccination, castration – and a dental job on the Yorkie – donate through their website. However small the amount – even £10 or $10 or 10 euros – it will be greatly appreciated.

  • Podenca Minerva in Seville looking for a forever home

    Minerva6-150x150 250 And another gorgeous podenca rescued last month and looking for her forever home.

    Minerva in Roman mythology, among other things, goddess of wisdom. And our podenquita proved to be very wise when she decided that she should continue to the door of the house of Angel and his girlfriend. Somehow she knew they would take her.

    Our kids spent hours and hours ridding her of a lot of parasites, they gave her a bath and after a hearty meal, Minerva, as a baby calm and confident, fell asleep. On waking we have found a sweetheart.

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  • Oco, podenco saved from the streets of Spain, waiting for a forever home

    Oco 1 250 Please could anybody offer a forever home to this adorable podenco, currently in foster in southern France.

    Oco was found on the streets in Spain with long curly claws. His only friend was a cat and an abandoned galga (Spanish greyhound). His owner didn’t care about him and pretended he’d given him to a friend.

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  • Podenco Barajas – looking for his forever home

    Here are two videos of Barajas, the podenca saved by Silvia in Valencia, looking for his forever home.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVGSHgvVr_U&feature=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrVUf7ZIwl4&feature=channel

    Contact Silvia

    UPDATE – Barajas will travel to his forever home in the USA at the end of September, courtesy of Telma Shaw and GRIN (Galgo Rescue International Network.) Travelling with Barajas will be galgos Sofie and Angie.