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  • Spanish Galgo puppy Silencio – Galgos del Sur, Cordoba, to the rescue

    Galgos del Sur galguito head 250 7 2013This poor little soul is with Galgos del Sur. Here is his story.

    ‘We were given notice that a galguito was under a car in a marginal area of Cordoba. When we got there, the galguito was losing fluids from many parts of his body and we carried him to our car and went directly to the vet hospital.

    His diagnosis is not serious, but the care and hospitalization he needs will be expensive.His body is full of all kinds of parasites, has anaplasma, low hematocrit, has almost no power to move and is malnourished and dehydrated. We’ve called him Silence, because he crawled under the car to die in silence. The photos say it all.

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  • Prodeanse, Seville – Galga Nieves fighting to survive the abuse of a galguero

    Prodeanse Nieves b4 vet 250I visited Prodeanse shelter when I was in Seville last year. The team work to help dogs in a very bad area for abandonment and cruelty. This is their story of Nieves.

    SEVILLA / / Nieves… Rescued from the Cerro de Dos Hermanas

    Nieves gave birth to her 9 puppies on the morning of the 27 June.
    She was treated with amoxicillin/clavulamico (antibiotic), meloxican (anti-inflammatory) and a vitamin complex since she was rescued. On July 1 she went to the vet as an emergency.

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  • Ebro – an incredible galgo – beating the bastard who abandoned him

    This is the story of an incredible galgo, an unbelievable fighter for life and the people who have cared for him and helped along his journey to walk again.

    The story starts here at 112carlotagalgos in Malaga

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  • Cordoba & Valencia – galgos and podencos rescued

    Cordoba 11 galgos 2 250Two stories of more galgos saved – the first one is 11 galgos in Cordoba. The hunter was taken very ill and hospitalised and an appeal went out to help the galgos. Galgos del Sol took 2 and several small associations stepped in to help. The galgos are all ok.

    The second story is about a dozen or so galgos, podencos and other dogs including puppies abandoned in an empty swimming pool! You can see how deep it is by looking at the male volunteer with a couple of the dogs. It is believed they were left there by gitanos. They have all been rescued by Apadac association in Callosa de Segura, Valencia region. You can see more photos on their website.

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  • Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – help feed a galgo, take a holiday and help

    Susan Dawson does wonderful work raising funds for small greyhound and galgo rescue associations. There’s still time to get your photo to her for her 2014 calendar raising funds for Pepis Refuge. She’s also appealing for people to sponsor food for the galgos and podencos at Pepis Refuge – Jane and Alan have a large number of dogs to feed and rely solely on donations. You can see the dogs and details of sponsorship on this link

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  • Support the small associations – they need help too

    Charl Harley eye 250All animal rescue associations in Spain do an amazing job, some of them are lucky enough to have hundreds of supporters to raise funds for their work. Which sadly often pushes out the small associations who lurch from month to month trying to pay feed and vet bills. You’ll know from previous posts on Galgo News that Charl and 112carlotagalgos has worked tirelessly for many years – longer than many larger associations – to raise awareness of the plight of the galgos and podencos. You can read more about the dogs here.

    She now has some seriously ill galgos in her care, and the vet bills are mounting up as we speak.

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  • Fundraising auction for animals – 17 May – 26 May 2013

    At long last, an auction for people who aren’t on facebook!! Mieke van Erp is raising funds for a half dozen rescue associations and Dutch Galgo Lobby. This is the link to the auction website – some beautiful items.

    Here are the details of how the auction works. The homepage in is Belgian, this is an English translation.

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  • Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert – Manifestation in Seville 12th May 2013

    Fundacion BM logo 250Seville in the news again. This time Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert are holding a Manifestation on 12th May 2013 for everyone involved in the plight of the galgo, whether it be saving them, healing them, rehoming them, adopting them, starting at 11.30. Visit their website for more news. And here’s the link to Martin Usborne’s visit to FBM earlier this year. And a report of a visit by Greytalk to FBM in March 2013. Video of galgos at FBM – over 500 dogs live there!

  • Scooby Residencia Valladolid – handed in by her galguero!

    Scooby Valladolid 1 250 4 2013This galga was handed in to Scooby Residencia Valladolid last week, by her galguero! It’s a wonder she could still stand up. Makes you wonder what his other dogs are like. Thank goodness she is safe now with Scooby. Read more Scooby news.

    Scooby News – English blogspot

    Words from Fermin about road accident victims

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  • Pepis Refuge, Seville – now puppy Polar needs your help

    Pepis Refuge pup 250 4 2013It’s been a nightmare few months for Jane and Alan at Pepis Refuge, Seville. Rain and more rain, mud and more mud, loss of Internet. Now at least they are connected to the rest of the world again. Below are a couple of photos of some of the galgos which were dumped or arrived at the refuge during this time. And this is the story of the little chap in this photo.

    ‘This is Polar,he was left at the refuge three weeks ago and has a deformed back leg.He saw the bone specialist on Tuesday and we were told that his leg was broken when he was a tiny baby and, as he has grown, the leg has become twisted above and below his knee and he will need to have several operations to correct the deformity. We were told that if the leg is not tended too soon,as he grows the leg will not. I will post the xray taken when I receive them.’

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