Galgo News

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  • Pepis Refuge, Seville – victims of the weather again – Urgent Appeal

    Pepis Refuge hill 4 2013Jane Brian writes. ‘ This winter has for us been a wet one and as we showed on the website before,the mud that engulfed our patio and some of the dog pens has again invaded us. We have been advised that it has become dangerous as a huge piece is just waiting to come down and could destroy the house. As we use the house for injured dogs and dogs who have sterilisation opps this has become top priority.

    We own a large hill that is attached to the refuge and we feel this would be the only way we could safely continue our work. To make this possible we need your help.

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  • Levriers sans Frontieres meet an Angel and a Devil – and save some galgos and podencosa

    Odile Brochot, president of Lévriers sans frontières, and 6 French volunteers just returned from a rescue trip to Spain. They went to a perrera to save some dogs from certain death there, took their rescued dogs back to Fondation Benjamin Mehnert, went to a galguero hideaway, saved some dogs there and then went to Scooby Medina where they also took some dogs to be taken back to France to be adopted out.

    At the perrera, they saw an angel and met the devil.

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  • 4th April 2013 – Happy Belated Birthday DutchGalgoLobby

    Apologies that this news is a little late. I’m currently in the UK for a funeral and flat clearing and have restricted access to a computer.

    Happy 2nd Birthday DutchGalgoLobby on 4th April 2013

    On April 4th, DutchGalgoLobby celebrates her 2nd birthday. In her relatively short existence, DutchGalgoLobby has achieved quite a lot. Dutch Politics are now well aware of the Galgo mistreatment in Spain and one of the parties even set up a resolution to ask the Dutch government to take action. Regretfully this resolution did not get enough votes to pass because they still think it is an internal Spanish problem, to be solved by Spain. (Subsidiarity principle)

    Therefore we approached the European Parliament which is in progress but takes time. European parliament is rather sluggish!

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  • Two lucky galgas – Portuguese Estrela and Spanish Fallera

    Two nice stories – Many of you responded to the appeal to fund food and medical care for Estrela, a galga owned by an alcoholic Portuguese hunter, who had 3 puppies which he was intending to drown. Thanks to the efforts of Teresa Sousa and her team, Estrela was rescued, along with the puppies. One of the ladies who contributed towards the fees for Estrela has been accepted for her forever Mom. Last week Estrela arrived at my home for a temporary stay en route for the UK.

    And the story of Fallera, a beautiful white galga which an old man used to walk past the Scooby Residencia Valladolid. He lived in an apartment and kept the galga in a garage. Cobie of Scooby eventually managed to persuade the old man to give Fallera to Scooby and she was recently rehomed in Italy.

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  • ‘Training’ galgos from motorised vehicles – Andalusian Minister of Justice comments

    In a hearing of the parliamentary commission of the Andalusian government, Emilio de Llera Suárez-Bárcena, minster of Justice and Interior Affairs, told the commission that they would not draft a regulation for the training of galgos with motor vehicles and nor did they ask the Veterinary Department of the University of Cordoba to study this matter. He responded to a question asked by the IU-GREENSdeputy, Alba María Doblas Miranda.

    On a personal note, the minister added that he is absolutely against the training of galgos with motor vehicles. “I do not know if it is damaging to the galgos, I am not a vet. But I find the image of this training repugnant and it hurts my feelings”. Read the story here.

  • Auction items needed by Sighthoundsforlife

    Ebro vets 250 13.3.2013We are sure you have all been following the harrowing story of Ebro, rescued injured from Badajoz perrera, both front legs broken, taken in by 112 Carlota Galgos and the wonderful love & care he has been receiving from Charlotte.

    Sighthoundsforlife are pleased to announce we shall be holding an auction shortly in aid of Ebro’s veterinary bills – we’re talking about 4 figures – so if anyone has anything they can donate to the auction, we will be extremely grateful.

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  • A letter to Senor Galguero…

    To Senor Galguero, from Beryl Brennan

    I woke up ANGRY this morning. And it’s YOUR fault.

    Why?

    I’m a writer; I write for newspapers, magazines, websites. I’d like to write more books – I’ve got plenty of ideas, but not the time. I used to get paid for my writing. Now, writing about anything other than galgos and podencos has taken a very back seat, so I lay the drop in my income firmly at your door. Because I don’t earn any money writing about galgos and podencos, I do it because I must, for these innocent souls. That’s for starters.

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  • 100,000 + galgos abandoned at the end of hunting every year – work it out for yourself!

    Boycott Spain 190 2013People say the figure of 50,000 galgos abandoned every year is exaggerated – usually it’s the hunters who say so, of course, as they don’t want the bad press. Vera of Galgos en Familia, Malaga province in southern Andalucia says, ‘Co-inciding with the end of the hunting season at this time of year, more than 5.000 galgos are abandoned by hunters in our province.

    It is estimated that 1,500 galgos are collected each year from the streets of Malaga province and the majority of these from the valley of Antequera, where they are used as tools to capture hares,a hunting activity that is banned in other european countries but is still very much allowed here in Spain.

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  • The Plight of the Spanish Galgo – in the spotlight in the UK Daily Mail

    I recently reported about professional British photographer Martin Usborne visiting Malaga to learn about the plight of the galgos. He is there again this week, visiting shelters in the Seville area, to photograph galgos for an exhibition later in the year. See Ebro walking here!

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  • Ochavillo del Rio, Cordoba – needs help of every kind

    NOS Sandra 2 3 2013This appeal is from my friend Sandra Campos Cuevas of Nueva Oportunidad Sevilla.

    The partners of Ochavillo del Río (Córdoba) are responsible for over 20 dogs, they only have a sack of feed. Its facilities are appalling. They also have puppies. They need food, beds, blankets, and help to spread. They need adoptions. Nueva Oportunidad Sevilla is trying to raise money, materials and medicines to take them as soon as possible. Donations Paypal: dabomo@hotmail.com Concept: Ochavillo del Rio

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