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  • The heartwarming story of galgos Gracie & Jake –

    Jake_and_Gracie_1 190With all the horror stories recently, it’s lovely to receive a heartwarming story of two galgos who found their forever home in the heart of Kathryn and her husband. Here she tells Gracie and Jake’s Story.

    I first found out about galgos seven years ago when I was reading about rescue dogs on the internet. I came across the Greyhounds in Need website and read all about the galgos. I had never heard of the galgos and their plight and what I read was heartbreaking. I thought that my husband and I would be able to give a galgo a good home and contacted GIN to say that we were interested.

    We had a home check and GIN said that we were suitable. They had some galgos coming across from Spain and they would be in quarantine in the UK and we could visit them.

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  • Goods to donate for the Cordoba shelter – Contact Chris soonest

    With regard to the recent appeal for the extremely poor shelter in Cordoba, Chris Marshall will be collecting donated goods on his next trip to the UK. Read about it here on his blog. If you have any dog beds, bedding, collars, leads, medicines, dog food, anything which the shelter could use, please email Chris here as soon as possible so he can organise and co-ordinate collections

    These are some of the dogs in the shelter which need your help, including galgos and podencos

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  • Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge – saving dogs and writing poems

    Besides saving galgos in the Seville province, Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge is also a poet. You can read some of his poems here.

  • Galga Lucha – murdered on the Madrid metro

    Last month a galga found herself in the Metro in Madrid. You can read the story here.

  • Letters needed for the galgos to National Geographic Magazine

    Danielle and April have continued to keep contact with the National Geographic Society and they need your help again. Below is the letter they have composed to keep up the pressure for more coverage in the magazine about the plight of the galgos. You can either copy, paste to your computer and print off and post, or send by email, addresses below. If you post, can you also enclose a sheet of photos of badly injured galgos, to illustrate the horror they suffer.

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  • Cuenca – 27 galgos arrived at Scooby – they need homes!

    You will remember the appeal to save the Cuenca refuge being changed back into a perrera. Scooby have taken 27 galgos from there. They arrived on January 10th.
    Cristina and Simonetta, an Italian volunteer, left at 6 in the morning to get the dogs to Scooby. So it was a double women power transport and it worked very well!
    We hope we can soon release them into a new life as beloved pets and we count on you to make our hope become reality! See the video. They need money for food, vet fees and, of course, homes! http://www.scoobymedina.org

  • 2 galgos down a 30ft well – Galgos del Sol to the rescue

    Well_Galgos_GdS_250 1_2013We all know that most galgueros, especially in rural areas, will stop at nothing to dispose of their dogs, especially at the end of hunting. Galgos del Sol and Tina Solera have just taken in two young galgas, Tina tells the story.

    ‘We help alot of galgueros in this area…… I am so bloody disapointed with this, I can’t tell you. We have spoken with some galgueros and they believe for sure these two young galgas were stolen and the thieves did not want them to get back home. That is why galgueros build BUNKERS to prevent theft. Pistolero was stolen from a galguero here in our village two years ago… he was also found over 4 hrs away down in a deep well. These two young galgas were thrown in a well 30 meters deep and pulled out approx a couple of days ago by firemen.

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  • Scooby Medina save 40 more galgos…adoptions needed

    Scooby have just taken another 40 galgas saved from Seville. Video here. Now they need homes!

  • Gesser Killing Station, Cadiz – due to die 20.12 so the staff can go on holiday!

    Gesser Atigrada 250 12 2012These galgos are all in Gesser (Cadiz) killing station. They will be murdered before 20th December, because the staff there want to have a holiday over Xmas, and they don’t want to be bothered with seeing to dogs. What price life?!! If you can help, please contact Maribel. maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com (Spain 0034) 605637101 Maribel between 9-5 every day. You can pay a holding fee and sponsor a dog, which will then go into a kennels, and you pay for that until an association takes the dog to be adopted. Give the gift of life this Xmas, instead of your Xmas turkey and Xmas pud!

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  • Seville & Huelva – galgas on the streets – in danger…

    Seville 250 11 2012Abandoned galgos and podencos everywhere, every year now it gets worse – there are thousands in the perreras already, due to be killed – or the galgueros say to volunteers, ‘take this dog or I will kill it’. How do the volunteers cope?!

    Here is a young galga abandoned in Seville province, in danger on the streets – or becoming pregnant! Contact ..CONTACT GEM…SEVILLE 679106878… THANK YOU!

    And this beauty too.

    She’s in a village in Huelva, she’s been there all summer. She had puppies which have disappeared – stolen, killed, who knows. She was very fearful but a person in the village has been feeding her and now it would be possible to catch her. But there is no where for her to go.

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