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Tag: Scooby Valladolid

  • Scooby rescues 50 more hunting dogs in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain

    50 Greyhounds and hounds from Castilla La Mancha…

    In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…
    Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.

    Sunday the 10th. of January we had to go to pick up some 50 galgos and podencos in a shelter in Tomelloso were every day a few galgos are brought in by their loving owners or mostly, are just thrown over the fence.

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  • A severe case of Mange – what happens if not treated

    Scooby Lucy 250 3So many wonderful Spanish people now working hard to help the abandoned and discarded dogs in their country. Yet it never fails to astound me that there sre STILL so many ignorant unfeeling people who can just walk by the sight of an animal suffering! One such case is Lucy, a little galga rescued with Scooby. Cobie tells the story.

    ‘This sweet little galga girl is Lucy, she´s 5 months old and was saved a few weeks ago from the perrera provincial from Valladolid by Scooby. The police had brought her there because she was walking on the street although she had an owner which was a gypsie. That person has done nothing about the severe mange she was suffering of and her whole body was covered in blood, infections and bad wounds.

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  • Scooby – another galga rescued – severe case of mange?

    Please read this story of Ziva, a galga with hardly any hair, taken from her hunter owner and now with Scooby…please read and help Scooby – share their work with everyone.

  • Fermin, galgos, Scooby Italia – all together on 2nd November 2013

    Over the weekend of 2nd November Fermin Perez travelled from Scooby Medina to take a dozen galgos to Scooby Italia and their forever homes. Here are some photos taken by the translators of my book into Italian, which was publicised at the meeting.

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  • Accommodation in Valladolid – here’s the best place

    Scooby Valladolid puppy 250 10 2013This teeny weeny galgo puppy, only 6 weeks old was found abandoned in Valladolid. He, it´s a little boy, was totally alone in a filthy barn, full of shit and other garbage, no food and no water, very skinny and hungry as a horse, covered in fleas and without a clean place or a soft blanket to sleep on. Now he is in the Scooby Valladolid Residencia and if he survives, Cobie and team will try to help him grow into a big, strong healthy and happy sofa galgo! Unbelievable – how he came to be there. Thank goodness he is safe!

  • Feed the Scooby dogs – buy raffle tickets for a fabulous hound blanket – closing date 30 August 2013

    Afghan blanket Scooby 7 2013Another fundraiser with a difference – a raffle to win this fantastic hand crocheted afghan blanket. Details from Diane War, raising funds for Scooby.

    This raffle is for a handmade Home for Hounds blanket that is crocheted with all soft acrylic yarns. The hound’s heads have floppy ears. The blanket is 42.5 inches by 33 inches.

    All money raised from this raffle will be sent to Scooby Medina in Spain to purchase food for the shelter.

    RULES for SCOOBY RAFFLE

    Raffle runs from May 1, 2013 to August 31, 2013

    Prize: One handmade Home for hounds blanket is crocheted with all soft acrylic yarns. The hound’s heads have floppy ears. The blanket is 42.5 inches by 33 inches.

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  • Scooby visits Cuenca, Madrid and Valladolid – dozens of galgos given the chance of life!

    Scooby skinny 250 11 12 2012Is anyone counting how many galgos have been saved by Scooby? Thee are over 600 animals at their centre in Medina del Campo, plus dozens more at the kennels in Valladolid. And now the Scooby team have been helping Pilar at Cuenca – too many galgos for the space there – read the amazing story of the saving of over 40 galgos and a podenco.

    Please remember Scooby this Christmas – the team won’t have a day off – the dogs need cleaning and feeding and exercising, medication etc. And if you are kind enough to donate to them, please don’t be upset if you don’t get a personal ‘thank you’. Read here. Because the staff are just too busy seeing to the animals! Huh?

  • This is the reality of life in Spain. Too late even for Scooby’s help

    From the Scooby website, 9th September 2012.

    BASTARDS!!!!

    It will probably not be politically correct but it is the first thing that comes to mind, that anybody is able to allow an animal to reach this sorry state, there is no other name than bastard.

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  • Handy with a paintbrush? Scooby need your help

    Scooby painting 8 2012 150If you are handy with a paintbrush and have a few days holiday to spare, Scooby need help with painting their new kennels. Cobie says, ‘Today we´ve started painting the dog kennels inside. One is finished, another 47 to go…So, if you like to paint, you´re more than welcome to come over here!’ Contact Scooby direct.

  • August – and Scooby is still rescuing galgos…

    Scooby puppy Fermin 200 8 2012At the beginning of the week Fermin Perez of Scooby went out to buy a new cement mixer; on his way back he picked up yet another abandoned galgo. And then a couple of days later, this small galgo puppy was found in a pinewood, abandoned! Cobie, of Scooby, says ‘I would like to talk in that wood to the person who left her all alone there, without water or food!! She is only skin and bones, dehydrated and malnourished, some 7 weeks old. Now she is ok after an infusion, she does not yet want to eat but the volunteers are going to buy and cook chicken, we hope she will eat it!

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