Galgo News

Tag: Spain

  • 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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  • Good news from Pro-Galgo about this poor galga with a severe case of mange

    Ch 8 3 Dibujo[1] terrible mange 0110 250Do you remember this galga, virtually bald from a severe case of mange. She was rescued and nursed back to health by Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo, and has now been rehomed.

    You can read the original story here

    And see the updated pictures of her in her forever home here

  • Podenca Maria, injured and surviving on the streets of Seville

    Maria-10 Assn. ARCA Aug 2010 190 This little podenca is Maria, who was abandoned and has lived most of her life on the streets of a village near to Seville, too terrified to be caught. Searching for food amongst rubbish, dodging vehicles on the road, bearing puppies.

    She was finally captured last month by an association ARCA, along with her 3 puppies. She has been hit twice by vehicles and has suffered a compression of the spinal cord which has resulted in a loss of feeling, and poor movement.

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  • Parachuting for the galgos – sponsor Lisa’s jump on 12th September

    TeamExtreme (1).JPG cropped 200 Lisa Ingram hails from the North West of England but now lives in Spain. She is a great friend and supporter of Charl del Rio, who has just launched her association 112 Carlota Galgos, with the main intention of educating the young Spanish that animals are sentient being and should be respected and cared for.

    As the first fundraiser for the association, Lisa has volunteered to jump out of a plane! Here’s what the Liverpool Echo newspaper wrote.

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  • Parachute Jump for the Galgos

    Charl and_Neptuno 250 Tireless campaigner for galgos Charl del Rio now has her own association, through which she will concentrate on educating the young Spanish to respect and care for animals, as well as rescuing abandoned galgos and podencos when a call comes in. Her friend Lisa Ingram is planning a parachute jump to publicise the plight of the galgos, to tie in with the Fete des Galgos in France (which will be held at my home) and the Fiesta des Galgos the following weekend in USA, both in the middle of September.

    You can read the latest news here.

  • Hung galga loose on the streets of Cordoba – pray she can be caught

    This year there seem to have been more galgos abandoned and still loose on the streets and campo. Charl’s had this information in about a galga loose on the streets of Jaen, with injuries to her neck, quite obviously managed to survive a hanging. There are people in the area trying to catch her Read about it on her weblog.

    Anyone in the area who can help, please contact El Arca de Noe.

  • From Heaven to Hell – The Story of the Galgo Espanol – readers’ comments

    Here are some comments; you are very welcome to send me yours, good or bad, and I will add them to the list.

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  • Another petition for the galgos

    Here is another petition about the galgos. I am posting the link, but I have doubts about the accusation that dogs in perreras are clubbed to death. If anyone has any proof of this, I will be interested to receive it.

    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/180/please-help-to-save-the-galgos-in-spain

  • Podenco Scooby is also looking for his forever family, he is in the UK already

    Scooby Pro Galgo 07 2010 250 And yet another podenco, in the UK already, looking for a forever home. He’s with Pro-Galgo and this is what Mo Swatek says about him.

    ‘Goku, or Scooby as we have now called him, is one of the Podencos that arrived from Spain recently. He is around 18 months old and is absolutely stunning. He has the most amazing ears and grin and wonderful red coat.

    Scooby is very playful and loves to play tug with a raggy toy, either with his kennel mate or with visitors. He can still be a little shy of new people but is very loving and confident when he gets to know you.Scooby could live with older (10+), calm and gentle children.

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  • Spain’s Catalonia bans bullfighting! There’s hope yet for saving the galgos.

    This is a report on Yahoo

    Spain’s Catalonia bans bullfighting.

    The result of 68 in favour, 55 against the prohibition was expected, since the Catalonian parliament had cast preliminary votes in December accepting a citizens’ petition to outlaw bullfighting on the grounds that it was cruelty to animals. There were nine abstentions.

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