APASA, Almanzora Valley, Albox, is holding a Fun Dog Show on 7th October. Please go along and support them. Here are all the details of classes and where the event is being held. I’ve just held my 3rd Fun Dog Show and people are still asking me to repeat it next year – they say they have a really great time. The APASA show is just a bit too far for me to travel from France!!
Tag: Spain
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Bandolera of Badajoz – needs a foster home to recover
This is Bandolera de Badajoz, the galga from the video who was left with a broken leg in the Badajoz perrera by her boss. She was operated today and is doing fine, she needs a fosterhouse in Badajoz for some weeks because she needs complete rest. Contact SOS Badajoz perrera. sosperrerabadajoz@gmail.com
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Update on the fire at Kim’s Animal Rescue, Fuengirola
UPDATE
WE HAVE LITERALLY JUST PUT THE PHONE DOWN FROM SPEAKING TO THE
VOLUNTEERS AT KIM’S ANIMAL RESCUE. YOU WILL SEE AN UPDATE AND
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Cadiz galgos – seized from poachers – placements needed
Urgently need somewhere for these 3 galgos, all female, to go. They are in Cadiz, seized from poachers. Contact corilayka@gmail.com
And I’ll add a note here that hunting is due to start next month, hunters are advertising puppies for sale at 50 euros on Milanuncios, and yet the perreras still have dozens and dozens of young healthy galgos on death row. At times I simply can’t keep up with posting them all – however do the volunteers cope.
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Dogs from Spain to UK – be careful how and when
Why you should be very careful about who transports your dogs – and best not to move them during July and August, Read the story here
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Cartagena, Murcia, Spain – 2 hung galgos – English translation
Here is a translation about the two hung galgos, found in Cartagena, in the same area as Bullas, where Operation Rehala took place in January.
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Ejica, Seville, Spain – Spanish hunter hangs his galgo – August 2012
8th August 2012. Spanish hunter hangs his dog. It has a broken neck and, to make if worse, it’s also had its leg broken. Where? Ejica, SEVILLE! August 2012. Let the hunters deny they don’t hang their dogs. This is the 3rd such story of hung galgos which I have received this week, I’m just waiting for more pix of the other one.
WARNING, unpleasant picture. I’ve posted the photo here
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Galgos in training – Save the Galgo
The plight of the galgos has, it seems to me, been worse this year than ever before, and still, all through this summer, volunteers are rescuing starving and injured galgos. A volunteer says, ‘in a month and a half the hunting season with galgos starts again and already the galgueros are training their dogs like crazy to get condition on them, to get stronger muscles, more speed, only to leave them behind later in the fields or perreras if they don´t hunt as they want.
Please, adopt a galgo because there are still many left everywhere from the last season, all in need of a loving family and a forever home! For the end of the hunting with galgos in Spain!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nvLZ_USYQ&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OuZS61jVs&feature=relmfu (Olivenza is a privately owned killing station in Badajoz, Extremadura, you can read about it in my book From Heaven to Hell, The Story of the Spanish Galgo) -
Rey, King of the Galgos – needs your help
112carlotagalgos is a very small family association which concentrates on rescuing and rehabilitating traumatised, sick and injured galgos and podencos. Some months ago we told the story of Rey, abandoned, surviving on virtually nothing, he’d finally collapsed and almost given up the struggle. Some months on, he is doing ok, but a new problem has arisen. Rey needs help! He needs you, we need you! Here’s his story…
Rey came to 112 Carlota Galgos several months ago, found giving up, life had let him down. He lay in the dust with life draining from him,.. down and out. He was seen and rescued. He stayed with his rescuer in Sevilla for a month and along with Polyana joined us at 112 carlota galgos for us to recouperate them and socialise them into family life.
Rey .. seems he has everything against him, he is a black galgo in Spain, he is older and he is a natural hunter. He cannot be scolded for something which has been bred into him, he lived and kept himself alive by hunting. He is a hunter, he will hunt, and yet he will walk by your side like the gentlest galgo you know.
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Mairena perrera – Spanish hunters still dumping their dogs in April!!
End of April and still the galgos arrive in Mairena killing station. For anyone who can help, contact details below, number of dog on collar. Names are listed where possible, in order of the photos. Contact:
Adoption: adopcionsosas@gmail.com
Foster: acogidasosas@gmail.com
donations: IBAN ES87 0030 1539 1101 6393 4272CUENTA BANESTO: 0030 1539 11 0163934272
PAYPAL: ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com