Tag: Spain

  • 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

  • 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

    Injured pup 170The 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

    Rey Charl 250 3 2012112carlotagalgos 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

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  • Charity Fashion Show – Animals In Distress (A.I.D.) – 28th April 2012

    Saturday 28th April at the Wellington Centro de Cultura de España, Coin (Andalucia)
    (Upstairs in La Trocha Comercial Centre) – Show starts at 3.00pm – only a 3 Euro entry – Food and Drink available at the adjoining Restaurant.
    Come a bit earlier for a pre-show browse and find some great items on our stalls.
    Jewellery, scarfs, handbags, shoes and clothes for all occasions.
    Hair and make up is being sponsored by Arte Hair and Beauty.
    Commentary by Heart fm 96.1
    For more information contact 626 942 427.
    Help us to help the Animals

  • Bencarlo, Spain – cheap accommodation, no food included

    Bencarlo atrocity 250 2 2012Another killing of galgos!!! This time near Benicarló. This happened in February 2012. The corpses are partly burned and beneath the galgos are bones from earlier killings. IT´S ENOUGH, BASTARDS!!!

  • Torre del Campo, Jaen – galgo with Wobbler Syndrome?

    Lourdes galgo dys 3 250 4 2012Lourdes helps with a small association in Torre del Campo, Jaen. This galgo, now called Voyka, was recently rescued, and his movement is disco-ordinated. He has now been assessed by the vet and this is what Lourdes says.

    ‘I tooko Voyka to Jaén to test various things: the x-rays didn´t show anything in the head and the column but our vet thinks that it´s Wobbler syndrome

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