Galgo News

Tag: Torremolinos

  • Rehoming galgos – some lovely videos to watch

    Slovenia Sighthound World have been rehoming galgos and greyhounds for a few years now, and here are links to some lovely films of their rehomed dogs.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idt5kVgEU6A
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfjWQVJoBlg
    http://www.youtube.com/user/HrtjiSvet#p/u/1/YrDJJzrvIik

    And here’s a great video of Maisey, rescued by Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol; her badly injured leg had to be amputated. Galgos del Sol have dogs waiting for forever homes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3QNUsYRefk&feature=player_embedded
    And Aleta, also rescued by Galgos del Sol and now in her forever home.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csJDRITesao&feature=related

  • Spanish hunters abandon podencos too, please help them

    Anton 2 Tina 03 01 2011 250 I’m putting out an appeal for podencos, for people to offer them forever homes. There are three at Galgos del Sol (scroll down to Anton and Freya, and Lucky is a new arrival today, 4 pages of them on the Galgos France website, Ibizan Hound Rescue has many deserving podencos, and let’s not forget SARA Lanzarote in the Canary Islands – poor Mozaga has never known life outside of the refuge. Podencos suffer terrible maltreatment on the Spanish Islands, both Canaries and Balearic. Mostly their only hope is to be rehomed on mainland Europe or in the UK. Pepis Refuge is another small British-run shelter with many delightful podencos among their dogs looking for forever homes. And Phoenix Association in Dordogne, France, has Roda and Mindy who arrived in November from SARA Lanzarote and who are looking for forever homes in France.

    Please think of the podencos as well as the galgos.

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  • Galgo pup Charlie, survivor of Jerez perrera – sadly Charlie has now died

    Charlie 2 Charl 01 2011 250 The refuges and shelters are, as ever, swamped under the sheer volume of abandoned dogs, especially galgos – there’s been no let up all winter. And still the governments and authorities ignore the problem. Here’s another casualty of the galgueros. This is Charlie, 5 months old galgo pup, suffering from a viral infection in the Jerez killing station.

    Update 8 01 2011 Sadly today Charlie gave up his fight for life. Thanks to everyone who donated to help the vet try and save him.

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  • Galga Twiggy, leg broken, shot by an air gun, saved by Pepis Refuge, Spain

    Twiggy pellet 2 Pepis refuge 12 2010 250 This galga had her leg broken and was shot with an air rifle. She is being cared for at Pepis Refuge. This is her story.

    ‘The galga we have called Twiggy was found at Sado park hotel, Mollina, Malaga. She is 18mth old with a fantastic nature. She had her leg broken so it made it easier to shoot her with an air rifle, one pellet is deep into her stomach which cannot be removed as as an operation is too dangerous. The two pellets in her leg have been removed though the op has left a very large hole in her back leg. We are told she may never walk properly again.

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  • Torremolinos, Spain – animal abuse behind the sunshine and sea!

    Parque Animal, in Torremolinos, was supposed to be a refuge, a place of safety for abused and abandoned animals in the area. Instead, the poor souls incarcerated there suffered further abuse and a life of hell. Click here to read the story.

  • Spanish Galgos Ulises, Maisey, Luna from El Paraiso – please donate to vet fees

    Naisey after operation 24 11 2010 250 More abandoned and rescued galgos……from the perrera, from the countryside, urbanizations……….they are being abandoned everywhere, and it is only November – still the middle of the Spanish hunting season! One of the galgas rescued from El Paraiso could be pregnant, so an urgent spaying operation has now been carried out. And Maisey, an abandoned injured galga – sadly her leg could not be saved, so she is yet another one with an amputation. And the vet fees need paying!

    Ulises was a galgo who had been living rough for months, no one could get near him. Eventually he was so ill he could be caught. He has leishmania, ehrlichia, rickets, a skin condition, but he is a fighter, as are the other two…..he wants to live and experience a forever home.

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  • El Paraiso Galgos – please help!

    The news is bad…..these 14 galgos will be euthanaised any day now! The associations who were supposed to be taking some haven’t turned up! Charl del Rio is heading there now to collect a couple but she can’t take more – can’t anyone out there help. I know the refuges and shelters are full to bursting, but please can’t someone get the galgos out? And I know, there will be dozens of other needy dogs in there, on death row. But on GN it’s the galgos and podencos we want to save. Other associations are there to take care of rescuing other breeds. And my heart bleeds for all the mixed breed dogs who don’t stand any chance of being saved.

    Please, someone help these galgos. Contact Charl del Rio Vera T R

    UPDATE 27 11 2010

    I now know that 8 of these galgos have been rescued from being killed, unconfirmed that possibly all of them have been.

  • Galga shot in the head – saved by the vet – the true Spain!

    Galga shot in the head 15 11 2010 350 This galga has been shot in the head. I don’t know the story behind how she was found – I’m waiting for the details – but suffice to say she was still alive when taken to the vet, who at the time of my receiving the photo, was operating to save her.

    The hunters in France, where I live, are lethal in more than one way! Around our home and land, their shooting days are Thursdays and Sundays. We keep our cat and dogs shut in the house on those days; the cat is shut in all day, much to her disgust; the dogs are only let out in the courtyard.

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