Tag: vet help

  • Greyhounds in Nood Belgium – helping the galgos

    Please take time to read this news from Greyhounds in Nood Belgium, another group who work tirelessly with volunteers in Spain to help the galgos. Regular trips are made by the team to work in the refuges and bring back dogs for rehoming. You will be horrified to see, towards the end, pictures of two galgos, burned alive on wasteground in Madrid, discovered shortly after gitanos had moved out.

  • Cielo, galga left for dead on the streets of Cordoba, rescued by La Guarida

    Cielo2 body Cobie 08 2010 250 It’s now nearing the end of August, soon the Spanish hunting season begins. And there are still galgos suffering and dying, abandoned at the end of the last hunting season.

    Here is the story of one of them. It has taken me 2 days to be able to post this story, I was so sickened at the suffering of Cielo and felt for the emotional and physical draining which the volunteers who rescued her must have suffered too.

    Written by Nuria Martin from the protectora La Guarida, Cordoba, translated for me by Cobie.

    Cielo (heaven) that’s how we called her the short time we lived with her, and the short time we shared her suffering. Her end…..

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