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  • Sick galgo at the gates of Pepis Dog Refuge –

    Pepis Solo 400 5 1 2017Another little galgo pup at Pepis Refuge Gates. Jane Brian tells his story.

    ‘5 Jan 2017. Late last night the dogs in the refuge alerted us to a possible abandonment. We spent an hour searching around with the torch…but could not find anything. This morning when we were cleaning, the dogs started again so watching where they were looking barking we saw this little fella standing looking at us from outside the play area, so he could have been the reason for last night bless him. Unusual for just one so we had another search around but found nothing. He is very skinny and obviously scared. He will be visiting the vets this evening for a medical check-up. His name is Solo.

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  • Seville – cheap accommodation available in the campo

    Rosario galga puppies 2 390Rosario de la Guia tells the story of this rescue – an all too common one about an abandoned galga who gives birth to pups.

    Look at what we did to rescue this galga and her pups. In the field in a few bushes hidden. For 3 days carrying food and water 3 times a day. We caught them as  we couldn’t leave them to die of a heat stroke.  We found an urgent foster placing  but we need to welcome them also for adoptions for when they stop suckling.  They are in Seville.  There is an adoption contract and follow up.

    Contact Harris Garcia and Rosario or gmail nochelinda49@gmail.com

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  • Tombola for Pepis Dog Refuge – buy tickets now – lovely prizes

    Martin book cover 300There are over 70 dogs at Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville, including galgos and podencos. This year alone 2 heavily pregnant galga bitches were dumped there, producing 19 pure galgo puppies; two more young galgos were thrown over the perimeter fence, luckily neither was injured; and this month a hunter brought his galgo as he no longer wanted him. Add to this the podencos who have been there since puppies, awaiting adoption, one recently dumped at the gates in a box. And now old girl Anka, a lifetime spent breeding puppies, kicked in the eye, dumped, and needing vet care. All these dogs need vaccinations, sterilising, chipping and more. PLUS it costs 700 euros/month to feed all these dogs.

    So I’m appealing to you on behalf of the hounds at Pepis Dog Refuge to help them by purchasing some tickets in this tombola. First prize is a copy of Martin Usborne’s superb book ‘Where Hunting Dogs Rest’, donated by and personally signed by Martin.

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  • Seville – hunters on the march

    50,000 hunters marched in Seville recently to save their ‘sport’ in the name of tradition. Do you think they are getting worried about the ANTI feeling/movement towards them throughout the world?

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  • Prodeanse, Seville – Galgo puppy saved and needing help

    Paula Prodeanse puppy 1 250 1 2014This poor galga has been named Paula, a baby of about 3 months old, taken from a gypsy by Prodeanse, Seville, one of the shelters I visited in 2012. She had vomiting, diarrhea – from which she was dehydrated – and a broken leg. It’s not the first dog that they have taken from this man, who cares very little about his animals.

    Prodeanse are asking for your help to pay the vet fees for Paula. The operation to repair her leg will be between 600-700 euros and there is all the medication for her too. Here’s a Bing translation of their appeal.

    Loli says, ‘This is what we have to part the operation that will be more than 600 euros and we don’t have the money to pay for it yet. We need your help, it will invoice.

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  • Prodeanse, Seville – Galga Nieves fighting to survive the abuse of a galguero

    Prodeanse Nieves b4 vet 250I visited Prodeanse shelter when I was in Seville last year. The team work to help dogs in a very bad area for abandonment and cruelty. This is their story of Nieves.

    SEVILLA / / Nieves… Rescued from the Cerro de Dos Hermanas

    Nieves gave birth to her 9 puppies on the morning of the 27 June.
    She was treated with amoxicillin/clavulamico (antibiotic), meloxican (anti-inflammatory) and a vitamin complex since she was rescued. On July 1 she went to the vet as an emergency.

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  • Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – help feed a galgo, take a holiday and help

    Susan Dawson does wonderful work raising funds for small greyhound and galgo rescue associations. There’s still time to get your photo to her for her 2014 calendar raising funds for Pepis Refuge. She’s also appealing for people to sponsor food for the galgos and podencos at Pepis Refuge – Jane and Alan have a large number of dogs to feed and rely solely on donations. You can see the dogs and details of sponsorship on this link

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  • Galgo Zafiro – waiting at Pepis Refuge, Seville, for a forever home

    Pepis Refuge Zafiro 250 5 2013Jane Brian of Pepis Refuge, near Seville, tells the story of this beautiful galgo.

    ‘A galgero came to the refuge about a month ago asking, can we take a Galgo. At the time we told him we were full, he explained he wanted his Galgo to come here to Pepis. We asked him if he could wait a month, then it may be possible. He agreed then left.

    Almost to the day he turned up at 9pm last night, with Zafiro. A beautiful five year old boy. He took Zafiro out of the car without a leash on him, and Zafiro stood next to his side,looking up at him, tail wagging and looking at him with such loyalty. I must admit, the galgero himself looked sad to leave him, but leave him, he did. He told me has had him from a puppy and asked would he get a good home.

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  • Galgo pups dumped in a skip – urgently need experienced foster mom.

    Seville galgo pups 2250 8 11 2012We’ve read about the heartless Portuguese hunters taking newborn galgo babies away from their mothers and killing them, so the mothers can be sent hunting/racing again. These galgo babies are only a week old and were found in a skip in Villaverde del Rio, Seville!

    Here’s the appeal. ‘These small left them abandoned in a container, told us, and when we arrived were so small!! do how can do this? It must be inhuman and have no heart…

    We have nowhere to have them since they need to eat every hour and the people who we want to help are working and can not attend properly. We collected them last Friday, (2/11/2012) the weekend they were with a companion, on Monday with a paid host, but I can’t afford 10 euros/day it cost and already on Tuesday returned to collect them.

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  • Seville shanty town – cheap accommodation, no meals

    Seville galgos Macu 5 2012This is more about the galgos in the gypsy camp in Seville which Macu is desperately trying to save. Some photos on this link, the rest are on Facebook. Inmaculada Gómez González (Sevilla) e-mail & paypal: macu19782010@hotmail.com
    Saturday, May 19, 2012. Today was a very sad day. I went to the settlement to take pictures since before I left and I took them and spread when they were in residence, now a thing impossible to do, since I have no means. What I ask is help for them: benefit for partnerships that take them and seek their family, adoption, sponsors to get them out and bring to a kennels, distribution to refuges, etc…

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