Galgo News

  • Sponsored Parascending Hanglide – Saturday 5th April 2014

    ACTIN logo 130Viv Wharton of ACTIN writes:- Please support our brilliant Actin members who will be flying high for Actin.

    Alison and Emily Ferrari are doing an amazingly brave parascending hanglide in aid of raising funds for Actin. Alison is an avid supporter of Actin and does a lot of work with the animals including fostering. We think they are awesome for taking on this event in aid of Actin.

    Please show your support and sponsor them. The event takes place on the 5th April at Sierra Espuna, Murcia, Spain. I am sure we will be updated with pictures afterwards. Come on everyone, let’s make it worth their while and raise some money for Actin, its a great cause! Please share this email and the poster with all your friends. You can paypal donations to: keysafespain@aol.com

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  • Galgo Don Quixote – saved from dying- galgo to adopt

    Irena Allen galgo 1 250Don Quixote – rescued, rehabilitated and now looking for his forever home. Irene Allan writes.

    ‘We took in a galgo in January 2014 which was on the street and he was in a very bad condition with Leishmanaiosis and a couple of large bullet wounds also. He has been in foster since then and has had all his treatment and the best of food and care.He has turned the corner and not the terrified boy when we got him.His last leish blood tests were last week (end March 2014) and were good. He is negative for ehrichlea and heartworm These are some before and one after Don Quixote, about 4 years old.

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  • Save the Galgos

    Hi folks, just to say I am away for a weekend with my daughter and won’t have Internet access. So I’ve scheduled a couple of stories for you to read in the meantime. Will be back with you with galgo news from 8th April. As Typepad has now ‘improved’ their system – what is it with these computer geeks? – if it works well, we must change it?!! So bear with me, if your comments don’t appear, it’s because I have to moderate them now and I can’t do it till I get back on a computer next week….progress, heh?!

  • Saving galgos in Seville – sponsor Lucy to pay their vet fees

    Please sponsor Lucy, she is walking 50 kms this weekend to raise funds to pay for the galgos at Pepis Dog Refuge – over 12 galgos dumpd there in the last 2 months, some of them needing expensive vet treatment. Vet fees outstanding are over 3,500 euros. Please sponsor Lucy, even just 10 euros is a big help. Here’s the link PLEASE SPONSOR LUCY

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  • Portugal – too late for Noah

    Portugal Noah ticks 250This galgo, barely alive, was thrown over the fence to Cantinho do Animals de Beja, Portugal. He was in a corner when the volunteers arrived. As you can see, he was completely emaciated and covered in ticks. They took him straight to the vet. Sadly Noah did not make it.

    Who can keep a dog till it gets in this condition? I’ll never understand.

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  • Madrid – help El Refugio achieve zero sacrifice

    Catherine Palmer has kindly translated this video from El Refugio in Asturias.

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  • Scooby – educating the younger generations

    Scooby educating the young in Zamorra.

    Cobie of Scooby writes about the latest incumbents.

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  • Report by SPCAI on meeting in Madrid 12/3/2014

    Report by the SPCAI on the meeting in Madrid on 12th March. As always, the podencos and other hunting dogs don’t get a mention!

  • Seville – don’t walk in the olive groves

    Hell on earth for galgos. This story is from Jane Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville. It happened on 21st March 2014 – the first day of Spring!

    ‘Today is a day I will never forget. It reminded me of the reason why we started the refuge, after finding a dog hanging from a tree in 2005.

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