• Handy with a paintbrush? Scooby need your help

    Scooby painting 8 2012 150If you are handy with a paintbrush and have a few days holiday to spare, Scooby need help with painting their new kennels. Cobie says, ‘Today we´ve started painting the dog kennels inside. One is finished, another 47 to go…So, if you like to paint, you´re more than welcome to come over here!’ Contact Scooby direct.

  • 2013 Galgo calendars on sale – support Pepis Refuge

    Pepis calendar front 250Earlier in the year I posted an appeal for people to send their lovely photos of galgos to Sue Dawson, who was putting together a calendar to raise funds for Pepis Refuge. The calendar is now on sale in both her Ebay shop – click on the link – or direct from Sue if you don’t have an Ebay account. Paypal her on info@bluegreyhound.org.uk, cost is £6.00 plus £1.20 postage for UK, Europe and USA. If you have any queries, email Sue direct.

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  • Resur, Baeza, Jaen – two more galgos on death row

    Baeza Donna (4) 250These two young galgos were saves from Linares, are now in Resur, but could still be killed if no one takes them. Baeza refuge is full, and the other problem is that if the galgos went there, then it is quite likely they would be stolen – it’s that time of year! Donna is grey and white, Dunne has injuries everywhere which need treating. Please can anyone help us save them. Contact animalesdebaeza@gmail.com

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  • Milanuncios – Seville – galgo puppies for sale

    I haven’t been able to download the photo but there is an advert on Milanuncios, where hundreds of galgos are advertised for sale – of 7 tiny galgo puppies living in a small hole, for sale by Maria Torres, in Seville. For those of you on facebook, the details are on my Save the Galgo page. Ref:53265259 OFERTA

  • Desperate, injured, starving in Cordoba

    Grissom 1 8 2012 170Black galgos, starving, injured, all needing help. First of all we have the case of a black galgo who has been named Grissom. He’s got a gun shot wound to his leg, the pellet is still there, and it has broken his leg. He desperately needs surgery etc and that will cost. He was very think when picked up, very loving, but obviously can’t move about on this damaged leg. He’s in foster care with 4 other dogs. If anyone can help, please contact Jenny Pabon plataformanala@gmail.com, or paloma.plataformanala@gmail.com

    The second case is really desperate too. Two black galgos (bottom photo) who have been living near some properties in Cicada, Cordoba, for over two months. One of them has neck marks, possibly a hanging mark, they are in a state through lack of food, often take refuge in a stream, so are at risk of the mosquito. The lady can’t take care of them because she has two dogs.

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  • Huelva and Badajoz – babies in danger

    Galguitos_de_Uuelva_II 200Two appeals here for galgo puppies loose, ready for the hunters to grab them! These puppies are at Punta, Huelva. The adults are nearby but frightened but protective of their babies. Contact if anyone can help catch the adults; then the babies. valverdeanimal@valverdeanimal.es or moloquenoveas@hotmail.com

    The second appeal – these three beauties are in Badajoz, Extremadura. Residents have complained about them being around (so why don’t they take them in?!)

    They are about 2 months old, sociable, playful, loving. We need fosters for them urgently, to get them off the streets. Please contact. ro-cado@hotmail.com firstly o r xana.50@hotmail.es

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  • Toledo, Spain – August and galgos are still being rescued by Baas Galgo

    Baas G rescue 1 250 8 2012The latest rescue by Baas Galgo in Toledo. Sandra tells the story.

    ‘As you know, the Galgo Holocaust can be in any season. While much of the population are enjoying their holidays, our little martyrs continue to suffer mistreatment and neglect, withstanding high temperatures and trying to survive. And while that much of the population enjoying their holidays, our Baas team is ALWAYS ready for a fight, no matter what season is, with a common goal: to do justice.

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  • Saturday, 25th August 2012 – La Magdalena, Murcia – Fun Day

    ACTIN summer fun day poster pic 210ACTIN is an association formed in 2012 and they are holding a Fun Day on Saturday, 25th August at La Magdalena, Murcia, to raise funds for their work. They need support to start the process of reducing the numbers of abandoned puppies, kittens, dogs and cats in the region, so have decided to try and raise money for a mobile veterinary unit, which will visit the outlying villages and do basic care advice, inoculations and neutering. So if you live in the area or are going on holiday to Murcia during August, please go along and support the event.

    Viv Wharton explains the aims of ACTIN.

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  • August – and Scooby is still rescuing galgos…

    Scooby puppy Fermin  200 8 2012At the beginning of the week Fermin Perez of Scooby went out to buy a new cement mixer; on his way back he picked up yet another abandoned galgo. And then a couple of days later, this small galgo puppy was found in a pinewood, abandoned! Cobie, of Scooby, says ‘I would like to talk in that wood to the person who left her all alone there, without water or food!! She is only skin and bones, dehydrated and malnourished, some 7 weeks old. Now she is ok after an infusion, she does not yet want to eat but the volunteers are going to buy and cook chicken, we hope she will eat it!

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  • Animales de Baeza, Jaen – two more galgos needing homes

    Baeza Clara 250 8 2012These two galgos were rescued from the Resur perrera by Animales de Baeza. They are in kennels because there is no room in the refuge and they could now be stolen if they are not taken. Their kennel fees have been paid for 2 weeks, plus vaccinations. Is there an association which can take them for foster and rehoming. The French association which helps her have already taken some galgos from her. Clara is the brindle one, Diana the black one. Please contact Mairie Teresa at Baeza, Jaen. Apparently there are still more galgos on death row in Resur, but her shelter is full. animalesdebaeza@gmail.com
    August, and there are still galgos arriving in the killing station!

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