Galgo News

  • Beach holidays in Spain – free accommodation – it’s a hard life for some!

    Starving injured galgo 1 0209 250 Abandoned galgos everywhere – when is Spain going to act to stop this unnecessary cruelty? Here’s the latest from Tina.

    Last night I saw another two abandoned galgos in Torre Pacheco roaming the streets, heads down, they were totally depressed and spirit broken and of course both extremely underweight. I couldnt get close to either of them. Also on Calblanque beach there is a galgo all alone, wandering around with a rope around its neck. I wasn’t able to pick him up as I had my two kids with me and with the children it was impossible.

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  • Seville – galgos desperately needing help – the cruelty is unending

    Galgo from Loli Dalo 1 03 2010 300 I have received an appeal from Loli, about poor abandoned dogs and a kitten, which an old woman has been rescuing from the street and keeping them all in a haystack enclosure. These include some galgos. Loli doesn’t say which town the animals are in,but it’s near Seville,

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  • Abandoned galgos still – 2 months after the end of hunting – when will it end?

    Galguita Los Huesos 1 GRIN 03 2010 250 I really don’t know how all the volunteers, associations, refuges and shelters cope, year after year, with the mass abandonment of galgos. Charl has spent 2 weekends trying to catch an abandoned galga at Estepona, without success, and now there is this appeal, to add to all the others I post, not counting the appeals I receive asking for foster homes and adopting homes.

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  • Galgo News E-bay Auction – new items now open for bids – any currency

    Bidding was very brisk for last week’s items, Roberta and Carla are thrilled with the way the auction is going. Brand new items now listed, bid in any currency – dollars, sterling, euros……whatever your currency, put in your bids.

    All funds raised will go to help galgos in Spain.

  • Barcelona Greyhound Track reopens as a Centre for Contemporary Arts

    Barcelona racing galgos SOS Galgos 03 2010 In 2006 the Meridian greyhound racetrack in Barcelona was finally closed, with the help of Anne Finch of Greyhounds in Need,Fermin Perez of Scooby Medina and SOS Galgos. It is now in the process of being redesigned into a contemporary arts centre, which opens on 12th April.

    Over 100 neon signs have been erected around the city of Barcelona to publicise the new centre, and feature four dogs which ran on the racetrack; three now have new lives as companion dogs, adopted through SOS Galgos, one is still with a foster family.

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  • Greyhound lovers – help these greyhounds in a French dog shelter!

    Levriers en Detresse greyhounds in a SPA 03 2010 300 I am sure all greyhound owners will be horrified by the stories on these weblinks. The story goes that these 2 greyhounds were brought to France at the beginning of December by French greyhound rescue association Levriers en Detresse. The situation for these dogs was exposed by Europe Animal Protection.

    Contact has been made with the SPA (Society for Protection of Animals).

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  • Galga abandoned, lucky not to be injured – have you a forever home for her?

    Tina Solera abandoned galga 03 2010 300 This is another poor galgo, abandoned by a heartless galguero now hunting has finished for the summer. A volunteer tells her story.

    ‘Last night I was talking to a friend about what a hard time greyhounds have here in Spain. She then told me that there was a galgo living in her street and had been there approx 3 weeks now.

    I drove to her street and straight away there was the galga, curled up in a ball on the road. I couldn’t catch her, she was far too scared, so I found the boy who had been throwing her food for the last 3 weeks. He was able to get close enough to put on the collar that I always keep in the car.

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  • E-bay auction for galgos – get bidding – £’s, euros, all currencies accepted

    Galgo News E-bay Auction – new items this week – come on, everyone, get your bids in. It doesn’t matter that the bids are in dollars, friends of mine have bid from the UK in sterling, and France in euros. So get on in there, lots of wonderful items this week, and all proceeds will go to galgos – for example, Scalibor collars are badly needed now in readiness for the sanfly season in May – which causes leishmaniosis.

    Get Bidding, Please Support The Auction!

  • Little Podenca found in Badajoz – needs medical treatment for eyesight

    Podenca Andaluz Badajoz 03 2010 300 An appeal for someone to take this little podenca. She is a Podenca Andaluz, weighing 5 kgs – the same breed of podenca as my own Bebe, who weighs in at just 6 kgs. She was found in the hellhole of Badajoz, wherein is the worst perrera in Spain – Olivenza.

    The girl who found her writes:

    PODENQUITA: Abandoned in a village in the province of Badajoz, when I came upon her, I noticed something strange when she struck her head walking into walls or traffic signals, poor thing, I took her right away.

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  • Galgo News E-bay auction – all new items this week – start bidding

    Bidding is going great on the Galgo News E-bay auction, kindly organised by Carla, one of our American supporters. More than a dozen new items now up for auction for the forthcoming week – so get bidding, the galgos are depending on you.
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