To get the latest update on Bone, saved from the verge of death in a dog pound, now receiving veterinary care through Galgos France, click here.
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Podenca puppies – loose on the streets of Cadiz – please help save them
This information has just come in. Please can someone take these little puppies off the streets before they get hurt.
‘It is from Nuria who works with the Rota refuge.
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Galgo News e-bay auction – bid now and help the refuges and galgos!
The Galgo News auction on e-bay is now running; here’s what Carla, the organiser, says.
‘In order to buy on ebay you have to set up an account – which also may mean adding a credit card.
The auctions are run from Sunday to Sunday – when the current items are over new items will be there for 7 days. I will run 4 (7) day periods to maximize the sales. So basically NEW AND EXCITING ITEMS each week. So bid high and bid often – look each week for what’s new!’
Thanks Carla, come on, everyone, place your bids for this week
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Cheap Holiday in Spain? Here’s just the place – Puerto Real, Santander, Cadiz
I have just found this website, which denounces what happens in the perreras in Spain. It’s in Spanish, but if you click on your translator box/symbol, you will get the story in English. Don’t turn away, all the refuges and associations need your support to help the abandoned dogs of Spain, especially the galgos and podencos.
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DeGalgos in Barcelona – more galgos saved and needing forever homes
DeGalgos is another hard-working association, based in Barcelona. There are two sad stories on their website. The first one is about an adopted galgo which has been stolen – can you imagine the poor dog. Rescued from a life of hell, adopted through the association, and now stolen, probably by gitanos. Sadly, this story is all too familiar for the galgos adopted in Spain.
The second story is about Estefania. Look at the wound on her hind quarters. She had been grabbed by youngsters and dragged behind a car. The wound was full of maggots. Luckily she is on the road to recovery and now looking for her forever home.
If you can adopt one of the beautiful galgos on the website, please contact the association direct.
I use Spanishdict.com for translation, it seems much better than babelfish or google.
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La Guarida – help pay vets’ fees – poor galga on her last legs
We all know the IMMENSE problem there is with the galgos, now more than ever. Here’s just one more. She has been rescued but the team treating her need help, so any offering would be gratefully received.
Her story is simple, parents at a school gate and there she was, on her last will to live. Curled up, not wanting anything else in life. badly done to, treated like dirt, and there are thousands and thousands, tens of thousands like her, solitary and bleeding, infected and alone. For this girl, fortunately there was an anamilist amongst the group of horrified parents at the gate of the school. She didn’t run or even try to, simply raised her head to her rescuers hand and now in hospital care.
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2 1/2 metres of water & mud – help Alberto near Cordoba, his refuge and his dogs
This is the latest news from Alberto at his refuge on the outskirts of Cordoba. The Guadalquivir river is in torrent, it has rained for 8 days again non-stop; the refuge is under 2 1/2 metres of water. He has 30 dogs in his refuge; the first ones he took out were the puppies and small dogs to another shelter 50 kilometres away. Then, when he went back for his other dogs, the water was up to his knees. He has saved the other dogs, but not the bedding, dog food etc. and has lost electricity power.
The biggest problem now is to get a lorry which will remove all the mud deposited around the shelter. He is desperate for monetary aid and manpower – even his mother has lent some money to help. He built this shelter on his own, and he is totally on his own in looking after the dogs and doing all the work.
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Car-jacking in Europe – Warning from the Police
This warning has been circulated by a friend in Spain. It could also apply to any other European country. Be warned.
‘WARNING FROM POLICE
THIS APPLIES TO BOTH WOMEN AND MEN
BEWARE OF PAPER ON THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE–
NEW WAY TO DO CARJACKINGS (NOT A JOKE)Heads up everyone! Please, keep this circulating… You walk
across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. You
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Villa del Rio, Cordoba – latest pictures of the flooding at the refuge
Latest pictures from Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo, when she and her team visited Villa del Rio refuge, Cordoba. Hard for me to remember that when I visited it last June 2009, the ground was baked so hard it had cracked. This is the refuge where 90 galgos were dumped by their galgueros last month, because they wouldn’t keep them over summer!
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Amigos de Los Galgos – saving and rehoming galgos in France and Belgium
Amigos de Los Galgos is an association which has been working tirelessly to help the galgos and podencos of Spain. 2 of the larger refuges they work with are Las Nieves refuge, and Pedro Munoz refuge in Cuidad Real. Here you can read about the number of galgos and podencos saved and rehomed in Belgium and France during 2009. Click on ‘translate’ for the English version.