Through Amigos de Los Galgos we want to launch this call for help from our friend Rosa of Badajoz, who is an intermediary of ours in the rescue and rehoming of galgos. Maria Luisa, the president of Las Nieves, one of the largest refuges in Spain has also spoken to us on this subject.

Rosa works tirelessly for the dogs in the dogpound at Olivenza, which is the only one serving the rural area around Badajoz. She works non-stop to save as many dogs as possible, with little financial help, and often the animals are found injured and in pour condition.

The horrors about which she talks are infinite and it is for this reason that her call for help is made.

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In the current economic crisis, charities are likely to suffer extensively, as people jettison their pets, and stop donating. G.R.I.N in the USA have been affected by the increased cost in fuel, checking dogs, and excess luggage charges.
They have appealed for help.
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If you are in Girona on 2nd November, then support the parade of dogs, either by watching, joining in, donating or adopting.

Venue – Passag del Mar de Sant Feliu de Guixols
Organised by Galgos112 and Assn. Sant Antoni Abat

Registration 10.00am
10.30 Exhibition of dogs used by the Girona Civil Guard Canine Unitfor searching out drugs and explosives
11.30 Start of Parade
12.45 Parade of galgos up for adoption, and already adopted
13.15 Prize-giving

Galgos del Norte is a recently formed group of very experiences hound savers in Spain, ex-members of SOS Galgos, who rescue galgos, foster and arrange adoptions, and work closely with Pro-Galgo.

Mo Swatek, President of Pro-Galgo, says, ‘We recently brought 39 dogs out of Spain, three of whom were rehomed near Paris.

The dogs came from different shelters, like Tudela, Sevilla, Badajoz, Guadalajara and Pro-Galgo, Galgos112, and Galgos del Norte, all joined forces and transport together with RUTA8, a group of rescue ladies in Badajoz, founded by Mariangeles and Txaro.

They bought a super van and make now monthly 2 transports for different shelters in Spain, and our galgos and podencos also travel with them. It costs 80 euros per dog in transport costs, which comes out of the adoption fee.

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With the help of volunteers in Spain, Passion Levriers carried out another galgo rescue last weekend, Charles Michael Frinzel reports.

“Well, once more I set off with gladness to think another 12 lucky galgos/greys and all sorts would find a better life here in France. As usual I stayed with Virginie at Hasparren, who makes us very welcome.

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Fabienne Tremble of Passion Levriers recently visited the Canary Islands. Life for the podencos – Ibizan Hound – is not a happy one.

‘The Islands “Afortunadas”, as one calls them in Spain, means the blessed islands. Indeed they are, with their beauty, their climate, the luxuriant flora where the hibiscus is a shrub larger than the pink bay-trees of my garden and for the love of life of its inhabitants.

On the other hand for fauna it is a different matter. The marvellous podenco Canario, originating in these islands, always lives like the slave of man.

Hardly had I gotten out of the plane, the first thing that I saw while we awaited the rented car, was a light van parked in full sun with a pack of podencos who awaited their master patiently.

Dirty, legs full of dried mud, sad eyes, covered in ticks, they were suffocating in the heat 35ºC.

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