Galgo News

  • Appeal from Cristina de Luna

    Perrikus refuge
    Cristina de Luna is a volunteer withPerrikus, a refuge north of Madrid. I met Cristina when I visited the refuge last July when I took part in a rescue with L’Europe des Levriers.

    It’s a small refuge, well organised, with room for 30 dogs. At the moment the shelter is totally full. And they have 18 galgos for adoption, waiting to be taken out of Spain as soon as possible.

    If you can help, contact Cristina direct on misaluk@gmail.com and L’Europe des Levriers.

    The Perrikus website is in Spanish and German, while Cristina speaks excellent English. There is also an English language section on L’Europe des Levriers.

  • Bosco – stolen by the gypsies!

    Bosco stolenInes is a volunteer with the refuge Perrikus at Madrid. Bosco was her galgo. This is her story.

    When I heard the news, my blood turned cold. Bosco had been stolen by the gypsies. It doesn’t bear thinking about, kept in a cage, maltreated.

    How can we bear to think of her beloved galgo in the hands of the gypsies. It is agony. Where does she begin to search?

    Bosco was a difficult galgo, very difficult. He was very aggressive with other dogs and also with humans.

    Those who know galgos well said he had suffered terribly from maltreatment, to become so aggressive, because a galgo has a gentle, affectionate temperament, not rebellious at all.

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  • Chucked out and left to drown…

    AguaThis is Agua, named because she was found in a canal of water with her babies, watching two drown.

    She is recovering in foster care and its seen that this is the first time she has received love, food and attention.
    She walks well on the lead and is a calm quiet dog.

    If anyone can help her find her forever home, please contact www.degalgos.org or myself.

    Charl del Rio http://112carlotagalgos.blogspot.com

  • A reminder…. And update

    Guillermo Vargas Habacuc
    A reminder that the vile man claiming to be an artist is still planning on taking a dog off the street, chaining it to a wall in a studio, and starving it to death, like he did last year.

    Sign the on-line petition, and here are the email address and website of the art gallery where the artist murdered the dog in Costa Rica 2007 in the name of art!

    info@madc.ac.cr
    Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo – Inicio

    CHECK OUT this link for an update on this http://www.greyhoundaction.org.uk/starved.htm I have written to HSI for more information and confirmation of what they say.

  • Petition for the Galgos from SOS Levriers

    A plea from Kathi Backes of SOS Levriers for as many people as possible to sign their on-line petition before 31st March 2009.

    Kathi says, ‘Our last petition (17 000 signatures) was sent to the Spanish Minister of Environment. I think things in Spain are moving, and it is helped by these signatures by the thousands which come from people all over Europe! When we receive an answer, I will put it on our webpage, so all visitors can read it and see it!

    We need to continue to work against those atrocities in all ways and one of these is our petition, this time to the President of the Parliament, Mr Zapatero. If we do nothing, nothing will change! So we need to take every opportunity to put pressure on the politicians who can change the laws!’

    Stop the physical and mental cruelty against Galgos and Podencos in Spain

  • More on the San Anton refuge

    Galgo san antonFurther to the appeal on behalf of the San Anton Refuge, the secretary of the fundraising association has sent the following.

    “Thank you for the donation from your friend. We plan to re-decorate our small office, to make sure that in future this will be our room for medical treatments only, next to supplies we keep there like medicines and food.

    So if you can mention that we wish to raise support and money for this decoration (like tiles for the floor, which will be more easy to clean and a table for treatments) that would be wonderful.

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  • A tale of a little podenco

    Bebe
    This is a Malagueno Podenco from Andalucia. She is about the size of a Yorkshire Terrier. In other words, tiny!

    She was found, terrified and injured, on a motorway near Seville. Luckily a young Spanish woman, a volunteer at the Sofía El Refugio Escuela refuge, stopped her car, and managed to catch the traumatized dog. She had an injury to a hind leg, open wounds on her body, and was starving.

    She named the little dog Bebe, which means ‘born again’.

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  • Homes found

    YorAlways nice to report on forever homes found, so here we catch up with some of the dogs that have featured on the site in the past.

    Yor has gone to a lovely home with a lady who lives in the Aude.

    Adonis and PyeHe shares a sofa with Barney, a saluki cross and Jack, a large collie.

    Adonis has gone to live with an adopted galgo Pye, his look-alike.

    Pruna has found a home near La Rochelle, little Noa is also adopted, and Colate has gone to a French family near Paris, who have an adopted greyhound.

    The two dogs saved from hanging, Innocente and Noel, have also found forever homes, where they will never again experience the horror of ‘The Pianist’.

    And Shamia, the Azawakh, now has a fabulous new life in Greece. The adopting family have a great deal of experience with the breed and are very excited about welcoming her into their country home.

  • Helping the Galgos

    Association Galgos was founded in June 2007.

    It’s a Danish organisation, and they are passionate about helping the galgos and podencos of Spain, in whatever way they can.

    Pia Ogilvie says ‘Our goal is to inform about the poor situation for the galgos and podencos in Spain, to support the shelters in Spain and provide homes for galgos and podencos. We can’t promise that we’ll arrange a lot of adoptions, but we can promise, that we’ll do our very best in trying.’

  • In the News

    Weekly Telegraph have this week published a short article about Paul and April Carrier, of Alpha Dog World, plus the appeal by them for help for the San Anton refuge at Willamartin. Here is the link to read it:

    Every dog has his day at Spanish centre