Galgo News

  • 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

  • Can you help a pointer?

    PointerWhile everyone is saturated with dogs coming in thick and fast it is always hard to add another to the case of abandoned dogs.

    However I have been contacted by someone who has rescued a pointer, brecan aleman aprox. 1 year old female who had been left lying on the road.

    They took her to the vet and she had a broken leg, probably knocked down.

    She has been left with a limp but is doing very well. She is great with kids and other dogs cats, and understands the command NO. She is not a big dog and is in need of a forever home.

    If anyone can help please contact Helen directly on the phone number or email below. They cannot keep her but hope to look for someone who can give her the love she deserves.

    helen7alan@hotmail.co.uk

    UPDATE

    Holly has now been rehomed in Germany

  • Don’t forget

    Cards…to buy your cards and raise money for the galgos.

    Offer only applies for the month of April: Arts et Cartes

  • ONE YEAR ON…..

    If you’ve read ‘About Me’, you’ll know my passion for greyhounds began many years ago in Suffolk. My passion for galgos, the Spanish greyhound, began just a year ago.

    I didn’t realise what a journey I would be embarking upon.

    I hadn’t heard about the hanging dogs. I didn’t know what a podenco was. I had no idea of the scale of the problem in the dog refuges in Spain, and of the valiant volunteers who work tirelessly under extremely difficult circumstances, to save the dogs the galguerros (Spanish hunters) dispose of like a cigarette end.

    One year on, there are not enough words to describe how I now feel.

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  • Urgent Help needed for Galgos in Andalucia

    April and Paul CarrierThe following letter has been received from April and Paul Carrier, right, at the Alpha Dog Centre:

    We have worked for 8 years rehabilitating and preparing small groups of 10 to 20 Spanish Galgos for adoption. We have been spared the reality of the desperate day-to-day struggle undergone by dedicated and caring individuals like Saskia and Juan the veterianarian, who spend the bulk of their lives working to help abandoned Galgos and many other dogs of all shapes and sizes at their shelter.

    They are on the ‘front line’, seeing and experiencing the abandonment of galgos and other dogs on a scale hard to imagine.

    This morning Paul went to visit their shelter, Acogida de San Anton in Villamartin, Andalucia, to collect another galga. He found Saskia and Juan sad and beginning to lose hope – they currently have in their care around 70 Galgos, and 125 other dogs.

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  • Return to the Wild – catching an escapee

    ChencoAt the end of the Spanish hunting season in January, hundreds of galgos are abandoned every year, and many of them resort to living on their wits to survive.

    It can take weeks, sometimes months, of patient work by volunteers before a dog is finally caught and taken to a refuge.

    Not all of these dogs cope with the change in situation, and if they then travel to another country and are put in a domestic environment, it can be even more traumatic, and their first instinct is to escape again.

    One such dog recently arrived in France.

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