Galgo News

  • Refugio Kimba – a year saving Spanish hunting dogs

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    FEBRUARY 1 WORLD GALGO DAY

    They say out there, that greyhounds dream their whole life with a life to come, they dream their home, their family, every place, and that dream helps them to be able to get through their reality of abuse and torture. Many make it and others get left in the way.. So when a greyhound comes to your life is not that you have chosen but he dreams.

    The end of the hunt comes and with it the end of their lives or the release of others.

    Over a year we collect many dogs, but the vast majority are hunting dogs, especially greyhounds and podencos. It is very painful to see how they arrive with their souls totally shattered, atrocious fear and utter distrust for human, not to mention the physical wounds. Dogs that pee and defecate on you when you look into their eyes… We can’t imagine what they’ve had to go through.

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  • Galga Sena with Refugio Kimba – escaping life on a chain

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    This story from Refugio Kimba about galga x Sena.

    Sena, the warrior princess, is looking for a home.

    This precious little girl hasn’t had a good life. She’s been chained all her life, she didn’t know anything, just her little house and the shadow of a tree, she couldn’t love more than a meter and a half.

    Right now she is in a foster home, she learns very fast, walks very well and is slowly learning more new things. She’s a little timid with other dogs, but she’s learning to play too.
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    She is approximately 8 years old, of which he has not had a normal life, she weighs about 22 kilos. Her time has come, life on the chains is over, now come the soft beds, good food, good walks and love and pampering forever

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  • Galgo left to die – Animal Rescue Espana need your help for him

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    Animal Rescue Spain is asking for donations.

    We have rescued this galgo abandoned in the bones, he was letting himself die, injured, a man found him and the police notified us. Look how skinny he is!! Help us save him with a donation.

    https://animalrescuespain.es/dona-ahora/

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  • Day of the Galgo – marching in France, Berlin and Munich

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    BOURDEOS – FRANCE 29th January to support the Cause

    Just like in other European countries, thousands of galgos, podencos and other dogs arrive in France every year as victims of hunting in Spain.

    Rescued dogs that thanks to their solidarity and generosity await a home where they start a dignified life.

    Europe takes to the streets for the rights of our hunting dogs and here in our country, our political class thinks they should stay out of the Animal Protection Act.

    THANK YOU FOR BEING THEIR VOICE

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  • Day of the Galgo – March in The Hague 5th February

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    Marching in The Hague

    SAVE THE DATE: PROTEST MARCH 5 FEBRUARY THE HAGUE

    This Sunday, February 5, there will be peaceful demonstrations in Europe for the Spanish hunting dogs in support of the No A La Caza (no hunting) protest organized every year by the Spanish Platforma NAC. In support of these protests, the GalgoPodencoPlatform in the Netherlands is organizing a demonstration in The Hague today.

    Like previous years, a peaceful protest march is supposed to be run from the Laan van Reagan and Gorbatsjov in The Hague to the Spanish Embassy to hand over a letter asking for attention and support for the plighted si tutation of the Spanish hunting dogs in Spain. We gather on the lawn at the Laan van Reagan and Gorbatsjov from 12:00 o’clock and there the protest march of about 1.8 km to the Spanish Embassy begins.

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  • Hunting in Spain finishes – Day of the Galgo

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    Give a thought to the tens and tens of thousands of galgos now dumped in the campo, abandoned, dumped in perreras, no longer wanted by the bloody galgueros.

  • Just a galgo – a hunter’s trash

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    From the facebook page of Amores Galgos Argentina

    “Me, a greyhound”

    Here I am,
    sectioned.
    From the misunderstanding
    I observe in silence.
    As if it were a stone,
    Oh! my to the ignored soul.
    A tear roll
    from my sad look.

    What do you see when you look at me!
    What do you think when you hit me!
    What do you feel…! when…
    my body shrinks, it screams.

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  • Please sign and share widely to help the greyhounds in Vietnam

    Please sign and share this petition to help the greyhounds in Vietnam be rescued and rehomed by recognised associations.

  • The dangers of dog walking too many dogs at one time – how many is too many?

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    In the UK, with more people adopting dogs during lockdown, the number of dog walkers has increased. This ‘profession’ is totally unregulated, anyone can set up as a dog walker which can have disastrous results, as happened last week (Jan 2023) in Caterham, Surrey, where a dog walker was walking 8 dogs at the same time.

    Reports state that the 8 dogs included 2 daschund, a cockapoo (mongrel by any other name!) collie and a Leonberger, none of the breeds on the Dangerous Dogs list. What a contrast between the dogs, and most of them were from different households. Personally, I fail to see how one person can walk 8 dogs of such a diverse range in size and temperament. Add to this, the woman was walking them on a public common, rather than in an enclosed area or on a private field.

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  • Hope you can see this

    Hope you can see this video as it’s a facebook link. It’s a greyhound in an agiliy arena not doing much agility but illustrating just how wonderful the greys and galgos look when running free joyously and throwing in the occasional leap over a small agility jump!!