Galgo News

SOS from Spain - this time from Seville

This story has come in from Caroline at elregufioescuela:

Yesterday in the afternoon a colleague of mine was in the house of a lady who has 40 dogs. She cannot take any more.

We are worried about these 5 babies. They are 4 months old and live in a kennel in very very poor conditions. One has a very bloody paw because the bigger ones pick on it.

SOS from Spain - Danger Alert for These Babies

This galga has just given birth in this dirty place, a house, derelict about to fall down. It will soon fall down! The worst, is that JUST a few metres away from her litter of pups is a well, a well with an incredible amount of depth.

Auction Bids needed Urgently

The Galgo Rescue International Network is proud to announce our latest fundraisung venture for the Spanish galgos.

Carpe Canem is hosting an online auction which begins at 7am PDT/10am EDT on Wednesday, May 14 and ends at 7pm PDT/10pm EDT on Tuesday, May 20.

ALL the proceeds (after shipping expenses) will go directly to two Spanish galgo rescue organizations, DDEVIDA (Defensa de los Derechos de la Vida Animal) in Utrera (Sevilla) and Asociación de Socorro Animal Amigos de Milord in Palencia.

Please check it out at www.carpecanem.com/auction/ - it's packed with awesome items to bid on.

Returned to the shelter after 4 years in a home - through no fault of his own

Three years ago this beautiful galgo was adopted from Parque Animal in Torremolinos, Malaga, by an English couple.

Having previously been abandoned, he thought he had found his forever home.

Nearly 4 years later he finds himself back where he was, due to unforeseen circumstances out of his control and that of his adoptive parents.

Want to buy a galgo in France?

Thanks to June for bringing this to our notice. Breeding Galgos in France. Whatever is this man thinking about - breeding galgos. Does he not know what goes on in Spain?!

www.peumery.com

Translation of letter from the Office of the Spanish Prime Minister

Pat Getz, of the Greyhound Protection League USA, has kindly sent in this translation of the letter I received from the office of the Spanish Prime Minister.

She says 'A friend of mine who speaks Spanish and is married to someone who speaks Spanish as his native language was kind enough to do this translation. Kristin is very busy with two small children and many, many activities, but is a great animal lover. I thank her for her efforts.'

I thank Pat for her efforts too, and reprint the translation as sent to me.

Dulce Vita - a small-town dog from Southern Spain

Dulce is a podenca with a peculiar gait. Her front legs move like a trotter (French racehorse) and her hind legs move like a crab. She's a happy little dog now, but she nearly died.

Driving in Spain?

This is Luz. She was wandering the streets of Jaen, hard to catch. Despite trying to catch her in many ways, including tranquillizers, the way she was finally caught was by being knocked down.

The Hidden Shame of Spain

Charl del Rio reports on the lastest atrocities in Spain: Yesterday this case reached me from a friend in assoc ciudad animal, yet again the galgos suffer and the help comes too late. In Mota del Cuervo - Cuenca, Castilla la Mancha, a friend of mine was called since the police had been notified regarding robberies - what they found in the derelict building was horrific.

Galgos hung, cans of fuel, and the galgos eventually fallen from their horrific death to the floor to rot. They were approximately a year old, and male.

Going on holiday to Spain? What you won't see.

The trauma that hundreds of galgos suffer throughout their short lives is, at times, almost unbelievable. Passion Levriers tells a tale.

To find out more about their work, and make a donation, Passion Levriers home page.

Help the Chip Appeal

Last November Tete and her volunteers, arrived at the shelter of Arconaturalinares, to find the fence cut open and many dogs running free outside the premises.

On entering they found the storage room broken into with all the medication, bedding, iodine and even the dog food stolen.

Much worse however, was the disappearance of the two galgas that had arrived just 36 hours earlier.

So has started their Chip Appeal to try and ensure all dogs arriving at the centre are microchipped.

The Transformation of Amigio

Amigio was found in Seville earlier in the year, very malnourished and sick. Thanks to help from Pro-Galgo, he is now a magnificent healthy galgo, happy in his forever home.

Read more about him, and others saved by Pro-Galgo.

Schering-Plough delivers vaccines in record time

Laboratories Shering-Plough contacted Sandra Baas through her website to offer a major donation: 3825 vaccines for dogs, specifically the Quantum DA2PP & CVL.

These vaccines will expire in a few weeks, so co-ordination and speed were demanded to deliver them to different shelters in time.

This was made possible, in partnership with Ddevida, responsible for the defence of animal rights, in record time indeed. The distribution of vaccines was ready in just over a week.

We are always ready to organize and coordinate, but first we need resources.

Read the full story on Baas Galgo.

Michala Bandier - founder of Galgos in Need Denmark

For 10 years Michala lived in the south of Spain, and it was in fact the horses, that took up most of her spare time.

Almost daily she went riding in the mountains, but on her way she passed through many farms and could not help noticing all the dogs running around or being kept under poor conditions, locked up in old ruins or hidden from daylight in workmen’s huts.

Puppy needing help

Puppy, five months old, extremely malnourished - found in appalling conditions - recovering in a foster home for a few days, but the fosterer has other dogs at his house and can only have him for a few days.

Urgently needs a forever home.

If you can help contact sinadobo@hotmail.com 635-957-910 (Spain)
loslebreles.blogspot.com
hasiandasha.com

or please pass onto your contacts.

From the Office of the Spanish Prime Minister

As a result of my letter to Snr Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister, about the plight of the Spanish galgos, I received the following reply - which I have to admit was a pleasant surprise, as I didn't expect such a result.

Sadly, my language skills don't include Spanish, so if anyone can send me a translation into English, I'd be delighted to receive it.

Click on the thumbnail images to the right to read the full text of the two page reply.

If you joined my campaign, and sent a letter as well, I'd like to know if you received a reply too.

And if you haven't already sent a letter, then click here and print off a copy of mine.

Come on, folks, let's bombard the Spanish government with protest letters, we've a 50% chance of getting them to do something!

Gentleman George lands on his feet

With plans afoot to return to the UK, Sandi Leach says the last thing she and husband Will were planning to do was adopt another dog in France. That was before they met George.

Sandi explains: "Originally named Adonis by Nuria of Amigos de los Galgos, this big, black and white, gentle galgo captured our hearts.

It could have been something to do with the fact that he is almost the twin of our other galga Pye, despite the size difference, (she could stand underneath him if she wanted to).

They are so similar that people do a double take when they see them together.

Three more galgos hoping to be rescued

Charl has sent in stories of 3 more galgos, dumped like rubbish to fend for themselves. The mentality seems to be "galgos can hunt, they can look for food".

Nata... another lame galgo, saved by some more "guardian angels" of the galgos.

Nata arrived at the shelter El Arca de Monzòn (Huesca) - no one knows how, but she was begging around the exterior of the refuge. Perhaps luck brought her that far.

It's quite possible she was brought there by the same gypsies who had her because she was no good at running, for she has a wound in her front paw.

Pressure on Nicaraguan gallery grows

The World Society for the Protection of Animals has continued to press for action following last year's art exhibition by Guillermo Vargas, which featured a dog chained to a wall with no food or water.

Elly Hiby, WSPA’s head of companion animals, said: "Information regarding the treatment and fate of the dog used in the 2007 exhibition is inconsistent, but for WSPA – irrespective of the exact outcome – chaining a dog without food or water for public entertainment is a reprehensible abuse."

More: WSPA says art is no excuse for cruelty