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.
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Three years ago this beautiful galgo was adopted from Parque Animal in Torremolinos, Malaga, by an English couple. 
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.
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".
So... the sadness continues for the Spanish Galgos. Charl del Rio tells the tale of Noche.
Two galgos looking for forever homes.
And the second is this beautiful galgo belonging to a lady who has lost her home, and has to give away her three dogs.
Jan is a galgo. He has suffered horrendously. Amongst other injuries, he had a nail in his head. He is about 10 years old. 10 years of living a life of hell as a Spanish galgo.
This is Agua, named because she was found in a canal of water with her babies, watching two drown.
Always 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.
He shares a sofa with Barney, a saluki cross and Jack, a large collie.
While everyone is saturated with dogs coming in thick and fast it is always hard to add another to the case of abandoned dogs.
An online eBay collar auction in aid of
I try not to put too many dogs on Galgo News looking for forever homes, as the individual associations are the people to contact.
These podencos were in the house of an old lady who has Alzheimers Disease, and she forgot to feed them.
Contacts are:
This is a podenca living on the streets of Cordoba. She has had a litter and the pups have now been taken, by whom? She has gained her trust in a lady nearby, and this lady is the only one who can touch the little dog.
Through helping with galgo rescue, I've been introduced to podencos, or Ibizan Hounds. We've fostered one, Jazmin, an absolutely delightful character.
This galgo was found the other day loose on a motorway, luckily before he was injured or killed.
Recently my little Valhund escaped from our courtyard and turned up by a neighbours lake, with her paw in one of the vile steel traps, which had been set to catch a fox.
The trouble with this time of year in half of Spain is that the appeals for help from the Spanish refuges to help rescued galgos is never ending. 
I am fostering Colate. He is a magnificent chocolate- coloured galgo, with amber eyes. He thought he had found his forever family, but has come back to me because their home situation changed.
This little dog has been picked up by a lady who has just had a baby eight days ago, someone appears to have attempted to gouge his eye out.... the mind boggles????
Cristina de Luna is trying to find a permanent home for this little dog.
Although he's not a galgo, I'm including the story of Hallo, as he has been saved by a friend of Marisa's.
This little lady is a Pointer, a walking skeleton, malnourished, abused, and incapable of moving.
This is the story of Paloma, another victim of the barbarism to galgos.
This is Lord Byron, he is in Tarragona, Spain. He was found tied to the door of a house, where the owner has an Afghan.
As the hunting season with galgos in Spain draws to an end, the rescue associations are swamped with abandoned and injured dogs.
We hang Christmas decorations at this time of year. The Spanish hang dogs. This is one who was lucky enough to be found still alive, which is a miracle.
Noa is a black galgo of about 3 months old. On 22nd December he suffered a road accident, knocked down in Palencia, left on the tarmac with no help offered, not even from the local animal protection society.
Two beautiful dogs, being fostered by
If you can't adopt a galgo, what about fostering one. It doesn't cost much each month, 10 euros, or £7.50. It's not much to us, but it is worth a lot to the refuges in Spain which rescue galgos and look after them till homes can be found for them abroad.
Thin, emaciated with shocking burnt paws, a young brindle galga wandered the streets of Seville. A galgo carer, Lola, pulled into the carpark of the local supermarket, and the galga appeared and allowed herself to be stroked.
Introducing Fabianne, luckily for her she was found by some volunteers, under a small bridge under the Andalucia motorway, on top of an old mattress.
Inocente is a beautiful brindle galgo mix, about 3 years old, but with a past which would horrify any sensitive person.
Introducing Fran, only 2 years old, rescued when she was tied under a lorry by the gypsies.
Chenco, living rough on the streets in Spain. He's been there for at least 4 months, dodging the traffic, covered in sores, being fed by local volunteers who are desperately trying to catch him and save him.
We've always preferred to adopt adult dogs, the thought of cleaning up after puppies doesn't enter into my scheme of things.
Jazmin is a 4yr old rough-haired Podenco with enormous ears. She is gentle, loving, adores being stroked and hugged.

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