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.
Continue reading "SOS from Spain - this time from Seville" »
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.
Continue reading "Returned to the shelter after 4 years in a home - through no fault of his own" »
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.
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.
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.
So... the sadness continues for the Spanish Galgos. Charl del Rio tells the tale of Noche.
It never ceases to amaze me how much a galo has to suffer and continues to endure, unless they reach the relative safety of a refuge. It is nothing a human would endure without giving in and complaining, or giving up totally. All galgos, when rescued, show gratefulness as only a galgo knows how.
This is the story of Noche, a galga who has endured immense suffering.
This is the night where her life was turned around and she found hands to cure her wounded body.
Two galgos looking for forever homes.
Yanis was found in Toledo, she is about 18 months old.
She is very intelligent and caring, good with cats, adores children especially sm all children.
Good in the car, housetrained, sterilised, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and her blood analysis is negative.
Email: adopciones@degalgos.org
And the second is this beautiful galgo belonging to a lady who has lost her home, and has to give away her three dogs.
If you can help, contact Nancy at Segundamano.es
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.
He has been save by the association Degalgos. They are a small association, the volunteers pay for everything from their own pockets.
Jan needs help, as he is in specialist neuro care, which will cost thousands of euros. Degalgos never usually ask for help, but this time they are asking for economic help to pay for Jan's care.
You can read about Jan and the other dogs which suffered with him on GalgoMania
It is in English as well as Spanish.
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.
This 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
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'.
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.
Yor has gone to a lovely home with a lady who lives in the Aude.
He 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.
While 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.
An online eBay collar auction in aid of Refugio Kimba has allowed Sighthound Welfare Trust to provide £250 in grant funding to the Spanish based animal rescue organisation.
The grant will support the excellent work that Kimba carries out on a daily basis for galgos, but in particular the funds will help with the veterinary expenses of Linda, a pointer.
I try not to put too many dogs on Galgo News looking for forever homes, as the individual associations are the people to contact.
But I feel a need to mention the ones which really pull at my heartstrings, like the injured and abused ones.
This is Palomo. The main things he needs are a warm bed, plenty to eat and drink, and your love and kindness.
These podencos were in the house of an old lady who has Alzheimers Disease, and she forgot to feed them.
A neighbour has taken them, but cannot keep them, as she has five dogs of her own.
The most urgent need is that the dogs are taken from where they are now, even if only by an association, and after that, money is needed for food etc.
Money is urgently needed to help with their feed or whatever they require, plus new homes found.
Contacts are:
deanfreeman1@yahoo.co.uk
maribeljerez76@hotmail.com
comdelrio@hotmail.com
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.
She is being sterilised today and needed a foster home for that reason, as she has nowhere to go to recuperate, other than the streets again. She is living in the park and there is a hunter who has a place for podencos, who interested in catching her and keeping her for breeding. His place is not suitable - not difficult to imagine - and it is hoped that, at least by sterilising her, it will deter his interest.
Poor girl! Contact
Noemi Gonzalez
Mail: info@adoptanos.org
Web: www.adoptanos.org
Through helping with galgo rescue, I've been introduced to podencos, or Ibizan Hounds. We've fostered one, Jazmin, an absolutely delightful character.
Some of the podencos have had their beautiful pink noses mutilated to make them look like a pig, as with Joy, which apparently is supposed to improve their 'ratting' capabilities!
These dogs also suffer the same degree of indescribable cruelty as the galgos.
You can read about the breed on www.ibizanhoundrescue.com.
In the meantime, meet Violetta, a little character looking for her forever family.
This galgo was found the other day loose on a motorway, luckily before he was injured or killed.
The refuges are already full to bursting, his rescuer cannot keep him in her apartment as she already has 16 cats and 2 galgos there, so he is living in her car.
If anyone can help please please contact the refuge through the website below.
http://www.veuanimal.org
veuanimal...tel 607 94 21 27
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.
Luckily for Pepsi, it was only her toes which were caught, and no bones were broken.
This little podenco was not so lucky. Caught in a trap, left for five days before help arrived. Now urgently looking for a foster and forever home.
She is extremely thin, and sadly her leg could not be saved, so she has an amputation at the shoulder front leg, due to the wound being severely infected because it was left open so long.
I'd never heard of an Azawakh, or 'African greyhound' as my contact called her. So it was interesting to read up on wikipaedia about the breed.
Samia is sadly looking for another home, through no fault of her own. She is 6 years old, a beautiful copper colour, and very slender. She has been with her present owners since they bought her from the breeder when she was 3 years old.
Continue reading "Azawakh bitch urgently looking for a forever home" »
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.
Here is another appeal just received.
This galguita is in care.
She was rescued from the refuge where she was on death row with the many other galgos there, most have been rehomed except this one.
My home is sometimes used as an overnight stop for one of the French galgo rescue associations, and I have been privileged - is that the right word? - to see quite a number of galgos, of all colours, and podencos running free in our enclosed courtyard, whilst on their way to be fostered or go straight to their adopting family.
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.
He was brought out of Spain by L'Europe des Levriers as a pitifully thin dog, covered in scars. After 4 months of feeding up, he is now extremely handsome. His scars have covered and his coat gleams.
He's about four years old, extremely affectionate and loving - considering the background he probably came from - and gets on with all my other dogs, including my lurcher, who is the Alpha dog.
Colate is not an aggressive dog - in fact he's pretty typical of the galgo breed - loves long walks, curling up at my feet or in front of the wood burner, car rides, and playing ball.
Continue reading "Another handsome chap looking for his new family" »
Rescued from the horrors of Spain. Yor, Brenda, Adonis and Sara were brought out of Spain by Amigos de los Galgos and are now being fostered by volunteer Joanna Simm in the Aude, southern France
If you can offer them forever homes, please get in touch with Joanna, who can explain what to do.
Visit the website of the people who are currently looking after him. This is the English version.
http://hasiandashaenglish.blogspot.com/
And here is the piece about Lord Byron from January.
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????
She already has a few dogs and cannot keep this one so if anyone can offer foster care or a permanent home, please contact her on the email below.
She's in Burgos, northern Spain.
Cristina de Luna is trying to find a permanent home for this little dog.
She is called NANA, she's a crossed galga, very small.
She's around 45 cm high and weights 10 kg., and is only 10 months old.
The photos show her in her foster home, but now her foster mum is very ill, and a refuge is the only other place open to her.
She cries the whole day and is very depressed because she doesn't understand what happened.
If there is anyone looking for a small dog, this little girl is perfect.
Although he's not a galgo, I'm including the story of Hallo, as he has been saved by a friend of Marisa's.
Marisa continues his story.
Hallo is a really difficult case in Spain. He was found by a friend of mine in the centre of Seville last Halloween, jumping above the cars in a really big avenue.
She got him into the car and went home. Hallo was really frightened. The days passed and Hallo never lost the fear.
This little lady is a Pointer, a walking skeleton, malnourished, abused, and incapable of moving.
Luckily she is now with the Kimba refuge, recovering from her ordeal.
Her lord and master overlooked the fact that she has an identification chip so, for once, Spanish law can go after him!
A Kimba volunteer continues her story.
This is the story of Paloma, another victim of the barbarism to galgos.
She was run over on 28th January.
Just another case of the thousands seen daily by those who work the galgo plight.
Named Paloma for her white coat, like a dove fallen from the sky with broken wings.
Charlotte tells her story.
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.
He was covered from head to toe in fleas and ticks, and very weak.
His coat was knotted like dreadlocks right to the skin, so his skin could not breath, so he had to be clipped.
He has dermatitis, woulds and lumps all over him, possibly because he got caught under a wire fence, which cut his skin and became infected.
As the hunting season with galgos in Spain draws to an end, the rescue associations are swamped with abandoned and injured dogs.
SOS Levriers is one of the French associations desperately looking for forever homes, or foster homes.
Currently there are seven dogs which they are desperate to bring out of Spain, including Nur, Azucena, Corso and Liberto, Fred, Jezabek and Gina.
Check the SOS Levriers website for more details about how to adopt, and to contact them if you can help.
A little podenco looking for a forever home.
About three years old, she was used as a hunting dog, beaten quite regularly. Then she got her hind leg caught in a trap. so her owner tried to cut the leg off with ‘scissors’.
Releasing her to a life on the streets, she was knocked down and injured further. Luckily she was found and taken in by a rescue association, who operated on her leg, to be cared for in a foster home.
She was so traumatised by now that she didn’t make a single sound, or move at all.
Continue reading "Introducing Pruna - she has now been adopted" »
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.
He allowed his rescuers to cut the rope, and remove the assassination cord from his neck without a whimper. His wounds are being treated by caring volunteers. His crime? To be born a Spanish galgo.
When hunting ends in January there will be dozens more cases like this, many of them will not be found alive.
He has been christened Noel. He is now looking for a forever home. Contact Cristina at GalgosIn Fronteras if you can help.
Join the campaign to stop this barbaric cruelty. Click on any of the website links in the right hand column and find out how you can help.
The galgos need all the support they can get.
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.
Luckily Amigos de Milord learnt about him and he was taken to a hospital in the city where his pain and injuries were treated. He is now with an orthopaedic traumatologist.
Continue reading "Introducing Noa - Noa has now been adopted" »
Two beautiful dogs, being fostered by Cristina de Luna, are looking for forever homes.
Cristina describes Sari, a young galgo bitch.
The galga is very young and has gone through hell (....me too). She was found on the street, run over by a car. She has had four operations. We tried to save her front leg but it has been impossible and it was amputated two weeks ago. We spent a long one and a half months trying every alternative.
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.
Sandra Baas, a jewellery designer who lives in Spain, who runs just such a scheme, explains.
Baasgalgo manages protection campaigns for galgos/greyhounds living in refuges or other protective shelters in Spain. Many dogs live in protective associations or refuges for many years, because they are not lucky enough to find 'forever homes'
Taking good care of these animals consumes a lot of the total available budget. That is why we offer the possibility of financial adoption of a dog. If for some reason you cannot or do not want to adopt a dog in your house, there still is the possibility to help one of those poor creatures in this way.
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.
Returning to her car with food for the dog, Lola, found the dog had disappeared. As she opened the boot of her car to put the shopping in, the galga appeared again, and amazingly jumped into the car. Usually they are too timid and take time to be caught.
Lola took her home and named her Reina. The recuperation process began, worming, de-flea treatments, treatment from the vet for her paws. But danger lurked as she was being walked one day.
Latest news on Fabienne is that she is now in a foster home where she can receive the medical treatment she needs, on her road to recovery.
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.
This particular day it was pouring with rain and she was soaking wet.
At first they thought she was a puppy, but it turns out she is approximately 6 years of age, and weighing only 11kg.
She was in a state of hypothermia and malnourished to such an extent that she was near death.
Continue reading "Fabianne - just thrown away like a piece of paper" »
Inocente is a beautiful brindle galgo mix, about 3 years old, but with a past which would horrify any sensitive person.
Someone tried to hang Inocente, but he was saved before he died. He has an old fracture of the tibia with a 40 degree distal deviation.
The Kimba refuge at Cadiz is asking for people to help find a family for Inocente, one to give him all the love possible and help him to forget his past in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cadiz).
If there is anyone who can help, contact Kimba - www.refugiokimba.org
Introducing Fran, only 2 years old, rescued when she was tied under a lorry by the gypsies.
Passion Levriers are looking for a loving home for her.
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.
Passion Levriers are supporting the volunteers.
To add your voice to the thousands of others who are trying to stop this cruelty, visit their website or any of the other galgo rescue associations in the right hand column or sign the on-line petition.
We've always preferred to adopt adult dogs, the thought of cleaning up after puppies doesn't enter into my scheme of things.
So when I learnt there were two puppies arriving for an overnight stay on the next rescue from Spain, I had to ring round friends to find out what to do. Almost like being a new parent panicking about how to look after the baby.
Two dog cages and copious towels duly arrived chez nous, along with, not two puppies, but five! Ha! Bit like when I went into hospital to have one baby, and two arrived at the same time.
Jazmin is a 4yr old rough-haired Podenco with enormous ears. She is gentle, loving, adores being stroked and hugged.
She is good with other dogs, not aggressive in any way. She is a little timid at the moment, but will blossom in a caring permanent home. Sterilized, vaccinated, microchipped and blood tested, she will make a wonderful pet.
And would like nothing more than to curl up on the sofa with her head in your lap.
She was brought out of Spain by L’Europe des Levriers on a recent rescue, as she was in danger of being stolen by the gypsies. She is currently being fostered in Deux-Sevres.
Continue reading "Adopt Jazmin the Podenco currently homed in France" »
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