Galgo News

Happy Endings-Final Felix Photo Competition - closing date 31st March 2012

Happy Ending-Final Feliz is an association near Chiclana, Cadiz, which was started by a Norwegian lady, Margarita, and her team of helpers regularly fundraise to help pay for the keep and care which their rescued dogs need. They are currently running a Photo Competition and you can find all the details on this link. Closing date for entries is 31st March, so get sorting through your dog photos and send your entries in. First prize, 100 euros!

Malaga, podenca Ana needs your help

This is an appeal for help for vet fees and food for Ana, a podenca Andaluz abandoned, injured and with pups near Valencia. She was eventually rescued, after more than 2 months of gaining her trust, and is now with 112carlotagalgos being repaired, healed and prepared for her forever home. Read her story here. Remember, podencos suffer just as much as galgos at the hands of the galgueros.

Lurcher Trueno from the streets of Seville, needs a forever home

Trueno is a beautiful black-grey Lurcher approx 5 years old. Rescued off the streets of Sevilla and adopted, through no fault of his own he is now needing another home.
Castrated, vaccinated, chipped, negative in Leishmania,erlichia, filaria. Cannot live with cats. CAN YOU OFFER TRUENO A HOME Contact 112carlotagalgos

GalgoConnectionSpain, Valencia, saving the Gesser Galgos.

A few of the galgos in Gesser killing station, Jerez (Cadiz) have been saved by Silvia of Galgo Connection Spain in Valencia. You can see photos of a couple of them here, needing veterinary treatment, feeding, microchipping, vaccinating, etc. All donations towards these fees will be gratefully received.

Mo Swatek of Pro Galgo is also hoping to save some of them.

Exclusive accommodation in Spain - rescue attempts for 74 galgos and podencos

No apologies for the 'stupid' title to this post. I have put in key words and want to reach as many people as possible looking at Spain, for whatever reason. Update on the rescue of 74 galgos/podencos - mostly galgos - from a gypsy in Murcia, who has a denuncia against him. Here is what Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol says.

'Approx 74 galgos and pods. GdS managed to rescue 9 with the help of The Henrietta Foundation who will foster 4 of those for us. La Fortelaza took 8, and another lady there took approx 5 I think and has another 5-6 reserved but has to come back. GalgoConnection Spain in Valencia are taking 3. So there are approx 45 left that are all due to be taken away and put to sleep on Friday 27th January 2012. ' I believe although that date is not concrete.

Murcia - 70 galgos rescued from a Spanish gypsy - send a letter to the Hunting Federation

22 January 2012 - as I write a rescue is being carried out in Murcia. Up to 70 galgos in a gypsy camp. The gitano (Spanish gypsy) with these dogs was denounced (see my book to explain a denuncia) and the authorities said the dogs would all be put down unless they were rescued. These dogs are in poor condition, some chained to walls....the gypsies are very hard on the galgos. Several people belonging to rescue associations and refuges are involved in this operation.

Galgo Marko - Pepis Refuge, Animals in Distress and Arca Noah to the rescue

Joe Safont-Ruiz of Animals in Distress tells the story of this poor boy.

'A Galgo (Greyhound) was left tied up outside Pepis Refugio - The dogs were barking as normal but Alan and Jane knew the different barks and this meant a new arrival. Alan walked down to the gate with a small torch only to see two green glows at the gate; yes it was Marko (his new name).

When Alan reached the gate he saw Marko lying on the frosty ground, a beautiful boy, but something told him not to grab him up, which was what he wanted to do. He saw a thin metal wire around his neck tied in a slip knot. If he panicked the wire would have tightened and cut into his neck so Alan sat on the ground and talked to Marko until he thought Marko was happy with him. This was a sight he will never ever forget, Marko looked at Alan his eyes as if to say 'Sorry but it's not my fault that I am here' that hurt him even more. He then felt confident to pick him up; Marko was ready to be helped.

Alan took the wire noose from his neck and cuddled him up, telling him nobody will hurt him again, His pelvis looked dislocated and he was unable to walk properly, but Alan had no idea what the extent of the problem was. Marko's hip was very bad, the ball joint had risen high up his hip and was wearing out part of the bone, as you can see in the x-ray. Also the injury was old and tissues and other things had started to develope around the ball joint and the hip cavity.

Pepis Refuge are very short of funds and the refuge was not the ideal place for Marko in his condition. So my wife (Janice from A.I.D), went to the refuge, which is in Pedrera, Seville, to collect him, along with another Galgo and a Mastin pup which had also been abandoned, as they stood a better chance of finding a home if they came down here. We had no room at the time, so our friends at Arca Noah took them in.

Arca Noah will look after Marko so that he can put some weight on before the operation, as he is skin and bones, the poor thing, and hopefully by then enough funds will be raised by us at A.I.D., the Galgo Rescue in Belgium and Arca Noah to pay for the operation and after treatment, which will be about 2500 Euros.

Please donate and help us to help Marko. Any amount large of small will be so gratefully received. Lets all pull together. Every Euro counts so please donate towards his operation and recovery (Click on the link to donate)

Dog Fighting - an innocent victim used as bait - Spanish galgos suffer

Because galgos are not aggressive dogs, unscrupulous people use them as bait for dog fighting. This galguita found a few days ago, is young, full of wounds and has a broken tail.

There currently seems to be some uncertainty as to who actually has the galga,

The true face of Spanish galgo hunting!

Écija is a city 85kn east of the city of Seville, in the region of Andalucia, one of the 5 regions of Spain where hunting with galgos is legal. It is also the city where this young galga was found. This is the face of Spain which should be transmitted around the world, to combat the claim of the galgueros that they are not cruel to their dogs!

Natalia tells the story. 'This young galga we have named Isha, a galguita we collected a few days ago near Ecija. You can see she cannot walk, she has no muscles, suffering from severe malnutrition and high leishmania; we have had to hospitalize her to save her life.

Malaga perrera galgos - 3 saved but dozens still rot in perreras elsewhere

Barbara LeFranc, president of le Bulletin des Levriers in France, has been working with Galgos en Familia in Malaga to rescue the latest batch of galgos in the Malaga perrera El Paraiso. Their story is published here on Galgo News and on the BDL website, (English translation below).