Galgo News

Update on Tallis - galgo puppy rescued from Spain, rehomed in France

Last year we met Tallis, a young galgo puppy rescued along with others from the same litter by L'Europe des Levriers, who found her forever home with an English couple in the south west of France. Tallis has written to tell us how she is going on.

Hello!

It’s me, Tallis and I’m writing to tell you that I am now one year old and quite grown up. I have been learning lots of lessons during my first year, but I thought you’d like to hear about some of my hobbies.

Podencos - Travelling to the UK by Personal Chauffeur

Vicki Thomas used to live in Spain but has now returned to the UK. She left behind her podenco/labrador Leon until his pet passport was in order for him to join them. She decided to bring him back from southern Spain by car, and to adopt another podenco to take back to the UK at the same time. She contacted me through Galgo News and I was able to give her the names of 2 associations in Spain who were likely to have podencos with a pet passport for the UK.

Vicki tells the story of her adventure.

Leon was found along with his 7 brothers and sisters dumped in a rubbish bin in La Cala, Mijas. They were a couple of days old and were suffering from chemical burns but had managed to fight their way through the rubbish so that they could be heard from the street.

Introducing Sahara - from Spain with love

Meet Sahara, an 18 month old brindle galga.

She was handed in to a perrera by her galguerro when he had finished with her at the end of the hunting season.

She is a happy confident gal, luckily no signs of mistreatment.

I went down to Madrid to collect her and she has now settled happily into my canine family at my home in France.

Update on Tallis

Update on Tallis - a little galga puppy recently adopted by a family near Carcassone.

Tallis arrives in France - A galgo puppy happily rehomed

Temperatures in northern Spain in winter are below freezing. Many of the animal refuges and shelters do not have even basic kennels - it's just a compound within a breeze block wall, with shelter provided by a motley assortment of pallets, tin sheets, donated bedding - anything!

Venus - A Story with a Happy Ending

Meet Venus, a happy rehoming story.

Marisa Pérez, a volunteer with El Refugio Escuela who rescued my little Malaguena Podenca Andaluz, Bebe, from a Seville motorway, has been fostering this beautiful white galga. Marisa tells the story:

'I found her just before the moment she was crossing the motorway and when I called her she started moving her tail so happy and came to me as knowing she was being saved. She weighed hardly 15 kilos when I carried her to my car. (On average a galgo weighs double that!)

Free Spirit - Rosario the Survivor has finally been caught

I don't have a lot of details yet, but Rosario has finally been caught.

She was an abandoned galga in Spain, it took the Spanish volunteers several months to catch her. She was then vaccinated, blood tested, spayed and brought out of Spain into France in February 2008. Only a couple of hours after arriving at her foster home, she escaped.

Her foster family have searched and tracked her, tried to catch her, to no avail. Her foster mum lost weight with the stress and worry, not sleeping at night, waiting for a call that Rosario had been sighted.

She was finally caught on 21st July 5 months after she escaped, 5 months after living on the street, surviving.

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.

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.

A couple of the lucky ones

Brenda and Sara happily rehomed together, and settling into their forever home. Enjoy the rest of your lives, girls!