Galgo News

Galgo Zac with Scooby - hoping for a forever home

It's sad that black dogs are the last to get adopted because when in good condition, their gleaming shiny black coats are stunning. I don't think any other colour shines like black. Imagine this boy with a gorgeous colourful galgo collar...he's with Cobie at Scooby in Valladolid.

'Have you ever seen a more gorgeous, black galgo than this one? That´s almost impossible...This is Zar and he was in the perrera municipal from Valladolid but now he is safe in the Scooby residencia. Three years young and super sweet and affectionate!'

Contact Scooby if you can offer him a home and a place in your heart forever.

Scooby to the rescue again

This handsome and little galgo is Titan 🥰. He's just over two months old and he's looking for a home where to grow up in and live happily. Do you want to be his forever family? Send us an email to

seguimientos@scoobymedina.org

If you can not adopt, but you want to help us to continue saving lives like that of the little Titan, you can do it in the following ways:

▪️Join the teaming for only 1€/month http://bit.ly/2teaming
▪️Donate: https://bit.ly/2KmUlk7
» Paypal - Edwin@scoobymedina.com
▪️Scooby Shop https://bit.ly/2tHTWSp
Thanks!

The consequences of adopting a galgo

I'm sure this is familiar to all of you, you can never have just one! They should come with a health warning...prepare to lose your most comfy chairs to the hounds!

Toledo - galgo puppy for adoption

Refugio adopta Y Se Feliz

'She is "fleeting" a beautiful pure galgo puppy, who has been born with a malformation in the right rear paw, so she is no good for hunting or racing! But she will have a normal life, walks and runs without a problem with the other dogs, is very good, and will be a beautiful little girl whose malformation will not prevent doing anything. In fact, with this poblem it has only served to ensure her life will be more happy from puppyhood.! She's going to be a home, not hunting.

It's ideal. Mimosona and creamsicle.

She will have a contract of adoption and sterilization before the year.

Write to (Spain) 627781133 or via the website link

Scooby - saving the hounds is never ending

Scooby writes. 'After 8 years of hunting and giving birth, this adorable galga has been abandoned by her owner. This is how many galgueros thank their dogs the loyalty they have shown towards them by hunting hares and giving birth to puppies to sell, exchange them or also use them for hunting. And it is that no matter how much the galgueros insist on denying it, thousands of galgos are abandoned in Spain every year.
(Chip N°: ......57804)

Please, help us to continue saving lives. You can do it in the following ways:

Adopt: https://bit.ly/2JPw3P8
Join the teaming for only 1€/month http://bit.ly/2teaming
Donate: https://bit.ly/2KmUlk7
Paypal - Edwin@scoobymedina.com
Scooby Shop https://bit.ly/2tHTWSp

Thanks!

A reminder when adopting a pet

SHUG US takes 8 more Spanish hounds to home

Here are some pix of 8 dogs who flew from Madrid airport last weekend heading for the US. Here they are being checked in. Alisha Strobel is the flight patron heading to LAX, John Whitaker the patron to Chicago O’Hare. The flight to LAX is sponsored by Galgopod, big thanks for their support.

The Sighthound Underground is one of the more recent galgo adoption associations in the US and depends on their rescue partners, like Podenco Friends/Ibizan Hound Rescue and Scooby Medina, to transport all the dogs to the airport, along with all their passports and health documents. These transporters start their trips in the middle of the night. Thank you to everyone....it truly takes a village!

The dogs made it without problem during the long flight and here are a few pix after landing!

Galgo Pup PJ - still with health problems

I recently published about galgo pup PJ who was rescued together with Podenca Carley who was mothering him. Both are safe with Podenco Friends. PJ is still struggling with health problems, here's the latest news from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

PJ taking some R&R in the sunshine this morning .. His blood tests came back from the bile acid tests and it confirmed he is producing an elevated level which indicates a liver shunt.

However the following day we checked his ammonia level and that was normal so we tried a second ultrasound and again couldn't get a clear image that there is shunt in the liver. The tests are conflicting and cannot give us a straight answer but it is all too apparent to see he is not a well pup and his appetite has dropped off.

Tiny galgo puppies left to die in a concrete drain! Scooby to the rescue

Scooby to the rescue, thank goodness for them. The only positive in this story is that the puppies had not been dropped down a well...as often happens...at least in this concrete 'tank' they could be seen and easily caught.

From Cobie at Valladolid.

Now safe in Scooby Medina...

Why are there people so cruel? They are only two babies! Two little galgos, a little more than a month old, that someone has left in an old water tank, over two meters high and full of dirt and debris.

Galgos en Familia - working tirelessly for the galgos

Galgos en Familia was established in Malaga in 2010 by Vera Thorenaar. When my definitive guide to the plight of the galgo was first published in 2010 she kindly sent a copy to the then Queen of Spain! On this link you will find details of the wonderful galgos in their care, hoping for forever homes, ranging from a young puppy to an older galga.

This photo is of Carmen, and here's her story.