Galgo News

PACMA demand hunting in Castille y Leon be stopped

From the CREL newsletter of March 13, 2019

The Spanish animalist party (PACMA) claims the protection of wildlife and takes legal action.

The Hunting Act in Castilla y León (Spain) will be amended to "paralyze any hunting activity until further notice". All this at the request of PACMA (Party of Animalists Against Animal Abuse).

Laura Duarte, spokesperson of the Spanish animalist party, argued that the regulation in question does not comply with the European directive "habitat fauna flora", which applies to all species. Therefore, "if it is not consistent, this paralysis should continue".

The Greyhound Health Initiative newsletter

The Healthy Hound newsletter from Ohio State University. This edition includes a very interesting article on filaria - or heartworm - which is one of the diseases which afflicts many galgos in Spain.

Invisible fencing? The Whole Dog Journal writes

I recently received an email from someone considering adopting a Podenco and asking if invisible fencing would be suitable. He already used it on his other dog. Rather than respond with just my own view - hate the product!! - I posted the question on my facebook podenco pages and Podenco Post. Not surprisingly the 100% response was resounding NO and in some countries like Scandinavia and the UK it is illegal.

Coincidentally an article on the subject arrived in my Inbox this morning. You can read the full article on this link.

Facts and Fiction about Greyhounds and Galgos

Sunday 3rd February is World Galgo Day. Here's what Mo Swatek says about greyhounds and galgos.

GREYHOUNDS EXISTED BEFORE THE GALGOS

Actually its the other way around. Galgos were before greyhounds. Phoenicians brought them from Egypt to the Mediterranean coast. From there they came to northern Spain where Celtic tribes took them up north to the UK.

GREYHOUNDS WERE MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE

That is most possible not the case and if , it was a middle eastern sighthound and not a greyhound. Here a very good explanation...
https://christiananswers.net/dictionary/greyhound.html…

GALGOS ARE SPANISH GREYHOUNDS

Canicross with Galgos

Although galgos and greyhounds have a reputation as 40mph couch potatoes, we also know they can run - fast! Many years ago before Galgos del Sol was formed, Tina Solera ran a Canicross in Spain with her rescued Galgo Guapo, to publicise the galgos as companion dogs.

Many galgos are now homed in Scotland and here are a couple of websites involved in galgos and greyhound adoption, plus one lady who does Canicross with her 2 greyhounds and a podenco!

Canicross Galgo - the first photo is from Galgo News of Tina and Guapo

Jane Jones - Letthedogsout

Scottish Greyhound Sanctuary

Podencos in Need Scotland

The Healthy Hound Quarterly - studying Galgos

In this issue of The Healthy Hound Quarterly you’ll notice a fair amount of content about Galgos (Spanish Greyhounds). They did this for a couple of reasons, partly because there is an increasing number of galgos adopted in the US and they have their own unique characteristics that both veterinarians and adopters need to be aware of. Dr Guillermo Couto and his team of Ohio State University have written a couple of interesting articles on their studies.

Galgos 112 - galgo Blas donating blood

As you know, greyhound/galgo blood is extremely rich. Here is one of the Galgos 112 hounds, Blas, giving blood to help another dog having an operation.

2nd hand dogs make 1st class pets

After Brexit March 2019 - potential big changes for pets and overseas travel

From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

'Potentially big changes for taking your pets overseas from the UK after March 2019... It could resort back to the old system where titre counts for Rabies are required and 4 months waiting before they can travel and to complete a number of documents to travel. We had to do this back in 2001 when we first moved to Spain with our dogs. This will also impact on rescue dogs though in this article there is no mention of them but I imagine they will have to comply with the same rules to travel from Europe to the UK.'

https://www.gov.uk/…/taking-your-pet-abroad-if-theres-no-br…

Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert, Seville - Paloma adopted in Italy

If you are considering adopting a galgo, and wonder if they can live with cats, then have a look at this lovely video of Paloma, adopted in Italy from the Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert shelter. My first greyhound, a stray, lived happily with my cats but none of my Spanish galgos have, their hunting instinct has been too strong. So it's essential that a galgo is properly cat tested before adoption.