THE DOGS ON THE LINK BELOW WERE FOUND IN A VILLAGE NEAR SALAMANCA (SPAIN)
they were all microchipped and the owner claims to have them pts by a veterinary and “only” dropping them illegaly in the countryside.
we hope the authopsy reveals the truth as the owner of the dogs is a well known galgo breeder, participating often in famous galgo races
KLICK ON THE LINK IF YOU CAN STAND TO SEE THE PICTURES
on monday afternoon when i was away, someone opend our front door (possibly with a key) and let all our dogs loose. they all came home, except my beloved podenca GEISHA. she died on the near highway.
the same night we had again sever rainfalls and all our land was flooded again. this time even the cellar of the house was flooded.
fare well my dear GEISHA!
An english lady “was adopted” by a podenca. she followed her home. we would like to help the dog but are already overbooked, so we need urgently a fosterfamily for SHEBA in spain and then adoptants all over the world 
this is what ROBIN tells us about her podenca SHEBA:
I do hope that a good home can be found for her because, as you can see from the photos I sent you, she is an attractive dog.
Oh, nearly forgot to tell you where I live. I am about 30 kms from Gandia out towards Xativa and can get to Oliva, Pego, Denia and Javea quite easily, in case you know of any dog rescue centres in those areas.
Best wishes,
Robin
GREYHOUND RESCUE PIN, 9.90€
NECKLESS WITH LITTLE GREYHOUND OR GALGO 12€
NECKLES WITH "ADOPT A RETIRED GREYHOUND" 12€
KEYRINGS GREYHOUND HEAD 12€
SMALL KEYRING WITH GREYHOUNDS 9.90€
ALL THE ITEMS ARE HANDMADE BY ME AND EACH PIECE IS UNIQUE. SO THEY MIGHT NOT BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS ON THE PICTURES. COLORS WILL BE RESPECTED BUT THE BEADS COULD BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TO THE ONES SHOWN ON THE PICTURES.
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remember the little galgo pup TIGRE with its tale severely infected that needed an amputation and a reconstructive surgery? click on the link for his story
now he is 11 month old and fully recovered from the surgery where they had to reconstruct his anus. he can live a normal life and is looking for a forever home. he is healthy, strong and a very playfull galgoteenager. after jaunary 1st he could be adopted in the UK.
contact for adoption: pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com
for sponsorship donations towards his stay with us, pls donate by paypal to pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com
our friend Marga came to visit and she distributed cookies to the houndgang
thanks to all your donations we can have now up to 25 dogs in foster care in our new finca near Tarragona, 110km south of Barcelona. we have 6 galgo pups, 2 irish wolfhounds, 3 podencos, 1 iggy, 2 yorkies and 10 adult galgos and 1 afghan hound
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30 June 2011 – Pet travel rules will change on 1 January 2012 when the UK brings its procedures into line with the European Union. THAT MEANS NO MORE 6 MONTH QUARANTAINE AND NO MORE BLOOD TESTS FOR OUR SPANISH DOGS ADOPTED IN THE UK! WONDERFULL NEWS FOR ALL THE HOUNDS!
what happend last wednesday had to happen sooner or later! over 20 dogs and cats died in one transport from southern spain to germany and 1 galga died already in spain on a german transport. all the dead animals have been victims of the extreme heat and the lack of common sense or let’s say lack of intelligence of the people who participated in these transports. the dogs and cats died of heat strokes, a very painfull dead.
both transports have been made by animal rescue groups , one the austrian galgo association www.galgos.at with the most victims and a german galgo rescue group GIN has used also a very inappropriate transport service.
THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG! I KNOW FROM MANY WITNESSES THAT THESE THINGS HAPPEN FREQUENTLY.NOT IN SUCH MASSIVE AMOUNT BUT IT SEEMS TO BE NORMAL AND ACCEPTABLE TO CALCULATE SOME “LOSS” INTO A RESCUE TRANSPORT.
shame on all the people who do this kind of ” WE HAVE TO SAVE THEM ALL PANIK RESCUE”! Shame on all the people who make animals suffer in the name of their rescue ideas in inappropiate transports risking the animals lives. Shame on all the people who transport under illegal circumstances including unchipped and un vaccionated pups of less thant 3 month and 21 days of age, without rabies injection, shame on the people who say that they want to save lives but they risk lives.
THANKS TO ALL THESE BRAINLESS IDIOTS SOONER OR LATER THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY WILL CLOSE THE BORDER FOR THE RESCUE DOGS AND CATS. AND WHAT HAPPENS THEN?
After 2 weeks of hard work, cleaning the dogs new playground of all possible dangers, like poisonous plants, broken glass or pieces of wires. Then we had to cut off all the yucca trees because of the needle sharp leaves and we had to clean all the fallen leaves to prevent fleas and ticks on the ground.
the house and the land had been abandoned for nearly 5 years, so imagine the hard work.
The fence has grown quite alot due to the fantastic donations of many people from the UK, USA, Germany and France and we could buy and build most of the inner fence but the outer fence is unfortunatly in some places in worse shape than expected and we have to replace about 40 m of the fence completely and repair about 400m of the existing fence.
It has to be done by a professional or it will not be save enough.
SO PLEASE PLEASE HELP US TO FINISH THE PROJECT, AT LEAST ANOTHER 1200EUR ARE NEEDED TO REPAIR THE FENCE AND FIX THE DANGEROUS HOLES IN THE FENCE, FILL THE LOWER PART WITH CONCREETE ON THE INNER FENCE AND BUY A DOOR FOR THE INNER FENCE , WE HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT IN OUR PROJECT !!
PLEASE DONATE BY PAYPAL CLICKING ON THIS LINK OR
For donations by bank transfer in the UK:
sort code 20-13-34 account number 23598551 ,
BARCLAYS BANK
account on the name of PRO-GALGO UK
If you live in the UK you can send a CHECK issued to:
PRO-GALGO UK
23 INNERLOOP ROAD
BEACHLEY
CHEPSTOW NP167HF
Yesterday this big galgo family arrived at PRO-GALGO. The pups are in 2 fosterfamilies, VERO the mum is with us. She does not miss the babies at all, more like the contrary, she was happy to let them go (no wonder, they are monsters , lol)
only 2 of them need still families, the others are already reserved and will be given in adoption when 10 weeks old. 2 pups might become therapy galgos, we are very proud!
To be able to get more funds for our fencing project I created some jewellery, it’s made of pewter, nickel free and antiallergic.
We will have many more items soon, please come back and check this page in the next few days!
to order send email to pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com with number of the item you would like and the quantity.
Payment by paypal or banktransfer to our UK bank account but pls check first availability by mail before sending money.
We had a visit of our french partner Barbara Lefranc from LE BULLETIN DES LEVRIERS, she came with her friend Muriel from SOLIGALGOS and they brought over 800kg of donations. food, leashes, bedding for the shelters nearby.
We went to walk with our doggies, we visited the tarragona shelter, we went for Japanes food and we visited our friend Ana with her lovely doggies.
Barbara and Muriel brought over 800kg of donations for the shelter ANIMALS SENSE SOSTRE, CUNICAN , PRO-GALGO, ANIMALES DE MARTOS AND PROTECTORA RIBERA NAVARRA. Bedding, dogfood, toys, hundreds of leashes and collars, medication and more usefull things
THANKS FOR HELPING THE SPANISH HOUNDS!
Our tireless animal friend NATI found this 5 month old galgo pup in very sad conditions, she sent us the following mail. pls read the story and help us to help little TIGRE. PRO-GALGO SWITZERLAND www.happy-land.ch has made a big donation but more money is needed for several follow-up surgeries!!! TIGRE will be taken in by us can be adopted trough PRO-GALGO but only when fully recovered.
‘TIGRE, 5 month old galgo, suffering wounds and gangrene to his rear end and tail. Another story from Seville! Some boys in my village told me about him, very ill, and I could not believe his rear end. The tail ws completely rotten and infection had already reache the top of the tail to his spine, his anus and anal passage was inflamed and infected, wounds all over his body.
I took him to my vet who operated immediately, finishing at 1.30am. Sadly his tail had to be amputated and reconstruct the rear end. Now he has to have baby food so his poop is soft, but the vet says he will heal and his anus will function properly. He has medication every day.
Luckily we have a foster home for him where he will receive care, but the vet bill is going to be huge. He also needs a forever home to help him forget all this abuse.’
donations can be made directly to Nati’s bank account or by PAYPAL to pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com
bankname CAJASOL
IBAN: ES23 2106 0191 5710 0201 0543
BIC: CECA ES MM 106
account owner: Natividad Sánchez Bejarano
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THANKS!
In the name of all our galgos and podencos we would like to wish you A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR and thanks to all of you for helping our hounds when ever we asked for donations, for moral support, for not looking away when spanish hounds needed help, for making coats or collars for the doggies and of course also thanks you for being our friends!!!
ALL THE BEST TO ALL OF YOU
A spanish family from Barcelona has FATIMA in fostercare but they already decided to keep her. Here some pix of our little survivor! As you can see, she has a very “tough live” now
THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED TO SAVE “FATIMA” (NOW CALLED “RITA”)!!!!
ANDREA and her family came for FATIMA
This is how animal rescuers found an injured galga in front of a school in Jodar (Jaen-andalucia).
All blood over the hounds head and a round wound right between the eyes, possible a bullet or a round sharp object. Due to the sever impact the optical nerv of one eye is seriously damaged, the other eye is recovering.
The poor dog also has quiet a strong hemmorage in her vulva , a possible abortion of the pups because of the injuries. She is in veterinary care and PRO-GALGO will take her over as soon as she is transportable. We also need money to transport her, she is nearly 800km from PRO-GALGO away and we do not want to send her with an animal transport service because of her fragile health.
Please help us to help this galga! She has been called FATIMA because she was found in front of the school Virgen de Fatima. It’s a miracle that the dog has survived and we need to help the small association with the vetbills.
pls donate either by paypal to: pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com or directly by international transfer to:
Asociacion Ecologista Magina animal
IBAN: ES58-2024-0117-02-3300011823
Bic: cecaesMM024
BANKNAME: CAJA SUR
The association BAAS GALGO managed the impossible and has united 28 spanish famous artists, sportsmen, singers and entertanines on behalf of the mistreated galgos in spain.
this is the video : making of BAAS GALGO CALENDAR 2011
the calendar can be bought for 15eur (wall calendar) and 10eur (desk calendar) on the website of www.baasgalgo.com
WELL DONE BAAS GALGO, THUMBS UP FOR ALL THE STARS!
Thanks to Jane and Chuck Totten, sighthound lovers from Washington state, 5 or even 6 hounds will travel on the 5th of November to a new life in the US. During their stay in Spain we took them to visit many shelters and we even did a walk with the hounds at the sunday market and both were surprised to see the friendly reaction of the people towards the galgos and podencos.
Here some impressions of our excoursions in Catalonya.
