LILA gained weight, is friendly and charming with her human friends and was tested negative in leishmania and ehrlichia, she is positive in heartworm larves but fortunatly not in the heart.

thursday she arrives at Mo’s and will have special treatments, next week we take her to a dermatologist. thanks to SWFT this lovely dog could have been saved!!!

this galga was found in a small village near Seville. Due to the malnourishment and severe lack of vitamines, healthy food and water, she was barly able to walk anymore.

NATI, the lady who found and saved her, had sent an email to many galgo rescue groups and I called her to offer help. We will finances the recovery and preparation of LILA and can do this thanks to the wonderfull auction held on Sighthound Welfare Trust UK.

We hope to have LILA with us in about 2 weeks time, right now she is in a bording kennel recovering slowly but steadily from her horrible past. She was negative in leishmania and mange but we will make a liver-kidney function test tomorrow.

cross your fingers and paws for LILA!

Auction has started

The SWT Summer Auction has begun. Time to get bidding to help the Spanish hounds because this auction will allow us to provide a grant to PRO-GALGO.

http://www.sighthoundwelfaretrust.org.uk/forums/index.php?&showforum=38

As ever, the very best of wishes,

Sighthound Welfare Trust

MUCHAS GRACIAS FROM SPAIN TO ALL THE PEOPLE HELPING US TO HELP THE HOUNDS!

The lady who found her, named her MARIFLOR…

The veterinary tried to reconstruct her leg, we can only cross all fingers and paws and hope that he can save her leg, if not, amputation will be the only solution.

For donations, please check here: http://progalgoenglish.wordpress.com/how-to-help-the-galgos/

HAPPY AND RELAXED AT TEDS HOME…. THANKS TO VICKI FOR TRANSPORTING OUR DOGS AND THANKS TO TED WOLFENDEN FOR ADOPTING OUR LITTLE PODENCO GIRL!!

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little black DEXTER and cute white MAYA have been adopted by Patry and Alex in the neigbourhood
Another proof that spanish people love and adopt galgos!!!!

This about 2 year old galgo-girl was found with he paw badly injured by a trapp (a tippical case for many galgos and podencos in Spain as the illegal trapps are still in use). Mariangeles took her to the next vet who first wanted to amputate the dogs leg but as she was to skinny to have surgery they kept her in the clinic to nuture her a little to have the strength for the suergery. to the vets surprise she recovered very fast and started using the injured paw… with a little luck she soon  will be only slightly limp, painfree and a happy galgo-girl!!

for donations to PRO-GALGO, please contact PRO-GALGO UK : pro-galgo@hotmail.com or by www.paypal.com to pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com

NAS, BERTA and my POCO

NAS with neighbours dog KIBEL

DIVA & NAS playing “cangooroo”

still a little shy but a real DIVA

BERTA “in action”

BERTA-BERTITA will soon be spoilt rotten by DORO in Switzerland
NAS moves to a huge galgo-lover called PETER in Germany
DIVA will stay here in Spain with a nice family
BLANKET will move to France thanks to NATHALIE
GALGO BABY MOON soon will be a little “Luxemburger”

THANKS TO YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS THOSE DOGS COULD BE PREPARED FOR ADOPTION! MUCHAS GRACIAS TO ALL OF YOU

the galgo-painting-ruffle winner is the number
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Christine A. Dorchak, Esq.
President, GREY2K USA & GREY2K USA Education Fund
Co-Chairperson, Committee to Protect Dogs
www.grey2kusa.org

30.1.2009 UPDATE

Thanks to the donations of GRIN, HAPPYLAND and many many more people from the UK and the US, we could save the 20 dogs and it will be enough money to pay for most of the  male’s castration costs but we need at least 1000eur more for the vet care of the females and the leishmania tests etc. please keep donating by www.paypal.com to pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com or for UK donations please contact PRO-GALGO UK president Elkie Lonnkvist on  pro-galgo@hotmail.com for the bank details or address for checks. THANKS!

MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS A TODOS- THANK YOU ALL!!!!

and here the first pix of the dogs at Mo’s

DIVA

First of all sorry for not updating before but we were since saturday without electricity due to the storm of the century.

It was a long journey, very bad weather on the way down, ice, snow and bad visibility … we stayed at our dear friends place in Seville and because of the late vaccination of the dogs, we had to wait one day more to go to the Jerez killing station. At arrivel we were expected by Maria del Sol and Ana but unfortunantly we did not receive any help from the employees of the killing station, on the contrary, they did everything possible to make our rescue nearly impossible by blocking our way out, by insulting our driver, etc. and on top of it it was raining cats and dogs and we could not even take any pictures as we new, that by 15h in the afternoon they will close and we will not be able to take any more dogs if we are not done by then. But we finished just 5 minutes before they closed and all 20 dogs were savely loadad in the van. The dogs looked surprisingly well, had been well fed and the volunteers there do a good jobe, without them , the dogs would have a real bad life.

Thanks to Ruth from SALVANOS and Maria del Mar from the VILLENA Shelter, we could leave 7 dog in fosterfamilies near Murcia and continued up north when the storm of the century hit us full strength with windforce of hurricane strength and we had to stop for 7hours because it was too dangerous to continue with the van. We went to a burger place to ask water for the doggies and the ladies there were so nice to give us ALL the hamburgers (leftovers) for our hounds. They loved them and each one ate 2. We had fun feeding them and all the dogs with wagging tales in the van. We walked them in a underground parking because the storm was so strong, it was dangerous to be outside. Finally it got a little better and we left Elche early in the morning and by 3 in the afternoon we met our 3 fosters near Tarragona.

We continued to Gava where we left the last 7 dogs in care of Xabier and his friends until we will be able to rehome them. 2 galgas are sitting on our sofa and a lovely big male galgo is on our drivers setee, we called him NAS (nose in catalan because his forebite)

It was an exhausting and very hard trip but thanks to dear Albert and his professional driving ME MADE IT SAFELY HOME!!!

update: 18-1-2009

We have received some important donations (1000USD came from GRIN – www.galgorescue.org) and with the help of all of you, we will be able to rescue ALL the galgos and finance their vet care!!!
Next tuesday we will rent a van and go to the killingstation in Jerez and take out ALL those hounds and we will distribute them in fosterfamilies until homed.
Thanks to all your  donations we will be able to finance the recue, the vetcare and the complete rehoming of most of the dogs.
We will stay for 1 day in the Gesser Killingstation and will make pictures of all the other dogs that are there, so we might be able to finde homes for those too.

Please come to visit our blog, I’ll up-date it daily with the news!!

A BIG GALGO HUG TO ALL OF YOU AND THANKS FOR HELPING!!!

update: 16-1-2009

PRO-GALGO has sent 30 vaccines to Jerez, the vet will vaccinate the dogs today after a litte health check of each dog.

There are 18 foster offers for the dogs at the moment, 7 still need a place but we are postive to be able to find a solution. The frist dogs will be travelling to their foster families next monday and tuesday. And then we can start with the  vetcare of each dog in each place. The rescue of ths galgos is a huge collaboration project of different shelters and rescue groups, such as : Protectora Villena, Galgos112, Galgos del Norte, PRO-GALGO etc
tonight the first pictures of each dog separatly…

the following galgos have only few  days left before they are put down if we do not pull them out of the killingstation by the end of next week. I we dont take them, either they will be killed or some others will be pts to make room for the new ones to come (end of the hunting season!!!!

PRO-GALGO is in touch with volunteers in the Jerez Gesser dogpound and we are expecting today the first information about their health state etc. but we urgetly need funds to pay for the following expenses:

• 25 multiple vaccines (rabies and micro chip is financed by the local city council)
• transport to the foster families and shelters in Spain (in spain we have something like DHL but for dogs, that costs around 50eur per dog, countrywide
• 20 warm coats (we have a the coldes winter in years in spain and the animals in the shelters suffer terribly with temperatures down to -10º celcius in certain areas)
• Antibiotics for the dogs who already got faringitis and other problems from the cold  (distemper risk is very high with low defenses after such infections)
• Leishamnia and Ehrlichia tests

an aproximate minimum expense pero dog is around 80-100eur incl local transport etc. Every cent counts!!

PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM!!! for donations by paypal please  use:  pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com or contact our english PRO-GALGO team on pro-galgo@hotmail.com

or telephone Elkie Lonnkvist-Hopkins on: (oo 44) (0)7931 348 498

THANKS FOR CARING! YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!!!

Mo Swatek
Founder
www.pro-galgo.com

“CIELO” racing in the garden

and here many many more pix…

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