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Carpe Canem Auction to Benefit Galgo Organizations |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
 The Galgo Rescue International Network is proud to announce our latest fundraisung venture for the Spanish galgos! Carpe Canem is hosting an online auction which begins at 7am PDT/10am EDT on Wednesday, May 14 and ends at 7pm PDT/10pm EDT on Tuesday, May 20. ALL the proceeds (after shipping expenses) will go directly to two Spanish galgo rescue organizations, DDEVIDA (Defensa de los Derechos de la Vida Animal) in Utrera (Sevilla) and Asociación de Socorro Animal Amigos de Milord in Palencia. Please check it out at http://www.carpecanem.com/auction/index.php?auctionid=116 - it's packed with awesome items to bid on! Thank you for your continued support! Please visit http://www.ddevida.org/ and www.amigosdemilord.com to learn more about these organizations and the work they do to help the abused animals of Spain. |
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Scooby’s 20th Anniversary |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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 Dear friends of Scooby:
Twenty years ago Scooby started as a local initiative of brave people that carried buckets of water from their home to a ruin, to care for sheltered stray dogs. Since then, developments have never ceased to take place, and in the 21st century Scooby represents a safe haven for hundreds of dogs, cats and several other species that need help. Thanks to national, but especially international support. That is why we have decided to celebrate everything we accomplished in the past years this summer. This event will take place in Belgium, because we wanted to choose the most central location between the countries where most of our supporters live. Our Belgian friends from the Tornado’s, department Ieper, have offered to take the organisation of this festivity upon them. The Tornado’s is an association that undertakes several events at the benefit of animals in need, and they are specialised in organising these kinds of festivals. Obviously we have invited all partner organisations that co-operate with us for the same goal. We are delighted that most organisations have promised their attendance. And we would also like to welcome you, as a friend of Scooby. The success we have obtained was only possible thanks to all the people who have made an effort over these past years to support us and our work. |
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Construction at Refugio Kimba |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
 We have begun the construction of a new isolated quarantine station at Kimba so that the new dogs who come in, as well those who are ill, do not have contact with the rest of the healthy dogs in our shelter.
The old quarantine station will now be used as normal housing, since it is not isolated, and therefore we will be able to house more dogs in there, and thus increase the number of unfortunate, hopelss, abandoned animals. In doing so we will also lessen the work load for the veterinarians and the disgusting crematoriums at the filthy and repugnant dog pounds. |
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GRIN Mission in the Spanish Media! |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
Operation Noa: A run over galgo is rescued all the way from United States
Operación Noa: Rescate desde Estados Unidos de una galga atropellada
La madrina de vuelo estadounidense posa con la galga, en Barajas.
Actualizado lunes 18/02/2008 11:48 (CET)
ÍÑIGO ARRÚE
Please scroll to end of English translation for original Spanish version
 La madrina de vuelo estadounidense posa con la galga, en Barajas. As her luck would have it, her time had not yet come on that 22nd of December on the road from Tortecilla in Palencia. Two fairy godmothers had better plans for her. One, the rescuer, Crisitna Pascual, president of the Palencia protection society Amigos de Milord, and the other, the Plaskett family, of South Carolina, who wanted to operate on her again and adopt her after hearing her story.
Noa is now in good hands. She is in a veterinary clinic in Atlanta, thousands of kilometers fromValladolid. The doubt that was left with all of her chain of caregivers in Castilla y León, is whether or not she will recover the use of her left front leg, which was left turned around, as a result of the operation that she underwent in Aranda de Duero. |
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Live Trap a Stupendous Success for DDEVIDA |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
 GRIN has had the immense pleasure of working with many of the Spanish organizations through our "Shelter Representative" program. In the fall of 2007, one of our representatives, Gary Lopez, approached us with a novel idea. His shelter, DDEVIDA, had been trying to capture a galga who had been loose for some time. He offered to donate the purchase price of a live animal trap, which we had delivered to the shelter with the help of his daughter, Maria, who lives in Spain. Though the trap was ultimately not how the galga was captured, Encarni of DDEVIDA recently shared with us the story of how they were able to capture a dog in desperate condition thanks to the live trap. |
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Refugio Kimba - Who We Are |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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 By Maria José Jaén Jimenez
Kimba was founded in 1872 and is the oldest protectora in Spain. Originally Kimba was dedicated to caring only for plants, but as the years passed it began to take in abandoned animals. Nine partners acquired a 5000 square meter piece of land in order to be able to house the animals that they were taking in. Thanks to a lot of hard work, and following a dream, they managed to build 33 kennels and 5 quarantine stations to accommodate the lives of these animals. They are conveniently equipped with dormitories and eating areas for the animals, and presently the number of dogs and cats is in the vicinity of 180 dogs (after rescuing all of the dogs from the Puerto Real dog pound) and 12 cats, which is way above our ideal capacity. But it is impossible for us not to help and rescue animals that are suffering. |
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El Refugio De Pedro Munoz Seeks Help |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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 G.R.I.N. received this desperate plea for help from Jeff Rayner, a dedicated English rescuer living in Spain. We will be sending a shipment of supplies to this shelter in February, but as always, more help is always needed!
"Please forgive me for not having been able to write you before but we have had many problems in the shelter, more distemper cases, two puppies have died and today another puppy has had an epileptic attack and has been about to die. At the end of the day I was feeling really down. I had never seen a dog crying and this small dog, when she felt her body was paralyzed, she looked at me straight to my eyes and started to cry. I am psychologically very affected, one has to be very tough and strong to afford all this every day. Up to date I have got 28 dogs at home, 8 more from the time when Jeff visited us. I even have a litter of 4 pure galguitos a month old and that means I must feed them with baby's bottle and baby food..." |
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Inocente - Victim of Unimaginable Abuses |
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Written by Abigail Christman
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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 From the rescuers of Refugio Kimba:
UPDATE! Inocente is doing very well and will be coming to the United States in February! The wonderful people of Elite Greyhounds in Florida, led by Sonia Stratman, are taking Inocente into their adoption program. They will have his broken hind leg surgically corrected and then he will be adopted into a loving home!
Inocente is a beautiful galgo mix, about 3 years old, but with a past that would make any person tremble if they had the least bit of sensitivity.They tried to hang poor "Inocente". He has an old fracture of the tibia with a distal deviation. There are people who do not like animals, who do not want to be next to them, but they let them live in peace. However, there are monsters disguised as humans who are capable of the unimaginable from the time they are very young. They are the future abusers of all living beings, both human and non human.
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Spanish Galgo