This website is dedicated to every Spanish Galgo who is being tortured as you read this and awaiting the kind hand of courage to come and rescue them.
Every letter I have written, had published and every person I have spoken to about
the Galgos, it is in dedication to them. To the associations who work tirelessly to
save, mend and further protect Galgos from the cruel hands of the hunter.
Charlotte & Ambo,the Ambasadog for the Galgos!
112 Carlota Galgos is a non profit association which works for the protection of the Spanish Galgo. Rescuing, healing and looking for adoptions for the much needy Galgo.
Galgos are used in hunting hares in Spain, and when it is not the season many wander the streets abandoned. Left to their own luck, hanged, dropped in rubbish bins, wells, burnt, anything to rid the trace of having had a Galgo. Unless in the hands of an association, they are doomed from birth. Hunters from 2 months will be training, and from birth they will be picked out good or bad. From one litter of ten only one MAY make a hunting dog. The rest, surplus to requirements. Overbreeding leads to mass abandonment of Galgos and these numbers reach way over 50,000. The figures for those not rescued are far in excess of this.
112 Carlota Galgos was founded in 2006 when I started to publish about the plight of the Galgos, later on becoming an association which rescues as many Galgos as possible, caring for them on a personal basis and socialising traumatised cases in order to be adopted. Reaching into peoples hearts and creating more knowledge about the plight. It is drastic and each association is struggling to do their very best for this special breed of dog.
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Noel hanged for Christmas rescued by Galgos sin Fronteras |
Liberty - Rest in Peace |
We are a voluntary organisation and rely entirely on donations and money raised from various fundraising projects. We need your financial help to continue to rescue, care for and find homes for the Galgos. We do not receive any funding from the Government or local authority and all the help we receive is voluntary.
We take in Galgos from across Spain - it does not matter where they come from if they are in need. Many a galgo or podenco comes into care in tragic circumstances, poorly, wounded and skeletal. Aside from injuries which need curing, they at times need more specialist medical treatment such as a limb amputated. Their will to survive is immense and it is our promise to them to heal their wounds and mend their hearts and find a forever home for them. The ultimate goal!
Achieving this is not cheap - stable rent, food, general vet care, it all has a price tag and without donations from kind hearted people, the Galgos would not make it to their ultimate goal.
Details on how to donate by Bank transfer or PayPal can be found on our Fundraising page.
We need your help, the Galgos need your help!
Please help Ana |
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| Abandoned with a broken leg, Podenca Ana had to have immediate medical attention but after several visits to the Vet it became clear that is was not going to be possible to repair her leg and so sadly she has had to have it amputated. The cost of her medical treatment and aftercare has already cost more than 250€ |
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At the very heart of 112 Carlota Galgos are Galgos and children. We take very seriously the potential which a child offers for the future. In every aspect of life, the young child is a sponge which absorbs what is around him/her. The very environment in which they grow up in, play in, live in, is what they will replicate as reality and normality.
It's here where change can take place. If we make the care and welfare of an animal normality in a child’s life, it will become their reality.
The goal for 112 Carlota Galgos and what drives us is the educational centre which is the main aim - to bring about change locally and introduce this breed as a pet; to chat with the children and hold camps. At the centre we will have several small animals and a pony. Here introducing clubs for the children, an advice centre, and a place where the public can visit. It will be an open house and the goal to show people just what it takes to rescue a Galgo, and to home it. It's here we aim to "raise the Galgo up in society to become a household pet once more!" This, the centre is my goal, my dream and we work towards it bit by bit.
We have many happy endings, even where we have had loss of life. I state this since they have been caressed while closing their eyes and their memory lives on.
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Dioni collecting Greta from a life of hell |
Charlotte with Suzie & Clara on their daily exercise |
To see our adoptions, losses, stories, press releases, adoptions, please stay awhile, read through the site and visit my Blog.
All emails are answered, so please if you have any questions, would like to help or have room in your heart for a Galgo, we would love to hear from you.
In Galgo affection
Charlotte & Ambo Ambasadog!
