It was Friday morning. Everything was quiet. The door bell rang and I went to open the door. A gentleman waiting behind the door. We greeted each other, then the usual questions, he was bringing some dogs. Up to there, everything was normal. We approached his van and to my surprise there were the dogs he was bringing to leave them at the refuge. Neither more nor less than seven galgo puppies !!!

Poor cute little animals were very scared, they were only a month and a half. They were hiding their small heads among the others ... The (gentle)man told me not to worry, “they are missing their mother but no worries because I am going to bring her in short together with their father”, as he did not want them either.

After one hour the (gentle)man came back, not only with their parents but also with two more galgos, two males of two and three ages old. To get them off the van became a very complicated task, the bitch was extremely afraid and scared and she jumped off the van and started running up, down and around within Scooby’s facilities perimeter until we were able to catch her. But then she refused to walk, she stuck her claws into the ground and started to shake without stopping, so that we decided to put her in a wheelbarrow to carry her as far as her babies.

The man went away very calm after having left (abandoned) 11 dogs, but above all we must thank heaven that he ha left them here and has not executed much worse methods for getting rid of them. Now all of them are with us, but the history does not finalize here.

In the evening we proceeded to vaccinate and to deworm, and we began with the puppies. It is really surprising the amount of fleas and ticks they have. We took away as much as we could by hand, we sprayed the all over they body, we gave them the tablets to deworm them internally and we took them to the quarantine zone with their mummy, which also had been previously dewormed as she also had hundreds of fleas and ticks.

After a few days the puppies are not scared any longer but still have lots of parasites, their poop is every day full with tapeworms. Their mother is still very scared and afraid of us and start shaking each time we enter into the kennel. When you see it one cannot really avoid asking himself how on earth this animals have been able to live up to date? ... What sort of treatment have them received ... and all the answers lead you to the most painful and saddest of the truth. It is very unfair, isn’t it? And simultaneously the responsibility to find a home where they will really be loved and taken care of and could find happiness.

As I previously said he also left three males, one of them the father of the puppies, another very large sized galgo as well as rather dominant so that the other two have many scars on their body due to his bites. At present they are kept in separate rooms to avoid them fighting. And the questions return once more to our heads. Why do people raise so many animals if in the end their final destiny, in the best of the cases, is to end in a refuge? When will the time arrive, the day when we will definitely be conscious of this problem?

In the meantime the only thing left to do is to wait for good persons who will be in the position of taking these dogs to their homes, the ones that their first owners did not want and have abandoned them. Good people who will give the necessary affection and love that these animals deserve themselves. That’s more than a desire for us, it is a need since histories like those repeat day after day and they are reaching at a point that we do not have enough available space, that is to say no rooms for so many dogs.

But for sure that after the summer months, which has been quiet with adoptions, we can expect more again now. Or at least that is what we are hoping for.

Very best regards

María