I didn´t get home till 12 or 1am on
Monday and went to sleep. 3:30
am on Tuesday, my alarm goes off. On the go again, van
ready for our trip to Andalucía and
Extremadura to collect galgos and podencos. This time, it's Hoover and myself
who take the 2 vans in which we manage to bring back around 110 dogs.
Hoover will tell his bit and I will tell you mine.
After driving through the depths of
Andalucía for longer than expected thanks to our navigation system, which took
us through some difficult (yet enjoyable) routes, our first stop was in Baena
(Córdoba).There, I came across 2 female dogs, a
galga and a podenca who had been abandoned with no chip and who came aboard the
van.
From there, we head to Marinada,
where we find 5 more dogs, amongst which were a podenca (missing a
leg) and a few galgos which coats were in
bad condition. I load them onto
the van and drive to Sevilla where Lorena is waiting for me with some galgos
and a podenca with her three pups – I will tell
you about this particular dog's story in a
separate part.
Off to Extremadura next. Two stops:
one in Badajoz and another in Cáceres,
places where I witnessed how little the galgueros care about their dogs, simply
handing them over without a second thought, like they were nothing more than
trash. Lorena was waiting for me in Cáceres with another 10 dogs (most of which
were galgos) all crammed in her Renault Clio with
2 other persons. The whole scene reminded me of the Marx brothers' cabin from
the movie A Night at the Opera! Living creature after living creature kept coming out of that vehicle!
In the end, all of them came in the
van with us and a very exhausted but
happy Fermín made his way back to Scooby after another job well
done.
I arrived in Valladolid at 7pm having
done 1800Km and rescued around 50 dogs . I hadn´t eaten anything so got myself
a pizza (not a very goood one I must add...) and went to bed as another hard
days work awaited the next day.
6
days, 10000 Km & the rescue of 210 dogs and 12 cats part 3
2:45am. The alarm clock goes off and it's time to get
up; another hard day's
work, but this one's different. Once this day reaches its end my holidays will
begin.
This time it's Cristina who comes to Murcia with me to
collect quite a lot of dogs and a few cats. There's a lot of traffic along the
way due to it being Holy Thursday, but we manage to get there in the end.
Waiting for us there were the people of Murcia with 6
galgos.
We collected a galga and her pups from Marina de
Bullas (I will update you about her story another time) and a cat & the
kittens from her most recent litter and 2 from a previous one who had survived
and been rescued by the people of Bullas. We also collected 2 very timid
podencos (which we'll tell you about another time) and last but not least all
the dogs María had rescued from the clutches of the galgueros. We are currently investigating what could be a real scandal here in
Mazarrón involving galgueros, but we will inform you about it when we can.
In total today we rescued 60 dogs and 6 cats all of which
would now be dead if it weren't for SCOOBY and YOUR help. 6 days, 100000km and
lots of rescued animals.
Please please please, let us carry on
doing our job by donating now.
As always, kisses, hugs, gentle nibbles
and licks from all of us. Fermín
Ways
to help us:
Making
a donation: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/how_you_can_help.html
Making
a virtual adoption: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/virtual_adoption/index.html
Adopt
one of our animals: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/adoption/index.html
Become
a volunteer: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/volunteering.html
Join
the teaming (for only 1 Euro/month): https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina?lang=en_UK
Videos Rescates : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZF7NJrCbiA&feature=youtu.be
