Lucky’s Legacy

01/02/2023

𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗚𝗢 #𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼

02/10/2022

01/02/2022

🍀 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝟯𝟰 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗦 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗬 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘. 🍀
Beaten to within inches of his life by the hunter, bones broken and left for dead behind Paradise. Lucky died following amputation of his leg.
We at Paradise will never give up on the Galgos. We are their voice and we will shout long and loudly to free them from the hunter’s abuse. Please share this post on this day that is “El Día del Galgo”, The Day of the Galgo.

12/11/2021

🍀 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙁𝙐𝙇 𝙋𝘼𝙇𝙊𝙈𝘼! 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝘼 𝘿𝙄𝙁𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙀 2 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙃𝙎 𝘼𝙏 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙎𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙆𝙀𝙎 🍀

17/08/2021

🍀 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗢’𝗩𝗘 𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗥 𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟. 𝗡𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗦 🍀
She was signed over to us complete with a green and a blue passport, full of name transfers. Every time this girl has had a season, a litter of puppies will have followed and so will a change of ownership. She’s an undernourished, tired little girl, very gentle and trusting, covered in fleas, no hair on her tail. She’s about 6 years old and will have suffered for each and every one of those years.
Under the “Lucky Legacy” banner, we can promise “Lucky” Lois that this is where the nightmare stops. No more pain, no more puppies. She’s safe now.

09/08/2021

🍀 𝗔𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬. 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗥, 𝟰 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗚𝗢𝗦 🍀
The Gypsy man came…….😔 4 terrified Galgos now safe at Paradise.

05/08/2021

🍀 𝙇𝙐𝘾𝙆𝙔 𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙔 𝙄𝙎 𝘿𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙉𝙂 🍀
At the moment, Lacey is being allowed to just relax and realise she’s in a safe place. It’s still too soon for Colleen to remove the chain. This will be done when she’s comfortable in Colleen’s company. Gently, Gently.

02/08/2021

🍀𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙄𝙎 𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝙔, 𝘼𝙍𝙍𝙄𝙑𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙊𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝙐𝘾𝙆𝙔 𝙇𝙀𝙂𝘼𝘾𝙔 𝘽𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙀𝙍 🍀
Lacey is one of the lucky ones. Clearly very neglected she has a chain round her neck which indicates her past has most likely been with a hunter, but more latterly she has been in a shelter which has not been good for her. Luckily an English lady who volunteers there has brought her to us at Paradise. This fragile little girl is stick thin and not in good shape. As soon as she’s able, we’ll arrange a Vet visit but today she’s just being left to settle and tomorrow the chain will be removed. This will hopefully be the last reminder of her past as the healing process begins.
If you would like to help us help Lucky Lacey, our PayPal is:
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11/07/2021

The Gypsy Man’s been calling 😩

11/07/2021

🍀 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗚𝗢𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 🍀
“The Gypsy Man” as Colleen calls him arrived in this extreme heat with two female Galgos locked in the boot of his car. One has a nasty wound on her neck and both have dog bites on their bodies. Lucky Lindy and Lucky Lara are very happy to be with us. They’ve hardly stopped eating, drinking and wagging their tails. These two will need some Vet work done with help from our Lucky Legacy fund.
The day before yesterday a lovely brindle boy arrived. So that’s three in two days. This is just a brief preview. We’ll get some more daylight photos for you during the week.
See comments for further photos.

12/06/2021

YO GALGO
Yo Galgo is an award winning documentary film about an invisible genocide taking place while the authorities look the other way. It’s an exposé of the sharp divide between animal rights and the traditions of a nation

Yo Galgo is the journey of filmmaker Yeray Lopez, who sets out to investigate the plight of the galgo in Spain after his own galgo helped him get through a h...

12/06/2021

Brought to the kennels on the day that our black beauty, Lucky died. Four black Galgo puppies born to a ten year old mother who couldn’t produce milk to feed them.

12/06/2021

11/06/2021

Lucky was beaten and battered by a heartless hunter. His nose was broken, his head and body suffered numerous heavy blows and for good measure to make sure he could go nowhere, the hunter smashed his right tibia and fibula. He then drove past our kennel gates and unceremoniously dumped him behind our back wall where he might or might not be found. The kennel dogs alerted Colleen Jay the kennel owner to look around the boundary walls where she found a beautiful black Galgo, limp and lifeless. Determined, Colleen grabbed a blanket and managed to lift him into the back of her van. She sped to the Vet with only one thing on her mind and that was to save him. She called him Lucky. Lucky that the dogs barked, that she found him and had the strength to lift him and lucky because it was the day that the visiting Orthopaedic surgeon was present.
For five days, little by little his condition improved. He was a determined trusting soul and we had high hopes of a full recovery. Unfortunately there was a setback and it was decided that the very badly broken leg would have to be amputated. Lucky survived for a day and a half after his operation. He was only a year old, undernourished and his short little life was no doubt lived in misery but he knew love at the end. He had a determined spirit and hundreds of people willing him to survive but the violence inflicted upon him broke his body, spirit and soul.
We at Paradise Rescue Kennels will not let the death of Lucky be in vain, his legacy must live on. Our kennels are in the middle of hunting country, we have over a hundred dogs here, many of which are hunting dogs. Galgos and Podencos are never turned away. We rehabilitate them and rehome them. We give them hope. We will continue to fight for the voiceless, we will push in any way we can for the laws against animal cruelty to change but more importantly, push for these laws to be enforced and for the hunters not to be above them.
Many young Spanish people are turning the tide, joining together for change, in the name of our precious Lucky, we must stand with them.
R I P Lucky