UPDATE!! Sarita, now named Pearl, has found her forever home! Sarita is a beautiful Galga who needs a very special family who understands that she needs special love and attention due to the life she had in Spain.  Sarita is very easy to fall in love with.  She has huge brown eyes, cute Galga ears and a curly tail as well as having a half brindle and...

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...

By Maria Jos� Ja�n 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...

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,...

In the fall of 2007, GRIN received an impassioned communication from Virginie LaBat of Passion Levriers in France about a Podenco Andaluz female dog, her five young pups, and a juvenile pup from an earlier litter. They had been found abandoned and frightened in the street. There situation was dire as they were in a pound, or �perrera� and faced potential...