Mada standing by some of the photographs on display at her exhibition

News from RECAL, Almendralejo

Regular visitors to our site will know that we have for some years worked with Mada of RECAL in Almendralejo. We have this year again taken many dogs from her including TITO mentioned below. Mada has worked hard putting together an exhibition showing galgos she has helped over the years and wanting people to see what good pets they make and how they settle so well in homes.

Mada writes ……

Celebrating their 10th anniversary, RECAL has organized the exposition “EL GALGO COMO NUNCA LO HABÍAS VISTO” – “THE GREYHOUND AS YOU NEVER SAW BEFORE”, consisting on 67 pictures showing some of the greyhounds included on the RECAL´s program “SALVAMENTO DE GALGOS” - “GREYHOUND RESCUE”, finding adoptive families for them. The selection of pictures wants to face the nice side of the long process of adoption till the animals arrive to their new homes, showing the dogs with their families. Up to now, RECAL has managed the adoption of 463 abandoned greyhounds.

The exposition will be installed on five different places, three in Almendralejo and two on the city of Merida . Once finished this tour, the association will go to different schools with the purpose of continuing this project.

In the opening of the exposition, it were showed a video in which RECAL describes the process of recovery of one of the greyhounds, TITO, from the moment it was found seriously injured, until the recovery and further adoption, together with a presentation in PowerPoint explaining the whole way to the adoption from the beginning (first contact with the animal), the physical recovery, the veterinary cares, the search for a home, the preparative of the travel… the people interested on seeing TITO´s video can click on this play button:

Also in the opening of the exposition, it was specially mentioned GREYHOUNDS IN NEED, friend organization without which this project would not have been possible to achieve. RECAL, in this act, talked about the great efforts that GIN makes supporting RECAL punctually sending useful material for the wellness and care of these animals: clothes, blankets, straps, collars, medicines… and the valuable economical support made, paying the expenses arisen with the adoptions and even, in some cases, the veterinary operations made to those animals that required them.

From RECAL, we take the chance to thank very effusively the unconditional support from GIN and their confidence along all these years.

                     THANKS TO ALL                                 RECAL                                     Almendralejo, October 31st, 2007