This website would never have seen the light of day if it were not for French woman Gaetane Rauch. Gaetane came over from France a few years ago and worked with us in the sanctuary. As a web designer she offered to put a new web site together for us and so www.galway-spca was born. Gaetane designed and updated it while she lived in Ireland and continued to do so when she returned to Rennes.

As her work load has increased she was finding it harder to get the time to keep us going so and as luck would have it Adrienne came into our live's and surprise surprise she too was a web mistress . So she worked with Gaetane and has now taken over the web for us.

Adrienne has been taking care of things online since June '07, and is also the proud pet parent to Reggie, a Heathlawn terrier, and Bonnie, a holy terror.
And no, that's not Midge Ure on the right, that's her lovely husband, Eamon!

Roxy

Meet Roxy a beautiful gentle lady who is just a year old. Sadly Roxy was the victim of a hit and run and suffered serious leg injuries to her shoulder and elbow. She needed very extensive surgery to save her leg which thankfully was successful.

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Roxy's gallery

Annagh and Raftery

We don't usually publicise cruelty cases, but this one is different as we feel that these two dogs may have been stolen.

The two dogs, which we called Annagh and Raftery, were found at Annaghdown pier;
Annagh was found by the pier by a lady who lives there, but poor Raftery was found on a rock off the pier and had to be rescued by a fisherman. Both dogs were suffering from malnutrition and Annagh has a burn down its back.

Both dogs are very friendly and were definitely someone's pets, and our wish is that dogs and owners could be reunited. If these dogs look familiar to you or are indeed your long lost pal please ring us on 091563631.

Indeed if you know anything about these dogs and where they were confined please let us know. Both dogs are improving and putting on weight and Annagh's back is healing

Meet Lucy, a little seal rescued from the docks in Galway.

The month was March but the weather was November wet, howling wind and freezing we huddled around Lucy and bid her, long life, safe life, healthy life farewell. She stuck her nose out of her box smelt the wind saw the sea and took off like a March hare. She now is back home in Galway Bay counting the days till the big boats arrive. Bon voyage Lucy

footage of release

Lucy was very ill with a viral infection but thankfully is now on the road to recovery. Her rescue proved to be an easy task as out field inspector with Mary Mc Donagh from Mc Donaghs fish shop were able to coax her up the steps with some fresh fish, and when on dry land our inspector was able to lift her into a container. She was then driven to Athlone where she was transferred to a member of the Irish Seal Sanctuary. At present Lucy is recovering in the Irish Seal Sanctuary in Garristown Co Meath, she has put on weight and is now nearly recovered from her infection. When she reaches the required weight she will return to Galway and be released back in the area of the docks all going well this should happen around the end of March. The date is not fixed yet so we will let you all know nearer the time.
Release of Lucy the seal on Saturday 7th of March at 4pm

Tomaz came in after coming second best to a car. His injuries were pretty severe and he lost a back leg and tail and most of his toe nails.

Today he is well on the way to recovery and enjoying life in a foster home.