Drone footage of the Great Global Greyhound Walk 2025 at Croft Farm Water Park, Tewkesbury, UK. 327 hounds counted through the gates, several podencos including Rosie took part.
2 more podencos at the event.
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Camping & Caravanning with Greyhounds and Sighthounds
Great Greyhound Walk 2025 at Croft Farm Water Park – 327 dogs walked
5 years ago Dave Landy bought a caravan. He also had a greyhound and wondered what it would be like to take the greyhound – along with his family – on a caravan holiday. He then asked the question on facebook if there were other people who camped with their greyhounds. This grew until now there are over 7,000 members of the CACWGAS fb group.
Over the last weekend in September 2025 Dave and his team organised the 5th get together to coincide with the Greyt Greyhound Walk where over 350 sighthounds walked for charity. We met at Croft Farm Water Park near Tewkesbury where the caravan park, lodges and chalets were filled with hoomans and hounds, nearly 200 hoomans and nearly double that of sighthounds – and a few of their companions.
We took Rosie and were pleased to get together with several other podenco people, including a very hairy young Podenco Ibicenco who won everyone’s heart. Added into the mix were Azawak, Saluki, Afghans, Silken sighthounds (a bit like Shelties but bigger) and most people had more than one!
There were retail shops, quizzes and auctions and live music in the huge marquee, together with a fun dog show where Rosie won ‘Best Decorated Lead’. (I’m still getting the hang of using this new blog system and have yet to learn to add an image!)
Through all the fundraising over the weekend, over £10,000 was raised (including a couple of large donations) to share between 2 greyhound charities.
Croft Farm Water Park is now booked for September 2026 and 2027, with pitches and lodges allocated on a first come first served basis.
Web link to an article about the event.
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Learning a new system
Apologies for the lack of colourful pix on Podenco Post but we have had to change to a new system and I am still getting the hang of using it.
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Can a dog have Canine Dysfunctional Behaviour?
Can a dog have Canine Dysfunctional Behaviour? Link to an interesting article on the subject.
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New home for Podenco Post
WE have had to move the Podenco Post website to a new internet home, so that’s why we have been offline the past few days.
The site is still very much a work in progress, but we are slowly putting the pieces back together and normal service will be resumed soon.
As ever, thank you for your support over the years.
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Update on Podenca Puppy Pia after major sugery
Pia Update from Bev Farmer
Thank you all for sending so much love and good energy for Pia. Her surgery went well and she came home from the clinic yesterday. Today, she’s bright-eyed, alert, eating well, a— a little fighter through and through.
This was no small surgery. Pia had a grade 4 patella luxation — the most severe level — meaning her kneecap was permanently dislocated. Without this operation, her quality of life would have been severely impacted.
Now begins her road to recovery: several weeks of very restricted exercise, daily physio, and plenty of TLC. Luckily, Pia has a dream team around her — Luisa is caring for her with so much love, I’m always just a phone call away, and the rescue has a skilled physiotherapist guiding every step.
Thanks to Suspiros de Cuatro Patas who first rescued Pia they have given her the chance at a pain-free, happy future — and we can’t wait to see her run freely one day.
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Found starving in a rubbish bin in Spain – but at least alive!
Found in a dumpster, thrown away like garbage. One more victim of hunting in Spain.
They used it, exploited it, and when it no longer served them, they threw it away without remorse. This is how thousands of hunting dogs end up every season: invisible, discarded, mistreated to the end.
This little one was found inside a dumpster, without strength, without hope. Only thanks to the protector who rescued him does he have a chance to move on.
Collaborate with the protector who saved him Suspiros de Cuatro Patas
Open your home to adoption
Thank you suspirosdecuatropatas.org
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Marching in Spain 14 September – remembering the 32 souls in Azuaga Badajoz
From Plataforma NAC
Indifference kills.
This Sunday 14 September we raise our voices for those who could not defend themselves.
32 lives killed by starvation and neglect in Azuaga (Badajoz). They were not forgotten. It was not an accident. It was cruelty.
245 animal protection entities, including some international ones, unite to demand justice and that this massacre never happens again https://plataformanac.org/concentracion-azuaga-14…/
Dozens of dogs have died between suffering, indifference and silence. We cannot allow barbarism to go unpunished.
This Sunday, September 14, from 11h to 13h, in Plaza de la Merced (opposite the Azuaga City Hall), we will raise our voice for those who no longer have it.
Because their life matters. Because they’re not tools. Because neglect and abuse kills.
Come. Shout. Spread the word. Let it not be repeated.
