The regal podengos from the Azores.
Sunny #azoreanpodengos
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Portuguese Podengo Jorge – 5 years waiting for a forever home
Podenco Jorge, 5 years old. Jorge and his sister Marta were found as puppies and no one ever showed interest in adopting them. You have to check Jorge´s eyes! He is looking for a home. He is medium size, 20Kg. in Northern Portugal.
Contact email if you can offer him his forever home. podengos@protonmail.com
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Spanish Hunting Dogs – time Spanish law protected them
PPP Hunting
Collaborative video between Aula Animal and Plataforma NAC
Why are hunting dogs not included in the animal welfare law?
Dogs, who are sadly used for hunting, are not included in the animal welfare law because the hunting lobby has exerted strong political pressure to prevent them from having rights.In this way, they remain completely unprotected so that hunters can continue to use them as mere tools in their hunting practices. Why are millions of wild boars, roe deer, and rabbits raised annually to repopulate hunting grounds? Millions of species intended for hunting are raised annually in hunting farms so that hunters have enough prey to kill.These hunting farms carry significant risks and negative consequences for animals and the natural environment.An argument in favor of hunting is that it helps control populations of wild boars and rabbits.Hunting does not help control animal populations; on the contrary, it is the hunting industry itself that produces artificial overpopulations causing imbalance in wild populations. -
Please join PACMA protests this Sunday 18th October if you can
HUNTING DOGS IN THE LAW NOW!
Of more than 2000 investigated and detained for animal abuse between 2021 and 2023, none went to prison. This is what the parties in Congress allow.
This has to end! Hunting dogs must be protected by animal welfare law.
That’s why we need you at the rallies that will take place this Sunday at 12:00 in 13 Spanish cities:
Madrid – Plaza de CallaoSeville – Plaza Virgen de los ReyesLas Palmas de Gran Canaria – Plaza de la FeriaZaragoza – Plaza de España, in front of the Provincial DelegationBarcelona – Plaça Sant JaumeTarragona – Plaça de la FontValencia – Plaza de TetuánA Coruña – Plaza María PitaMálaga – Plaza de la MarinaSanta Cruz de Tenerife – Plaza de EspañaDonosti – Alderdi-Eder (City Hall)León – Plaza San Marcelo (In front of Botines)Bilbao – Ernesto Erkoreka Plaza, 12 (City Hall)
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Sad fate of 29 rehala podencos
Burned bones in a bonfireThe agents checked the history of the dogs that the person in charge had owned and found that there were 15 more dogs that had been taken down in a short period of time, so it is being investigated whether these animals had the same fate as those found on the plot. -
18 October – marching in Germany for the Spanish hunting dogs
ogether with PACMA – Partido Animalista, the Spanish animal protection party and our partners worldwide, we submitted an open letter to the Spanish government on March 20th. The core demand: Mismos Perros, Misma Ley – Equal rights for all dogs! An end to the long-standing exception for hunting and working dogs from the animal protection law!– 16. OCTOBER 2026: DEMOS in GermanyIn Germany, we are protesting directly in front of the Spanish Consulate/Embassy in: Berlin Düsseldorf Munich Stuttgartsupported by nearly 100,000 signatures from VETO – Tierschutz Petition. In addition, we will be sending our Open Letter from March 20th again in 30 cities worldwide!– 18. OCTOBER 2026: THE BIG DEMONSTRATION IN SPAIN -
Podenca Ruby on Lanzarote, Canary Islands – hoping for a forever home
I am Ruby and I need to tell you my story.I am RUBY, a 7-year-old poodle, and I live in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Perhaps some have never heard of podencos. Perhaps they don’t even know exactly where Lanzarote is. If you look at a map, you will discover that, although we are in Spain, the Canary Islands are very far from the Peninsula. Here, many podencos are used for rabbit and quail hunting. The hunting season lasts 3 months and, for many of us, the rest of the year means living locked up, tied up, or in very harsh conditions.Our sad fate is very similar to that of the greyhounds on the Peninsula.That is why so many associations and projects have been born in Europe that fight to rescue us and find families for us. But we live on an island, far and isolated. We receive much less help and collaboration than we need. -
Canary Islands Podencos desperately need forever homes on mainland Europe
The podencos of the Canary Islands are Podenco Canario, or Warren Hounds. They have a hellish life at the hands of the hunters, as shown in the video link on this page I published in February 2026.
The Islands are made of Gran Canaria, the largest, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro.
It’s easy to forget that the Canary Islands are largely volcanic. In 2021 the La Palma volcano erupted and the animal rescue association Benaware was overwhelmed with saving dogs and cats. Some of the hunters on El Hierro throw their dogs off the cliffs into the sea at the end of hunting! (more…)
