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.
Even so, thanks to the enormous effort of volunteers and families who decide to adopt us, some of the abandoned podencos by hunters and rescued ones manage to reach a place where, finally, they know what it means to have a family. 
Sometimes, even our adoptive families have to make a long trip to come and look for us personally.
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