Not podencos but dogs trained in France to sniff out the covid-19 virus. Read the full article in The Connexion here.
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Akira Dog Sanctuary – Podenca Lolita looking for a forever home.
Here’s another beautiful young podenca, on the run for months and now safely with Akira Dog Sanctuary. If you can offer the forever home she deserves, please contact Akira direct.Hayley says ‘This is the have lovely Lolita waiting for a home, she is 2 years old. She was known as the elusive Moraira carpark dog as lots of people tried every trick to catch her, even sedatives in the sausages to catch her but she still eluded everyone. She was eventually captured and after a long period of rehabilitation is now able to take walks which she enjoys and be petted and is ready for a forever home.
Her link for the webpage is here: http://www.akira-animals.com/animals/lolita/
They have several more podencos at the Shelter, please take a look.
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Terrified podenca Gracie – Podenco Friends work their magic
https://www.facebook.com/beverley.farmer.79/videos/2968823059902779/
From Bev Farmer, ‘It maybe not a an exciting video but for Gracie its a major breakthrough its taken 10 weeks but finally she is accepting treats from my hand and this opens doors to help with building up her confidence .
Gracie was never used has a hunting dog .. I imagine she was, what we call a finca dog. Left alone usually chained up, a miserable exisitance. Her spinelss owner didnt even have the decency to hand her over to the perrera. She was left tied to the electricty pylon outside it over night and that time of year it was freezing temperatures.. After 10 years she was nothing to them and maybe because she was sick just wanted to get rid of the problem.. No concern for her future or well being, they only thing I can say in their favour she was wasnt thin so at least she was been fed.
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Podenco Hugo – safe with Akira Dog Sanctuary
This is podenco Hugo when he was rescued, starving and covered in tick. He’s safe now with Akira Dog Sanctuary in Southern Spain. Here’s his story. If you can offer him a hearth and a home forever, please contact the Sanctuary direct.Hugo when he was rescued.
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Podenco Dapper – a failed foster
From Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care‘Dapper my little Mr sunshine dog – My first failed foster. This is his story.
Coming up to Christmas in 2013 Jacqui Ross Last Chance Animal Rescue was trying to get as many dogs out of the pound before Christmas. It was my first introduction to fostering and it was a harrowing time because many dogs were dying of distemper. In one pen Eleanor and Dapper were together, and Eleanor had produced 6 pups. And we think that Dapper was the father. I was fostering Eleanor and the pups and had prepared a bed for them in my bedroom, it was actually my bed as the whole thing lifted up to provide storage underneath. I had adapted the bed so that it would stay up and put a carpet in there and some extra bedding.
So getting back to the pound. We were loading Eleanor and the pups into my car and Dapper started crying, he was so upset. Dapper was going into foster with someone else but we decided that it would be best if he came with me, Eleanor and the pups.
They settled in the bedroom, and the pups were everywhere, they were climbing out of the base of the bed and causing havoc, like puppies do. -
Pedro the Podenco – a Happy Ending
Read the lovely story about Pedro the Podenco from Spanish Stray Dogs. -
Cycle of Love
Beautiful words taken from a post on Bev Farmer’s page on Podenco Friends. So true.
“There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible. Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive, our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given.”
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Podencos in History
From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.‘I was sent this photo a couple of years ago from a Spanish friend and at the time posted it and thought an interesting piece of history to share of a Podenco.. Doing some research its possible it is from the late 1800´s .. There is very little to be found about the history of the podencos and I talk to Spanish friends who can recall from 2 or 3 generations back family members had them .. Even then they were just dogs kept on the land not family pets and often know has campo dogs . Historically Podencos were the dogs for the poorer people and their skills to catch rabbits literally put food on the table. This possibly could explain why today to some this breed is not respected and undervalued.
Yet you maybe surprised to hear that here in Spain the Podenco Ibicenco , Canario are a recognised breed under the group primitive type. The Podenco Andaluz, Maneto and the Valenciano under the group Spanish breeds . These are for showing and have a breed standard with traceable bloodlines and pedigrees .. These you will never find abandoned.
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Akira Animal Sanctuary – helping the animals of Benisa, Spain
Just found yet another animal shelter…so many now in Spain helping the abandoned hounds.
Take a look at the work of the Akira Animal Sanctuary and their hounds for adoption.
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Podenco Post – publicising the podencos since 2008
My involvement with podencos and galgos came about in 2007 when I joined a French rescue association and journeyed into Spain with the team to collect my first galga. That was where I also learned that podencos suffer the same cruelty as galgos at the hands of the Spanish hunters. My first blog was Galgo News started in 2008 and one of the first stories I ran was about Podenca Pruna, a tripod who was later adopted in France.
Here’s the story of Pruna.
For a list of podenco rescue and rehoming associations by country, click on this link
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