Podenco Post

  • Animal charities desperate for help

    This is an appeal from Spanish Stray Dogs charity, but their situation during this time will be the same for all animal charities, especially as, with people not being able to work, there could be more dogs abandoned than ever. Please support your favourite dog charities.

    ‘We have suffered a huge set back financially as many other charities and families around the world have. Due to the pandemic, our two charities shops in Spain have been forced to shut. This has had a huge impact on the charities finances and is a very very big cause for concern for us for the future of the work we do.

    We need your financial support more than ever now’. As the lock down in Spain carries on and on with no real end in sight we face very serious consequences if we cannot find the money we need to provide food, labour and vet care to over 300 dogs a month!

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  • Happy Easter

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  • No sew face mask

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  • Further update on the podenco rescue in Mogan, Gran Canaria

    8/4/2020 Update from Bev Farmer.

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    The courts of Telde no 1 have taken over the investigation from Seprona against a resident of Aquimes who kept 84 Podencos on a finca held in poor sanitary and hygiene conditions and now they have been transferred to the pound Albergue insular Banaderos .

    Along with local police and veterinaries Seprona agents made the decision to enter the finca even though the owner was not present who was later notified to come to the facilities . An inspection revealed of very poor conditions for the animals that endangered their physical integrity and confirmed by a medical report of the veterinarians on site

    A total of 84 dogs were seized 78 adults and 6 puppies the majority with different diseases and condition

    The owner of the animals is responsible for an alleged crime of mistreatment and animal abandonment typified in the penal code.

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  • Breaking News! Remember the 90 podencos in Mogan, Gran Canaria? Read on!

    90 podencos trapped in cages on Mogan, Gran Canaria. Background here.

    From PACMA 6/4/2020

    Today I have very good news to give you! After seven years, the Civil Guard has finally rescued those known as “90 podencos de Mogán”.

    I tell you how we have managed it so that you too can celebrate it with us and continue helping us save animals:

    Since 2013, we have denounced the state in which 90 hounds were in an unclean construction in the Gran Canaria municipality of Mogán. For years, individuals, PACMA and protectors denounced it. In 2015 we did it again and managed to get the animals confiscated, but then the owner fled with the dogs. It was located some time later in Agüimes. There he crowded them again and again we denounced him.

    We have not given up for years.

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  • Keeping your dog’s teeth healthy

    My little podenca Bebe came with very bad teeth and now my aged galga Carmela is showing signs of teeth deterioration. Not surprising when they are 17 and 15 years respectively! I use dentastix when they have had their meals but here’s an article with some other suggestions. It mentions raw bones – marrow bones. For decades we always gave our dogs marrow bones until some years ago my Swedish Valhund Pepsi broke a piece off and got it stuck in her throat. So no more marrow bones! Besides, I am sure the two male galgos would fight!

    What do any of you use for keeping your dog’s teeth healthy?

  • Sweet Portuguese Podengo Lupin wants a forever home.

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    Read all about sweet Lupin on this weblink to the Dogs of Portugal website and contact them if you would like to reserve your application for after lockdown is finished.

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  • Axarquaia Animal Rescue – helping hounds in need

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    Here are links to some of their podencos waiting for forever homes.

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  • Dogs during Covid-19

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  • Fern’s Law: Compulsory to scan & check microchips to reunite stolen dogs, cats

    Many missing microchipped pets are never reunited as it’s optional to scan & check microchip registration. It’s time veterinary professionals, authorities and rescues checked pet & keeper match on the original database at a pets 1st consultation or yearly checkup. It’s their only chance to get home

    Vets can play a valuable role in reuniting missing microchipped pets. We have microchipped our pets with the expectation to be reunited if the worst happens and they are lost or stolen. If just one organisation is not committed to scan and check microchip registration the whole system fails and is not fit for purpose. Legislation is needed to replace half hearted ‘strengthened, best practice recommendations’ VetsGetScanning.co.uk

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300010