Podenco Post

  • Podenco Marlin in Germany – hoping for a forever home

    Martin Karin Behle 1 400
    Regular readers – and owners of my book From Pyramid to Perrera – will know that podencos come in different sizes, shapes and colours. This is a tri colour podenco – introducing Marlin.

    ‘Hello, I’m Marlin, 15 months young, a hound Portuguese, 44 cm takk abd weight 8,8 pounds. I’m very social with all dogs, cats and I like people big and small. I like to play, love walks, I’m housebroken and clingy. You can visit me in the Westerwald, Germany. I’m looking for my own family. I am healthy, vaccinated and castrated.’

    If you are interested to know more about Marlin, contact Karin Behle, Podenco Rescue Association Email: podencorescueassociation@gmail.com

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  • A victim of hanging in Almeria?

    This poor podenco was found with a terrible neck injury on 14 February, in Almeria. I haven’t been able to find the story but it looks like an attempted hanging. Luckily he is safe, at the vet clinic and his infected neck wounds are being treated.

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  • Lanzarote – 2 podencos taken from their owner

    PINS pod oldie 400 8 2 2018
    These 2 oldies were taken from their owner and are now in the care of Nuria on Lanzarote. One is 13 years old, having trouble standing through muscle wastage and the other 8. Podencos in Need Scotland (PINS) are hoping to raise funds to pay for their care back to health and hopefully travel to forever homes in Scotland.

    PINS pod 1400 8 2 2018

  • From Lanzarote to Scotland with Podencos In Need Scotland

    Lorna Skirving pod 1 400
    Tino Ramirez lives in Scotland, a far cry from Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Here Lorna tells his adoption story

    ‘My husband and I had been talking about the possibility of getting a dog for some months through 2017, and always knew we would adopt a rescue dog. We knew we wanted a hound-type of dog and were thinking of a rescue greyhound or lurcher. At this point we had not even heard of the Podenco breed.

    A friend who already has a rescue Podenco suggested going to the Podencos in Need Scotland (PINS) charity and rescuing a dog from Spain. When I researched the breed and realised the cruelty these dogs suffer in Spain, it was a no brainer and I contacted PINS to adopt a dog. Tino was being fostered in Edinburgh and came to visit us in our home first to see if he would be ok with our 3 cats, and introductions went well. He came to live with us at the end of September 2017.

    He had been a stray in Lanzarote for over 2 years and unsurprisingly did struggle at first, particularly with men and with dogs he didn’t know. Watching him blossom over the last 4 months has been fabulous. He is brilliant with people and other dogs now, although does still have an issue with the letter box! He is also brilliant with our cats (so it is absolutely not true that sight-hounds cant live with cats!) and regularly sleeps on our bed with our boy cat Woody and with our older girl Venus on the sofa. Our lives have been changed hugely for the better, we love him to bits!’

    Thank you for sharing your story of Tino, wishing you lots of years of fun with him.

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  • Chained in a cave in Gran Canaria – used as a breeding machine!

    Lynn Destiny 1 400 Apologies to Lynn Paulrodos…this story should have been published at the beginning of October 2017!

    Lynn Paulrodos lives in northern France and has opened Avalon Animal Sanctuary as her collection of rescued animals has increased, which includes dogs, horses, goats… Here is the story of her most recent arrival – Destiny, a Gran Canary podenca found starving, chained up in a cave, and obviously used as a breeding machine!

    ‘DESTINY aka Cave Girl was found chained up in a cave in Gran Canary in August 2017 and taken to Pet Pals GC. She was under 8kgs and had a large mammary tumour with a cluster of smaller tumours inside and also tumours on her lungs—she’s only just 5yrs old!!

    It was decided to give her a chance and she was operated on on 4 Sept –the vet removed 14 mammary tumours and 2 hernias!! I was asked to help her as it’s not known how long she will live and no-one else was interested to take her—she is also Filaria (heartworm) positive.

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  • Marching in Malaga for Day of the Galgo & Podenco

    Read the article and see the photos on this link.

  • Marching in Malaga for Day of the Galgo & Podenco

    Marching in Malaga Sjors Ferrari400 4 2 2019
    Sjors Ferrari is passionate about podencos and flew for the day from Belgium to Malaga to join the march for the podencos and galgos on sunday 4th February 2018. She took 30 of these panels to hand out for marchers’ dogs to wear.

  • A Dog’s Love

    A Dog's Love 400

  • Dog of Portugal – Portuguese Podengo Emma looking for a forever home

    Dogs of Portugal Emma 400 2 2018
    This is little Emma, a Portuguese Podengo, looking for her forever home. Here’s her story and videos.

  • Rubbish to the podenquero – treasures to us

    Valencia perrera podencos 2 400
    Look at these two babies, rescued from the Valencia perrera. Here’s the message from Karen Behle.

    ‘Jette aka Daisy (Brown) & Mina alias Jasmina from death in Perrera Valencia urgently searches for a foster. We’ll get the 2 on Friday from killing. They are incredibly scared there, shaking in a pen. We plan a journey between the end of February and mid-March to Germany for both these 2 Hound bitches who are approx. 12 weeks old. Association: Avpd. Contact is via facebook anfrangen va private message’

    Or comment here and I’ll pass it on if you can help. I really would like to exterminate all hunters!.

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