Read the article on this link and complete the survey if you are interested.
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Peaceful Protest for Spanish Hounds – 1st May 2016 in London, Manchester & Glasgow
So many podenco passionatas around Europe would love to join the Peaceful Protest Marches in London, Manchester and Glasgow today. They have sent messages of support to the organisers – here’s one from Claire Cauldfield. Claire writes: “Keep up the good work and make everybody aware of the poor hunting dogs’ plight in Spain. I live in Spain. Just 2 weeks after we moved here we found a podenco who had been dumped, barely 9 months old. The owner didn’t want her. We kept her. They are wonderful dogs. As you can see she has made herself at home. We take food every month to 2 dog shelters. It is so sad to see so many dogs there, most of which are hunting dogs. Good luck.”
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Joanna Lumley OBE backs International Day of the Podenco 1st May 2016
PRESS RELEASE – 28 APRIL 2016
A huge pack of ex-Spanish hunting dogs will march to the Spanish Embassy and 10 Downing Street, London on the 1st of May, the International Day of the Podenco, in protest at the mass abandonment of hunting dogs in Spain.
Families who have adopted abandoned Spanish hunting dogs in the UK will gather with their dogs in Belgrave Square, central London at 11am this 1st of May to mark the International Day of the Podenco. They will march with their dogs to the Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place at 12pm and on to 10 Downing Street for 2pm to protest about the cruel treatment of the podencos, galgos (Spanish greyhounds), pointers, setters, bodegueros and other breeds that are abused in their lives and discarded in their thousands upon thousands every year in Spain.
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Guardia Civil arrest staff from Triple A animal shelter, 13 more being investigated
Story in the Spanish press today – heartbreaking for all the animals concerned! When an association is registered as a Protectora in Spain, it is just that – to protect animals, not kill them!
This is the story on the Guardia Civil website – translation to English by Mo Swatek, Pro Galgo Internationa.
The Civil Guard detained four employees of the animal shelter Triple A and is investigating another 13 for committing various offenses
The protective, performing sacrifices of healthy animals without any clinical judgment, by non-medical staff, had a policy “sacrifice 0”
In the related documents seized with economic management it has also detected diversion of funds from the association for private purposes.
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Axarquaia Animal Rescue – Podenco Flash and his friends waiting for forever homes
I met some of the volunteers from Axarquia Animal Rescue at the PAES conference last October. Like so many people involved in animal rescue in Spain, they do incredible work for long hours and need supp0ort in homing their hounds. Here is one stunning little podenco.
Hi everybody, my name is Flash (AAR 1329) and I was found abandoned, hungry and really skinny last October 15, 2015.
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Can you help this Podenco – advertised for free on Gumtree UK!!
This is not the first time a Podenco has been advertised for free on Gumtree in the UK. It makes me blazing that these people don’t understand that, if they can’t keep a dog, they need to tell the rehoming/rescue association so they have a chance to sort the problem out. That is, if the dog was taken into the country through an association…looks like this poor boy wasn’t and there is no backup for him. Grrrrrrr! Can anyone help?
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Newark Showground 23 & 24 April – All About Dogs Show – Podenco Friends are there
Click on this link to find the dates and venues for the All About Dogs Shows in the UK – go along with your Spanish hounds and fly the flag for the podencos and galgos. Podenco Friends will have a stand at some of the shows. -
PODENCO PATERNINO of Huelva Province – Edy for adoption
Edy – a special and unusual black and white podenco boy who longs to be loved, but is still so shy and nervy and would need a very gentle patient family to build his confidence. Edy was in the kill pound in Valencia and saved by volunteers, he is safe in a kind kennels in Spain but he has got quite stuck and as he only knows rural kennels (for far too long) is very scared of anyone or anything new. But he is the most handsome gentle boy and would become your most wonderful friend. Will you show Edy that he is NOT invisible and that he too can have a loving family of his own, a sofa, soft bed and fabulous walks. Please contact pollymathewson@hotmail.com
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Peaceful Protest Sunday 1st May 2016 – in London, Manchester and Glasgow
How did it come about? I’ve been publicising the plight of the podenco since I became involved with their rescue, fostering and rehoming back in 2007, along with galgos. In those days most people hadn’t heard of podencos, outside of their rescuers in Spain and those living there with the problem of abandoned ones. In 2009 Ed Verhaegan created Podencoworld, a leading podenco rescue and rehoming association in Holland. But still publicity was mostly about galgos, always the galgos! Yet the podencos suffer just as much maltreatment.
It wasn’t until about 3 years ago that there was an explosion of interest through facebook and now these fantastic hounds are getting the help they deserve, as far as is humanly possible, bearing in mind the over-breeding and mass abandonment the cazadores and podenqueros continue to practice.