Podenco Post

  • Podenco Pepe – a work in progress after a lifetime of fear

    Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends writes about Pepe – a podenco whose life has been full of fear.

    I wanted to give some insight into why Pepe struggles to cope with so many everyday things.  Piecing together his history, it likely began before he was even born.

    Pepe was born to a very nervous Podenco living on the streets. During pregnancy, a highly stressed mother produces stress-related hormones, particularly cortisol, which can cross the placenta. This can affect the developing puppies’ brains and their stress-response systems, essentially setting their “stress threshold” much higher than normal. Puppies exposed to this are far more likely to grow up fearful, anxious, and easily overwhelmed. (more…)

  • PACMA – speaking up for the animals of Spain

    Thinking of all the Spanish rescue shelters in Andalucia during the terrible Storm Leonardo and praying none of them are flooded out or suffer damage. This from PACMA – Partido Animalista.

    We’re writing to you today at a particularly worrying time. Given the adverse weather forecast for Andalusia, we at PACMA have had to do what no other political force is doing: demand the activation of an emergency plan that includes animals.

    While the authorities are preparing (and rightly so) to protect people and infrastructure, animals remain absent from official protocols.

    Overcrowded shelters, volunteers without resources, animals dependent on humans completely exposed to the cold, heavy rain, or potential flooding. This is the reality that keeps repeating itself, and from which we never seem to learn. (more…)

  • 26 hunting dogs rescued

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    Podencos amongst the dogs rescued from horrendous conditions.

     

     

  • Protectora Scooby Medina shelter at risk of flood water

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    This is the current state of the river running by Scooby Medina shelter.  Many animals live out – horses, donkeys, sheep, goats.

  • 2 small podencos in Cadiz hoping for forever homes

    These 2 small podencos are with Refugio Kimba in Cadiz, hoping for forever homes.

    Contact Refugio Kimba to find more about them if you have room in your home and heart for one.

  • Podencos with SARA Protectora Lanzarote – hoping for their forever homes.

    ProntoLolaa (Lola)Freya (Fiera)

    Pronto is a 9 year old black Podenco x languishing in the SARA shelter on Lanzarote.  Lola in the middle above is 12 years old. It’s a very hard life for hunting dogs in the Canary Islands and their only hope of forever homes is on mainland Europe.  They are 2 of a dozen beautiful podencos who are the ‘invisible’ ones on Lanzarote, most only 2 or 3 years old.  Don’t let them spend all their lives in a shelter..  Click down this weblink to see them all.  Pictures below.

    f you would like to know more about Pronto or any of the other podencos, contact SARA Protectora direct,  please call the telephone number: +34 928 173 417 from 10:30 to 13:00. Thank you.

    *Each animal can evolve differently in their new home*. (more…)

  • Refugio Kimba, Cadiz – saving animals since 1872

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    Refugio Kimba is one of the oldest established animal rescue associations in Spain.  This is their message on Dia di Galgo.

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1958249688383610

    Donate or volunteer on this weblink.

  • 1st February – marching for the hunting dogs of Spain

    As you’ll all be aware, there were marches all over the world this weekend to highlight the plight of the Galgos, Podencos and Spanish hunting dogs. In the UK, people marched in Glasgow, Manchester, Exeter and London. (more…)

  • Dia di Galgo – marches in over 80 European cities

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    On Sunday 1st February there were peaceful marches in over 80 European cities to protest that the Animal Protection Law does not include Spain ‘s hunting dogs, who suffer terrible maltreatment at the hands of the galgueros.

  • Podenco Pancho with SOS Podenco Rescue – hoping for a forever home

    Read all about Pancho on this weblink.  He;s been in foster and kennels for 16 months.  At 8 years old he really deserves his forever home.  We adopted 8 year old podenca Rosie and have never regretted it; she is loyal and loving and still at 12 years old very active on walks.

    If you have room in your home and heart for deserving Pancho, please contact SOS Podenco Rescue direct.