From Pyramid to Perrera – The Story of the Podenco is now published as an ebook in French. Purchase your copy here.
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Eight dogs and M.E. – blog by Fiona Nicholson
Regular readers will recognise Fiona as a valuable commentator on posts on Podenco Post. In March she undertook to move from Scotland to Western France with her 8 dogs. They are all settling in, although finding the contrast of the French summer temperatures somewhat different from those in Scotland.
Fiona is now writing a blog about life in France and much more. You can follow her on this link. Sign up and follow her stories by clicking on the ‘follow’ box bottom right hand corner of the screen.
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Portuguese podengos looking for forever homes
Here is a lovely story from Dineka in Portugal, about a lucky Portuguese podengo family.
‘On the 7th of May I saw two Podengos running on the road, both skinny to the bone, one male and one female. Stopped and gave them water and food, and the female obviously had puppies recently.
She was approachable, but the male was too scared, and ran off. It was already late afternoon, so I took the female to the vet, checked for a chip, and she belongs to a hunter nearby. But he didn’t bother reporting her as missing.
It turned out she had Microfilaria, anaemia and Tic-fever, and I left her ate the vet that night. Next morning I picked her up, put her on the leash where I found her, and she took me directly to a hollow tree, where she had hidden 5 puppies.
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Podenco found starving and chained to a tree – in Ghent, Belgium – anyone recognise him
This podenco was found, in this condition, starving with bite marks from other dogs, and chained to a tree, barking and crying – heard by a man in his apartment. He called the fire department who came and rescued him. He is being checked for a chip and publicised widely in the hope that someone recognises him.
Contact me if you do, the contact is via facebook
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From Perrera to Finca Podenco Friends, Murcia – meet Perla
Bev Farmer tells the story of Perla.
Perla arrived on Friday 35d July 2015 and we have given her some space but yet another Podenca terrified out of her mind. This is not fear from a change of circumstances, this is from a deeply rooted sustained abuse of some type. She will need many months of help and support to break her out of this world of terror she lives in.
In the last 3 months we have taken in 5 podencos all very similar issues and it cant be just because they are nervous by nature. Dogs learn by association the positive and the negatives and if treated badly for long enough, establish what hurts them is to be avoided.
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Podenco Motif Hat for a Podenco Adoptant
I’ve got a couple of patterns for winter hats with galgo motif. I’ve altered one — what do you think, would this be a hat for a podenco owner? If not, any suggestions. I’ve only pinned it to the black hat, hats can come in any colour and the motif sewn on…if you think it’s ok. Comments please.
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Murcia, Spain – update on the Container dogs
Here is the latest news from ACTIN on the situation for the container dogs.
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Podenca Ivy in Italy
Gabriella shares the story of how she came to adopt Podenca Ivy.
‘I here summarise my love story with Ivy…..
In all my life (I am 57) I have never had a dog. I always preferred cats (at present 3 fantastic cats, 1 Burmese and 2 Burmillas live with me in my apartment…). However, last year, I casually discovered the GACI, an Italian association for the recovery of greyhounds (from Ireland), galgos and podencos (from Spain). In this way I have heard about the destiny of these hunting and running heroes, the way they are fully exploited and, if they are very lucky, abandoned.
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Diesel, a Portuguese Podenco in Portugal – looking for a forever home
Read all about this stunning Portuguese Podengo, what his videos. There must be someone for him.
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Podenco Bud – the reality of life for Podencos in Spain and the Canary Islands
For everyone who generously gave to our appeal to fund vet fees for Podenco Bud and Moreno, with Podenco Friends in Murcia, here’s a lovely video from Bev Farmer. Sit back and enjoy.
Buds Story…. handed into a perrera by a hunter with the explanation he had been feeding him but thought he was sick and that is why he was so emaciated. We took him into our care and blood tests revealed a different explanation, long term malnutrition, severe anemia. This is not an isolated case, many of the Podencos we rescue come to us in this condition.
I ask please share this video and let the world see what happens to many of the Podencos in Spain, for them its their reality Bud was lucky we got him to us in time watch the video although sad to begin with….. see the magic unfold