Podenco Post

  • Foster home urgently needed for Podenco x Aaron

    Pepis Aaron 250 6 2015Please can we find a foster home urgently for pod x Aaron. He is one of over 80 dogs at Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera Seville. Another one dumped at the gates – it happens on a regular basis…dogs come in quicker than can be homed!!

    Here’s what Jane Brian says.
    ‘I wonder if you can help with little guy? I have him living with us in the mobile home and I really don’t want to put him in the refuge.

    He is an amazing puppy, very intelligent and obedient.

    We estimate that Aaron is around five months. He is house trained to a point, he does his big business outside, but still does wee wee inside, he hasn’t grasped that concept as yet.’

    Please contact Jane Brian direct, please help Aaron with either a foster home or, even better, a forever home.

  • Personalities in Animal Rescue!

    I’m always sceptical of a person who gets involved with an animal rescue association and goes full on with volunteering, fundraising, getting involved with the running of the refuge…goes overboard in fact. Generally, they disappear in the same way – puff, often leaving a bad taste in the mouth on discovering they haven’t been totally honest.

    Such a situation has happened recently and, sadly, it’s the refuge which suffers, the dogs which miss out…

    I’ll never understand people. Give me animals any day!

  • Podencos Clooney and Callum – pups at play

    Another lovely video from Beverley Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    Roxys two boys were born in the campo amazingly even with such a bad start in life they are really social. Their mum is a Podenco Campanero and these seem to have her laid back attitude. Both are vaccinated, passport and negative for med diseases, 7 months old.

    Lovely pups cuddle monsters for adoption please email us: podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk
    P.S dont forget to hit the HD button for better quality viewing

  • Podenca Azahar…injured, pregnant, starving…captured after 5 months!

    Jacky H Azahar 1 250 12 2014Jacky Hazelger and friends worked hard to help this injured and pregnant podenca. They put food out but were unable to catch her. Eventually she gave birth to a brood of puppies. And eventually Jacky and team were able to catch the puppies and finally the podenca! 5 months of patience paid off.

    Here’s what Jacky says.

    December 2014 Azahar near Arenal, Javea, looking for food

    The story of Azahar. Abandoned, on the streets, hit by a car, and then she had puppies… took us 5 months to catch her and her 7 puppies…but finally an happy end!

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  • PAES Animal Welfare Conference – 16-18 October 2015 – Murcia, Spain

    Please support this conference, a must for all involved in animal welfare anywhere in the world. I will be speaking, be nice to meet any of you there. Please share widely.

  • Cirneco dell’Etna – from Sicily to Russia

    Ekaterina 1 250Whilst I do not support breeding podencos, here is a lovely story about the small Cirneco Dell’Etna podencos from Sicily, which are now making a name for themselves in Russia. Unlike the Andaluz, Ibicenco and Canario especially – of which there is massive over-breeding, abandonment and killing, the Cirneco dell’Etna is not well known. So Ekaterina Klimova tells her story.

    I Ekaterina Klimova, have been studying and breeding Cirneco Dell’Etna for more than five years. The first woman introduced one to the city of St. Petersburg, imported from Sicily. Now in my kennel Mia Santo’s three bitches Cirneco. Two females are involved in the breeding program, I want to receive and recover the ancient, beautiful unique type Cirneco Dell’Etna.

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  • Imprisonment for the animals in Spain – the hunter perpetrators get away scot free

    Video (on facebook but you may be able to view it) made by Peter Koekebakker of life for hunting dogs in Spain. No hygiene, no permits! 600 dogs are here from various hunters! Also people who work for the police keep their dogs here! No entry to the bunkers, no control by the municipalities or the police! It’s been twenty years like this and it will stay this way with the hunting federations and our White Collar Mafia Mess in Brussels!

  • Happy Ending for Podenca Canario Toti – from SARA Lanzarote to the USA

    Podenco Canario Toti survived an incredible rescue? Th e female podenco was rescued from a hole 40 meters under the earth, which was reported all over the media. You can see the story and his rescue here: TOTI’S STORY

    Fantastic news. TOTI is going to his new home in THE UNITED STATES

    Video of Toti

    Please help more podencos like Toti find their forever homes. Hundreds of them are waiting in refuges on all the Canary Islands.

  • Helping the Lanzarote podencos – why we do it

    Rick Beauchamp is a volunteer for SARA Protectora on Lanzarote, Canary Islands. He helps rehome rescued podencos in the UK. He writes about why he does it.

    Very often people ask us why we bother rescuing dogs from Lanzarote when there are so many homeless here in the UK?

    Our answer I feel rarely convinces, as you have to see the suffering of the dogs to really appreciate why we feel that we have absolutely no choice but to try and help.

    Recently we came across this article on the SARA website www.saraprotectora.org.
    I have transferred the article verbatim as it adds to the poignancy.

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  • The Stark Reality of life in Spain – what the tourists don’t see

    Video made by Bev Farmer. The truth about life in Spain for the majority of animals and what the tourists never see. Also the reality of life for animals on the Canary Islands – also a Province of Spain.