Spring will soon be upon us, and I’m sure your thoughts are turning to planning holidays. Why not plan a week or two helping out at a shelter in Spain? The shelters rely on volunteers to help them with the daily chores of looking after dozens of dogs – in the case of Scooby Medina, hundreds of dogs and in the case of Pepis Dog Refuge, Jane and Alan daily look after nearly 80 dogs!
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Valencia podencos saved from the campo – ready for adoption with P.E.P.A.
Rosemary Macdonald tells about the latest rescues with the PEPA animal charity in Valencia.
‘This is Mamma about a year and a bit old the amazing wonderful girl that we rescued after we found her feeding three different sets of puppies only two of them hers, she is now ready to go to a new home she is without a doubt a wonderful dog she is well mannered loving eager to please and she gets on well with other dogs.
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Young podencos to be killed – Toledo and Almeria…
My heart is breaking…every day dozens of podencos on death row in perreras…two brothers here, only 5 months old, in Almeria perrera!! “Murtagh” y “Eragon”
Sex: Boys (brothers) Age: 01/10/2013 contact: adopcionesanua@gmail.comBut if people don’t foster or adopt, then there isn’t room in shelters to save the death row dogs. And a pretty little bitch, no good for hunting, afraid of gunshot, so her owner took her to the vet to be pts – foster home needed and then adoption. In Toledo. Such a needless waste of precious lives…(Spain) 660 43 10 16 or Aspaan Asociación Protectora Amigos de los Animales (photo below)
If any of you have ‘room for just one more’, please consider a podenco. There’s a comprehensive list of associations here.
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Rehala hunting in Spain
Here you can read the reality of the Rehalas – podencos and other hunting dogs kept solely for hiring out in packs under the charge of a Rehalero. Click on the ‘Translate’drop-down box for English/German
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Update on Podenca Vida – beaten and dumped to die
This beautiful little podenca is Vida today – remember her battered body when she was found in a bag in a rubbish bin in a village of Valencia. You will be delighted to know that she is recovering very well.
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ACTIN – setting out the problem
ACTINare working hard to do more than rehome dogs – their aim is to work against the bad dog pounds. Here ACTIN set out their aims. Please donate to pay their lawyers’ fees on a case they are currently working on.
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Podencos – Enano, Maneto, Canario, Ibicenco, Orito, Andaluz, Campanero
I’ve been writing about and publicising the plight of the podencos for many years – alongside my work for the galgos. Here’s an article I wrote about the different types of podenco. Unlike the galgo of which there is only smooth haired and rough haired, the podenco varies from the Enano and Maneto which are small like a dachshund up to the large Campanero which is shaggy and used to hunt wild boar. A podenco to suit every home!
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Podencoworld – busy helping podencos to homes in Holland
Here are some lovely videos of rescued podencos travelling to their forever homes in Holland. Wording in Dutch but the films speak for themselves.
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Toledo – young podenco found in rubbish bin, badly beaten
3rd February 2014 – Toledo – hell-hole for galgos and podencos – in a village of Toledo. Podenco puppy found in a rubbish bin inside bag with a strong blow to the head, gored and hypothermic. Taken to the vet for emergency treatment. Prognosis awaited. Have asked for updates (if it survives) and if it was in Fuensilada, Motril, where the beaten and shot podenca was found last year. Two associations helping her, EL ALBERGUE SOLIDARIO DE DORA” and “MAS VIDA”alberguedora@hotmail.es Paypal donations to leoncina@hotmail.com and mark VIDA (Life)
Warning, upsetting picture.
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Podencos Ria and Inca – finding forever together in Italy
Alicia Andrews lives in Italy and has two rescued podencas. She is now involved in helping to rehome podencos, especially from Lanzarote, Canary Islands. She tells the story of how she became involved with the podencos.
‘When my last remaining dog died back in January 2013, he left a huge hole in my life. I’ve loved animals from the time I was born into a household where there were always rescued dogs and birds around. So when Peanut left me to run over the rainbow bridge and join his mother and siblings (or, at least I like to think that he did), I felt “lost”. Who was going to leap excitedly around my legs when it was time for a walk?