Podenco Post

  • Seville – podencos for hire for hunting!

    I’m still stuck in the UK because of snow, and struggling to post. Here’s a story I received earlier this week, emailed on to associations I hope can help, and now post you the story. Apologies though, as I’m using a computer which won’t allow me to post pix.

    ‘On January 6, 2013 I drove with my husband and adopted dog (from a perrera near Malaga, ‘El Paraiso’) from Tarifa to Seville, and on to Cordoba.

    We stopped at a rural restaurant for coffee where I became aware of a whole lot of dogs crying somewhere in the vicinity.

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  • Apologies

    for the lack of news at the moment. I am in the UK arranging palliative care for my mother in law, have restricted access to a computer and the Internet, and no facility for uploading photos. I am due to return to my home in France on 19/20 January – so long as the snow here in the UK has thawed and disappeared!

  • Cuenca podencos – please save them!

    Lucia ibizancuencajan2013 250Here are two podencos in Cuenca which will be killed when it is changed to a perrera this month.

    LUCIA, female Ibizan Hound, 4 years old, healthy, affectionate and in good health. 13 kgs, 43 x 55 cm.

    FILIPO, male Podenco, about 3 years old, in good health, shy and scared, 12 kgs, 40 x 45cm. The protectora will turn into a killing station this month, January 2013. Arcoairis, Cuenca, Spain. Please help their dogs through an association to get out before it is too late. Please contact Oscar (Dutch, French, English, Spanish, German) cuenca@marmenor.eu

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  • ACTIN and Cuenca

    Link to ACTIN website on the subject of changing Cuenca refuge to Cuenca perrera

  • URGENT – Save the Cuenca dogs – email NOW – before 4 Jan if poss

    Please urgently join this campaign NOW – details on this link.

  • Should a dog be kept on a chain?

    In France, many dogs are kept on short chains as ‘guard’ dogs – even border collies! In Spain and on the Spanish Islands, many dogs spend their lives chained up. Here’s an interesting article asking the question ‘should a dog be chained up?’.

  • Valencia perrera – 2 more young podencos on death row!

    Valencia podencos 250 31 12 2012Last week 4 young podencos were amongst the dozens of dogs killed in Valencia perrera. Here are two more, just arrived, and needing rescuing before it is too late for them too. Dominique sends the information she has to hand.

    ‘2 beautiful Podencos in the high kill station of Valencia, Spain. Release fee is 62 euros per dog, sponsors (virtual adopters) desperately needed to put these dogs in a pension or residence.

    Contact for donations, fostering or adopting in Spain adoptadelaperrera@gmail.com
    For donations, pension or adopting outside of Spain through an association adoptadelaperrera@gmail.com (both ladies speak good English)

  • Podenca Andaluz Cleo – in her forever with Foundation Djimba

    Djimba cleo 250Meet Cleo, a small Podenca Andaluz, who has also suffered at the hands of the Spanish hunters. Luckily, she has now found her forever place of safety, in France with Djimba. Betty tells her story.

    ‘As of so many of her kind, the history of Cleo is unknown but also not hard to imagine. Born In the wild, taking care of herself, not kindly treated by humans.

    At the beginning of 2012 I received an email from a friend in Barcelona – did I know a solution for a little podenca with an extreme fear of humans? Djimba is a home for old, ill or handicapped dogs and Cleo was none of these. However in the last 13 years we have had a lot of experience with traumatized dogs and her little face touched us.

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  • Several Podencos murdered in Valencia perrera since Xmas! Plus dozens of other dogs.

    Valencia perrera update – the puppy is going into foster, the mother bitch is left behind. Dominique reports ‘The only 3 left are the young smooth 8 months old female, described as thin but happy and outgoing, and the mother of the pup. This perrera is ruthless.’

  • Malaga perrera – young podencos on death row

    Young podencos in Malaga perrera, waiting to be killed. Contact teresa@batista.es and adopciones@ladridosfelices.org

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