Podenco Post

  • Help this little Podenca Andaluz in Seville

    Macu podenca 1 250 12 2011Podenco Andaluz come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large! I have a small, Bebe, she is pocket sized but has THE biggest personality and keeps 5 galgos in order!

    Here’s another very young podenca, now named Conchi-Pepa/Tecla, abandoned, pregnant by a bigger dog. After the puppies, she has been sterlised. She has recovered well from the operation and is in a foster home. But Macu needs help to pay the vet fees, and she desperately needs to find this little podenca her forever home. If you can offer a forever home, please contact Macu. She does an amazing job, keeps these innocent souls at home, or in foster, until someone comes along and can take them. Please, if you can tuck this adorable little Podenca into a corner of your home, next to the fire, contact Macu macu19782010@hotmail.com Mobile Seville 665809169

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  • Podenca abandoned on the streets, Galgo Connection Spain saves her

    Mina Silvia 190 12 2011Another little soul, abandoned on the streets at just 4 months old! This is little podenca Mina, found with an injured/malformed back leg, which has now been operated on successfully, making her a typical puppy, happy and playful.

    Mina is desperate to find a forever home where she can grow and blossom with care and love. If anyone can take this cute little sould into their heart and home, please contact Silvia Galgos Connection Spain. Silvia speaks excellent English

  • Podenca Andaluz Lucy, update

    Lucy had to be taken back into the vet clinic on Wednesday, for monitoring. Pray for her. And please help pay for her care.

  • Little Podenca Andaluz Lucy, lucky to survive an horrendous attack

    Lucy accident 250 4 12 2011You may remember little podenca Lucy, recently rescued from beside a railway track. She was going through the process of having her EU passport prepared when she was the victim of a terrible attack by bigger dogs which nearly killed her. The second such incident I have reported recently.

    She has umpteen wounds and stitches all over her body; she has a puncture wound almost on the jugular – a little bit closer and Lucy would not be with us. A miracle that she is.

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  • Animal Welfare Murcia – new group to join

    Vivienne Wharton lives in Spain and is horrified with the terrible situation of abandoned dogs and cats. So she has just set up a group Animal Welfare Murcia. Here’s what she says.

    ‘I have no experience of writing to governments or campaigning. I only know I have a very strong urge to do something about the terrible situation in Spain, as I cannot bear what I see on an almost daily basis.

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  • Two Happy Endings – Estrella and Lola

    Estrella& Truman Frances 250 11 2011Followers of Galgo News 2 years ago may remember the story of Estrella, the rough haired podenca left behind in the Cell of 4 at Jaen killing station; the 3 galgas were rescued and rehomed. Estrella wasn’t supposed to be left behind but somehow she was missed. Happily her fate was discovered by Eva Andrews of Scooby Medina and, with the help of L’Europe des Levriers with whom I have worked on rescues, Estrella was brought out of Spain into foster with me.

    Estrella was rehomed with a lovely young Englishwoman, Frances, and here’s what she writes about Estrella today.

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  • TARA Shelter, Gran Canaria – a successful neutering programme

    TARA neutering 1250 09 2011TARA Animal Shelter on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, in September ran a neutering programme for dogs and cats with the help of a Danish team of vets and nurses. Brian, a volunteer with TARA, reports on the success.

    The dog and cat neutering project in Mogan county from 14 to 21 September proved a big hit for all concerned.

    It was a most collaborative effort indeed: TARA Animal Respect Association recruited Danish Friends of Animals to supply professional animal medical staff to Gran Canaria providing the surgery skills and pharmaceuticals as a donation to the local cause of animal welfare.

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  • Galgo News/Podenco Post Christmas Card 2011 – on sale now

    Xmas%20Card 150 2011This year’s Christmas Card has been designed by my friend Anji Ratcliffe, a self-taught artist and keen animal lover. The card features two Christmas Tree baubles with a galgo pup head and a podenco pup head. It is printed on 210gm white card and the inside message is ‘Merry Christmas’ in 7 languages. All proceeds from the sale of this card will help pay vet fees etc for rescued galgos and podencos.

    Click on this link to purchase your cards.

    BUY MY BOOK for a Christmas present to your friends too.

  • Cesar Millan on Spanish TV for Spain’s abandoned dogs – Friday 2nd December 2011

    Cesar Millan was in Spain earlier in the year – when he also adopted a galgo – making a film about Spain’s abandoned dogs. The programme will be show on Spanish TV Channel 4 on Friday evening, 2nd December 2011. You can read all about it on this link on Galgo News.

    We need him to take up the plight of the podencos and other hunting dogs.

  • Podenca Andaluz Lucy – rescued in Malaga – looking for her forever family

    Lucy 1 Charl 11 2011 250This is a little Podenca Andaluz, the smallest of the type and the same as my little Bebe. Little dogs with huge personalities. This little lady was rescued from a train track in Malaga and taken to 112carlotagalgos. Here’s her story.

    ‘Meet Little Lucy. Rescued from a train track last Wednesday. A tiny tiny figure of a podenca. She has erect ears and is the sweetest little dollop of sugar! She is minute, and full of love. Easy to scoop up in your arms and she loves being held like a baby.

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