Podenco Post

  • Protectora de Animales Arume – Podenco Truan waiting forever for someone

    Truan 1 400 1 2023
    Protectora de animales ARUME are appealing for a forever home for Podenco Truan – the ‘Eternal Forgotten’.

    ‘Truan is a wonderful dog, small size, very young, friendly, loving, sociable, good and grateful. But he was born Podenco, and only for that reason his chances of finding a home are reduced and they make him INVISIBLE.

    There is the belief that “hunting” dogs do not “use” to live at home and that they do not adapt, nor are they happy if it is not hunting. And nothing is further from reality (we’re not talking about locking them in a flat but giving them a full life, with safe and quality exits. Any dog can be completely happy living in either a flat or a house with a farm or garden provided the time is given..)

    There are more active dogs that enjoy going out to the mountain for a run, others are more of a blanket and couch. Well, the little ones gather all those qualities together!!! Perfect dogs, SUVs, that adapt to any family and enjoy both being out in the countryside and a warm nap in bed.

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  • Storm Damage at Galgos Rescue Almeria – help needed to fund repairs

    Storm damage 1 400 1 2023
    From Sandy Galgoslover.

    A couple of nights ago we suffered a storm and strong winds which unfortunately caused a lot of damage to our Rescue center. A large part of the fence has been torn loose and our storage space has been completely destroyed.

    In addition to our usual daily tasks, we now have days of cleaning up debris. A solution will also have to be found for the storage space.

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  • Protectora de Animales in Arume – helping hounds in Galicia

    It’s not often I find stories about podencos or galgos in Galicia in northern Spain but I’ve just come across this small protectora of 2 ladies who work with the local animal kennels to try and home the poor lost souls who end up behind bars. Please read their story here.

    ‘Behind Arume we are two women who have been rescuing animals for many years. Looking the other way doesn’t suit us, and little by little we became entangled in this wonderful, but also hard, adventure that is to dedicate your life to animals.

    We carry out our work in O Carballiño, helping to find families for the animals that arrive at the kennel, to prevent their stay in it from being extended. We are volunteers, that is to say, we are not labor related to the kennel, but we work with the officials who manage it to prioritize the most urgent cases (puppies, grandparents…) and expedite their departure, without forgetting all the others: young people and adults who many times they become invisible, and we try to make them visible through our social networks to find them a home as soon as possible.’

    Shortly there will follow the story of Truan, a podenco they have been trying to home for a year.

  • Volunteer at a Spanish rescue shelter

    On a very rainy day at my home in the UK it’s that time of year to think about holidays and summer sun. Many Spanish shelters welcome volunteers to help with the care of their rescued hounds and it’s very rewarding. Many first-time volunteers return again and again.

    This link is to the galgo and podenco rescue associations by country – many Spanish ones are listed – for both mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. Please contact them direct, you will be welcomed with open arms.

  • Knit a winter coat for a podenco

    Pattern from Etsy to download Pattern to purchase from Etsy”>on this weblink.

  • Young podenca hoping for a forever home

    Nara 2 400
    This gorgeous young podenco is with an association I haven’t heard of before. So here’s the story of the podenco and links to the association in Seville.

    ‘Asociación LASA, La Sonrisa Animal de Brenes, Sevilla

    Nara is still in residence, no one has offered to take her in. It’s very cold there and they spend the day boring lying down. Nara is a young puppy, she is only one year old and she wants to play and walk freely, not spend the day alone in the cold and locked in.

    She’s a little 11.5 kilos, she’s a beauty inside and out. With a loving character towards people, very noble and good. She gets along great with other dogs, active and playful.

    Please a house for her until her forever family arrives, even if it’s only the cold months. This young girl has suffered enough and deserves a good home.

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  • Abandoned podenco puppy – thank goodness for animal volunteers in Spain

    This young couple, members of Patitas Por El Mundo Espana, with 2 small children were out driving to meet family for a New Year meal. Here’s the story.

    ‘When we left home to go eat with the family (because not even Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve nights have we been able to have dinner with them, for having a thousand animals to attend to and not be able to get home late for them), because I tell my boyfriend : “Which one will be the first of the year?”

    Well, it didn’t take us long to find out, as always in Cartaya, little baby of about 6 months, skeletal, bones, with a lot of fear, she was coming bent down, with her tail between her legs and peeing out of fear…

    Not right for an animal to get to this state… And while Cartaya’s aid promoting hunting and rehoming… In the end…It will happen as always, that once picked up no one cares about the animal or those who make the immense effort to rescue them.

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  • End of hunting coming up – podencas being dumped in perreras

    Bandera in perrera Valencia 400 1 2023
    Tragic, older podencos who’ve been used for breeding now being dumped by their hunters in perreras for killing!! Heartless sub-humans! Luckily many perreras now don’t have a kill policy but associations are full to bursting too so these poor souls languish without hope. This is one such podenca – if you can help, message me and I will contact the lady publicising her, Jolina Behle.

    ‘BANDERA, Podenca, 12 years old, was brought to Perrera to die by her hunter … what is there to say… there are no words but ….. maybe she still has a chance. She’s medium-sized and socially tolerant. Who wants to adopt her or which shelter wants to take her in and help her find a warm place? One that she never had in her life. She is in a Perrera in the province of Valencia. PLEASE SHARE Joline Behle’

  • Cloudy eyes in dogs

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    Our blind podenco Bo(celli) has cloudy eyes which the vet puts down to an eye infection which wasn’t treated. Well, we can believe that of Spanish hunters, can’t we – why pay vet fees on a dog when they can just go out and get another! He is amazing in the way he finds his way around, he can see shadows, looks at us as we approach him, and just this last week he’s ventured from the kitchen along the short hallway into the lounge to spend the evening asleep on the hearth rug with Rosie.

    This link takes you to an interesting article on the subject of cloudy eyes in dogs.

  • Podenco – left by the hunters to starve on the streets

    Starving podenco in Madrid 400 12 2022
    Heartbreaking that the damned Spanish Government still won’t take steps to prosecute this cruelty by the Spanish hunters, because too many of them are hunters themselves! Grrrr!

    This appeal is from a volunteer with no room to take the poor boy. So many Spanish volunteers live in apartments in towns and however much they want to, they simply don’t have the room to take in more dogs than they already have.

    This podenco is still on the street in a pitiful stage with the chip cut out, which is badly infected. He’s suffering and it’s very cole and I’ve nowhere to put him. Urgent help please, he is small/medium, only 12kg in this starving state, and young.
    Madrid or Toledo areas. (Spain 0034) 628770887 or WhatsApp ask for IBAI

    He’s one of many discarded as hunting draws to a close at the end of this month.