Perrera to forever home – it’s a long and expensive journey for every dog
The situation in Spain for the galgos and podencos remains desperate. Every day I receive appeals for help to get dogs out of perreras or abandoned and living on the streets. It seems to me that the galgueros are hanging fewer dogs and simply dumping them and expecting the refuges and rescue associations to take them in. They continue to dump their dogs at the gates of refuges too – tied up overnight for the volunteers to find the following day.
I simply cannot keep up with the appeals to help these dogs – I can’t post and appeal for them all, much as it breaks my heart. But I need you all to know that, just because I don’t post a list of dogs on death row in a perrera, it’s not happening. It’s happening every day…sick dogs, injured dogs, old dogs, puppies…
And the problem doesn’t stop with donating and saving a dog from death row in a perrera. The refuges are all full to bursting, foster homes are full to bursting and so a dog saved from a perrera has to go into kennels – which costs more money.
So just saying ‘hey, we’ve saved the dog from the perrera’ is just the beginning of the story. Then there are kennel fees to pay, blood tests to be done, vaccinations, microchips…and then a home to be found. This costs hundreds and hundreds of euros…and we are now in a situation where many dogs have been saved – especially podencos – and there aren’t the homes for them…so ongoing kennel fees.
And a kennel environment is not the ideal one to prepare a dog for living in a home as a pet.
So this is why I am not posting so many appeals to help save dogs in perreras. It’s not because I don’t care – I’d save them all if I could afford it! But it’s the dogs in refuges and foster homes who now need to be helped…these are the ones saved already and who need forever homes. This is a vitally important piece of saving these hounds – their eventual forever homes.
NB These two podencos are due to be killed shortly, the chocolate one is in Valencia perrera and the other is in Gesser perrera
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2 responses to “Perrera to forever home – it’s a long and expensive journey for every dog”
again and again i know you say beryl that its just the beginnig for the rescues once they sre saved its a long financial road but if these 2 are going to have a chance and donations are needed please give pp ads
Beryl, I absolutely agree with you.
Of course, the people who rescue from perreras have a good heart, there is no doubt about it.
But it doesn’t change anything long term and is a never ending story, which costs a lot of money, which could be spent more effective.
And if someone is going to adopt a dog from there, it must be a very experienced person, because you don’t know the dog at all. Some people even adopt, because they saw the picture and feel sorry for the dog in the pererra.
If adopters cannot handle the dog, there is no organization to help them, to rehome the dog or to take back the dog from them…
We should all support organizations instead, who run own shelters or have dogs in foster homes. Especially those ones who also raise awareness, educate children or make castration-campaigns, because rescuing dogs alone doesn’t solve the problem and per eras don’t help either with this…
There are so many associations struggling right now, who made great efforts and spent much money for rescuing dogs from the streets, and some of them even rescue from perreras, if they have some space available.
They don’t spent money for kennels, and dogs are in their shelter or foster, they provide medical attention, they care for the dogs, they socialize the dogs, they prepare them for their adoptants, and they support the new owners after adoption.