I shed tears every day as I read the appeals for help for podencos – old, young, abandoned, in the perreras – puppies with a whole life before them, susceptible to disease in the perreras. The appalling waste of life, simply because most of the Spanish hunters don’t care…Luckily thousands of the younger Spanish generations DO care and do as much as they can to help. So many appeals come in that I simply can’t post them all.

And we can’t help them all until the ones in shelters and kennels are found loving forever homes. The podencos need your help. Please share their story.

Here’s a story from Bev Farmer. She needs help to feed mom and pups, plus chips, vaccinations, blood tests as the pups get older. Please donate to paypal podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk

‘Abril and her pups are well this is a video of the first moment we met her. Too many reports of podenco mums and pups found abandoned… in the last three months we have rescued 4 such families a total of 30 pups and 10 adult podencos. Yet daily there are requests for help. How many more Podencos have to suffer before the powers that be sit up and take notice??’