Podenco Alliance in the UK were planning on a peaceful protest at Windsor in March for the visit of the King and Queen of Spain to the British Royal Family. The visit has now been cancelled (probably because Spain has been without a government since December 2015 after national elections failed to produce a clear winner). So a new Peaceful Protest has been organised in London on 1st May 2016. Below are the details so far. Please put the date in your diary and join the peaceful protest if you can, especially with your podenco.

Our new date is May 1st – Day of the Podenco. Keep your photos and texts coming so we can make more photocards to hand in, and please join us with your dogs on the 1st in London or online.

This is an initiative of Podenco Alliance and Podenco Support South West, with thanks to SOS Podenco Rescue for designating the 1st of May as the Day of the Podenco.

We would like to ask all UK adopted and fostered podencos, galgos and all other Spanish rescue dogs to take part in our peaceful photo campaign of protest at the treatment of hunting dogs in Spain.

Please send us one email for each of your dogs with a postcard size photo and short statement of their story to yellowdog.greenplanet@gmail.com. We will format them as per the postcards below. (You do not need to send it like the photo, do not send a photo of your dog’s passport)

The first 500 cards will be funded through Podenco Alliance fundraising efforts. If we receive more photos we would like to ask those who can to help with donations. Should you wish to donate, the PayPal email address to use is: yellowdog.greenplanet@gmail.com