This beautiful but sad photo is of Podenca Jasira, rescued by Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends and adopted by Manja in the Netherlands.
Here is her moving story and two videos showing just how a skeletal podenca can recover with the right care.
‘Two years ago at the beginning of March 2015 a very special Podenco Ibicenco named Jasira died. Her story moved me from the beginning: she was rescued by Beverley Farmer and Warren Beards, two human angels who live in Spain and spend all their time and energy to rescue these beautiful and extraordinary dogs.
She was more dead than alive when she was found. Even though she had experienced nothing but evil and harm from humans, she learned to trust them again and accept the love and care Beverley and Warren provided. Physically she seemed to recover very well, until a little over a year later she died. As sad as this was and still is, at least she had experienced what it means to have loving humans care for her. Her name means ‘courageous’ and that she was.
Here are add two videos. The first one contains very strong images, the second one shows how she was after a few months in the hands of two good people. Please support Podenco Friends in their work. They have many podencos all looking for forever homes.
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One response to “Remembering Podenca Jasira”
Jasira. Absolutely beautiful. How can one not be deeply moved by her story? I am one of the many that fell in love with her.Those early videos of her are heart breaking but necessary. We need to be reminded how these beautiful, gentle creatures are made to suffer at the hands of ignorant humans. Yes, we all know of whom I speak. I am tired of the injustice meted out to these innocent creatures and the fact that they get away with it. I have two lovely female Pods and they mean the world to me. Many thanks to Beverly, Warren and Manja for giving the exquisite Jasira new hope and happiness, however brief. Farewell Jasira,x.