Some years ago I wrote about an Argentinian who bred Podenco Andaluz…I haven’t managed to find the post here to link to it. But I recently received an email from a lady who adopted a dog in Argentina which is very much a black podenco type. So Valentin would like to introduce you to Raimondo and if any of you have a black podenco, maybe you would like to message her in the comments.
‘The story of how I got Raimundo is very standard: I saw a puppy at a vet store and asked the owner where he got it, who then directed me to this place where an old couple lived. There was the mother with two puppies left, one of them was Raimundo. The mother didn’t look like Raimundo at all except for the color: she was a very common looking dog, black, medium size, chubby, like a small lab. She didn’t have Raimundo’s ears or his slenderness. She got pregnant one time she ran away (or so her owners claimed) and they never saw the male dog that fathered Raimundo. Also, Raimundo was originally the name of the owner of the doggies, a man in his old age. I thought the name was hilarious and so I kept it for my Rai.
I love my Rai, he is such a crazy but loving dog, and he is gorgeous. Every single week someone stops me in the street to tell me how peculiar, or elegant, or Egyptian, or cute he is.
I would love to talk to anyone with a black podenco.’
Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends has had multi-coloured podencos occasionally, you can see her photo from my Podenco Post facebook page here.
Here also is a black podenco which was with TheKennelKlub on Lanzarote.
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6 responses to “Black podencos – do you have one?”
Hiya ! We have a female black Podenco Canario called Onyx who was rescued from Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
When i went to Fuerteventura about 15 years ago, I went to a Podenco kennel (hunter) and the owner shoved me a black Podenco. He told me she was a cross though and she was not allowed to live in the kennel with the ‘pure bred’ Canarios. He kept his crosses in a pen by themselves.
I’m happy to see that Onyx has found a forever home. I wanted to adopt her, but she was a little to big and we settled for a smaller red Canario girl, Butterfly!!
How small is the world that you both read Podenco Post and actually looked at the same black podenco in the Canary Islands! Thank you both for commenting and if you would like to write me a rehoming story about your podencos on the lines of the one above, I would love to publish them. Email me at banddbrennan@yahoo.co.uk and send pix .jpg.
Hi!
Great to know there are others! I’m thinking black Pods are quite a rarity!
I have a black, female, one year old Podenco named Ziggy Stardust that was adopted in Germany but is orginaly from Spain. Not much is know of her history, but she is enchanting and so regal! Jet black with a think white stripe on her chest. 🙂
Thanks for commenting, Kelly. Great to know there is another black one. Same question I have asked the other two people – would you like to write me the rehoming story about Ziggy similar lines to that of Raimondo. The more publicity of happy homings of podencos, the better it is for the chances of the hounds still waiting for forever homes.
Hi all I’m rai’s owner, thanks for your kind words! I would love to see pictures of your lovely babies if possible!