The bastard hunters have no feelings – to abandon a podenca with part of a leg missing. This is the type of injury which can occur when the dog is trapped in an illegal snare.
Watch this Podenca go from desperate when rescued to wagging her tail with hope… even when shes missing half of her leg. She’s been named Horchita. Sadly she is nowhere near fit enough yet to be operated on.
During my years on rescues with L’Europe des Levriers we brought many tripods out of Spain to France for rehoming. We found that the ones with a high amputation coped much better than a couple who were left with a longer stump, as they often tried putting that leg down.