An increasing number of tourists are reaching out, deeply saddened and outraged by the instances of squalor and animal abuse found all over the island of S. Miguel, in the Azores, Portugal – Hello, I have just seen in Vila Franca do Campo very skinny dogs left out in the sun on a pickup truck. The guy doesn’t care about leaving them exposed to the sun. Who can I contact?¨

– GPHG/Cat rescue in S. Miguel, Azores.

Left forgotten in the sun—skeletal, blinded by hunger and thirst—in the back of an open-bed truck. They likely live chained up all year round.
The extraordinary ancient podengos of S. Miguel, Azores, They could be an icon of these islands. And yet, this is how they ended up. They deserve so much better than this.

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