From Scooby.
‘Chia is a podenquita of about one year old.
She gets along well with other dogs and can live with cats. With people she is affectionate, although until she gains confidence she can be a bit shy. Chip … 538641.
Do you want to give Chia the home that she so needs? Please, send us an email to adopciones@scoobymedina.org
From Sandy Galgoslover.
‘New in our care these 3 gorgeous podenco puppies. They were found in a box at the hospital in Huercal Overa, and APA Nueva Vida brought them to the vet for a check up and giving the first care.
2 girls and a boy (Caramella, Santina & Gino) approximately 2 months old. Jean Minett was so kind to pick them up at the clinic and she also offered to foster them for a while.
Many thanks APA to save them, Jean to foster them and Helping Animals Almanzora to support one of the 3 musketeers.
All help / support for the other 2 rascals is welcome.
This appeal is from the Association which worked to free the Podencos of Mogan and is caring for them ready for rehoming.
‘Every year in the field many see our grounds and neighborhoods invaded by hunters who respect nothing. We get pellets in the yard, dogs get in the house, hens kill us, break us crops, fences, pipes… threatening us. We fear for our lives, our animals and goods.
They take advantage of places with few neighbors and little surveillance to commit their atrocities. Officers usually arrive late if they arrive and we are unprotected by lack of surveillance and impunity for hunters.
They also don’t respect the environment, they hunt in special protection areas where hunting is prohibited, they shoot protected birds, cats and whatever is terrified.’
We want the law to be enforced. Respect for the safety zones, not allowed to hunt alongside houses, crops, domestic animals, roads, recreational areas and protected spaces. Increase the available troopers and take measures to ensure compliance with existing regulations.
From PACMA
‘Good news. The case of the Podencos de Mogán, which you will surely remember, is finally advancing in the courts. Statements have been taken and, in general, the instruction of the procedure seems to be on the right track. We will fight to the end to obtain the maximum sentence for the people responsible for the terrible state in which these dogs were.
After years of intense struggle by PACMA together with protectors from the area, in April 2020, at last, those known as “the 90 podencos de Mogán”, who lived crowded, famished and among their own excrement in this municipality of Gran Canaria, they were seized and rescued from a life of exploitation and mistreatment. A few months ago we were able to see how they recover, free and happy, in foster homes.
Already in 2013 we began to denounce the horrible situation of mistreatment and overcrowding experienced by the podencos used for illegal breeding and hunting in the Canary Islands. In Mogán, the PACMA team witnessed and documented the deplorable confinement of almost a hundred hounds, locked in cages, severely malnourished, without any hygienic measures, living with the corpses of their companions and feeding on their own faeces. After years of fighting and denunciations, last year their luck finally changed.
At PACMA we work every day to save animals like them from exploitation, abandonment and abuse, to toughen penalties and to prohibit hunting.
Hopefully there will be more good news about this case soon. And, as always, for them, the fight continues!’
News from Bev.
‘A month ago I posted that I had been bitten by Scolopendra, a giant centipede here in Spain, whilst asleep in bed. At the the time I was not too concerned as few years ago I was bitten by one and it made me feel un well for a couple of days but nothing major.
This time is was very different and it made me very ill, causing problems with weakness in my muscles, my kidneys and affecting my nervous system. At the point where it bit me the skin became necrotic and I was covered in a rash and was quite worried when the medics started taking about meningitis.
I am over the worse of it and they think this reaction was much stronger because I had been bitten in the past. However it has left me having to pace myself and taking a break from Face book/social media. Just to say all the dogs are fine and I will post updates for everyone.
On this link you can read the petition for Fern’s Law – to make it compulsory for lost and stolen pets to be checked for microchips when recovered.
On this weblink you can read the report of the debate in Parliament.
These 3 gorgeous podenco pups are hoping for forever homes soon. If you have room in your home and heart for one of them, contact Sandy or John at Galgos Rescue Almeria.
Podenco Ziggy with Galgos Rescue Almeria
‘This evening when it had cooled down a bit we introduced Ziggy into the playing area. He had to wait until he was completely vaccinated. It seems he already met a new friend.
https://www.facebook.com/galgosrescuealmeria/videos/1823162041223564
