If you are able to see it – facebook link only – here is a video of the dogs currently with TheKennelKlub on Lanzarote, including the podencos looking for forever homes.
Read all about TheKennelKlub and if you go to Lanzarote, do look them up. Remember that the only hope of a forever home for the podencos is on mainland Europe and the US/Canada.
This link is to India,
From Bev Farmer.
‘Three weeks ago my life changed forever and it all feels surreal and I think that Warren has gone out and will be coming back and I miss him so much and so the dogs they keep looking at me for answers. He would have hated that he has left me with everything to sort out but thankfully he will never know for he died in his sleep. I never told him enough times I loved him or appreciated all the hard work he did but I loved taking photos of him with the dogs and it was my way of saying we are a team and I couldn’t do this without you.
I hold on to the last day we spent together it was a lovely warm winters day in Spain and we spent most of the day out in the paddocks with the dogs . It was just one of those rare days that felt so relaxed and lots of laughter and in the evening he cooked me one of my favourite dinners, a quiet night in watching a film and surrounded by the dogs, just content in each others company, everything to look forward to and now that has all gone.
‘Meet and Greet’ has long been popular in the US to introduce people to the Galgo. Now we have ‘Meet the Breed’ for the podencos. Wonderful idea.
‘Three cheers for all the folks in Orlando, Florida in December who were part of the “Meet the Breed” booth, letting the public meet and learn about Podencos.
Education is where it all starts!’
Meet Vera, a pocket sized podenca only a year old. She’s a failed hunter and has an injured hip and pelvis, probably from a bad kick. Vera needs a lot of help, for her veterinary expenses, the little one still doesn’t have a foster home to recover from the operation. She is very sweet, sensitive and quiet and needs an opportunity to start being happy, she’s already known the worst of this life, it’s time to start enjoying it. Please give a home to this sweetheart. Adopt and save a life!
The second podenca is Susi, (photo below) a podenca who was abandoned and left to look after herself, only a baby. She is full of tenderness with her bambi face and her sweetness. She’s loving and playful, sweet and sensitive and needs needs a family to grow strong, healthy and happy, someone to guide her on her way of socialization, so important in a puppy to feel safe and loved, someone to fall in love with her and want to give a home. She will be medium sized.
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Leila’s case is very sad, she appeared abandoned with her skin in very bad condition. She has spent a long time in the protectora waiting for a forever family. She is in foster receiving treatment for her allergy but there are a lot of dogs in the house and she really needs a place of her own. It’s not fair for a podenca who is so incredibly good, cheerful and educated, so if you’re looking for a bitch that will give you lots of love, and who would love to be pampered and have a friend for life, adopt Leila.
Contact Spain (0034) Adopt 667519646
I’ve just got my calendar, lots of great pictures featuring some of their rescued podencos and nice big squares in which to write your diary dates. All details about ordering on this link.
From Mo Swatek.
Mr BLANC, rescued from one of the worst places we saw in 20 years charity work. We went to BULLAS, THE HOUND HELL (here the pictures of our Bullas rescue mission, Caution terrible images where galgos and podencos ate each other) and a very haunting documentary about this case https://vimeo.com/38920299
Mr BLANC was so terrified, we thought he will have a heart attack from the stress. Today he is the most loving and clingy dog, the most friendly and outgoing.
Everybody knows by know the plight of the galgos but unfortunately their brothers, the podencos, have no lobby. They suffer so much in the hunting hound packs, reduced into small cold places, abandoned and killed when ever they seem to be useless to their heartless owners. These lovely podencos are barely appreciated as pets but they deserve it so much.
A couple of days ago I published some beautiful female Portuguese Podengos looking for forever homes. These are the male Portuguese podengos at the same shelter, run by friends of Jackie Dias, 30 minutes from Porto. The males are neutered and completing their vaccination programmes. They will eventually be microchipped and get an EU Pet Passport.
Information for adoptees outside of Portugal on how the best way they can ship a dog to a foreign country can be given.
Contact: jb.dias18@gmail.com
Introducing DICK – (pic above) Male Podengo and very handsome – a true podengo with the bat-like ears! He also has a great temperament. He suffered a lot at the hands of hunters and eventually it is thought that after losing his scent on a hunt he got lost and was found hungry and thirsty. He is looking for a forever home.
Jackie Dias lives in Portugal and has a couple of friends who run a small shelter in the north around 30 mins drive from Porto. Many of their dogs are Portuguese Podengos which are now on their way to being fully vaccinated, spayed/neutered and microchipped when the adoption process takes place.
Information for adoptees outside of Portugal on how the best way they can ship a dog to a foreign country can be given.
Contact: jb.dias18@gmail.com
Here is my my email as the contact and I can then channel contacts to my friends who run this shelter.
Please have a look at these lovely sweet podengos, they tend to be forgotten when there are so many in Spain too.
This one is TUCHA – Female Podenga sweet and always looking for cuddles.
