Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Urgent…Podenca Lila needs a foster/adoption home

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    Emergency Lila needs quite urgently a home.

    She needs your help for this She experienced the incredible love and warmth of a home. Lila is waiting for her chance. She loves people’s care, is young and wants to move. At the shelter, she couldn’t stand it and managed to break out of every kennel. She literally goes up the walls.

    She was allowed to live in a foster home for a while and so enjoyed human proximity. But now she has to stay alone for so long during the day, that the outbreak artist is constantly looking for people near. Because of the proximity to the road, this condition is not acceptable. Now she has to go back to a kennel. The costs are enormous for the organization Perros con Alma and the place is terrible for Lila.

    There’s only one solution: she needs her own family quickly. Here you can find all the information about Lila. She’s an absolute treasure. Please help so Lila can soon be in a loving home.

    Here all Infos:http://www.tierschutzverein-europa.de/anzeige.php?lang=&id=9127

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  • Podenco Morito – 6 years as an invisible – he needs a forever home

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    Morito. A desolate story, his life as a tiny pup saved and now 6 years in a shelter with 350 other dogs.

    Podenco born in January 2012. The story of this little one is really sad and desolate. He came to us with just a month of life, very weak and helpless, with parvo, but eager to live. After dedicating 24 h of the day to get him ahead of surveillance, care, bottles, tests, controls… etc, finally Morito made us clear that he clung to life, that he wanted to live it.

    This is 6 years ago, 6!!! and Morito is still in the shelter. This is not the life we promised when we asked you to please fight… 6 years ago we told you that there was a wonderful life, surrounded by a family, with pampering and caresses daily, walks in the field… And now every day with his eyes he asks us if that promise we made we can achieve it.

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  • Brexit after March 2019 – potential changes in overseas travel for pets

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    From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    ‘Potentially big changes for taking your pets overseas from the UK after March 2019… It could resort back to the old system where titre counts for Rabies are required and 4 months waiting before they can travel and to complete a number of documents to travel. We had to do this back in 2001 when we first moved to Spain with our dogs. This will also impact on rescue dogs though in this article there is no mention of them but I imagine they will have to comply with the same rules to travel from Europe to the UK.’

    https://www.gov.uk/…/taking-your-pet-abroad-if-theres-no-br…

  • URGENT – appeal for donations for a heart op for Podenco Pup Ritchie

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    Please, if anyone can donate even just £5 to help pay for this podenco puppy to have a heart op and give him a chance of living a full life. The appeal hasn’t even reached a quarter of the amount needed. Please help and share too.

    Ritchie’s story from Bev Grubba, who is making the appeal.

    Ritchie is a 7 month abandoned pup and has a severe heart condition and needs surgery to try and save his life, within 4 months!

    He has an extra vein in his aorta which means all fluids are mixing, and he doesn’t have enough oxygen to work the heart, so this vein needs to be removed, intricate,complicated surgery The vet won’t do this till Funds are in.

    I didn’t know how else to get help and I couldn’t stand by and not try and help, hence this fundraiser.

    https://www.gofundme.com/heart-operation-for-pup-ritchie?member=829084

    PAYPAL bevgrubba@hotmail.com or if you wish to pay through a bank a/c, email Bev Grubba and she will give you the details. Any amount will help, the target is £2,000 but you can donate in any currency.

  • Survey to ban bullfighting and hunting in Spain

    Please vote and share widely.

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    Please sign and share widely.

    survey about bullfighting. Underneath is also a survey about hunting. If you would like to see hunting banned please click the YES circle and click underneath where it says VOTE.
    Its important as at the moment votes to keep hunting far outweigh votes to ban it.
    Please vote and share

    UK Support For The Anti Bullfighting Movement M.A.L – UK

    VOTE: Please vote YES! So far those in favour of keeping bullfighting (No to banning) are winning!!!

    ***Click the Yes circle then click underneath where is says vote.

    ***There is another vote further down the page to ban hunting if you would also like to vote on that.

    LINK TRANSLATION:

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  • Podenco Rio – in the right place at the right time for the right people

    A beautiful story about an abandoned and abused podenco who had a lucky break.

  • Scooby Medina del Campo in 11 minutes

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    If you’ve ever wondered what it is like at the Scooby Medina del Campo Shelter, Margie Easter has put together this video to give you some idea of the size, and the rescued animals. Warning, some of it can make you a bit dizzy!

    Remember, all these lovely animals are available for adoption. Contact Scooby direct.

  • Advice on adopting a shelter dog

    Nice piece about adopting a shelter dog.

  • Conversation with a UK police dog handler

    If you are interested in listening to the conversation, click on this link.

  • Update on Podenca Summer with Podenco Friends

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    You may remember in December 2016 I published the story of Podenca Summer, who arrived in the UK with a bad leg problem. The UK vet wanted to amputate 2 legs (can you imagine the stupidity of such a suggestion?!!) and Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends took her on and have worked with their Spanish vet team to save the legs and give Summer the chance of living out her natural life. Here’a an update from Bev.

    ‘An update on Summer … we have tapered her pain meds by 50 % and she is coping well and we will continue to reduce. She is able to run around the paddocks but if she does too much then she holds up the leg. This surgery can take a few months to settle and Summer seems much happier in herself, I believe her being in less pain.

    We now can start on aqua therapy for her which will be a big help, her gait is still not 100% but better than before and she may always walk a little wonky. As long as she is happy that is all the matters.

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