Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • From Lanzarote to Scotland with Podencos In Need Scotland

    Lorna Skirving pod 1 400
    Tino Ramirez lives in Scotland, a far cry from Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Here Lorna tells his adoption story

    ‘My husband and I had been talking about the possibility of getting a dog for some months through 2017, and always knew we would adopt a rescue dog. We knew we wanted a hound-type of dog and were thinking of a rescue greyhound or lurcher. At this point we had not even heard of the Podenco breed.

    A friend who already has a rescue Podenco suggested going to the Podencos in Need Scotland (PINS) charity and rescuing a dog from Spain. When I researched the breed and realised the cruelty these dogs suffer in Spain, it was a no brainer and I contacted PINS to adopt a dog. Tino was being fostered in Edinburgh and came to visit us in our home first to see if he would be ok with our 3 cats, and introductions went well. He came to live with us at the end of September 2017.

    He had been a stray in Lanzarote for over 2 years and unsurprisingly did struggle at first, particularly with men and with dogs he didn’t know. Watching him blossom over the last 4 months has been fabulous. He is brilliant with people and other dogs now, although does still have an issue with the letter box! He is also brilliant with our cats (so it is absolutely not true that sight-hounds cant live with cats!) and regularly sleeps on our bed with our boy cat Woody and with our older girl Venus on the sofa. Our lives have been changed hugely for the better, we love him to bits!’

    Thank you for sharing your story of Tino, wishing you lots of years of fun with him.

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  • Chained in a cave in Gran Canaria – used as a breeding machine!

    Lynn Destiny 1 400 Apologies to Lynn Paulrodos…this story should have been published at the beginning of October 2017!

    Lynn Paulrodos lives in northern France and has opened Avalon Animal Sanctuary as her collection of rescued animals has increased, which includes dogs, horses, goats… Here is the story of her most recent arrival – Destiny, a Gran Canary podenca found starving, chained up in a cave, and obviously used as a breeding machine!

    ‘DESTINY aka Cave Girl was found chained up in a cave in Gran Canary in August 2017 and taken to Pet Pals GC. She was under 8kgs and had a large mammary tumour with a cluster of smaller tumours inside and also tumours on her lungs—she’s only just 5yrs old!!

    It was decided to give her a chance and she was operated on on 4 Sept –the vet removed 14 mammary tumours and 2 hernias!! I was asked to help her as it’s not known how long she will live and no-one else was interested to take her—she is also Filaria (heartworm) positive.

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  • Marching in Malaga for Day of the Galgo & Podenco

    Read the article and see the photos on this link.

  • Marching in Malaga for Day of the Galgo & Podenco

    Marching in Malaga Sjors Ferrari400 4 2 2019
    Sjors Ferrari is passionate about podencos and flew for the day from Belgium to Malaga to join the march for the podencos and galgos on sunday 4th February 2018. She took 30 of these panels to hand out for marchers’ dogs to wear.

  • A Dog’s Love

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  • Dog of Portugal – Portuguese Podengo Emma looking for a forever home

    Dogs of Portugal Emma 400 2 2018
    This is little Emma, a Portuguese Podengo, looking for her forever home. Here’s her story and videos.

  • Rubbish to the podenquero – treasures to us

    Valencia perrera podencos 2 400
    Look at these two babies, rescued from the Valencia perrera. Here’s the message from Karen Behle.

    ‘Jette aka Daisy (Brown) & Mina alias Jasmina from death in Perrera Valencia urgently searches for a foster. We’ll get the 2 on Friday from killing. They are incredibly scared there, shaking in a pen. We plan a journey between the end of February and mid-March to Germany for both these 2 Hound bitches who are approx. 12 weeks old. Association: Avpd. Contact is via facebook anfrangen va private message’

    Or comment here and I’ll pass it on if you can help. I really would like to exterminate all hunters!.

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  • February 1st – Day of the Galgo

    Yo Galgo podenco 400 28 1 2018
    In 2016 Yo Galgo Productions made a video highlighting the plight of the galgo. They have now acknowledge that the podencos suffer just as much and in the same way as galgos.

    It’s not only galgos that suffer greatly in Spain. This sweet fellow is a Podenco, another hunting breed that can be found in high numbers at shelters. Just like the galgos they are being discarded or killed when they no longer live up to their owner’s expectations. In the demonstrations all over Spain the 4th of February we also fight to end the suffering of the Podencos. Join us, we have to end this.

    If you are able to view on facebook, here is the link to the Event page with a list of all the cities in Spain marching on 4th February and the people to contact if you can join in.

  • Susannah Stacey – saving the Gran Canaria podencos

    Susannah Staces 1 400
    Some 4 years ago I was contacted by a vet in the UK who had come across podencos and wanted to buy a copy of my book From Pyramid to Perrera to learn more. Her name was Susannah Stacey and she became hooked on podencos and helping them, especially the Gran Canaria pods. She set up a page Saving the Gran Canaria podencos and worked with rescuers on the Island and Irene & Steve Allen of Hope for Podencos. She died suddenly last week. Here’s what Irene writes.

    ‘SUZANNAH STACEY …… what can I say that many of you have not already said .The podencos have lost one of their shining stars . I became friends with Suzannah in 2015 when she adopted Lucy. Then in 2016 she asked me if I could foster any podencos from Gran Canaria and we said no as at the time we didn’t really have the space. But watching the group that Suzannah had started,Saving the Gran Canaria Podenco, I then could see the despair of these dozens of pods in the kill shelter, so I decided to help with taking two at a time.

    In a short time I flew to GC to see for myself and Suzannah and I chatted and we decided together we would get as many out as we could.

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  • Dogs and bones

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    For many years I gave large raw marrow bones to my dogs as being good for their teeth and gums, until one day my Swedish Valhund managed to break off a piece small enough to get stuck in her throat. This necessitated an operation and vet fees.

    I always clean up poop from my dogs, every time they go out and do one. Can’t say I’ve ever notice white bits in it, apart from once a foster galga arrived from Spain who supposedly had been wormed…but definitely hadn’t! However, I thought you might be interested to read this article.