Hard to believe that, with the mass overbreeding of podencos and galgos and the mass abandonment of them and dumping in perreras, that people steal them. Often it is the gitanos, who would sell them back to hunters.
This link takes you to the story of two such sets of dogs which the Guardia Civile have seized and would like to return to their owners…sadly probably hunters, if they are found.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Malaga & Granada – stolen podencos & galgos
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Portuguese Podengo Saruga looking for a forever home
If you love Podencos but haven’t room for a big one, how about little Podengo Saruga with Dogs of Portugal. All her details are on this link, together with more photos and a video. A sweet little soul hoping she soon has her own couch to sleep on in a forever home. -
March in Cologne, Germany, 25thJanuary 2018
For all podenco and galgo fosterers, adoptants and those who simply love them. Please join in the march if you can. -
Podenco boys in Spain hoping for forever homes
How many of you holiday in Malaga and haven’t visited the Axarquaia Animal Rescue? It is one of the many in Spain whose volunteers deal with the never ending problem of abandoned dogs and cats. Some of the stories are heartbreaking but many of them have happy endings. Here are two gorgeous podencos with the association, hoping there are people out there who could offer them perfect forever homes. And Tico is already learning the agility equipment. Could you continue his training and compete with him? Contact Axarquaia Animal Rescue direct.This is Tico.
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Holiday in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands? Accommodation filling up!
A few days ago I published the story of David Tomlinson who retired to Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, to renovate a finca. Instead he rescues and cares for podencos. This is the reality of Fuerteventura and the other Canary Islands…Gran Canaria, Tenerife…what the holidaymakers don’t see.These photos are from the perrera on Fuerteventura. Puppies, starving dogs, sick dogs…food thrown through the bars of the cage which is their prison. Most of these dogs will be killed…their only hope is for an association on mainland Europe to get them out. This is what Lucy Andemecraig writes.
‘Fuertevetura Perrera 12th January 2018. We have to empty cages! They are filled and the dogs are in danger! URGENT! If you do not adopt, share, to save the lives of these poor furries. All these beautiful podencos and puppies from other races are in the pound and are Fill the cages! they are in danger of being killed before their lives have begun.! 😢 HELP ME.
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Dumped in a plastic bag in a trash bin….Podenco Friends to the rescue
What a start to the New Year for Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends; 4 newborn pups dumped in a bag in rubbish, needing feeding every few hours! The pressure of abandoned pups and dogs in Spain never gets any less. Here’s the story of the pups.‘Four new born Podenco pups discovered in the garbage tied up in a plastic bag a couple of days before Christmas. Sounds shocking, how could anybody do something like this to leave such defenceless babies to die a horrible death either from suffocation, hypothermia or starvation. Here in Spain it’s not an isolated incident but a regular occurrence. Podencos usually give birth to large litters 10 or more and it’s not uncommon to hear that the owners want to reduce numbers. Sometimes they will take new born pups to a vet to euthanise and often the vets will contact a rescue and ask for their help. Or the alternative, they throw them in the rubbish/ their life has so little value. Four male pups who don’t command as good a price has females, that was their fate.
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To crate or not to crate a dog?
Read the article here, which I published a few days ago on my Galgo News blog.
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Portuguese Podengo Aida…looking for a forever home.
This sweet little lady is l year old Portuguese Podengo Aida, found on the street and taken in. Sadly she gets upsent when left alone whilst her rescuer is out at work, so she is now with Dogs of Portugal. they have over 700 dogs at the shelter! So Aida needs to get into a forever home soon. You can see videos of her on this link. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you would like to apply to adopt her. -
Renovating a house on Fuerteventura – no chance when the podencos are lost!
I always love receiving stories of podencos which have found loving forever homes. Here’s a rescue and rehoming story with a difference – David Tomlinson’s tale is one which so many Brits moving to Spain and the Spanish Islands experience.‘We came to Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) to renovate an old stone house on a finca, about 20,000 sq meters in the middle of 400,000 meters. We live in a area used during the hunting season (here it’s Bank Holidays and Sundays only Aug to Nov) by hunters with dogs, hunting rabbits. It seems now that frequently the dogs chase the rabbits for miles, get lost and the hunters leave them behind.
So one Monday in July 2005, a stray Podenco, turned up on our land. She was in pretty poor shape so we fed and watered her. We didn’t know what the system was so we contacted the local Police. They were very helpful but as the dog wasn’t microchipped they asked us if we wanted to keep her. The alternative was that she went to the dogs home and would be destroyed after 21 days. We were also told that if the owner turned up we could recover our costs. We agreed to keep her.