Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Update on Podenca Libby’s pups with SOS Animals

    Libbys pups 400 9 2017You will remember my appeal for help for podenca Libby and her 5 pups living in a cave and being fed by an Englishman living nearby. After he had to return to the UK (no choice in the matter) a local lady volunteer with SOS Animals stepped in. Libby and one of her pups are adopted by Vincent and a friend, the other 4 pups are growing fast with SOS Animals.

    Thanks to your generosity along with others, enough money was raised towards vaccinations for the pups. Rescuer Sue has this update.

    ‘Big Bang Theory has provided the inspiration for the names for our four playful sibling puppies…meet (left to right) Howard, Penny, Leonard and Sheldon. They love each other very much. Penny is already reserved for a home in the UK when her papers are ready for travel.’

    If you would like to ask about one of the boys, please contact SOS Animals.

  • The escape artist, climber, digger, Houdini.

    Escaping dog over fence 400I’m an opportunist, an escapee in the making
    I want to run away from you, your love I am forsaking.

    Because I am scared of everything, and you don’t understand
    I’d sooner run away from you and live out on the land.

    Don’t leave that door open, not even just ajar
    Because if you do I’ll be gone, and run and run so far.

    A window left open, to catch the gentle breeze
    For me that’s a piece of cake. I can get through that with ease.

    I can wriggle out of a harness if that is not secure.
    I’ll find a way I know I can, and of that you can be sure.

    I watch for things that you seemingly and carelessly forget
    Like leaving me in the garden. All you’ll have now is regret.

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  • Apologies

    Apologies to those of you who wish to comment on my articles. I have no idea why Typepad has done this, but I have asked my webmaster Craig to look into it. Needs sorting!

  • Young podenco – dumped like trash to be killed! Caceres, Spain – URGENT!

    Caceres podenco 400 20 9 2017This young podenco is in the municipal pound in Caceres, southern Spain. He has a front leg injury which urgently needs veterinary attention. He’s terrified…look at his eyes! Poor soul. If he is not taken out soon, he will be murdered in a couple of weeks, pts by the municipal vet…Please contact adopcionescaralapiz@gmail.com or whats app to 625190080

  • Keep your new dog safe…important lessons to learn

    Ann Marie Payne is with SOS Animals in Coin and has become very concerned about the number of posts for lost dogs! Here’s what she writes.

    ‘Lately I’ve seen so many posts about newly adopted dogs escaping.

    You may be excited at the idea of having a new dog, but your dog is probably terrified and will want to flee at the first opportunity.

    Please try to put yourself in their mind and try to imagine this.

    They may have had a miserable life and ended up in the pound, or simply might have got lost and ended up in there. The pound is not a nice place, and many struggle to survive mentally as well as physically. They go into foster and regain some of their trust, only to find themselves crated up and off to somewhere new.

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  • Sign the petition to Save the Strays in Murcia

    Please sign and share widely. No dog should be murdered in a perrera!

  • French lesson – how to train your master

    French manipulation of the master 400 9 2017
    How to manipulate your master – French style. Place your chin on their knee and look at them with very soulful eyes!

  • Skinny Dog Jewellery – raising funds for hounds

    Lovely jewellery for sale, raising funds for animal shelters. Rather pricey but unusual. Check the website here.

  • Adopt a podenco, make their life complete

    Days numbered

    List of podenco rescue and rehoming associations

  • Podenca Thelma – safe from a hunting future

    Thelma 400 6 9 2017From my Help the Podencos facebook page.

    Thelma…… SOS

    This is the youngest podenca of a hunter who fortunately is hospitalized in the hospital, fortunately he can’t take care of it, and fortunately in his family there is no successor hunter.

    He collapsed and the person who was doing everything he could to find all of them, going to check the situation in the shitty place they were kept, took Thelma and took her to the vet.

    9.5 kg, covered, dehydrated, with fleas and anemic. But thanks to her young age, liver and kidneys are fine. And she hasn’t got heartworm. Luckily, the hunter’s vet said she will be fine.

    Fingers crossed she is soon adopted.

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