Please join in the March if you can, the details are below. There isn’t one in Manchester this year, not sure
about London but will publicise if there is.
Organised by Podencos In Need Scotland.
Date 30 April 2017
Time to meet – at 12:00–14:00 UTC+01
Current forecast – 6–13° Rain Showers
Meeting Place – Sir Walter Scott Memorial, East Princes Street Gardens,, EH2 2EJ Edinburgh, United Kingdom
What a difference love and food can make to a terrified starving podenco puppy. Little Saffra rescued 23 days ago and now she is looking so much better, has gained weight, her coat is getting a shine, she is negative for med diseases, a real sweetheart and ready to search for her forever sofa.
From a terrified puppy found all alone wondering where her next meal would come from sleeping out in the cold. With some tender loving care and good food, she is so much happier sometimes that is all it takes.
Contact Bev at Podenco Friends if you can offer Saffra a forever home.
Many of the podencos rescued by Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends made the journey to Sweden to forever homes. Here is a video of one stunning boy, flying out of Alicante to Tina and his forever. Contact Bev if you can offer a podenco a forever home.
Regular readers will know that I have been appealing for help for the Canary Island podencos since I first created my blogs back in 2007. A prohibitive factor in the adoption of Podenco Canarios is the cost of flights to mainland Europe for forever homes. In the past three or four years there has been an explosion of publicity for these fabulous hounds, largely due to facebook pages. I’d like to introduce another Lanzarote group who are helping hounds in the Teguise area. Huella y Huella – footprints.
‘Huella a Huella is a group which raises awareness, sensitization and well-being in general to the animals in Lanzarote from schools to those working in the field of animal protection and promotion of awareness-raising actions.
So we want to create a set of which all form part, institutions, associations and citizens, and together, bring this great project to term.
Los cazadores de Santa Cruz de Tenerife se manifestarán en contra de la nueva ley de tenencia de animales, acusando ademas, al colectivo animalista de calumnias.
On 22nd April, the Hunters of Santa Cruz de Tenerife are organising a demonstration against the new law of tenure of animals, and claiming that everyone tells lies about their cruelty to their hounjds!
Mary Macdonald is flying the flag for Podencos in Canada. She’s already adopted 2 and is about to get her third one. Here she tells her story.
“I am a volunteer for Greyhound Pets of Atlantic Canada (Branch Rep for my province of Prince Edward Island) and Galgos and Podencos of Atlantic Canada. It was though GPAC that I found out about these beautiful souls. I do meet and greets across my province, adoption applications and home visits.
We currently have 4 Podencos on PEI which I think is so wonderful for such a small Island. Our meet and greets and ” word of mouth ” are bringing attention to the podencos here and the rest of Atlantic Canada .
This sweet little podenca is Malta, small Podenca Andaluz, rescued but in kennels, where she is still nervous. No one has asked for her so a foster home in Cordoba/Seville area is needed to help her gain confidence, or adoption.
Once she gains trust, she is sweet and affectionate and gets on well with other dogs.
If you can foster or adopt Malta, write to us.
Adoptaotros@live.com
Ireneadopciones@gmail.com
More information and photos: http://adoptamestizos.org/portfolio/malta/
If you are thinking of applying to adopt a podenco, this link takes you to a list of rehoming associations by country.
On Sunday 2nd April 2017 over 300 people and many dogs marched in the streets of Malaga to protest about the lack of effective punishment meted out to abusers of animals, particularly hunting dogs.
Read the full article here.
One word…..HELP!!💔
Apologies from Jane at Pepis Dog Refuge for not posting much this week but as you will see it’s been a tough one. Probably one of the worst yet. Anyone following this page will of seen Kiora, the Galga that was recently dumped and shortly after died of an unknown illness. Well sadly, the illness is still unknown and it’s rampaging it’s way through the refuge. We currently have 3 dogs at the vets, 2 in the refuge hospital on drips and several more showing signs of coming down with it. We are praying at the moment they will all survive it.
Regardless, this is going to result in a MASSIVE vet bill. We obviously can’t quote it yet as at the moment we have no idea how many more are going to need treatment. If you can donate ANY amount it would be a great help.
PayPal is pepis.dogrefuge@yahoo.co.uk
Sadly Jane has reported today that galga Faith has died.
