Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • PAES International Animal Welfare Conference – October 2015 – book now

    Don’t forget to book your tickets now!

  • GPAR animal rescue in Rute, Granada…Podenco Pluto needs help

    Jenny Russell pod 1 250 7 2015LOOKING URGENTLY FOR A NEW HOME FOR PLUTO – HERE IN SPAIN OR EUROPE OR IN THE UK – PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE
    THANK-YOU
    CONTACT gpar.refuge@gmail.com if anyone can help

    NEWS STORY FROM GPAR – Pluto the Podenco!

    Pluto has had a very bad time. He was a street dog in Rute for over a year and no one was able to get near enough to him to catch him. It was unfortunately an accident he had with a car, that enabled GPAR to rescue him, take him to the vet for treatment and then to the refuge where he has been since Feb this year.

    The accident caused injury to his right paw which is now sightly deformed but he can walk on it although he will need to have another operation and he is waiting to have this.

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  • Portuguese Podengo Thomas – with Many Tears Rescue, Wales

    Many Tears Tom 190Here’s the story of Tom, a Portuguese Podengo x rescued and now with Many Tears Rescue in Wales. He’s looking for his forever family, along with another 9 Podencos – all in the UK in foster. June writes.

    ‘Learning to be loved:

    With all your help we have been able to save a number of dogs that were all going to die on the streets of Portugal.

    These dogs have been doing really well, some are now in permanent homes, whilst others are still awaiting their special day!

    om made his way to my family. Tom is a happy go lucky kind of a guy, but even with his chirpy character and live life to the full attitude you can still see that his soul
    bears scars of his former life! He truly believed that hands were a source of pain and something to be feared, he has been with me just under three weeks now and is just starting to understand that hands can make food and toys appear. If you moved too
    swiftly he would whimper believing a smack was coming his way!

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  • A Tether Tug – keeping your dog occupied

    I’ve been sent a link to the Tether Tug ‘toy’, with a suggestion that it could be something shelters and refuges could use to exercise/occupy their dogs…if there is a space for play/socialising. Perhaps even a handy person could make one.

  • Update on the container dogs…endf June 2015

    Those of us who are in, or who grew up in the UK will find this unbelievable But please keep supporting ACTIN in their work. It is simply not possible to just break into the container and take the dogs…if it was, it would have been done!

  • Lanzarote, Canary Islands – pet neutering scheme launched at Playa Blanca

    Towns all over Spain and the Canary Islands should run a scheme like this…for dogs, cats, horses…and especially for the hunting dogs.

  • Granada, Spain…under threat from the Spanish Cazador!

    Granada podencos Mom 170 7 2015My heart breaks when I read stories and appeals like this, Look at the eyes of this podenca mom…please help me and my babies. An all too common in so many countries because people will not sterilise their animals! Diana explains.

    ‘This is,sadly, a too common drama in Spain. Seven podencos pups and the mum living rough in a plot in a field. The owner doesn’t want them there and is going to ‘make them ” disappear “. They are in a little tiny hunter’s village in Granada. I know it is a desperate call for help, but maybe we can do something. Maybe we can take the mum and spay her and maybe, take the pups as well… or maybe nothing. But I have to try! Anyone who can help? Contact Diana Fisio Salobreña (via facebook)

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  • Just to say…

    we are changing Internet Service Provider and will shortly be disconnected from the Internet. It could take up to 7 days before we are reconnected. In the meantime I will be using friends’ wifi to check mail and comments. So please bear with me, if your comment does not publish for a day or two, as I have to moderate them and can’t do it offline!

    Don’t stop reading! I have schedule some posts to publish whilst I personally am offline.

  • Signs of leishmania in dogs

    Lethargy and reluctance to go for walks

    Constant shivering and shaking. This could be rigours, which indicates that the kidneys
    are involved. If your dog has this, get to a vet as soon as possible and get the kidneys checked.

    Enlarged, hard lymph glands which can be felt as lumps in the neck, just behind the jaw joint.

    These are additional signs and symptoms indicated by members of the Living with Leish
    Facebook group.

    Sneezing, and a cold or chest infection blocked nostrils.

    Bad smell coming from the dog. Described as “Gorgonzola”, a “monkey cage” etc.

    Overheating with panting.

    N.B. Many of the above signs can be confused with other illnesses. If they do not respond to conventional treatment, this may indicate that Leishmania is the underlying cause.

    Author Anne O’Connor
    More information available on her facebook page Living with Leishmania

  • Spain Buddy – vote for ACTIN

    Please, all of you who know the work ACTIN do in Spain, Murcia in particular, vote for them on this proposal. ACTIN need loads of votes to help them get chosen. So please vote for them and share widely to get more votes! Thanks.

    http://www.spainbuddy.com/calling-animal-charities-in-spain/#comment-16560