Remember Martin Usborne visiting Spain to photograph the galgos and podencos. His book launch is Thursday, 23rd July in London…all details here. Please go if you can.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Podenco Jasper…urgent foster home needed before end July
An urgent foster home is needed for Jasper, 10 year old podenco, as the kennels he is in are closing and he’s nowhere to go!! Please, someone help. He is being treated successfully for heartworm so needs somewhere quiet. Please contact Karen…please help Jasper.
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Valencia Container dogs…update
Here is the latest news from ACTIN about the situation for the container dogs. Permission now given to publicise this. Please continue to support ACTIN‘s legal team, a successful outcome for this case can be a precedent for use in the whole of Spain!
‘The owners have kept their dogs in the container for 5 years, we are trying to find out about previous dogs. Actin was only informed of this 2 months ago. Previous denuncias and complaints in the past, since 2010, have had no effect. Right now there are 4 dogs and 1 puppy inside; we can report some positive changes. The dogs have food and water, this has improved. The owners have coated the inside of the container with a material to regulate temperature, heat inside is the same as outside; we are not satisfied with this, BUT it is 20 degrees less than it would have been.
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Portuguese Podengo waiting for a forever family
Filipon is a delightful Portuguese Podengo. Watch the videos, read about him. Let’s find him a fabulous forever home.
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Galgos del Sur, Cordoba – saving puppies dumped as waste
My name is Patricia Almansa and I´m the head of Galgos del Sur, a little animal organization from Córdoba, Andalucía (South Spain). We have a big problem with podencos, nobody ask for they and we didn´t find any organization who help them.
The last case is very urgent. We rescued 4 podenco puppies one week ago from a dumpster (ribbish bin). They were in a bag closed with tape. Just in Córdoba we have a heat wave with temperatures higher than 45º; if we hadn´t found in this moment then I´m sure they would have died soon. They have a lot of ticks, wounds, it took us 3 days to take out everything and clean them.
We need help to find good homes for the little podencas, they can´t grow in a kennel. Could anyone help us? There is one boy Bruma (first pic), and 3 girls Arena, Brisa and Marea
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De la Pyramide a la Perrera
From Pyramid to Perrera – The Story of the Podenco is now published as an ebook in French. Purchase your copy here.
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Eight dogs and M.E. – blog by Fiona Nicholson
Regular readers will recognise Fiona as a valuable commentator on posts on Podenco Post. In March she undertook to move from Scotland to Western France with her 8 dogs. They are all settling in, although finding the contrast of the French summer temperatures somewhat different from those in Scotland.
Fiona is now writing a blog about life in France and much more. You can follow her on this link. Sign up and follow her stories by clicking on the ‘follow’ box bottom right hand corner of the screen.
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Portuguese podengos looking for forever homes
Here is a lovely story from Dineka in Portugal, about a lucky Portuguese podengo family.
‘On the 7th of May I saw two Podengos running on the road, both skinny to the bone, one male and one female. Stopped and gave them water and food, and the female obviously had puppies recently.
She was approachable, but the male was too scared, and ran off. It was already late afternoon, so I took the female to the vet, checked for a chip, and she belongs to a hunter nearby. But he didn’t bother reporting her as missing.
It turned out she had Microfilaria, anaemia and Tic-fever, and I left her ate the vet that night. Next morning I picked her up, put her on the leash where I found her, and she took me directly to a hollow tree, where she had hidden 5 puppies.