Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Podenca Azahar…injured, pregnant, starving…captured after 5 months!

    Jacky H Azahar 1 250 12 2014Jacky Hazelger and friends worked hard to help this injured and pregnant podenca. They put food out but were unable to catch her. Eventually she gave birth to a brood of puppies. And eventually Jacky and team were able to catch the puppies and finally the podenca! 5 months of patience paid off.

    Here’s what Jacky says.

    December 2014 Azahar near Arenal, Javea, looking for food

    The story of Azahar. Abandoned, on the streets, hit by a car, and then she had puppies… took us 5 months to catch her and her 7 puppies…but finally an happy end!

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  • PAES Animal Welfare Conference – 16-18 October 2015 – Murcia, Spain

    Please support this conference, a must for all involved in animal welfare anywhere in the world. I will be speaking, be nice to meet any of you there. Please share widely.

  • Cirneco dell’Etna – from Sicily to Russia

    Ekaterina 1 250Whilst I do not support breeding podencos, here is a lovely story about the small Cirneco Dell’Etna podencos from Sicily, which are now making a name for themselves in Russia. Unlike the Andaluz, Ibicenco and Canario especially – of which there is massive over-breeding, abandonment and killing, the Cirneco dell’Etna is not well known. So Ekaterina Klimova tells her story.

    I Ekaterina Klimova, have been studying and breeding Cirneco Dell’Etna for more than five years. The first woman introduced one to the city of St. Petersburg, imported from Sicily. Now in my kennel Mia Santo’s three bitches Cirneco. Two females are involved in the breeding program, I want to receive and recover the ancient, beautiful unique type Cirneco Dell’Etna.

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  • Imprisonment for the animals in Spain – the hunter perpetrators get away scot free

    Video (on facebook but you may be able to view it) made by Peter Koekebakker of life for hunting dogs in Spain. No hygiene, no permits! 600 dogs are here from various hunters! Also people who work for the police keep their dogs here! No entry to the bunkers, no control by the municipalities or the police! It’s been twenty years like this and it will stay this way with the hunting federations and our White Collar Mafia Mess in Brussels!

  • Happy Ending for Podenca Canario Toti – from SARA Lanzarote to the USA

    Podenco Canario Toti survived an incredible rescue? Th e female podenco was rescued from a hole 40 meters under the earth, which was reported all over the media. You can see the story and his rescue here: TOTI’S STORY

    Fantastic news. TOTI is going to his new home in THE UNITED STATES

    Video of Toti

    Please help more podencos like Toti find their forever homes. Hundreds of them are waiting in refuges on all the Canary Islands.

  • Helping the Lanzarote podencos – why we do it

    Rick Beauchamp is a volunteer for SARA Protectora on Lanzarote, Canary Islands. He helps rehome rescued podencos in the UK. He writes about why he does it.

    Very often people ask us why we bother rescuing dogs from Lanzarote when there are so many homeless here in the UK?

    Our answer I feel rarely convinces, as you have to see the suffering of the dogs to really appreciate why we feel that we have absolutely no choice but to try and help.

    Recently we came across this article on the SARA website www.saraprotectora.org.
    I have transferred the article verbatim as it adds to the poignancy.

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  • The Stark Reality of life in Spain – what the tourists don’t see

    Video made by Bev Farmer. The truth about life in Spain for the majority of animals and what the tourists never see. Also the reality of life for animals on the Canary Islands – also a Province of Spain.

  • A sad story of betrayal – or ‘some people should never have a dog’.

    Not a podenco but a very sad story from Scooby of betrayal of love and loyalty.

  • Spanish councils and animal cruelty

    Isa Bel says:

    Spain

    shout it out loud! THAT COUNCILS IN SPAIN VIOLATE SYSTEMATICALLY THE LAWS AND ORDINANCES OF ANIMAL PROTECTION. They do not control responsible animal ownership, do not control chips, census, or conditions in which the animals are held. They moreover do not control legal or illegal breeding, do not promote or request sterilisation, do not combat dogfighting business and furthermore do not promote CES for colonies of cats… THEY DON’T CARE FOR ANIMALS.

  • Mijas animal shelter threatened with closure…contrary Spanish authorities

    There are times when the Spanish authorities make me bloody fuming! I don’t usually swear but this story really is unbelievable. Take particular note of why the authorities want to close the shelter, then remember the dogs incarcerated in a metal container in Murcia and just this week the Granada podencos rescued from underground bunkers! The latter story is on facebook but you might just be able to see it here.

    What is wrong with the Spanish authorities that they can’t be consistent?!

    Unfortunately only Spanish nationals with an identity card can sign the petition.