Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Spanish hounds in the UK – educating vets about Leishmania

    UK vets don’t seem to have much knowledge of leishmania – and now that so many Spanish dogs are being adopted there, we need to educate them. I always recommend an annual blood analysis for leishmania, even if the passport blood reports say ‘negative’. It has been known for a ‘negative’ dog to develop leishmania.

    So please share the information on this link with your UK vet. Those of us with experience of dogs with leishmania know it’s nothing to be concerned about once the treatment is in place…but we need to educate the UK vets, especially on where to get the requisite medication. One couple I know used to travel back to Spain just to get it, as they couldn’t get it in the UK or on the Internet.

  • Castellana, Seville – left to die on the street…

    Injured podenca lasaasso 250 12 2014Left to die on the streets of Seville.

    Anita, mini podenca, 4,5k, lying in a corner without being able to move after being knocked down… Snuggled up to die without aid, 5 days in the sight of all people, and nobody came to help her’.. In cantillana.

    Dreadful example of cruelty and cold indifference… This is the case that reaches us and despite the enormous debts that we have with the vet we cannot leave here…. Anita is in the care of the vet and she needs your help!

    The perrita had disappeared from the place where she was knocked down, curled up to die away from the road.

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  • Portuguese Podenco – looking for his forever home

    Dogs of Portugal have this fabulous little Portuguese Podengo waiting for his forever home. Wouldn’t it be great if he got one for his Xmas present. Read about him on this link and see the videos of him. Let’s help this lovely hound.

  • Injured podenco near Cadiz – update

    Kate pod boy bed 250Update on frankfurther hoggity doggity! 11/12/2014

    ‘He’s really young – only seven months, poor baby.

    On Wednesday, Pepino said he’d be fine without an operation.

    However, yesterday, he was less bouncy and didn’t want to go for such a long walk, so I’m afraid that his leg may be hurting, perhaps because the vet didn’t have any of those stiff bandages (she’s so useless) and when I went to buy one, the shops were closed for a long weekend for the Annunciación.

    I still hope he won’t need an operation.

    However, I’d really like to get him to Morón to be seen by the special podenco vet.

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  • Podenco Solo with his forever Mom

    Podenco Solo with his forever Mom.

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  • Vote for Podencoworld Nederland NOW!

    Podencoworld Nederland need our help. They are currently in 2nd place to win funding. This will be used to treat many many podencos in Tenerife that have heartworm. Without the treatment they will not survive. All you have to do is click onto the link and nominate Stichting Podencoworld, they are 200 votes behind the leader. Our votes could save many podencos lives thank you

    Vote on this link, your name, email address and copy the letters in the box

  • Podenco Solo – a VERY happy ending

    Solo with Warren 250 10 12 2014Readers of my blog may remember my appeal in July 2013 for a forever home for Solo, here’s the story.

    I met the little chap when I visited Bev and Warren in September 2013 – and now there is great news. He has now set off on the final stage of his trip to a forever family of his own. The bestest Xmas present ever for him! Sad for Warren and Bev to see him go after so long, thank you for being there and taking him. Bonne Chance Solo, enjoy the rest of your life.

  • Pope France – a message to Spanish galgueros and gitanos

    This is for all the Spanish galgueros and gitanos – Spain is a Catholic country – this is what your Pope says about animals! It doesn’t give you licence to abuse them so they get there quicker!

  • Update on the starving, injured podenco

    Kate pod leg 2 170Update on Frank (as in frankfurters)/Hoppalong Doggity, Podihopper!

    ‘Thank you for the donation, very kind of you – on my behalf and on behalf of Hopalong Doggerty. He loathes the cheap dry dogfood – he’s very fussy, considering he was starving and on the streets – so I give him brown rice, boiled with carrots and some broth from my own vegetables till it’s soggy and with a whole tin of sardines added once it’s cooled. I don’t blame him about the dogfood – it’s rubbish. He no longer has diarrhoea. Trouble is, a tin of sardines costs 70 centimos. I got him a worm tablet yesterday and will give it to him later – forgot this morning.

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  • Desperate help needed for a podenco

    Kate pod 2a 170A friend of mine has just rescued a podenco in terrible condition…two boys helped her catch him. She is in an area with a lot of hunters and gitanos. She suffers from ill health and has not the means to pay for the vet treatment he needs. So we desperately need an association to take him on. She is in southern Spain. Here’s what she says about him.

    1/12/2014 – ‘Walking through the square I saw a very, very thin podenco with one front leg held up and dangling, searching under and around the bins. I asked two little boys to watch him, rushed into the shop which luckily is on the square, grabbed a packet of frankfurters for 2€ and rushed out again. After he’d eaten several, he hopped off, but we followed him and one of the little boys (Gitanos – lots here and not crueller to animals than anyone else) managed to go up to him and gently stroke his head and hold him, while I tied my scarf round his neck.

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