The reality of life in the killing station of Badajoz – please support SOS Perrera Badajoz volunteers in their work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNFNYzdEGG0
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Raising funds for a hound sanctuary in the US
Fundraiser by Rain Jordan in the US for a centre for podencos
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Podenco Post fundraising shop
Welcome to Podenco Post fundraising shop. Proceeds from the sale of items will be used to donate to appeals for help for vet fees for sick and injured podencos.
Prices are reasonable as I collect direct from the printer. Herewith prices, please copy and paste your order and email to me banddbrennan@yahoo.co.uk
If ordering more than one, postage prices will vary.
T-Shirts
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Nell and Navarre – Podenco Andaluz find forever together
With all the appeals for help for podencos, it’s great to have a lovely rehoming story. Robin and Ros Grover share theirs with you.
Our Podenco Story
We have had dogs over many years and mostly 2 at any time. In January 2013we had 1 mixed breed dog called Honey,and we were considering a second dog. At that point we had never even heard of a Podenco. We started casually searching dog rescues on the internet, and amongst that found some of the Podenco related rescue organisations. We had never imagined that you could have a rescue dog brought over from Spain and weren’t aware of the quarantine laws being changed. We could see the difference between the rescue dog situation in this country and the awful conditions in the Perreras and the terrible short life expectancies in those. We were horrified by the attitudes of the galgueros, and the medieval views on animal rights held by many in Spain. We knew we had to have a Poddy.
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Operation Rehala, the Bullas Rescue –
Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends has been accused of publishing propaganda about the plight of the podencos, that they don’t have a hard life. Probably her accuser is a podenco breeder/hunter – they always claim there isn’t a problem for the podencos! This is a video she made when she went to help with the Bullas Rescue – Operation Rehala – in March 2012. One thing not show is the trench where the bodies of dead puppies were thrown. Here’s a link to the original story. 120 dogs were rescued.
Bev has many rescued podencos now ready for adoption. Email her if you would like to find out more.
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Podencos in Spain – a hard life on the streets
Two heart -wrenching stories from Spain – starving podencos needing help.
We have called them Alba and Maya – two podencas have appeared in a very bad situation on the streets of a small village in Madrid, Fuentidueña de Tajo. Skinny and dying, hardly able to stand up.
A very good friend of Elena Alonso, who gives her whole life to animals,found them and took them into the car, People were just walking by ignoring them.
They are two young female pods, full of tiks and stunned by fear. Nevertheless, they aren’t able even to eat anything. They can barely stand up!
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Real life story from Tenerife, Canary Islands –
Tenerife, Canary Islands. A 77 year old man has been arrested because he murdered his pregnant podenca who was due shortly to give birth!
A neighbour reported hearing him kill the dog by beating it to death so agents from the Garachico nature protection service (Seprona) went to the place of the complaint. They found the podenca buried and a vet certified that death was because the animal had received repeated blows in the cranial area, as well as that the hound was about to give birth.
And the following story from Jane Brian of Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville.
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Scooby english blog – news update – podencos arriving soon
News update from the Scooby blog – they are taking some podencos which will need rehoming.