The small Podenco Andaluz is bred and used for hunting in Mexico, where they are known as Podenco Arcabuceros. Here’s a short video of them hunting, mostly quail and rabbits. Also a link to the website of a Podenquero who breeds them, some of which he exports to Andalucia, Spain! As if there aren’t enough podencos there – overbred and abandoned!
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Publicity for the Podencos
Alex Frederikson lives in Austria and has adopted a couple of podencos in the last 12 months. She is now writing articles about them, here’s a link to one. Well done, Alex, any publicity is positive. However I’ve been rescuing and fostering and publicising and writing about the podencos for several years, and have to admit I wonder why it has taken so long for people to take notice!!
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Podenca Amber – Lanzarote to UK – can you help?
Regular readers will know that I often mention the podencos waiting in the Canary Islands for forever homes, and that it is expensive to get them to the UK for rehoming. This is an appeal to ask if you can help towards getting this beautiful podenca to her forever home. Laura tells the story.
‘This is AMBER. She is an 18 month old female Podenco. She was found by holidaymakers and ended up in the dog pound. We went and met with them as they desperately wanted to take this beautiful girl home with them.
Plans were made and finances organised but sadly in the last 3 weeks a lot has changed.
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Sad reality of life in Spain for Podencos – report from Zamorra
The cruelty of the Spanish hunter knows no bounds. I shed so many tears at the stories which arrive in my inbox every week. This story is about Alma, just been rescued and now under the care of Scooby at Zamorra and their vet. Cobie explains.
‘The sad reality for a podenca, a hunting dog of advanced age that no longer “served” and that was found in a state close to dying, completely starved and without any energy to be able to stand up, with severe wounds all over her body, inflicted by beings full of hate and anger and without scruples or feeling.
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PACMA – Canary Islands Government says no to outlawing animal abuse
PACMA is a political party in Spain, founded in 2003, fighting the abuse and maltreatment of animals. This is a report on their website on a recent action against the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands. (google translation)
‘Next March will be a year of delivery of a request to amend the Law 8/1991 on the Animal Protection Party Animalista – PACMA the Canary Islands Government and backed by 30,070 signatures collected throughout the archipelago.
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Planning a holiday? Volunteer at a dog shelter in Spain
Spring will soon be upon us, and I’m sure your thoughts are turning to planning holidays. Why not plan a week or two helping out at a shelter in Spain? The shelters rely on volunteers to help them with the daily chores of looking after dozens of dogs – in the case of Scooby Medina, hundreds of dogs and in the case of Pepis Dog Refuge, Jane and Alan daily look after nearly 80 dogs!
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Valencia podencos saved from the campo – ready for adoption with P.E.P.A.
Rosemary Macdonald tells about the latest rescues with the PEPA animal charity in Valencia.
‘This is Mamma about a year and a bit old the amazing wonderful girl that we rescued after we found her feeding three different sets of puppies only two of them hers, she is now ready to go to a new home she is without a doubt a wonderful dog she is well mannered loving eager to please and she gets on well with other dogs.