There are podencos in Mairena perrera. If you haven’t been following the story on Galgo News and facebook, here are some links. I has asked for verification of the claim that all but 20 of the dogs are out, including the sick and injured which are shown in the video on Christmas Day.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Podenca Trixie waiting for her forever
Rosemary reports the story of this little podenca.
‘Trixie was found walking along a busy road with a bit of rope tied around her neck, she was skin and bone and very weak when we found her.
She is a smaller podenco about 10 months old and she had mange so we have not been able to blood test or vaccinate but the mange has now completely gone with medical treatment, so we should be able to run the tests in about a week after she has finished the antibiotics. She is very friendly not nervous at all very sweet character.
email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com as we need foster or an adoptive home asap. Please phone 0034 650304746
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New Year in Seville – accommodation available
4 podencos on death row in Mairena, Mango is a Podenco Maneto. 60 euros to get a dog out, was 30 until the protests this week about conditions in Mairena!) Read about the protests on these links.
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Adaana – please help the ‘invisible’ podencos find forever homes
Appeal from Adaana – if their rescued podencos don’t soon find homes, they can’t help the others already on the street needing taking to safety. Here’s what they say.
‘We’re getting near February, and we know that with the end of the hunting season we’ll suffer a new wave of “hunting tools” dropped everywhere, while those which we already rescued remain invisible, without finding a home.
I send you a collage we made to promote them. The main photo is of Podenco Friends in Murcia, in the other photos: Miga, Amber, Lucía, Chance, Shabie y Bonsai. Real beauties!! More here.
We are already receiving requests for help for other podencos who, like them, have been used and discarded, but we can’t do more, especially if our rescued don’t achieve to find their new homes.
Help us to break this spell that makes them invisible, help us to promote them.
Amber was seen by a college of us with her owners and a lot of other podencos, hunting in a forbidden area. She approached them to tell them they shouldn’t be hunting there and they left. Amber caught her eye, because she seemed so young and clumsy… the next day she saw Amber on her own, and the next, … she was scared, but as the days went passed she got more confident and now she’s understood that there’s nothing to be scared about, and she’s a wonderful dog.
Miga was during nearly a month following in the distance a girl every time she walked her dog, she looked skinny and harmed. Between this person and a few neighbors they kept feeding her and trying to catch her, and at last, they achieved to catch her and they took her to the vet: she had a peculiar wound in her mouth, and the vet said it’s quite usual in the area, that hunters drop them with their mouth shut so that they aren’t able to hunt, but she was lucky to manage to get rid of it. Also, she was pregnant (we’ve sterilized her).
Though she walks perfectly on the leash and she accepts manipulation, she’s still quite scared, and she prefers to remain in the distance if possible.
Contact Adaana about their podencos and Podenco Friends
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The Invisibles – every home should have one!
I’ve been writing and publicising about the podencos for several years, since I started helping a French rescue association bring galgos and podencos from Spain to France for rehoming. I’ve fostered many and helped rehome them too, plus adopted one of my own, seen here with my galgos.
In general the galgos get more publicity because of the huge numbers abandoned every year, especially hung in the olive groves. But life in Spain for the podencos was and still is no different, just not in quite such huge numbers. And life for the podencos on the Spanish islands got and gets very little publicity atall. Which is why I have worked to help them too.
The podencos used to be called ‘The Great Forgotten’ but in the last couple of years there has been an ‘explosion’ of interest in podencos, mostly through publicity on facebook.
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Dream of living in Sunny Spain?
Dream of living a life of sun and sangria in Spain? Here’s one person’s story.
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Podenca Ruby – hoping for a forever home
Ruby is 3-4 years old. We believe she has-been wandering the streets for two years before she was coaxed to trust anyone. She is sleeping in someone’s garage at night and being fed but she is left to her own devices during the day. She has had a litter of puppies Which have now all been caught, we only found out When she was sterilized and they came out of hiding.
She has-been vaccinated, treated for heart worm and has blood tested clear of anything else. She was also very thin but is now gaining weight. She is very nervous around new people but is getting better and she appears to be fine with other dogs and ignore the cats.
The PEPA helpline please call 0034 650304746 for more info or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com
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Do you know what is in your animal feed 2
Further to the post about dead dogs in Spain being used in animal feed, here are a couple of videos asking if you know what is in your pet food.
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Anyone room for these podencos – help save them
Adaana have been asked to take thes two podencos but they don’t have room. Can anyone else help?
Two photos of other podencos in need, which we would like to help, but for whom we’ve got no place in this moment. I send you their photos just in case with promotion they achieve to get a definitive family, a foster home, or godparents.
The brown and white one is a female who is going to eat to a private property which has no fence. The place is in a dangerous area because it has highways and roads very near. She’s got a big wound in one of her back legs but it doesn’t look very infected and bones seem to be ok (she walks placing it down correctly).