Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • The Pride of Seville! Accommodation, rooms to let,

    Mairena killing station exposed yet again. When will the authorities act?

    IN SEVILLE
    Denounce the plight of the facilities of the Protector of Mairena del Alajarafe
    Members of the Humane Society and Plant Mairena del Alcor denounce the plight in which the animals are found and request that a general meeting be convened to appoint a new policy. Overcrowded and deplorable sanitary conditions in addition to lack of staff to care for them, dogs are the main complaints made by some members who have reached record images that may offend the sensibilities of anyone.

    13/01/2014 News CanalSur Tuenti Meneame

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  • Do you know what is in your animal feed?

    Daily Mail article exposing atrocities in Spain. Dogs in some of the perreras could suffer the same fate. Please publicise!

  • Cheap accommodation in Malaga

    Podencos abound in Malaga province and now the hunters are getting rid. There are 16 in Malaga perrera this week, all young ones.

    And I am told some of the ‘rescuers’ have created problems in the Valencia perrera – some of the podencos we donated to rescue last year are still in kennels till permission is given for them to be adopted.

    These are some of the podencos in Malaga perrera this week. Pray for them.

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  • ACTIN on Perreras – making money out of killing dogs

    Viv Wharton of ACTIN recently learned of a case where a pet dog was taken by the dog collector and ended up in the local perrera. Luckily the owners headed there as soon as they realised their dog was missing, and reclsimed it. What if this is happening in thousands of Perreras in Spain?

    Viv writes. ‘There is a recession, little money for anyone, let alone Perreras and animals are the bottom of Spain’s list of priorities!! The council run ones get paid for every dog brought in and now many volunteers pay to get them out.

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  • Podenca Jasira in Murcia – lucky to be alive

    Bev jasira head 250 1 1 2014Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends tells the story of JASIRA

    ‘I see so many Podencos in so many terrible situations. I see them by the roadside badly injured, having been hit by a car and left to die. I see them wandering the countryside, emaciated and very often with broken limbs. I see them with their spirits all but destroyed from having been incarcerated in a perrera.

    After this amount of exposure to such horrific sights, it’s hard not to begin to accept this as the norm here in Spain. Most of our rescued podencos require a lot of care to bring them back to good health, both physically and mentally.

    But now I have seen something which shook even me to the core. I have seen some terrible sights but this has to be one of the worst.

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  • Happy New Year to you all

    I wish all of you a healthy and happy 2014 and may the best of the past year be the worst of 2014. Today I am having a shoulder operation to repair damaged tendons so my typing activity will be curtailed for a few weeks. Please continue supporting the appeals and associations already posted. I will post more news as and when I can – one-handed! Difficult when I’m a speed touch typist!

  • ACTIN – fighting the war against animal cruelty in Cartagena, Murcia

    Read the story so far here

  • A New Year Wish

    I’d like to wish all of you a healthy and happy 2014 – may the best of the past year be the worst of the next. Today I am having a shoulder operation to repair damaged tendons so my typing will be restricted to one hand for a while. So please bear with me and continue reading and supporting the dogs and associations already posted on Podenco Post – I’ll post news and updates but not quite so often!

  • A Prayer for Animals

    A beautiful poem posted on fb by Marianne Murphy who lives in Denmark.

    PRAYER FOR ANIMALS:

    Dear Father

    Help them to find their way
    In a world of closed doors
    Lead them to food
    When they are to weak to find

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  • Pepis Dog Refuge – their Xmas Day present from above!

    Pepis bedroom window 1 250 12 2013These are the pictures of Pepis Dog Refuge on Christmas Day 2013, the day after we left after our visit to Jane and Alan and all their beautiful dogs.

    ‘Jane Brian 25 December 20:11

    This has never happened before on Christmas Day, complete devastation, very strong winds and torrential rain. After moving the dogs in the house from the ground floor to the upper floor for safety, which as you can see was fast filling with sewage water, to the upper floor.

    As the forecast is for more storms tomorrow, we went up to the caravan and found the shed had been completely devastated, with all the expensive electronic equipment which ran our limited solar electricity and all Alan’s electric tools in thick mud and water. The solar we did have has now been destroyed and the solar panels were blown into the olive tree.

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