Last week Dogs Trust organised its International Companion Animal Welfare Conference in Barcelona. You can read a report on it by Aanifiera, a Portuguese animal rescue group.
Dogs Trust slide show
If you want Dogs Trust International to help the galgos and podencos, send an email here.
And tiny Pepa, only 6 kgs and 18 months old, in Cordoba, Montilla municipal perrera, she does not understand why. And already she has had a little of puppies. She is very sweet, nervous just wants to feel love and give love in return. What has she done wrong? She’s been born a podenca in Spain!!
PEPA
Sex: female
Age: April 2012
Race: Podenca
Weight: 6 kg
Contact: conluzanimal@gmail.com
Beautiful podenca and her babies, babies will not live long… it’s cold at night and damp. It is urgent to remove them ALL now as the baiies are only a week old, they have not yet opened their eyes. 3 Females and 2 males, help urgently!
If you are interested please, send email to adoptadelaperrera@gmail.com. We are volunteers and we cannot read all the comments from facebook, we will reply by email as soon as we can.
This poor podenca was living in the streets of a village near Valencia, and a girl was feeding her. An appeal was made for someone with room to take her and Little Pod answered. The poor podenca was wandering the streets carrying this extra baggage – a hug tumour. She has been named Eva.
She was caught and taken to the vet where she was kept in under observation over the weekend. They will operate today (14/10), but there are many complications. They will do an ultrasound to check for puppies but they have to do an x-ray too. There are 2 more tumors and she will have to have her whole mammary canal removed which will take 3 operations. They can’t spay her at the same time so she will need a 4th operation.
This is a so-called Rehala where they hunt deer and wild pigs with big packs of dogs, mostly podencos. This is how they train the dogs!! I’m waiting news of where and when. The dogs carry numbers because they don’t have names. Well – of course they don’t, they don’t have microchips or passports….
Do you remember the story of Podi, the podenca which had been badly shot and left dying. The case went to court because there was such an uproar in Granada. The case was heard this week and the judge has referred ti to the Criminal Court.
Here’s Bev’s translation of the report.
In May this year a Podenco (Podi) was shot three times in the head chest and leg which was partly blown off – the reason why? she was a stray and hungry looking for food despite been rushed to veterinary clinic Podi did not survive her horrific injuries.
Four fabulous Christmas card designs on sale to help needy hounds, details here.
To spend some time with Bev and Warren and all their foster podencos in Murcia – well, a few are permanent residents – was a fabulous experience. I offered to help with the dogs but they were organised, they had their routine, so I did as I was told! Walking on the campo with Bev and the young hounds, watching her training them on recall was fabulous.
