Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Seville again – more dogs in shacks – anyone room?

    Macu old podenca 400 6 2012
    News from Macu, in Seville. ‘Look at this little old girl – about 12 years old! She’s with another 15 dogs living in a shack, waiting to be moved to a kennels. It would be marvellous if she could spend her last few years in comfort. She weights less than 10k, is very gentle. Is there anyone who could take her, if I get her out? I’ve already got 16 in a kennels which I am paying for? What I need is an association which could take her and get her adopted’.

    Contact macu197820102@hotmail.com (Spain) 665809169

  • Tripod Podenca Ana – racing on the beach – anyone help her pup chloe?

    Ana sofa 250 5 2012Remember Ana, rescued in Ana, Spain, in November 2012. Here’s a wonderful video showing that a tripo does not need to be handicapped by a leg missing!

    Amazing Ana. http://youtu.be/WU_LK9VrHbs Enjoy a tripod tearing around on the sands of the beach… Amazing Ana!

    Some time back Ana came to us from Valencia, another down and out podenca tossed out, no longer needed. No long er required and so, left to her devices she roamed the lands. She fed herself and did the best she could. At some point either before tossed out, or after, she succumbed to a terrible break in a hind leg, an infected bone which reinfected, and reinfected.

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  • Ibizan Hound Rescue – podencos from a Bullas Babe in the UK for adoption

    Bullas%20mum 250 IHRMore news about the Bullas Babes, the podencos taken in by Little Pod Foundation, who had been rescued in January 2012 along with tens of galgos in a compound in Bullas, Murcia. The owner used the dogs for breeding to sell to the Spanish hunters. These podenco puppies are from a Bullas podenca, now safe with Ibizan Hound Rescue in the UK and looking for forever homes. If you would like to be considered as an adoptant, please contact Valerie Wood www.ibizanhoundrescue.com

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  • Podenco Puppy in Cordoba perrera – anyone room for him?

    Cordoba perrera podenco puppy 190 6 2012This beautiful little male podenco puppy is on death row in Cordoba perrera! His life has barely begun! If you have room for him, please contact: lilianapatitasdecordoba@hotmail.com

  • Urgent forever homes needed for two podenco puppies with APASA

    Pride%20&%20Prejudice 300These two adorable podencos puppies were thrown over the fence of the APASA dog pound. Jacky Hazeleger, their foster mom, tells the story.

    ‘Poor Pride and Prejudice! These 2 lovely podenco puppies were thrown over the fence of our dog pound in the night. Thank God that they ended up in a very good pack. If they have been thrown into a different pack, they might have been killed.

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  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona, fighting to save the galgos and podencos

    AnnaClements_JeromeGuillot_250 EstrasburgoSOS Galgos seeks help from Europe in ending the plight of Spanish galgos

    On 9th June SOS Galgos attended the first international demonstration in defence of Spanish galgos in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The protest condemned the cruelty suffered by galgos at the end of the hunting season. The demonstration was supported by Euro MP, Michèle Striffler. Protests echoing these demands took place in Madrid and Barcelona the following day. (Anna Clements & Jerome Guillot)

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  • Manifestation Strasbourg 9 June 2012 – march to save the galgos and podencos

    You can read my report on my visit to Strasbourg to take part in the Manifestation organised by CREL, and see photos and videos of the march. Over 1,000 people, 400 galgos and podencos…amazing. Here are some of the podencos taking part. PodandCo were well represented.

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  • X Podenco Snoopy – beating the odds in Spain

    Snoopy Ivor Scott 250 5 2012This delightul cutie pie is Snoopy, a x podenco puppy, now living happily with the Scott family, between the UK and Spain. Ivor Scott tells the story.

    ‘Well,, my wife & I had a Border Collie called Jess,she was a special girl, very clever,, each year we came to Spain for 6 months, sadly last year Jess died from cancer aged 13 years,, we were devastated.

    When we returned to Spain in November 2011, life was so empty, there was a huge void. We had decided not to get another dog, so we made contact with Pat Coleman, the founder of F-A-M-A animal rescue in Fuengirola, Andalucia. We offered our time to go dog walking.

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  • SARA Lanzarote – saving animals in the Canary Islands

    SARA Rodrigo 190I mention many times how hard it is for the podencos in the Canary Islands to find forever homes. The SARA Lanzarote newsletter popped into my mailbox today and I couldn’t believe that Rodrigo, this beautiful podenco, is still in the SARA shelter – 5 years on! He’s a failed hunter, good to walk on a lead, good with children and adults and other dogs. Surely there must be someone somewhere who has a place in their heart for him?

    They have donzens of deserving podencos there, amongst all the other dogs, please contact them direct if you can help Rodrigo or any of the others.

  • Little Pod Foundation – trying to save 40 more podencos

    You will all be horrified and sickened by this news which has come in from the Little Pod Foundation in Murcia.

    This is the original message. ‘Calling ALL Podenco Lovers!! We have just received emails about 40 Podencos living in terrible conditions in Benissa. The majority are females being used for breeding. In the video clips (haven’t a link to it yet) you can see their dirty drinking water is out of reach, there is no food and they are all on short chains. You can see two already have severe inuries to their back legs and Seprona have already been called in and will going back in a couple of days. This situation is Urgent and these dogs need help!!! Please contact us if you can help in any way, thank you’

    Further investigation has revealed the appalling news that the owner of these dogs is an officer of the law, and refuses to give them up!