Brexit has a lot to answer for, not thought out and making an unholy mess of countless things linking the UK to the rest of Europe. Travelling from the UK to Europe with your dog gets ever more complicated. You need to get a certificate a minimum of 10 days before you travel, and a certificate for every time you do!!
This weblink takes you to information about an Animal Health Certificate.
Hunting -solution or problem?
On the first weekend of February thousands of people took to the street to ask for the end of hunting.
Hunting is a violent activity, practiced by only 1% of the population and which, however, for months, hijacks our mountains and fields, sowing them with death and suffering and preventing us from enjoying these spaces, which become a deadly trap, for 99% of the remaining population.
Read the full article on ESdiario
Castellon
Having travelled extensively in the interior of Spain on rescues, it is easy to understand how so many poor dogs can be hidden in rural buildings.
Investigating a man in Santa Magdalena having his dogs abandoned and malnourished.
The Guardia Civil has started an investigation into the population of Santa Magdalena de Pulpis, after receiving a notice from a citizen warning about the state of dogs in an old agricultural facility in the municipality.
A dog in a state of extreme thinness and weakness has been seized, which was urgently transferred to a veterinary center in Vinaròs.
https://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/…/investigan…
30 hunting dogs either dead or in a terrible state!
Read the full article on this weblink.
When I’ve had a problem like this on one of my dogs, I use Vet bandage and make a bootee from leather with a tape tie.
[GRANADA]
A game hunter in Granada kills a dog, removes its GPS, throws it on a raft and makes its owner believe he drowned.
The animal entered a creek, partridge hunters told it was bothering them and their solution was to shoot it in the mouth.
Podenco Balto rescued and looking for a forever home. Here’s his story.
‘Few months ago we came across this pic… We all shook our heads when we saw a podenco in this state!. It’s one of the most punished breeds along with the greyhound
After several hospitalizations and veterinary checkups, it was discovered that Balto had a tick stick stuck to his esophagus and lung. Vets didn’t give him much chance and also couldn’t understand that the infection hadn’t killed him. He was a very lucky boy after all he had been through!.
Now Balto is ready to find a home and many people prayed that he will be saved but finding a home for him is also a salvation!
From a post by Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends
The Use of E-Collars on Podencos: what are your thoughts about using them?
On the attached photo a question was put to a advocate of e-collars .. Why would you use E.Collar on a podenco that has been abused ? The answer was extremely disturbing. Please read the reply on the photo.
The Reality of Rescue: Healing the Broken
Every Podenco that enters rescue has a story—often one of neglect, fear, and survival. We spend months rehabilitating them, earning their trust, and helping them recover both physically and emotionally. These dogs, already so fragile, should never be subjected to training methods that rely on pain and fear.
The Gift of Kings: Delivered from a Slow and Sure Death. This is how this podenca was rescued, with an anchored strain, illegal and quite dangerous, it destroyed its leg.
She’s been every Christmas a slave to human evil,….. her malnutrition and the state of the cachexic reflects it.
Let’s call her LUZ (LIGHT), because we need a ray of Light in the face of so much evil, passivity and indifference.
From Huella de Jaén we’re going to help her, WE THANK the State Security Forces for the intervention and that there is JUSTICE.
We continue with her cures to save her leg. Let’s hope for Justice, to finally end those illegal practices that still exist, leaving many mutilations to innocent beings.
URGENT! !! ️ MADRID – TOLEDO !! ️
WHISKY, A FORGOTTEN GRANDFATHER IN A GARAGE. In a week he will go to the pound… After 10 years locked in a dark garage, this 10kg little guy is slowly shutting off. His owner is hospitalized and will never return and no one has asked for him in a year and a half.
Just waiting for an opportunity. A foster, an adoption …… whatever it is. It doesn’t deserve to end like this.
Tele (Spain 0034) 628 77 08 87 – Ask for WHISKY
This week I had a message from a lovely lady whose Mum adopted a little podenco X from me 13 years ago. Bobby was much loved by Jane, her daughter and sisters Claire and Deborah. It’s thanks to them that Bobby had such a wonderful last few years, they made a lot of sacrifices to take him on after Jane, and they gave him the absolute best. After a wonderful life in a loving home he developed cancer and has sadly crossed the rainbow bridge. RIP Bobby.
R.M. Drake from the book ‘ Dog People’
“What’s the hardest part about having a dog?” they asked, their tone casual, like it was just another question.
The hardest part about loving a dog is knowing that one day, you’ll have to say goodbye. From the moment they come into your life, you know their time is limited, but you push that thought away, pretending the day will never come. You invest your heart in them, share the quiet mornings, the playful afternoons, the long walks that seem endless. They become more than just a part of your life—they become a part of you.
