Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • URGENT – protect the dogs of Los Infiernos Protectora, Lorca – send a letter now!

    Lorca Volunteer 400 10 2024
    This is tragic. Please send an email even if you aren’t an animal person. Read to the end for the email addresses.

    I’ve asked for a Spanish translation and as soon as it is available I will publish here. Maybe best to write in Spanish.

    From Los Infiernos Protectora Supporters
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    Dear Lorca Town Hall ( Ayuntamiento de Lorca )

    I am one of the volunteers at Los Infiernos Protectora and have been volunteering with the dogs there for eight years now, not as long as some people, but it’s been a while. I’ve seen volunteers come and go. It happens, it’s not for everyone. I can honestly say, the volunteer group we have now is the very best team we have ever had. We have people working so hard in the background, it’s not all about showing up and walking the dogs and feeding the cats, although we are very good and dedicated in doing that.

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  • 100s of rescue podencos need homes – have you room for one?

    Podenco love life leader poster 400

    List of podenco rehoming associations

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – CMA UK look at extortionate vet costs

    Scooby logo 400
    From Fermin

    ‘We participated in an on-line meeting of the UK All All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group about foreign dog
    adoptions a few years ago. For us one of the vets hit the nail on the head in the discussion. She rightly said adopters adopt with the best intention. They want a pet dog, not a project. And this makes total sense. It is a challenge in a refuge environment to discern completely accurately how shelter behaviour translates into a home but that is our aim: To present families with adoptable companions, rewarding for them and the dog, with appropriate rescue back-up.

    Talking to our network, it seems that costs have a role to play. We don’t actually fully cover our costs when asking for an adoption fee to support our work. If we reflected the actual expense, we would home very few dogs and cats. We try to keep the costs to a minimum.

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  • Gabapentin for Dogs – what you should know

    Read the full article on this weblink.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Animal Rescue Transitions To ‘Bureaucrazy’

    Scooby shelter from above 400

    Fermin writes.

    As many of you know, the Scooby shelter grew organically from doing the best we could with limited resources and still
    making tangible improvements for our rescued animals, nursing them back from the brink to overcome sickness and
    adversity to become dogs and cats well enough to go to loving adoption families. Yes we had tragedies but our small team
    shared the work and helped the animals to a better life. I still remember a volunteer vet from Scotland, in the twilight of his
    career, telling me to welcome volunteer vets but crucially to make sure they had solid experience because in a ‘field’
    medical setting, she said we’d need people who were skilled to work with what’s available, rather than the early career medical professionals who would not yet be ready to work in a situation needing ingenuity and technical resourcefulness. I still remember this vet stitching by candlelight when we were blighted with power cuts.

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  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Dogs bred for fighting

    Belgian Malinois 400
    Dogs Bred For Fighting – The Tragedy

    It pains me every day when I Iook at our incarcerated dogs bred traditionally for fighting, the ‘dangerous’ dogs, the so-called ‘bullies’. There are no formally banned dog breeds in Spain. There are restrictions on owning some of these breed types in Spain (muzzles and on-leash in public places are mandatory). We have more than 60 of these dogs in the Scooby shelter, including around 9 Belgian Malinois who can be very dangerous in inexperienced hands. We cannot home these 60, even if there were a demand for them. We have investigated the possibility of transferring them to fit and proper owners in countries where they can be lawfully kept and exempt from euthanasia if they don’t pose any risk to public safety.

    However, this is a strategy thwarted with problems and risks, and would add to the rescue crisis overseas. This is not our intention. Under our animal laws here in Spain, we cannot consider a kind course of action for these dogs to find them peace because euthanasia of dogs without a veterinary second opinion is illegal. These dogs would not meet the permissible legislative standard.

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  • Scratch pads for dogs

    Read the article on this weblink.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Declining Adoptions, Rescues & Donations

    SOS Galgos 400 6 2024
    From Fermin.

    ‘We collaborate with 10 – 15 partners internationally who help us fromtime to time to home our rescued dogs and cats in their countries. This is much needed because it is impossible for us to home dogs and cats in significant number in Spain. Shelters like ours cannot operate without international adoptions.

    We, like our adoption artners and fellow shelters around the globe, are witnessing a decline in home offers. We have noticed this trend over the years since 2019/20 and attributed it to the many pets homed during the COVID period. But it is a continuing trajectory and we suspect there may be more to it than a simple glut. It is now so acute that we cannot rescue as many dogs and cats as in prior years or indeed those now in adversity because our refuge is at capacity. It is simple if we don’t move dogs and cats to families, we will not have accommodation space for those in need of rescue.

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  • All about Canicross with your hound

    Canicross is becoming a very popular sport between owner and hound.

    Read all about it in this article.

  • Podenca Gaia – lost her babies, dumped in a Fuerteventura perrera!

    Gaia German 400 8 2024
    The approximately 3-year-old Podenco dog has had to go through everything in her life.

    Gaia and her babies were rescued by an animal welfare colleague in Fuerteventura. The owner was a hunter and dumped the babies in a hole in the ground so that Mama Gaia couldn’t get to her babies (videos about this in the comments). He said he didn’t want them anymore, the babies aren’t Podenco’s but mixed breeds, that’s what he said. The puppies have now all been adopted, but Gaia is still in the Perrera!!️

    Gaia is very social with all the dogs, she even takes care of newly arrived abandoned babies. Gaia is still very cautious and reserved with people, and needs some time to trust new people. The stressful environment takes a lot out of the beautiful dog and we hope that she will soon have the chance to be with experienced and loving people. A quiet environment would probably make a big difference for Gaia and she could learn at her own pace , to let go, to gain trust, and to enjoy life on the sunny side.

    Would you like to give Gaia a home? Click here to apply. Simply click on the link below.

    https://sandohelp.de/tier
    Your team of sando e. V. – Rescue A Soul
    Donation account
    Volksbank Bielefeld – Gütersloh eG
    IBAN: DE654786001251018575800
    PayPal: info@sandohelp.de