Podenco Post

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • URGENT – email to send to the Spanish Government before end January 2022

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    HELP THE HUNTING DOGS OF SPAIN

    From Scooby. WE NEED YOUR HELP! READ CAREFULLY:

    The Ministry of Agriculture proposes to get hunting dogs out of the future Animal Welfare Act. This proposal leaves hunting dogs completely unprotected, denying them all protection and rights.

    Until February 2, the National Strategy of Cinegetic Management is out for public consultation, so ALL CITIZENS CAN SEND OUR COMPLAINTS, CHANGE PROPOSALS, OR Suggestions to the following email address:

    bzn-comitecaza@mapa.es

    Suggested content of the email: –

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  • Valencia, Spain – another hell for Spanish podencos

    Daniel Polo podenco abuse Valencia 400 1 2022
    This is a post from my facebook page from a lady appealing for help to publicise a serious case of cruelty to podencos.

    ‘I am sending this message to all animal organizations.

    I’m going to expose a situation of helplessness and injustice here, because I don’t know where to go.

    In an area outskirts of Valencia, there is a hunter who has about 20 dogs in harsh conditions, without hygiene, between corpses, it only gives them sunlight when he takes them out to hunt, tied up with a half meter chain, one of them right now She has the paw broken with a wound of about 50 centimeters that will end up getting infected.

    He has been reported, but he has the protection and the support of the area police because they are also hunters, so the complaints are left on wet paper.

    He is committing a felony of abuse.

    I swear if he reports me for entering his private property to get evidence (photos, videos), he should be a hair fall for violating animal welfare laws. From where I am you can hear the cries of the dogs day and night.

    If you could send me a cable to spread the message, I would appreciate it. Let’s see if we can get those dogs out of that hell.

    Pvt0s Mi€rda hunters.

  • Akira Dog Sanctuary – podencos hoping for forever homes

    What better way to start a new year than adopting a wonderful podenco! Akira Dog Sanctuary in Pedrera, Spain, have some beauties with their Pet Passports, all ready to complete your lives. They are all on the weblinks below. Contact Hayley at Akira Dog Sanctuary if you have room in your home and heart for one.

    Bonito – he’s lived in a home with cats

    Fiona


    Charlie

    Cookie

    Merlin is a special case who needs to be adopted locally to the shelter in Spain

    Lolita

    Podencos are intelligent active dogs who require more exercise than their Spanish galgo counterparts. They are delightful loyal companions and quite often clownish!

  • Spain January 16 – blessing of pets fiesta

    Saint Francis of Assissi is the patron saint of animals and every year usually on the 3rd Sunday of January, ceremonies are held throughout Spain for the blessing of pets.

    Read the story on this weblink

  • Can kinesiology taping help your dog?

    Interesting article on the subject. Have any of my readers used it, has it helped?

  • Introducing blind podenco Bocelli – a new learning curve for us

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    Bocelli (known as Bo) is the second of our newly adopted podencos. Unusually for a white podenco, he is blind rather than deaf as some white dogs are. My OH was actually looking to adopt another galgo but he spotted Bo on the Ibizan Hound Rescue website and was immediately drawn to him. Bo was also on the website of Blind Dog Rescue UK and so I completed the pre-adoption form with them and kept my fingers crossed!

    Bo had been in a wonderful foster home in the UK after apparently spending most of his 8 years on the end of a chain in a ‘horrible place’ in Lorca, Murcia. His fosterer believes he can see shadows/shapes and he adapted well to living in a home environment with other dogs.

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  • Finding the right home for a rescue dog

    Often the history of a rescue dog is unknown. The dog’s character needs to be assessed by the staff in the kennels or by a fosterer to ensure that the right home is found, both for the dogs but also the right dog for the adoptant. It’s easier said than done, as dogs behave differently in different situations with different people. So here’s an article on the subject, read the full piece on this weblink.

  • Life with Podenca Rosely – she makes us smile every day!

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    Regular readers may remember that at the end of November Podenca Andaluz Rosely joined our household. It’s a big learning curve for her after a few years living in a shed producing litters of babies for an unpleasant hunter. When the hunter had no further use for her, he handed her over to a local rescue in Alhaurin le Grande in Malaga province. Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care took her into the finca and introduced Rosely to life in a home, preparing her for eventual adoption.

    Rosely is a very sweet podenca, not surprisingly very fearful of men as Spanish hunting dogs very often are. She is my shadow, to such an extent that the first time I left home to go to my volunteer work at a local animal charity shop, she rushed into the lounge, up on the sofa and got tangled up in the vertical blinds!! Luckily my other half heard the commotion and rescued her without injury to herself, but the blinds will need serious attention from a repair man!! Needless to say, the lounge door is firmly shut every time we leave the house!!

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  • Podenca Elize with Galgos Rescue Almeria

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    This podenco girl was found two weeks ago in Cuevas del Almanzora, looking for food among the trash cans of a restaurant, skinny, fragile, shy.

    Look at her now, Elize has become a real podenco as we know them.

    Confident, a strong character and she can stand her ground among the much larger galgos.

    https://galgosrescuealmeria.com/animal/elize/

  • Tiny injured podenca needing help from an association

    Rosa SC tiny podenca 400 2 1 2022
    This is such a tragic photo which appeared on my Podenco Post facebook page. Up to yesterday, no association had taken her. Have asked for more info.

    ‘Update 02-01-2022 Well nothing we continue with more cases, rescued this afternoon, just have to look at it to know that she has escaped from hell. She has a chip, her owner a very older man couldn’t take care of her anymore and he was wrong, because he handed it over to an individual reported several times for not having the dogs in condition and going to collect animals from everyone who doesn’t want them. She was able to escape and was picked up scared and with a fatal foot between the olives. The cede, at least it’s in the name of its former owner, born in 2013.

    We are that we can’t, we don’t have any means or room for so many and this dog will need surgery, desperately need an association or protectora to help. In a village of Jaén, hellhole for hunting dogs.

    Rosa SC Diffusion’