Desperately needs saving – barely able to stand up, it is so starved. Very young. In Valencia perrera. Please help, usual rules apply. For rescue by a Spanish association, contact Dominique, for donations to save and place in kennels for onward foster and adoption outside Spain, contact Anke. Do not contact the perrera direct. Maybe two or three friends could join together to save and sponsor it. You marvellous people have already saved many.
Costs involved in saving this dog.
Two stories from PodencoWorld in Holland. To read in English, click on the Translation button top left hand side, drop down menu, click on your language.
The first one is about 12 podencos living in appalling conditions on a farm in San Roque, Tenerife. The foundation Animal Help Canarias reported the poor state of the hounds on a finca. The way the animals are crammed in the back of a private estate, continuously chained without any room to move. The precarious facilities do not meet the necessary hygiene and dogs have “not even enough food or water,” said a spokesman for the foundation. “Neighbors often call these situations to denounce”.
This is a female podenca living on the streets of Loja, Granada. She had a companion, a labrador, but someone has taken him and he is now in kennels. But the podenco is so afraid that she has not been caught. Next weekend she is going to be darted but after that there is nowhere for her to go. Hass anyone any room, please, or donate to pay kennel fees until adoption. Contact Adela (she speaks English)
This poor little soul was found in a rubbish bin. A man heard a groan, looked and there was this little podenco puppy – more dead than alive. Luckily he rushed it to a vet who immediately put it on CPR and a drip, surrounded it with plastic bottles filled with warm water…last report is that it is still alive.
Poor podenco – an outcast in Spain! He’s in the care of Spaanse Honden Nood Belgium
Last week Scooby took in 40 galgos from Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert in Seville. This week they are taking in 140 – yes, 140 – from all over Spain! Here’s a message from Scooby’s President, Fermìn Pérez Martìn:
Hello to everybody:
I am writing to all of you because we are receiving a huge amount of pleas of help from everywhere for taking galgos from perreras all over Spain and I would like to count on you with your support financially and taking dog, you know that without all of you we will not be able to do it, we have the space and you have the rest so together we are a winning team, waiting for your answer. Fermin
To donate, visit the website.
And if you are planning a holiday, why not go and stay at Scooby Medina and help with the hundreds of dogs and other animals.
This poor podenco ended up in this state in the Jerez perrera, Cadiz. Luckily he was rescued by volunteer Gloria Duque and is now in the care of Pod & Co, Belgium and on the way to recovery. He was known as Esperanza but they have called him Vida. Their supporters were so generous with donations to save him that they saved two young galgas as well.
Do you remember the very pregnant podenca? Thanks to donations, Anke and Dominique were able to save her and she is now in foster and sponsored by a French association AIRE. She had 9 puppies who are all doing well and are also in foster. It is believed they are pure podenco.
Dogster is a great website, they have very interesting articles. Please subscribe. They have a column for stories about rescuers of dogs, here is my story.
Merlin & Faith came from Valencia Perrera, where Anke and her team are now helping. This was before they became involved and it was a nighmare trying to get the podencos out. Here’s their story from a volunteer.
It seems to be a reccurring theme for Little Pod Association, this is the second family rescued by them recently and both have since had large litters of puppies. Yet again more Podencos in a Perrera, the clock ticking down before they would be euthanaized.
Martin Usborne lives in London and works as a professional photographer, has written a number of books. He wrote to me last year for information about the plight of the galgos. He has just returned to London after spending a week with the galgos and podencos of Malaga. You can read the full story, including a link to his blog ‘A Year to Help’ with the story of his trip, here.
