Category: Adopt

  • Urgent appeal, white podenca needs room somewhere – please help

    White podenca 1 250 12 2011URGENT APPEAL This beautiful starving young white podenca was found on the streets in Castellon by some boys and has been shut in a storage room.

    ‘The boys says that if they canb’t find anyone to take it, they will put it back on the street, as they have a problem with the neighbours! We can’t take in any more dogs, we have 15 in kennels including two which are very sick. Please can someone take her urgently.’

    contacto:salvandounavida@gmail.com
    http://adoptasalvaunavida.com/

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  • Murcia Podenca desperate for new home before Xmas

    Murcia Podenca 1 190 12 2011People who don’t make arrangements to have their pets looked after when they go on holiday really make me angry. I’ve just received this appeal in from Spain. This podenca is in Murcia, can anyone help take her?

    ‘PLEASE! ¡I need your help from Spain! This femalePodenco has only 6 month old.The person who has this bitch has told us that he goes on vacation for Christmas and if we don’t do anything for the bitch he will take it to the pound. It is very urgent to find a home as it may be sacrificed in the perrera.

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  • Help this little Podenca Andaluz in Seville

    Macu podenca 1 250 12 2011Podenco Andaluz come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large! I have a small, Bebe, she is pocket sized but has THE biggest personality and keeps 5 galgos in order!

    Here’s another very young podenca, now named Conchi-Pepa/Tecla, abandoned, pregnant by a bigger dog. After the puppies, she has been sterlised. She has recovered well from the operation and is in a foster home. But Macu needs help to pay the vet fees, and she desperately needs to find this little podenca her forever home. If you can offer a forever home, please contact Macu. She does an amazing job, keeps these innocent souls at home, or in foster, until someone comes along and can take them. Please, if you can tuck this adorable little Podenca into a corner of your home, next to the fire, contact Macu macu19782010@hotmail.com Mobile Seville 665809169

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  • Podenca abandoned on the streets, Galgo Connection Spain saves her

    Mina Silvia 190 12 2011Another little soul, abandoned on the streets at just 4 months old! This is little podenca Mina, found with an injured/malformed back leg, which has now been operated on successfully, making her a typical puppy, happy and playful.

    Mina is desperate to find a forever home where she can grow and blossom with care and love. If anyone can take this cute little sould into their heart and home, please contact Silvia Galgos Connection Spain. Silvia speaks excellent English

  • Podenca Andaluz Lucy, update

    Lucy had to be taken back into the vet clinic on Wednesday, for monitoring. Pray for her. And please help pay for her care.

  • Little Podenca Andaluz Lucy, lucky to survive an horrendous attack

    Lucy accident 250 4 12 2011You may remember little podenca Lucy, recently rescued from beside a railway track. She was going through the process of having her EU passport prepared when she was the victim of a terrible attack by bigger dogs which nearly killed her. The second such incident I have reported recently.

    She has umpteen wounds and stitches all over her body; she has a puncture wound almost on the jugular – a little bit closer and Lucy would not be with us. A miracle that she is.

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  • TARA Shelter, Gran Canaria – a successful neutering programme

    TARA neutering 1250  09 2011TARA Animal Shelter on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, in September ran a neutering programme for dogs and cats with the help of a Danish team of vets and nurses. Brian, a volunteer with TARA, reports on the success.

    The dog and cat neutering project in Mogan county from 14 to 21 September proved a big hit for all concerned.

    It was a most collaborative effort indeed: TARA Animal Respect Association recruited Danish Friends of Animals to supply professional animal medical staff to Gran Canaria providing the surgery skills and pharmaceuticals as a donation to the local cause of animal welfare.

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  • Podenca Andaluz Lucy – rescued in Malaga – looking for her forever family

    Lucy 1 Charl 11 2011 250This is a little Podenca Andaluz, the smallest of the type and the same as my little Bebe. Little dogs with huge personalities. This little lady was rescued from a train track in Malaga and taken to 112carlotagalgos. Here’s her story.

    ‘Meet Little Lucy. Rescued from a train track last Wednesday. A tiny tiny figure of a podenca. She has erect ears and is the sweetest little dollop of sugar! She is minute, and full of love. Easy to scoop up in your arms and she loves being held like a baby.

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  • Christmas present suggestion – Sponsor a dog/kennel/stable

    Spanish shelters and refuges rely on donations towards the cost of caring for their rescued dogs. Why not Sponsor a dog/kennel/stable as a Christmas or birthday present. The following are small refuges which will be very grateful for any help.

    112carlotagalgos

    Pepis Refuge

    Galgos del Sol

    SOS Animals

  • SOS Animals, Costa del Sol – shelter in crisis, being evicted!

    SOS Animals logo 200SOS Animals, Fuengirola, Costa del Sol. Shelter in crisis. The authorities have told them to get out and they desperately have to find somewhere for all their rescued animals to go. Read the story on Galgo News, together with links to their website. They have podencos wanting homes, including some in foster in the UK and Sweden, please contact them if you can help.