Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Podenco Penelope, rescued by El Albergue – now recovering

    A couple of weeks ago I told you about a little black podenco puppy, injured and starving at a railway station; people just walked by – until a volunteer came to her rescue. Here’s the latest news and pix about her.

    ‘we have news from Penélope: although we rescued her in a terrible state, she has come a long way and doesn´t even seem like the same dog that we took from the railway just a couple of weeks ago. Now that she´s had her surgery and her pain is controlled, Penelope behaves like a true puppy: playful, active and loving with the people who are caring for her. Her favorite thing: food, and in large quantities 🙂
    She has to go to the vet next week to get her stitches removed and we hope that she continues to evolve in a positive way.

    By the way, Penelope is a true semi-long hair podenco. Black podencos are not very common, but she is definitely a podenco.

    www.elalbergue.org

  • Podenca Sandy – vet fees of 1,400 euros – can you help Galgos del Sol?

    Sandy op Tina 250 08 2011 Last month I told you the lovely tale about a podenca bitch and a puppy she adopted. Both were rescued by Galgos del Sol and have been waiting and hoping for forever homes. We’ve just received news about Sandy, the bitch; she’s had an accident and vet fees for are are 1,400 euros! Galgos del Sol are a small association and shelter, so are appealing for help to pay this.

    Here’s what Tina says.

    ‘Poor Sandy, and still we don’t really understand what happened.

    Sandy had been found with Floyd, at first we thought Floyd was her baby but it’s possible she adopted him. Floyd was always quite rough around Sandy, in and out of her legs, constantly demanding her attention. He adored her, as she adored him.

    So could this be how Sandy mysteriously smashed her leg into several pieces? Could it have been rough play gone too far? There is no other explanation. The kennel is 110% safe with nothing to climb on to make her fall, she was fine at her last check just a few hours before finding her holding her leg so really the only theory we can give you is that somehow involving Floyd something went terribly wrong.

    Sandy leg Tina 250 08 2011
    Holding her leg in pain she was immediately rushed to the vet. On X-ray it was more than evident her leg was broken but a complicated break, like a jigsaw. A complicated break means a complicated operation and an expensive one at that. Sandy’s vets bill is over 1400 euros to date.

    We are pleading for donations to help us pay this bill. No matter how small, we are struggling, we really need help. PP tinasolera@hotmail.co.uk please ref SANDY.

    Thank you.
    Sandy leg pin Tina 250 08 2011
    Sandy awake Tina 250 08 2011

    (Bottom photo) Sandy before her accident.
    Sandy ears up.250 Tina July 2011

  • Still living rough on the streets of Spain

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a podenco living rough on the streets in Spain – as so many of them do. He’s still out there, here’s a link to a video of him. The shelter is full, anyone else help? painnor@hotmail.com

  • Red and Buzz – two happy endings for abandoned podencos

    Silvia Red 1 250 08 2011 Red is one of the podencos featured on my FB page Help the Podencos. He has been in the care of Silvia of Galgo Connection Spain since his rescue – this is the picture from when he was rescued, see the photos of him now in his forever home at the end of this post, isn’t he just soooo handsome!

    And this is an amazing story about saving a miniature Podenco Andaluz in Miami. His forever Mom tells the story.

    Deven Soto podenco Buzz 250 08 2011 ‘Miami, Florida USA; a Mecca of unwanted pets. Miami Dade animal services intakes up to 200 pets per day, and with lines out the door at opening, people are dumping their pets and turning in strays…it can only lead to high euthanasia rate- about 150 per day.

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  • Home required Urgently for Peter Podenco – please help CAS

    Peter Podenco head 190 08 2011 Here’s another stunning Podenco – named Peter. He’s currently in foster with Freda and Barry Young, who have to return to the UK in September for several months. They desperately want to find a forever home for him, as, if you read his story, going back to the refuge is the last place he needs to go.

    ‘He is a small podenco weighing about 12Kg. He is very timid but once he has relaxed he is full of fun and very affectionate. He is about 10 – 12 months old and is castrated and vaccinated.

    He was thrown over the fence in February at the CAS refuge where we work and when we let the other dogs out for their exercise, about 40 dogs surrounded him. Although we rescued him as quickly as possible, he was very traumatised. He stayed in the refuge for a few weeks but was bullied by the other dogs.

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  • Aanifeira, Portugal – the Portuguese Podengo explained

    Here’s an absolutely fascinating article about the Portuguese Podengo/Podenco. I didn’t realise there were so many different types of just this one type of podenco. The more I learn about them, the more I love them.

  • Costa Animal Society, Nerja – volunteer help needed for animals and committee

    CAS Strella 250 08 2011 This beauty with special eyes is Strella – she is one of 6 hunting dogs which the owner didn’t want, so he left them all tied up, starved of food and water. The owner wants rid of them asap so foster homes are urgently required.

    CAS is appealing on their behalf. CAS is the Costa Animal Society based in Nerja
    on Spain’s eastern Costa del Sol. It was founded in 1986 as a registered charity for
    the sole purpose of helping abandoned and maltreated animals.

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  • Petite Podenca Pizca from Palencia, Spain, appealing for a forever home

    Pizca4 Amigos der Milord 250 This little beauty is called Pizca; she’s a young rough-haired podenca who has been with Amigos de Milord association for over a year. Cristina, of the associations, says ‘she has been here for a year and I have no adopting home for her, and it hurts to think she will be in a cage all her life. She is really small, spayed, vaccinated, loving and good with other dogs – male and female – but not with cats.’

    If you can offer this little sweetheart a home, contact Amigos de Milord

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  • Sightseeing, Seville – not for this podenca

    Hernia 250 08 2011 The first podenca I fostered had been taken to the Jaen perrera by her hunter because she had a hernia the size of a tennis ball. She was rescued and operated on and rehomed in France. Her hernia was nothing like the size of this one.

    As you can see, the little podenca is petrified. She was kept in a hut, but luckily rescued and is now with a vet for urgent operation. She will have to go into a residencia afterwards unless a fostger/convalescence home comes forward. And her operation will need paying for. Please contact Immaculate if you wish to help, ask for copies of the vet bills etc. Use a Spanish translator package like Google or Spanish dict.

    IMMACULATE GOMEZ GONZALEZ CASE NUMBER 3187.0701.23.1388507616 RURAL

    movil665809169 macu19782010@hotmail.com

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  • Podenco Puppy needs foster or adopting home…..

    Podenco puppy FB 190 08 2011 Just lifted this please from Help the Podencos on Facebook.

    Hi Podencos!. Could you please help me out with this beautiful puppy girl??? She was found in the middle of the field with a big open scar… Right now she´s much better but she needs a home urgently. She´s only four month old loving, cute and playful… I cannot keep her because I am a shelter home for abandoned dogs and I got 4 already at home, and one of them is pregnant, due in two weeks and the mummy really needs all my attention. Please, I need your help!!!!

    http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/lucia.pinilla.diaz

    If you’re not on FB, I’ve asked for her email address. She lives in Almoradi.