This is Samuel, just 11 months old, in the SARA Lanzarote shelter at Arrecife (Las Palmas). He’s waiting for a forever home, can you offer him one? Visit the website, click on Awaiting Adoption, and you’ll find Samuel and other podencos. Their only hope is adoption off the island on mainland Europe. Contact SARA
Category: Adopt
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Podenco Canario Samuel – with SARA Lanzarote waiting for his forever family
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More podencos on death row, Jerez/Gesser
These little beauties are in the Jerez/Gesser killing station – can anyone help them? There are two males and a female Contact Maribel
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Podenco Ibicenco on death row, Gesser killing station – can anyone get him out?
This beautiful Podenco Ibicenco is in the Gesser killing station in Cadiz; I have people who will take him if someone can liaise with Maribel for transport etc.
Please help. Contact me and I can liaise, or Maribel (in Spanish) 605637101 Maribel
There are also many more podencos here, look at the link, including puppies.
And look how many labradors, terriers, even dalmations………all abandoned by their owners and due to be euthanaised.
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L’Europe des Levriers bringing podencos to France
Those of you who read Galgo News will know that I have travelled into Spain on several rescue missions with the French association L'Europe des Levriers. Besides galgos, we have brought out many podencos, travelling to their forever homes. This is the translation of an article written by preisdent Beatrice Monnet on the EDL website.
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Podencos – cruel treatment by the Spanish hunters
Podencos suffer severe maltreatment at the hands of the Spanish hunters – abandoned, starving, caught in snares, ends of their noses chopped off to make them look like a pig, chained through the mouth to a wall, stoned to death……………..some have even had 'shot' still inside them, where they have been hit as well as the rabbits!Here's a few examples.
I make no apologies for posting all these pictures together, let's start off Podenco Post by showing some of the horrors perpetrated against these loving and affectionate dogs, some of whom found loving homes eventually, one who sadly did not, murdered at the hands of a 16 year-old thug.
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Podenca Estrella, survivor of the Jaen killing station
I've fostered quite a few podencos, mostly the rough-haired type, from mainland Spain. One of the most beautiful stories is that of Estrella. In December 2009 I posted a picture on Galgo News of 3 galgas and a podenca in a cell in the killing station in Jaen. Rescue of the 3 galgas was arranged but somehow the podenca was overlooked. I received an appeal from across the ocean in Canada – the podenca is still in Jaen, can you get her out?
So the wheels were speedily set in motion and the podenca was rescued and taken to a refuge. An association with whom I work closely, L'Europe des Levriers, then agreed to help get the podenca from Jaen to Madrid, from where I could collect her, along with other galgos we were bringing out to France for rehoming. So there we were, at the beginning of February 2010, meeting up with Estrella – as the podenca had been named – to bring her home to foster.
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Happy Endings, Cadiz – saving the podencos of Chiclana
Happy Endings is a small association in Chiclana, Cadiz, run by Margarita Gloerson, a Norwegian lady who could not stand by and see the abandoned, starving, injured podencos dying by the roadside. This is the story of Happy Endings.
'My name is Margarita Gloersen from http://www.happy-ending-final-feliz.eu/ in Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz. I have been working with dogs since I arrived Chiclana in 2005. I am from Norway, and when I came I just could not believe my day to day experiences with animals lying in the road, killed by cars and all the others just left to themselves with no chances to survive in the long run. Sooner or later they would become run over by cars, since all the trash bins are alongside the roads.
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Starving to death in a coral in Cordoba!
There are no regulations in Spain to which refuges and shelters have to adhere. Some are a living hell for dogs and cats which have already suffered from maltreatment and abuse. This is a 'coral' in Cordoba where dogs including podencos are starving to death through lack of food and water. When dogs get to this stage, they will even attack and eat each other. There is evidence of this here. El Arca de Noe Cordoba complained about the situation, and the authorities removed the dogs to the local pound. Death awaits them, from lethal injection if they haven't already succumbed to infection and illness before them.
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Zaragoza killing station – podencos desperately needing rescue
The hunting season is now over and hunters are getting rid of their '4-footed tools'!
These are the Perricos to be slaughtered in a few days at the Zaragoza perrera. This is the appeal I received'We are only two volunteers who have many dogs in kennels which we pay the fees and we can't take any more dogs. We have all this responsibility on our shoulders and we desperately need adopters for the dogs in our care, and more so we need special people who can rescue these young podencos before they are sacrificed in a few days.
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SARA Lanzarote – rescuing podencos in the Canary Islands
Through my passion for greyhounds/galgos and subsequent involvement in publicising the plight of the galgos in Spain, I was introduced to the Podenco, used in Spain and the Spanish Islands for hunting rabbit. Whilst they are not abandoned each year in such huge numbers as the galgos, the life of a podenco runs parallel in many ways and they too suffer indescribable cruelty at the hands of the unforgiving hunters.
Through Galgo News I have met a couple of British volunteers who live on Lanzarote and are very involved with the SARA Lanzarote animal shelter and raising awareness of the problems faced by the podencos there. What you will read here also applies to the life of a podenco on mainland Spain too.