Siri – Portuguese podengo looking for a forever home. Read all about her on this weblink. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can offer her a place in your heart.
This is Podengo Herby safe with Dogs of Portugal. To read about him and see a video, click on this link. Contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can offer him a forever home.
I don’t know Angelo’s story but he is obviously a rescued podenco who needs to learn that not everyone is cruel, that there are caring loving people in the world whom he can trust. If you can help Angelo, contact Protectora Scooby direct.
Introducing Podenca Vera.
‘She is approx 2 years old. She is a little shy but when she gets to know you she is very friendly and loves a treat or 2. She is good with other dogs and loves to play. She does have leishmaniasis however it is controlled with inexpensive daily medication. She deserves a chance as has been waiting well over a year and as she is shy it means she is often overlooked but she just needs a short amount of time and you have a new best friend.’
She’s gorgeous, watch her on video here.
Please contact Akira Dog Sanctuary direct if you have room in your home and heart for Vera, she is such a young dog. See some more photos of her on this link.
Here’s another beautiful young podenca, on the run for months and now safely with Akira Dog Sanctuary. If you can offer the forever home she deserves, please contact Akira direct.
Hayley says ‘This is the have lovely Lolita waiting for a home, she is 2 years old. She was known as the elusive Moraira carpark dog as lots of people tried every trick to catch her, even sedatives in the sausages to catch her but she still eluded everyone. She was eventually captured and after a long period of rehabilitation is now able to take walks which she enjoys and be petted and is ready for a forever home.
Her link for the webpage is here: http://www.akira-animals.com/animals/lolita/
They have several more podencos at the Shelter, please take a look.
This is podenco Hugo when he was rescued, starving and covered in tick. He’s safe now with Akira Dog Sanctuary in Southern Spain. Here’s his story. If you can offer him a hearth and a home forever, please contact the Sanctuary direct.
Hugo when he was rescued.
From Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care
‘Dapper my little Mr sunshine dog – My first failed foster. This is his story.
Coming up to Christmas in 2013 Jacqui Ross Last Chance Animal Rescue was trying to get as many dogs out of the pound before Christmas. It was my first introduction to fostering and it was a harrowing time because many dogs were dying of distemper. In one pen Eleanor and Dapper were together, and Eleanor had produced 6 pups. And we think that Dapper was the father. I was fostering Eleanor and the pups and had prepared a bed for them in my bedroom, it was actually my bed as the whole thing lifted up to provide storage underneath. I had adapted the bed so that it would stay up and put a carpet in there and some extra bedding.
So getting back to the pound. We were loading Eleanor and the pups into my car and Dapper started crying, he was so upset. Dapper was going into foster with someone else but we decided that it would be best if he came with me, Eleanor and the pups.
They settled in the bedroom, and the pups were everywhere, they were climbing out of the base of the bed and causing havoc, like puppies do.
Read the lovely story about Pedro the Podenco from Spanish Stray Dogs.
Just found yet another animal shelter…so many now in Spain helping the abandoned hounds.
Take a look at the work of the Akira Animal Sanctuary and their hounds for adoption.
Dobby and Leo are just 2 of the podencos waiting for their forever homes.
My involvement with podencos and galgos came about in 2007 when I joined a French rescue association and journeyed into Spain with the team to collect my first galga. That was where I also learned that podencos suffer the same cruelty as galgos at the hands of the Spanish hunters. My first blog was Galgo News started in 2008 and one of the first stories I ran was about Podenca Pruna, a tripod who was later adopted in France.
Here’s the story of Pruna.
For a list of podenco rescue and rehoming associations by country, click on this link
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Here’s a story from Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care, about a very traumatised podenca she has had for 8 months already and whose journey to trusting humans will be a long one. Little Pearl is in the best of hands for the journey.
‘Earlier today while I was at the desk little Pearl came out of her crate, sneaked behind me and went across the lounge, then she came back into the crate again, she did this a few times, and each time she did it I couldn’t turn my head to see what she was doing, knowing she’d go into panic mode if we made eye contact. After a little while she hadn’t come back to her crate. I was hoping that she’d found the sofa, but sadly no!
I couldn’t see her but, knew she was at the side of the armchair where nobody could see her. I left her there for about an hour and gave her some hot dogs, which she wolfed down when I wasn’t looking. Then I decided to take her out. When we came back inside she headed straight for her crate. Trying to get my head round this behaviour I thought back to this morning. Galga Amy had walked into Pearl’s crate, sniffed her food and walked straight out, and I think that this possibly unnerved her and, she didn’t feel safe there any more.
