Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Want a Dog?

    Hug a Dog 400 7 2019
    Want a dog

    Wanting a dog does not involve just choosing which one you like more for your physical qualities or “race”, wanting a dog also implies to realize that you will invite him to share your life, your house, your space and that he also has needs and Many times will not fulfill your expectations.

    Wanting a dog is to be willing to love him in the good and bad, puppy, adult or grandfather, love him when he barks and have patience because something wants to tell you.

    Love him when he bites the walls and the armchair, when he runs and doesn’t listen to you because he’s expressing his nature free and playful. Take him to the doctor because he’s sick or hurt.

    Give him worthy food and not “what spare” but what you can really offer him. Understand that a dog has tastes and dislikes and that what you expected from him may not be compatible with who he actually is.

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  • Podenca Alma – no longer useful for hunting or breeding

    Rosemary Macdonal Alma 400 7 2019
    Introducing Alma…Rosemary Macdonald tells her story.

    Alma 6 year old female podenco. Alma is now safe in kennels being sponsored by Pam McLeod thank you Pam.
    Alma has a sad story. I don’t know how these brave loving animals can be so forgiving of the human race. Alma was given by a hunter to another hunter to breed I would imagine, Anyway she was with pup but the puppies were found to be dead inside her so the hunter brought her to the vet to be put to sleep. Fortunately the vets refused and they agreed to sign her over to them.

    The vets could no longer keep her so we have got her sponsorship for kennels. This poor girl, no one wants her. Please help me to find her a home, not just any home. She needs a home where she will be loved, where she will have time to adjust and settle in, she will be nervous at first. Ideally a home in the caountrysideas she is not used to being in built up areas. Please everyone share this girl she needs your help.

    p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

  • Babi – Portuguese Podengo looking for a forever home

    Dogs of Portugal Babi 400 6 2019
    Babi is 2 years old and hasd already lived in a home. All the information, more photos and video on this weblink. Contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can give her a home.

  • Hope for Podencos – 13 handed over from a hunter

    News and video from Hope for Podencos who received 13 dogs from a single hunter at the end of May. Each podenco has to be blood tested, neutered, vaccinated, wormed and passported. This costs us crucial funds; and it is only with your support we can do this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTnRzFbDlzg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1hEy-5uyibDT3wLV6w74x_vtXaAHAsNYSm6Rc7uAEhRcqkgSQKWqa-VlY

  • 4 Lanzarote podencos now safe in Murcia with Podenco Friends

    At the beginning of June these 4 podencos arrived at the finca of Podenco Friends and Bev Farmer. Here she tells the story.

    ‘The Podencos of Lanzarote .. they spend much of their lives locked away in dark buildings or caves dug in the ground usually chained to wall. Maybe their owner will visit them a couple of times a week once no longer wanted they is little chance they will be adopted.. A chance exchange of messages a few years ago with Laura Johnson on the island and now we have been able help so many with the support of some amazing people..

    This is the first time these four podencos have had the opportunity to run free in a big space and just enjoy the freedom. Rescue work is tough and demanding but to sit ad watch Paprika, Zia, Shani and Mistral experience a different life is joy to experience and makes all the difficult times worth while

    Saving the Lanzarote Podencos – Giving them a future’

    Watch the video    .

  • Podencas Nancy & Poppy – happy in their forever home

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    I always love to get stories about rescued podencos who have found their forever home. Here’s a lovely one from Cliff who has adopted two of these fabulous hounds.

    ‘It all began around the spring of 2017, I had spent the past seven years refurbishing my home and creating a garden from almost nothing. Then following the death of my mother I had become very insular and unsocial, burying myself in the work and not going out very much.

    Basically I was a grumpy, sad, lonely old fart. I was divorced from my second wife and alienated from my two children. I had no one close to love except my brother and sister-in-law who live just three miles away and I only wanted to see them on special occasions.

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  • Portuguese Podengo hoping for a forever home

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    Vitus is a stunning young Portuguese Podengo found on the street and now safe with Dogs of Portugal. You can read about him, see more pix and a video on this weblink. Contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you have room in your home and heart for him.

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  • From Lanzarote to Alderney – with help from TheKennelKlub and Podenco Friends

    At the end of May podenco Cuthbert arrived at his new home in the Channel Islands, it was a complex journey due to his destination and we had a hiccup at the final stage. A road trip from Spain to the UK then a ferry crossing to Guernsey ( the Channels Islands) where he arrived friday lunchtime… But due to fog no flights were taking off to for the final leg of his journey. Thankfully a very kind person came forward on Guernsey and took Cuthbert home until he could fly to Alderney this morning.

    We have to thank Katy Orton his new mum who was determined to get him home and it was worth all the effort today he had his first walk on the beach. He took the trip in his stride and made friends along the way even the captain on the plane helped him into the cabin.

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  • Kenia – a Gran Canaria Podenco en route to her forever home

    Grand Canaria Pod Kenia 400 5 2019
    Ever since I became involved with publicising about the plight of the galgos and podencos, I’ve highlighted the problems for the podencos of the Canary Islands, where they suffer horrendous cruelty at the hands of the hunters, and their only hope of a life after rescue is on mainland Europe or across the Atlantic. Fuerteventura is one of the smaller lesser known Islands so this is good news for one podenca from there.

    Helpers of the Pods of Gran Canaria report the good news for one podenca from there.

    ‘A home has been found for our KENIA and she will now travel on the 19th of June (last large dog space on the happy bus…phew)after our amazing rescuer Africa Sarabia Cabrera will have brought her by plane to the mainland from Fuerteventura. We only just made the arrangements in time by the skin of our teeth, saving Kenia having to wait to join her new family until September. It’s a race against time to get the paperwork done in time. So much red tape you could decorate a room with it.

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  • A reminder when adopting a pet

    Reminder for adopting a dog 400 5 2019