Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Rubbish to the podenquero – treasures to us

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    Look at these two babies, rescued from the Valencia perrera. Here’s the message from Karen Behle.

    ‘Jette aka Daisy (Brown) & Mina alias Jasmina from death in Perrera Valencia urgently searches for a foster. We’ll get the 2 on Friday from killing. They are incredibly scared there, shaking in a pen. We plan a journey between the end of February and mid-March to Germany for both these 2 Hound bitches who are approx. 12 weeks old. Association: Avpd. Contact is via facebook anfrangen va private message’

    Or comment here and I’ll pass it on if you can help. I really would like to exterminate all hunters!.

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  • Portuguese Podengo Saruga looking for a forever home

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    If you love Podencos but haven’t room for a big one, how about little Podengo Saruga with Dogs of Portugal. All her details are on this link, together with more photos and a video. A sweet little soul hoping she soon has her own couch to sleep on in a forever home.

  • Podenco boys in Spain hoping for forever homes

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    How many of you holiday in Malaga and haven’t visited the Axarquaia Animal Rescue? It is one of the many in Spain whose volunteers deal with the never ending problem of abandoned dogs and cats. Some of the stories are heartbreaking but many of them have happy endings. Here are two gorgeous podencos with the association, hoping there are people out there who could offer them perfect forever homes. And Tico is already learning the agility equipment. Could you continue his training and compete with him? Contact Axarquaia Animal Rescue direct.

    This is Tico.

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  • Holiday in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands? Accommodation filling up!

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    A few days ago I published the story of David Tomlinson who retired to Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, to renovate a finca. Instead he rescues and cares for podencos. This is the reality of Fuerteventura and the other Canary Islands…Gran Canaria, Tenerife…what the holidaymakers don’t see.

    These photos are from the perrera on Fuerteventura. Puppies, starving dogs, sick dogs…food thrown through the bars of the cage which is their prison. Most of these dogs will be killed…their only hope is for an association on mainland Europe to get them out. This is what Lucy Andemecraig writes.

    ‘Fuertevetura Perrera 12th January 2018. We have to empty cages! They are filled and the dogs are in danger! URGENT! If you do not adopt, share, to save the lives of these poor furries. All these beautiful podencos and puppies from other races are in the pound and are Fill the cages! they are in danger of being killed before their lives have begun.! 😢 HELP ME.

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  • Dumped in a plastic bag in a trash bin….Podenco Friends to the rescue

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    What a start to the New Year for Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends; 4 newborn pups dumped in a bag in rubbish, needing feeding every few hours! The pressure of abandoned pups and dogs in Spain never gets any less. Here’s the story of the pups.

    ‘Four new born Podenco pups discovered in the garbage tied up in a plastic bag a couple of days before Christmas. Sounds shocking, how could anybody do something like this to leave such defenceless babies to die a horrible death either from suffocation, hypothermia or starvation. Here in Spain it’s not an isolated incident but a regular occurrence. Podencos usually give birth to large litters 10 or more and it’s not uncommon to hear that the owners want to reduce numbers. Sometimes they will take new born pups to a vet to euthanise and often the vets will contact a rescue and ask for their help. Or the alternative, they throw them in the rubbish/ their life has so little value. Four male pups who don’t command as good a price has females, that was their fate.

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  • Portuguese Podengo Aida…looking for a forever home.

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    This sweet little lady is l year old Portuguese Podengo Aida, found on the street and taken in. Sadly she gets upsent when left alone whilst her rescuer is out at work, so she is now with Dogs of Portugal. they have over 700 dogs at the shelter! So Aida needs to get into a forever home soon. You can see videos of her on this link. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you would like to apply to adopt her.

  • Podenca Tilly – changed the life of Beverly and Warren forever

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    Lovely story from Beverly Farmer of Podenco Friends about the start of her journey in podenco rescue and rehoming.

    ’14 years ago on 7th December 2003 I made a decision to visit a local shelter to adopt a dog here in Spain at the time not knowing it would be a life changing decision. Tilly was curled up in the back of kennel shaking. Not knowing what a podenco was, we asked to take her. She looked so fragile, so we signed the papers and took her home, Her story was that she was discovered in a dumpster under the rubbish with a broken front leg. We thought we had chosen a quiet and demure dog which she was for 24 hours. Then the honeymoon was over and the real Tilly revealed herself, stubborn crazy a real diva she tested me to my limits.

    Almost 3 months after, I considered returning her to the shelter for it was not a good relationship.

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  • Podenca Libby’s pups still waiting for their forever homes

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    Remember the story in March about Podenca Libby and her pups living in a cave and rescued by Vince and SOS Animals at Coin. The 3 boys are still waiting for their forever homes. Please contact SOS Animals direct if you can offer them a forever home.

    http://www.podencopost.com/2017/10/update-on-podenca-libbys-pups.html

    http://www.podencopost.com/2017/09/update-on-podenca-libbys-pups-with-sos-animals.html

  • Podengo in Portugal waiting for a forever home

    Another stunning young podenco found on the highway and taken to the Dogs of Portugal shelter. He’s not yet even 1 year old, so ready for training to make the perfect companion. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can offer him a forever home. See all his details and a video on this link.

  • Podenco Friends – meet Podenco Canario Ricardo

    This is Podenco Canario Ricardo, rescued from a Gran Canaria perrera where he had been dumped ared 12 years and in terrible condition. He will soon gain weight and condition living in the Spanish sunshine with Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends.