This little cutie is Podengo x Arwen, who arrived at the shelter with her 3 puppies. She’s only 18 months old, shy but will blossom in a loving home. Please contact Dogs of Portugal if you have room in your home and heart for her.
See more photos and video of her on this link.
Poppet Name: Poppet, a x podengo, d-o-b: October 2016, small (6.5kg, 30cm), dewormed, vaccinated
Milagro is a female podenca, aged 13 years who several years ago was rescued from a perrera. SOS Podenca Rescue Belgium & France are looking for an adoption or long term foster. She is negative for Mediterranean diseases.
Unfortunately Milagro is not ok other animals, or children (-12 years), so the ideal home for rhis granny would be a couple of retired people with a big garden and a place to isolate her when children are visiting
Let’s not let her finish her life alone in a kennel. A fairy godmother has volunteered to pay for her trip to the home where she can spend the rest of her life.
Is there anyone who will love her and allow her to spend the rest of her life in dignity and safety? All veterinary charges are supported by the association.
Contact SOS Podenco Rescue
Portuguese Podengos are among the less common type of podenco, and Dengo is a perfect example. He’s still waiting for his forever home with Dogs of Portugal. He’s a lovely character, good with cats and chickens. take a look at the videos of him on the weblink above. If you can offer this handsome hound a place in your heart and home, please contact the association direct.
Since starting my galgo and podenco blogs 10 years ago, I have continuously appealed for help for the Canary Islands podencos. In the last three or 4 years, many more people have now responded to their plight, helped a great deal by publicity on facebook (one of the plus side of facebook). Val Patterson has now put together this lovely video and song. Please share and publicise the plight of the podencos in the Canary Islands.
List of podenco rehoming associations by country.
4 weeks ago I received an appeal for help on my Help The Podencos facebook page, from a young woman who had found two 15-day old podenco puppies abandoned, no sign of mother, she could have been stolen or killed. We appealed for someone to take them in – they would need regular bottle feeds to save them – and Jacky Hazeleger of Tanamera Rescue stepped in.
Here’s the update from Jacky. She works tirelessly to save, foster and rehome many of Spain’s unwanted podencos, so if you can spare a little towards the cost of vaccinations etc for these two boys, she will be very grateful. Paypal address below.
‘Just letting you all know that Russell and Pablo, rescued from Canals 4 weeks ago are doing great. We had a bit of a struggle, but both are now healthy and happy. In two weeks they will need their first jabs, and more after ofcourse. Any little help for these fighters by paypal would be highly appreciated xxx paypal: tanamerajavea@gmail.com
Thanks, Jacky from Tanamera Rescue‘
Update – Saturday 14th October 2017. A sponsored walk to raise funds for SOS Animals shelter was organised today and the 3 boys Libby’s family took part…a great opportunity for them to socialise and be seen! 1,900 euros was raised for the shelter, a very welcome boost to their much needed funds. Here are 2 photos from the walk. You can see how the pups have grown! To know more about them, contact SOS Animals.
As I wrote earlier in the week, for several years I’ve been plugging away publicising about the podencos in the Canary Islands who suffer terrible abuse and whose only hope for forever lives is to be rehomed on mainland Europe. Another association now helping the Gran Canaria podencos is Hope for Podencos and you can read about their work on this link.
Last Hope for Podencos…adopt from an association, not a perrera
Sadly there is no good news about the 90 podencos near Mogan, still caged, starved and dying. Local volunteers are still working with the local authorities but making little progress. That’s the problem when those in authority are also probably hunters!
Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends is also helping the Gran Canaria podencos.
Bev says, ‘This is Sansha one of the GC podencos rescued from the terrible building where they were left chained up 24/7 and they waited so long to be saved. Although very underweight and lacking muscle tone when she first arrived with us, mentally the ordeal does not seem to have affected her. A very happy and outgoing character who has a great sense of fun and now is ready for adoption. She is 2 years old, 62cm to the shoulder and 16 kilos. For more information about Sansha please email us: podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk
I’ve been publicising about the plight of the podencos in the Canary Islands for several years now. At that time SARA Protectora on Lanzarote worked hard to home some, both in Germany and the UK. The first story I published was about Rick and Lesley Beauchamp who help home rescued Lanzarote podencos in the UK. I’ve plugged and plugged away to try and get more help for these fabulous hounds, both from Lanzarote and Gran Canaria and finally in the last couple of years, people are coming forward to help the volunteers on the Islands struggling to save the podencos, most of which end up in perreras.
Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends now help foster and home podencos from both Islands. This stunning podenca is Athena, saved from the perrera by Laura Johnson of TheKennelKlub on Lanzarote and flown to Bev in Murcia. She has just arrived in her forever home in Norway. These are the before and after photos.
If you want to read more about Rick’s journey to the UK, here’s Part 2 and Part 3
