Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Podenco Friends – Lua’s story

    Bev Lua 400 2016A happy ending story from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    Lua…. her story began back in 2013, a feral podenca and her family surviving on the streets in Seville. She had already had 2 litters of pups. When she first arrived with us she was a very angry dog, ‘don’t invade my personal space, people are the enemy’. It’s taken a long time but today she is very much part of the family living in the house. Jasira helped so much with this change of attitude a very special friendship and Lua felt the loss just as much as us. This year Lua had surgery on her hip, she is no longer in pain, meds were helping and she has made a good recovery.

    There are many more podencos at Podenco Friends, all waiting for the chance to have their own family, can you help find them? Email: podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk

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  • Gran Canaria Podenca Celeste – for adoption

    Gran Canaria podenco Celeste 400 30 11 2016This is Celeste, a stunning Gran Canaria podenca rescued from a perrera and available for adoption in the US through the association SHUG, Sighthounds Underground.

  • Portuguese Podengo Florence – waiting for her forever home

    Dogs of Portugal have this absolutely gorgeous young Portuguese Podengo waiting for her forever home. You can see photos and videos of her on this weblink. Please someone, give her a chance.

    If you are thinking of adopting a podenco, please adopt from a shelter. There is a list of rehoming associations here. Don’t adopt from a perrera. Ignore the cries of ‘these dogs will be killed’ because what happens if they are saved – they end up in a shelter, if there is room for them, and then could wait years before getting a home.

    Remember, if you adopt a dog from a shelter, then that leaves space for another podenco – maybe abandoned in the campo, starving and injured on a roadside.

    Adopt from an association, not a perrera.

  • Podenco Friends and TheKennelKlub – saving the Lanzarote podencos

    Lanzarote new one 400 5 11 2016Lanzarote an Island located 125km of the coast of Africa part of the Canary Islands and one of 17 autonomous communities administered by Spain. A popular tourist destination year round due to its climate yet a few kms inland there is a very different story. Podencos are the primary dog chosen for hunting hidden away from view the situation for them is dire, held in underground caves and just like Mainland Spain high numbers are abandoned or handed into perreras every year. To re-home the podencos from Lanzarote is difficult due to lack of options for flights over seas, very few are re-homed to local people on the island.

    It’s a small island with limited facilities and the perreras are unable to keep them due to lack of space so many podencos are euthanised or living in extremely cramped conditions. Saving the Lanzarote Podencos has been created to help and hopefully find more homes for them overseas with the collaboration of the Kennel Klub on Lanzarote and Podenco Friends on mainland Spain.

    Our first rescue is of 6 Podencos just recently handed into a Perrera on the Island. All the Podencos will be attended by the Veterinary Clinic that works with Kennel Klub. Each will be fully vaccinated, health checked, blood tested and sent to the laboratories for Leishmania, Filaria, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and will be issued with the original reports from the lab. They will be issued passports, microchipped, sterilized and accompanied with a letter of authority to change the microchip into the new owners name.

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  • Podencos galgore at Pepis Dog Refuge – please help feed them

    Pepis podenca 400 2 25 10 2016Hunting hounds galore being abandoned or handed in to Pepis Dog Refuge! Galgos by their hunters, podencos thrown over the fence or abandoned at the gates! These two little beauties arrived earlier in the year, Lulu was thrown over the fence in March and badly injured her leg but when I visited the refuge in September she had made a wonderful recovery. Whilst I was at the refuge we collected 4-month old Vero, lost and injured in the village. Then another little pup abandoned at the gate, another podenco sitting waiting at the gates, and another young one badly in need of feeding! Sadly there isn’t room for him so Jane is leaving food out in the hope that he will hang around until they can squeeze him in. It’s heartbreaking for them.

    Now we are in the countdown to Christmas, please consider ways you can help Pepis and feed the dozens of hounds there. Buy your gifts from the many high street stores through Easyfundraising, buy some Christmas cards, join the teaming group. Or simply send them a donation. Every little helps, especially in this time when the exchange rate to euros has dropped! That means Pepis income has dropped, through no fault of their own.

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  • Podenco Friends in Murcia – rebuilding the lives of abused podencos

    Some more videos of the amazing work Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends do for these wonderful but very much abused hounds. Regular readers may remember the appeal for donations for Bud, shown here from when he arrived starving and terrified in a perrera to his path to happiness and forever in the UK.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jX212p7bTo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwbXtSCiIo

  • Podenca Zarita from Podenco Friends – flying the agility flag in the UK!

    Here’s a fabulous video of Zarita showing off her agility skills at various shows around the UK this year. She has been entered in ‘Any Size’ classes because her weaving skills need a little more honing. Get in touch with Bev Farmer to find out more about podencos and agility.

  • Portuguese Podengo Zen – waiting for a forever home?

    Zen is a Portuguese Podengo Zen, now safe with Dogs of Portugal. He’s only 7 months old and was found on the street. Click on this link to see more about him including videos. Contact Dogs of Portugal if you would like to offer him a forever home.

  • Podenco Valentino looking for his forever family

    Bev Valentino 7 months 400 10 2016This stunning podenco is Valentino and he is 7 months old. He’s with Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends and ready for adoption. Contact Bev to learn more.

  • TheKennelKlub and Podenco Friends – saving the Lanzarote podencos

    Bev Sarifa Lanzarote 400 10 2016Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends is now helping Laura Johnson of TheKennelKlub with the Lanzarote podencos. Here’s what Bev writes.

    ‘A picture that says a thousand words……. So many podencos are subjected to such a harsh life they are never loved or treated with kindness like we do with out own dogs. They don’t get to sleep on a sofa o,r a comfy bed, if they are lucky they are are held in cages where they can sleep on the ground. Many don’t even get this, they are restrained on chains 24 hours 7 days a week only released when taken out on a hunt. Then they are abandoned if sick or old, for its much cheaper to get a pup or younger one, than pay for veterinary treatment.

    The Podenco face two battles, a life of subjugation and then a lack of adoptions for they are not viewed suitable as a family pet, the odds are really stacked against them. On the Island of Lanzarote Podencos have been discovered in the most deplorable conditions held in holes in the ground with no natural light, left there for days with stale water and no food. This is 2016 and why this is allowed to continue is beyond me, and with the power of social media today, few people know about the breed outside Spain.

    I can not imagine what goes through their minds when they are handed into a perrera, thrown into cages or corrals with other dogs they have never encountered before. Exposed to other dogs that may carry sickness or disease, fights break out over food for they are fed in hoppers, the strongest survive so many others never eat. It is without doubt a very stressful situation for them. These could be their final days on this earth, for once the perreras are full they have no choice but to euthanise and Podencos are at high risk due to the lack of potential adoptions.

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