Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Podenco Bud – the reality of life for Podencos in Spain and the Canary Islands

    For everyone who generously gave to our appeal to fund vet fees for Podenco Bud and Moreno, with Podenco Friends in Murcia, here’s a lovely video from Bev Farmer. Sit back and enjoy.

    Buds Story…. handed into a perrera by a hunter with the explanation he had been feeding him but thought he was sick and that is why he was so emaciated. We took him into our care and blood tests revealed a different explanation, long term malnutrition, severe anemia. This is not an isolated case, many of the Podencos we rescue come to us in this condition.

    I ask please share this video and let the world see what happens to many of the Podencos in Spain, for them its their reality Bud was lucky we got him to us in time watch the video although sad to begin with….. see the magic unfold

  • Foster home urgently needed for Podenco x Aaron

    Pepis Aaron 250 6 2015Please can we find a foster home urgently for pod x Aaron. He is one of over 80 dogs at Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera Seville. Another one dumped at the gates – it happens on a regular basis…dogs come in quicker than can be homed!!

    Here’s what Jane Brian says.
    ‘I wonder if you can help with little guy? I have him living with us in the mobile home and I really don’t want to put him in the refuge.

    He is an amazing puppy, very intelligent and obedient.

    We estimate that Aaron is around five months. He is house trained to a point, he does his big business outside, but still does wee wee inside, he hasn’t grasped that concept as yet.’

    Please contact Jane Brian direct, please help Aaron with either a foster home or, even better, a forever home.

  • Podencos Clooney and Callum – pups at play

    Another lovely video from Beverley Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    Roxys two boys were born in the campo amazingly even with such a bad start in life they are really social. Their mum is a Podenco Campanero and these seem to have her laid back attitude. Both are vaccinated, passport and negative for med diseases, 7 months old.

    Lovely pups cuddle monsters for adoption please email us: podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk
    P.S dont forget to hit the HD button for better quality viewing

  • PAES Animal Welfare Conference – 16-18 October 2015 – Murcia, Spain

    Please support this conference, a must for all involved in animal welfare anywhere in the world. I will be speaking, be nice to meet any of you there. Please share widely.

  • Happy Ending for Podenca Canario Toti – from SARA Lanzarote to the USA

    Podenco Canario Toti survived an incredible rescue? Th e female podenco was rescued from a hole 40 meters under the earth, which was reported all over the media. You can see the story and his rescue here: TOTI’S STORY

    Fantastic news. TOTI is going to his new home in THE UNITED STATES

    Video of Toti

    Please help more podencos like Toti find their forever homes. Hundreds of them are waiting in refuges on all the Canary Islands.

  • Helping the Lanzarote podencos – why we do it

    Rick Beauchamp is a volunteer for SARA Protectora on Lanzarote, Canary Islands. He helps rehome rescued podencos in the UK. He writes about why he does it.

    Very often people ask us why we bother rescuing dogs from Lanzarote when there are so many homeless here in the UK?

    Our answer I feel rarely convinces, as you have to see the suffering of the dogs to really appreciate why we feel that we have absolutely no choice but to try and help.

    Recently we came across this article on the SARA website www.saraprotectora.org.
    I have transferred the article verbatim as it adds to the poignancy.

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  • The Stark Reality of life in Spain – what the tourists don’t see

    Video made by Bev Farmer. The truth about life in Spain for the majority of animals and what the tourists never see. Also the reality of life for animals on the Canary Islands – also a Province of Spain.

  • Canary Islands – these guys are looking to leave!

    SARA Guapo 170 5 2015The Canary Islands Podencos need homes! SARA Protectora have some fabulous ones who wait and wait…and wait…Rick Beauchamp introduces you to some.

    GUAPO NEEDS YOUR HELP Guapo was rescued from one of the “killing stations” on Lanzarote. He has been in SARA shelter since 23/3/2010, just over 5 years!!! He was only a very young dog when he was rescued, he is thought to be about 5 1/2 !! He is active and bouncy and loves other dogs. Hes a big lad too around 60 cm at the shoulders. An active chap like Guapo needs to be with a family, can anyone supply him with the love and kindness he so desparately needs? As with all the SARA dogs Guapo is neutered, microchipped and fully inoculated!

    I am in the process of getting a consignment of dogs together so please message me if you can help Guapo or why not visit the SARA website www.saraprotectora.org and look at the other inmates,if you want further information on any one of them I’d gladly help. rick.beauchamp@express-recruitment.co.uk

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  • Braveheart – ACTIN in action again

    Valiente 1 250 14 5 2015Less than a week ago (May 2015) one of Actin’s team was contacted and asked to investigate this terrible case; a dog tied up on a chain in a hidden cave in a horrible town in Murcia where animals are treated like garbage…

    On arrival they found this most pathetic and sad sight and because of what he suffered they named him Valiente, (Brave). Valiente attached to a short chain, old, skinny, sick and hardly able to move, the saddest of souls. He was about to give up, the rescuers were just in time to help him – before he succumbed to his life of misery.

    Valiente is about 10 years old, so sad to think someone had him living this hell for all his life and caused him to be in such pain and endure such suffering. His condition as diagnosed by the vet; arthritis atrophy, osteoarthritis atrophy, cachexy, and sclerosis in the eye, amazingly he is not positive for leishmania.

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  • Valencia gitano – the cruelty continues…Little Pod Association to the rescue

    Little pod vet 2 dogs 250 5 2015From Little Pod Association.

    ‘Here we go again… The Gypsy in Valencia is expecting a visit from authorities and will ‘get rid’ of 2 more dogs before they arrive. THEY ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP!!!! The first dog is chained to a wall 24/7 with a horse next to her. She is unable to get up. The second dog is kept in a crate.

    So now we have them! Please officially meet Phoenix and Lolly

    First and foremost we must thank Lorraine Edwards at Lozzas Podenco Rescue who committed to helping Lolly without any information, just a picture and a plea for help.

    So updates on the girls starting with Lolly. Lolly is actually not in too bad a condition, she can’t have been there long that’s for sure. She is (amazingly) negative for all Mediterranean diseases, but she does have a small fatty lump on her back which will be removed when she is spayed. She is holding up one of her back legs but it seems to be due to a pad rather than a serious injury… it seems to be caused by not moving a lot until the last couple of days. She is completely stunning and when ready will make her way to the UK to Lozzas.

    Little Pod vet 250 2 5 2015Phoenix unfortunately is in a real state…. It takes a lot to shock me these days but this poor sweet girl…the pictures speak for themselves really. She is positive for Ehrlichia Ana Plasma but is negaitive for Filaria and Leishmania. Although we haven’t been able to find mites on her skin she must have them (they are difficult to find), so as a precaution we are treating both girls for this as they have been together and they are now in quarantine up at the Finca with Janette and Anotonio.

    She is lame in her back right leg and holding it up but Eduardo cannot find a serious injury, it could be painful for not using it for so long after being chained to a wall for who know how long. She has a huge tumor that needs to be removed but an operation is just not possible at this time.

    Her faeces show us she has only been eating straw so we have started her on a really good puppy food to help her gain some weight and delicately encourage her digestion system to start functioning. She is just skin and bone at the moment, but I know Janette will soon change this, she doesn’t have skinny dogs. Once she has regained some health and weight we will book her in to be spayed and remove the tumor.

    She is such a sweet girl, you just cannot understand how someone can do this. Thank you to everybody who has donated towards her treatment and sent messages and well wishes for her.

    We must say a huge thank you to the wonderful lady that has the horrible task of dealing directly with the gypsy involved. It’s a job we could never do and although we keep her anonymous on FB she knows who she is and she is an angel.

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