Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Best way to help podencos? Join an existing rescue association

    Malaga pererra pods 1 250 1 2014It’s depressing how many hundreds of podencos are abandoned and dumped in perreras every week – as with the galgos, there is now no let up during the summer months after hunting ends..,Podenco facebook pages are full of gorgeous podencos needing forever homes…I simply can’t post them all here!

    One new development in the past 18 months which does concern me is that, with photos circulating on Facebook of podencos in perreras, some people who live outside of Spain are trying to organise rescuing them and putting them in kennels, sometimes with negative results. Unfortunately this can give podencos a bad name and it’s not good for the dogs themselves.

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  • Saving Alaska – Podenco Friends respond

    Bev Alaska 250 24 7 2014This poor podenco was dumped in a perrera by the owner. Appeals were made on my facebook page Podenco Post to save ‘Grandpa Oldie’ by people outside of Spain. Although she has double the number of podencos she originally planned on having, all waiting for adoption – Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends stepped in to save Grandpa Oldie.

    Grandpa Oldie turned out to be an 11-year old female called Alaska who had been taken to the perrera by her owner, along with an up-to-date vaccination record! Bev says, ‘she is not underweight and looks to be well cared for.’ However, as with all rescued dogs, Bev took Alaska to her vet for checking over, as she was not happy with swelling around her stomach and she also had a temperature.

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  • Scooby Medina on podencos

    Until recently Scooby didn’t rescue podencos but that changed when they recently took in dozens more animals, amongst them pregnant horses, ferrets, goats…all fed on potato crisps! Here’s what Fermin has to say about their podencos.

  • Ticks and fleas on abandoned dogs – podenca fights back!

    Rosemary Skylar baby pod 250 8 2014This little podenca puppy is 3 months old, she was found abandoned with a huge infestation of ticks and fleas. She’s been named Skylar and is being treated but, not surprisingly with the number of huge ticks filled with her blood, she has jaundice. Fingers crossed for the sweet baby. She is with Pepa, if you can help find a forever home for her when she is better. Adorable – how could anyone lose her!

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  • Portuguese Podengo – rescued from the streets, needs her forever home

    Portugal Suki 170 8 2014Look at this gorgeous little Portuguese Podenco – she was lucky to be rescued, Portugal has a bad record for canine suffering. She deserves to live the rest of her life with a family. Please contact Dogs of Portugal if you can help her.

  • Juliet in Granada…wherefore art thou, my family?

    ASAP Juliet 250 1 8 2014
    Introducing Juliet, the perfect podenco for a family. Please take a look at her story and her photos here. And THE most wonderful video illustrating just what a beauty she is. She needs to find her forever family – they must be out there waiting for her. Contact ASAP if you can help

  • Princess Beatriz – from the streets of Valencia to idyllic Devon

    Beatriz Ellie 1 250 8 2014Always a pleasure to publish a happy rehoming story to illustrate what fabulous pets podencos make. Re-introducing Beatriz, Ellie updates her story.

    18 months to two years have passed since I wrote an article about Beatriz the podenco.
    Beryl kindly asked me for an update.

    Rescued off the street in Valencia on a business trip, I wrote about the perils…and joys of adopting a pod’ (which breed wise I knew next to nothing about at the time).

    Having been through the experience, (and gently encouraged by my bank manager to do so), J suggest people do not adopt dogs off the streets in Spain, or directly from a pound, but go to one of the many, and wonderful refuges and rescues, both in Spain and here in the UK. They have podencos and galgos and bodegueros and Spanish Water dogs and everything crossed and in between! They know the dogs, can match you up – lifestyle wise – and offer all the invaluable and essential help you will need when adopting from abroad, or in the UK.

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  • Podencos in Spanish perreras – hundreds killed every week

    Although I don’t post them here, there are hundreds of podencos being killed in Spanish perreras every week, most of them either puppies or under 3 years old….

    Hundreds more podencos are waiting and waiting in shelters and refuges, already safe from being killed. They desperately need forever homes to make room for the ones in perreras to be saved.

    Please contact a rescue association if you can offer a forever home to one of these fabulous hounds. Here’s a comprehensive list.

  • Rioja wines – take a tour around Rioja

    Better still, don’t take a wine tour, help find homes for these podencos. All these gorgeous podencos are in Animales Rioja shelter, waiting and waiting for forever homes. Let’s share them and hope we can help them.

    http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/580

    http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/516

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    http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/182

    http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/183

    AnimalesRiojaInformacion@gmail.com InternationalAnimalesRioja@gmail.com

  • Pepis Refuge – Podenco boys desperately needing forever families

    Pepis Refuge dogs desperately need forever homes.. they are gorgeous dogs and shouldn’t be spending any more years in kennels, no matter how well looked after they are. Here’s a link to the male dogs, you’ll find Tyson, Henry, Ramble and Ben – his brother Bill is there with him. Bill and Ben are podenco/basenji, really pretty dogs. Please help find all these gorgeous pod boys their forever homes as soon as possible.