I came across this video, of particular interest because it begins with podencos and a cat happily together in a home and moves on to podencos running free off leash. I don’t speak German but have now got a translation of the story on the video.
Category: Adopt
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Podenca Amber – Lanzarote to UK – can you help?
Regular readers will know that I often mention the podencos waiting in the Canary Islands for forever homes, and that it is expensive to get them to the UK for rehoming. This is an appeal to ask if you can help towards getting this beautiful podenca to her forever home. Laura tells the story.
‘This is AMBER. She is an 18 month old female Podenco. She was found by holidaymakers and ended up in the dog pound. We went and met with them as they desperately wanted to take this beautiful girl home with them.
Plans were made and finances organised but sadly in the last 3 weeks a lot has changed.
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Sad reality of life in Spain for Podencos – report from Zamorra
The cruelty of the Spanish hunter knows no bounds. I shed so many tears at the stories which arrive in my inbox every week. This story is about Alma, just been rescued and now under the care of Scooby at Zamorra and their vet. Cobie explains.
‘The sad reality for a podenca, a hunting dog of advanced age that no longer “served” and that was found in a state close to dying, completely starved and without any energy to be able to stand up, with severe wounds all over her body, inflicted by beings full of hate and anger and without scruples or feeling.
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Valencia podencos saved from the campo – ready for adoption with P.E.P.A.
Rosemary Macdonald tells about the latest rescues with the PEPA animal charity in Valencia.
‘This is Mamma about a year and a bit old the amazing wonderful girl that we rescued after we found her feeding three different sets of puppies only two of them hers, she is now ready to go to a new home she is without a doubt a wonderful dog she is well mannered loving eager to please and she gets on well with other dogs.
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Young podencos to be killed – Toledo and Almeria…
My heart is breaking…every day dozens of podencos on death row in perreras…two brothers here, only 5 months old, in Almeria perrera!! “Murtagh” y “Eragon”
Sex: Boys (brothers) Age: 01/10/2013 contact: adopcionesanua@gmail.comBut if people don’t foster or adopt, then there isn’t room in shelters to save the death row dogs. And a pretty little bitch, no good for hunting, afraid of gunshot, so her owner took her to the vet to be pts – foster home needed and then adoption. In Toledo. Such a needless waste of precious lives…(Spain) 660 43 10 16 or Aspaan Asociación Protectora Amigos de los Animales (photo below)
If any of you have ‘room for just one more’, please consider a podenco. There’s a comprehensive list of associations here.
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Update on Podenca Vida – beaten and dumped to die
This beautiful little podenca is Vida today – remember her battered body when she was found in a bag in a rubbish bin in a village of Valencia. You will be delighted to know that she is recovering very well.
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Podencoworld – busy helping podencos to homes in Holland
Here are some lovely videos of rescued podencos travelling to their forever homes in Holland. Wording in Dutch but the films speak for themselves.
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Podencos Ria and Inca – finding forever together in Italy
Alicia Andrews lives in Italy and has two rescued podencas. She is now involved in helping to rehome podencos, especially from Lanzarote, Canary Islands. She tells the story of how she became involved with the podencos.
‘When my last remaining dog died back in January 2013, he left a huge hole in my life. I’ve loved animals from the time I was born into a household where there were always rescued dogs and birds around. So when Peanut left me to run over the rainbow bridge and join his mother and siblings (or, at least I like to think that he did), I felt “lost”. Who was going to leap excitedly around my legs when it was time for a walk?
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Valencia podencos – discarded like trash in the perrera
It’s obvious that the hunting season in Spain is now drawing to a close. Perreras overflowing with hunting dogs, podencos, galgos, pointers…as well as thousands of other beautiful dogs – young ones, old ones – confused as to why they have been dumped. Podencos are used in very large number for hunting particularly in Valencia and the high kill perrera is overflowing. Below are some of the poor souls there, including 2 taken by the hunter himself, so can be killed any day, and a couple born in 2005 obviously used for breeding.