Podenco Post

Category: Adopt

  • Little Pod Association – working in Murcia for the podencos

    LPA Angela logo 300Some years ago I received a photo of a little podenca puppy held by the scruff of the neck, feet off the ground, in a perrera for killing! I circulated the photo and details to contacts and ‘angela’ as she became known, was rescued and went into foster with Angela Stacey. Sadly Angela pod developed the killer disease parvo virus and died but she touched the hearts of so many people that Angela and her daughter Marie formed Little Pod Association.

    They have been doing amazing work rescuing and fostering and organising adoptions for dozens of podencos especially in the Murcia area. On this page you can see some of the fabulous podencos in their care, waiting for forever homes. Please contact them as they rely on donations to carry on their work. And please consider LPA if you have room for a podenco in your heart and home.

  • SARA Lanzarote – saving the podencos in the Canary Islands

    SARA Janubio 170 12 2013To animals, every day is the same, there are no fete days, bank holidays, Easter, Christmas. Their main concern is a warm bed, food and fresh water, and caring hands. Many people will have whizzed off to the Canary Islands for Christmas in the sun – spare a thought for all the volunteers working to look after all the abandoned and rescued dogs – specially the podencos – most of whom will spend their lives in a refuge unless they are adopted abroad.

    Sara Protectora on Lanzarote has over 150 dogs and 70 cats. Read more about their work here – click on the Union Jack for the english pages. More on their work here and a photo album

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  • Rioja wines – take a tour around Rioja

    These are some of the podencos in Animales Rioja – (a few are already homed/adopted including my little podenca Bebe). This is a major wine producing area, so why are there so many podencos in the refuge, plus other dogs, waiting for forever homes?

    And here are more in the Protectora des Animales de La Rioja including this Portuguese Podengo. And there are Setters and Pointers and Staffies as well as many xbreeds.

  • Injured Valencia podenca and puppies – safe now with Podenco Friends

    Bev Valencia pod pups 250 1 12 2013Saved just in time. Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends tells the story of this mamma podenca and her puppies, living rough with freezing temperatures at night. She has been named Alexa.

    ‘The team in Valencia have caught her and are on their way down to Murcia, the bad news is she has been badly injured. Deep lacerations down her side and one of her breasts ripped open, they think she has been attacked by a wild boar. We have had to make the decision to take the mum now she needs urgent medical care and people are still in the area looking for the pups. Our vets are on standby ready to operate on her.

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  • Stunning Podenco Ibicenco with Podenco Friends – for adoption

    Bev Sonny 250 12 2013And another new addition at Podenco Friends – a gentle giant.

    ‘We had another arrival. Sonny travelled from Cadiz, a big beautiful Ibizan Hound just over a year old. He was found abandoned a few months ag,o sadly the foster family could no longer keep him so Karen Dunn of Tika stepped in and prepared him for adoption.

    Sonny has an eye condition known as uveitis resulting from a trauma to the eye and started treatment for it some time ago. At the moment he still having treatment and it is possible the eyesight in that eye will be compromised. We will continue with weekly veterinary checks and our vets are in consultation with the clinic that treated him before.

    Taking that all aside Sonny only been with us for 24 hours and has the most wonderful temperament, very easy going and a big hit with the girlies here. For adoption please email us at podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk

  • Urgent appeal for podencos in Tenerife

    Tenerife Tierra Blanca 250 13 12 2013Regular readers will know I always mention the refuges in the Canary Islands and the podencos there whose main hope of a forever home is on mainland Europe. Now there is terrible news from of the shelters.

    There has been torrential rain in Tenerife and the refuge Tierra Blanca has suffered badly with flooding. If anyone would like to help a podenco to have a shelter from the elements, below is more information and an translation from María Isabel Padilla Peraza vet and manager of Tierra blanca.

    We currently have over 130 Podencos in our patio area , an open area that has been devastated by rain. Right now we are constructing the area , but besides building costs we need funds to buy shelters.

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  • Valencia podencos – together forever

    Bev esme Nacha on arrival 250When I visited Bev, I met two of the 50+ podencos rescued from a hellhole in Valencia. Their necks bore the marks made by the chains and collars. After rehabilitation with Bev and Warren, they have now both found their forever family. a wonderful happy story!

    Bev writes. As we prepare Nacha for her big trip to America to Sallie Lisa and her team at Grateful Greyhounds Inc. there is another twist to this story. One I had secretly hoped for and this week it has become a reality. We got confirmation that Nacha will be reunited with Esme and these two Podencos will never be separated again. Martha Feltenstein, who has already adopted Esme, was at the airport on the 5th December to welcome Nacha and take her home. This fantastic ending to such a sad story has only come about from the co-operation and team work of so many people.

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  • Nearly deaf, partially sighted – big cuddly puppy Pipa waiting at Scooby

    Pipa Scooby 250 12 2013Not a podenco or a galgo but nevertheless a very special young dog with Scooby Medina who needs a very special home. Here’s her story.

    PIPA is a very special girl.She is a puppy(born in january 2013) living with the oldies.Pipa is deaf(if not completely,almost deaf),we think she doesn´t see perfectly and, once in a while,she has an epileptic attack.

    But there are many other things that make her special and loved…

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  • Cheap accommodation in Spain

    Cheap accommodation in Spain – the side the tourists don’t see. To find out more about the podencos waiting for forever homes with Bev Farmer, contact her.

  • Podenco Friends – Bev Farmer tells her story

    Bev Tilly 250It’s 10 years since Bev Farmer first met Tilly and so began her journey into the world of the podencos – life was never to be the same! Bev tells her story.

    10 years ago this month I encountered my very first Podenco. We had suddenly lost one of our dogs and called into a local shelter. Tilly was curled up in ball shivering and looking so vulnerable, so yes we will have her. She had been discovered in a large refuse bin covered in rubbish with one of her front legs badly broken.

    So, having absolutely no idea what a “Podenco” was, we took her home.

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