So far this week, in 2 days, I have emails of 17 podencos in the 3 perreras above who are due to be killed, one old boy handed in by his owner after being in a home for 6 years! Until more podencos in refuges are adopted, the volunteers can’t take the ones in the perreras. Please tell everyone what fabulous pets podencos make.
Category: Campaign
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Don’t abandon your dog…
Interesting video in Spanish publicising that abandoning your dog is no different from abandoning your child.
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Cool to be Kind – a promise
Cool To Be Kind has been launched by Sarah Fisher. Basically it is encouraging people to make a short 2 minute video saying what your promise is to help and to be kind to animals. Then you nominate two or three other people to do something along the same lines. If they don’t have animals, they can help in a refuge, cattery, riding stables, donate food and/or medicines.
I was nominated by Natalie Osborne. Now you can see my Cool to be Kind video and I hope that many of you will join in and make a similar video, upload it to Youtube – and facebook if you have a page. Just nominate 3 people – make sure you ask their permission first – then make the video, upload and share.
Nando Brown video
Weblink to the Cool to be Kind website
Cool to be Kind on facebook
For those of you on facebook, here’s Natalie’s video
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Podencos make Pets – publicise the Podencos
The reality of life for podencos – these two Mamas and their babies are in Almeria ‘high kill’ perrera – that means they will be some of the first to be killed as the pound is full! Huma has two boy pups, both old enough to eat on their own, and Kaleshi has 3 female and 3 male puppies, all still suckling – will she be fed enough to produce milk for them – just for them to be killed shortly?!
In perreras, podencos are killed in their dozens every week – those lucky enough to be rescued from abandonment on the streets languish for months, sometimes years, in refuges waiting to be adopted, especially on the Canary Islands.
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Podenco Andaluz Zahra – saved from Spanish hell
An appeal from Irene Allan for a forever home for this gorgeous little podenca – can you resist her?!
‘This tiny little Podenca Andaluz is Zahra and she is just over one year old, is 16in tall, good with otherd ogs and cats, plays with toys and loves doggy company. This photo is the day we got her .You can see she has improved.’
If you have a place in your home and your heart for here, contact Irene.
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Report by SPCAI on meeting in Madrid 12/3/2014
Report from the SPCAI on the meeting in Madrid on 12th March 2014. As you can see, the podencos didn’t get a mention, as always!
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Podenco Passe – always passed over – desperately needs foster and forever
This is an appeal for a foster or, even better, a forever home for Podenco Passe in Fuengirola, Spain. Maybe his name doesn’t help, he is ‘passed’ over in favour of other dogs in the shelter. Here’s his story.
He is in a kennel in Fuengarola, Costa Del Sol, Spain. Stacey from 4forpaws adoption took him in as he was being attacked by a Boxer Dog and got badly injured. But that was over 2 years ago and he has been in the kennel now ever since then. He is a lovely looking dog.
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Canary Islands – tourist routes into the hills – spectacular scenery
For those of you who haven’t seen these before, two videos of ‘kennels’ where podencos are kept on Gran Canaria. Estimates are 85,000 podencos on these islands, most living in horrendous conditions on the breadline, disposed of in horrendous ways at the end of hunting in December each year.
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Please send email before 12th March 2014 –
Please read this appeal which I’ve posted on Galgo News because at the moment it is only about galgos. BUT IT NEEDS TO BE ABOUT PODENCOS TOO! They need you to send emails urgently on their behalf – because you are their voice.
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PACMA – Canary Islands Government says no to outlawing animal abuse
PACMA is a political party in Spain, founded in 2003, fighting the abuse and maltreatment of animals. This is a report on their website on a recent action against the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands. (google translation)
‘Next March will be a year of delivery of a request to amend the Law 8/1991 on the Animal Protection Party Animalista – PACMA the Canary Islands Government and backed by 30,070 signatures collected throughout the archipelago.