Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Adaana – please help the ‘invisible’ podencos find forever homes

    Adaana pod 2 250 1 2014Appeal from Adaana – if their rescued podencos don’t soon find homes, they can’t help the others already on the street needing taking to safety. Here’s what they say.

    ‘We’re getting near February, and we know that with the end of the hunting season we’ll suffer a new wave of “hunting tools” dropped everywhere, while those which we already rescued remain invisible, without finding a home.

    I send you a collage we made to promote them. The main photo is of Podenco Friends in Murcia, in the other photos: Miga, Amber, Lucía, Chance, Shabie y Bonsai. Real beauties!! More here.

    We are already receiving requests for help for other podencos who, like them, have been used and discarded, but we can’t do more, especially if our rescued don’t achieve to find their new homes.

    Help us to break this spell that makes them invisible, help us to promote them.

    Amber was seen by a college of us with her owners and a lot of other podencos, hunting in a forbidden area. She approached them to tell them they shouldn’t be hunting there and they left. Amber caught her eye, because she seemed so young and clumsy… the next day she saw Amber on her own, and the next, … she was scared, but as the days went passed she got more confident and now she’s understood that there’s nothing to be scared about, and she’s a wonderful dog.

    Adaana pod 1 190 1 2014Miga was during nearly a month following in the distance a girl every time she walked her dog, she looked skinny and harmed. Between this person and a few neighbors they kept feeding her and trying to catch her, and at last, they achieved to catch her and they took her to the vet: she had a peculiar wound in her mouth, and the vet said it’s quite usual in the area, that hunters drop them with their mouth shut so that they aren’t able to hunt, but she was lucky to manage to get rid of it. Also, she was pregnant (we’ve sterilized her).

    Though she walks perfectly on the leash and she accepts manipulation, she’s still quite scared, and she prefers to remain in the distance if possible.

    Contact Adaana about their podencos and Podenco Friends

    Adaana podenco poster 390 1 2014

  • The Invisibles – every home should have one!

    Bebe and galgos 250I’ve been writing and publicising about the podencos for several years, since I started helping a French rescue association bring galgos and podencos from Spain to France for rehoming. I’ve fostered many and helped rehome them too, plus adopted one of my own, seen here with my galgos.

    In general the galgos get more publicity because of the huge numbers abandoned every year, especially hung in the olive groves. But life in Spain for the podencos was and still is no different, just not in quite such huge numbers. And life for the podencos on the Spanish islands got and gets very little publicity atall. Which is why I have worked to help them too.

    The podencos used to be called ‘The Great Forgotten’ but in the last couple of years there has been an ‘explosion’ of interest in podencos, mostly through publicity on facebook.

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  • Do you know what is in your animal feed 2

    Further to the post about dead dogs in Spain being used in animal feed, here are a couple of videos asking if you know what is in your pet food.

    Video 1

    Video 2

  • The Pride of Seville! Accommodation, rooms to let,

    Mairena killing station exposed yet again. When will the authorities act?

    IN SEVILLE
    Denounce the plight of the facilities of the Protector of Mairena del Alajarafe
    Members of the Humane Society and Plant Mairena del Alcor denounce the plight in which the animals are found and request that a general meeting be convened to appoint a new policy. Overcrowded and deplorable sanitary conditions in addition to lack of staff to care for them, dogs are the main complaints made by some members who have reached record images that may offend the sensibilities of anyone.

    13/01/2014 News CanalSur Tuenti Meneame

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  • Do you know what is in your animal feed?

    Daily Mail article exposing atrocities in Spain. Dogs in some of the perreras could suffer the same fate. Please publicise!

  • Cheap accommodation in Malaga

    Podencos abound in Malaga province and now the hunters are getting rid. There are 16 in Malaga perrera this week, all young ones.

    And I am told some of the ‘rescuers’ have created problems in the Valencia perrera – some of the podencos we donated to rescue last year are still in kennels till permission is given for them to be adopted.

    These are some of the podencos in Malaga perrera this week. Pray for them.

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  • ACTIN on Perreras – making money out of killing dogs

    Viv Wharton of ACTIN recently learned of a case where a pet dog was taken by the dog collector and ended up in the local perrera. Luckily the owners headed there as soon as they realised their dog was missing, and reclsimed it. What if this is happening in thousands of Perreras in Spain?

    Viv writes. ‘There is a recession, little money for anyone, let alone Perreras and animals are the bottom of Spain’s list of priorities!! The council run ones get paid for every dog brought in and now many volunteers pay to get them out.

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  • ACTIN – fighting the war against animal cruelty in Cartagena, Murcia

    Read the story so far here

  • Holidays in Mallorca – accommodation in Mallorca

    So, Mallorca. Destination of the hen and stag parties, along with Ibiza! None of these young chavs have any idea of what life is like on the island for the animals – how many dogs and cats are abandoned to fend for themselves. Have a look at the reality – SOS Animal Mallorca. Beautiful dogs, life stretches out for them in the refuge. No podencos, but I just felt I had to publicise yet again that life on the Spanish islands is hard.

  • 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.