Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Podencos puppies rescued from death row – have you room in your heart for them?

    Achilles Hercules 250 Just received the most wonderful news. these two podenco puppies were in a killing station, but the Sofia El Refigio Escuela rescued them and here they are now, waiting for their forever homes. Just look at the different in these handsome hounds, away from the smell of death. This is what the shelter says.

    ‘The world’s most handsome hounds are Achilles and Hercules and are with us! We took them out of the killing station with their faces in shock, their bodies trembling and their eyes filled with dread.

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  • Scooby Medina appeals for homes for beautiful podencos

    Scooby Kilo 04 2011 250 This is a plea from Scooby Medina looking for foster and forever homes for these beautiful podencos. Here’s what Eva says. ‘The Refugio Abyda shelter in Jaen needs help. Scooby and I have been able to rescue 6-8 dogs in the last few months, but we are packed at the shelter, so I can’t take any more dogs into our shelter unless they already have a place to go. Please contact Scooby if you can help. These beauties so deserve to know love and comfort for the rest of their lives.

    Kiko is podenco of about 5 years, measuring 56 cm and weighs 11 kg. He was very malnourished when found but is now in good health and should gain even a little weight. An art student found him abandoned on the street. He watched the dog for several days, scrabbling around the garbage bins. He was sorry for him and put him in a flat used as a studio for painting. The problem is that the people there

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  • Happy Endings Final Feliz – only not such a happy ending.

    This story is a sample of some of the things which happen to the wonderful volunteers in Spain, struggling to help the abandoned dogs.

    ‘For the last year we have been arranging car boot sales every Sunday in a place called El Marquesado, and successfully got an income for the animals that need help in our area. It has been very hard workload on all our volunteers, but they have done the job without complaining. This car boot sale has been held on what we thought was wasteland as this was an unfenced, abandoned area. We were unable to find out if anyone owned it.

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  • Spending their lives in a shelter – can you change that forever?

    SARA Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The only hope for podencos in their shelter is for them to be adopted in mainland Europe. These are beautiful dogs who deserve a life in a forever home. Please take a look at them. If they are not adopted, they will spend the rest of their lives in the shelter. The dogs are listed in alphabetical order, and their photos run in the same way. I would add that the descriptions say that they may hunt – but then again, what type of dog would not ‘hunt’ if a cat or deer ran past its nose?!

    SARA Cachorro Braille 190 Cachorro Braile: He has been handed into our shelter by his owner on the 29th of november 2008, when he was only 2 months old. He is a very friendly dog with everybody, but in the same time very shy. If you take him out for a walk you need to force him at the start, but after a while he relaxes and enjoys it and is always looking out for the person with him. He is not interested in hunting.

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  • Mindy and Roda, podencas in France seeking forever homes – great dog agility prospects

    Aminda 2 Phoenix 01 2011 190 Mindy and Roda are two gorgeous young podencas from the SARA Lanzarote shelter in the Canary Islands, who are now in foster care in France and desperately looking for their forever homes. They are young dogs who could be trained for dog agility. They have full EU passports and are clear for entry into the UK at the end of August 2011.

    If you can offer either of them the rest of their life in a forever home, where they will give you total devotion, please contact Phoenix Association

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  • Podencos make marvellous agility dogs – a good reason to adopt one!

    Podencos are totally different characters from galgos – who like nothing better than to curl up on a comfy sofa and sleep! Podencos are working dogs and therefore can make marvellous agility dogs. Here are some videos of podencos in agility, and also a Pharoah Hound, a similar breed.

    These videos have to be one of the best reasons to adopt one of these deserving dogs. You can find dozens of them waiting for forever homes and maybe an agility competitor in the weblinks in Podenco Pals. Or check out the list of podenco rescue associations listed.

    Podenco Agility 1 Podenco Agility 2

    Pharoah hound agility

  • The Truth Exposed – Spanish hell on earth for the Podenco

    This is why we need to save the podencos, as well as the galgos. Warning, upsetting images. Please don’t turn away, these wonderful dogs need our voices to speak up for them and demand respect and consideration. They are NOT vermin, they are loving sentient creatures.

  • Podenco Lucky – can you be his forever family?

    Podenco Lucky is with Galgos del Sol, desperately waiting for his forever family. See his video here. If you can offer him a forever home, please contact GdS direct.

  • ESDAW petition to protest Spanish animals – please sign

    ESDAW have created a petition demanding that the EU create a law to protect animals in Spain. Please sign and publicise.

  • Podenco Ibicenco on death row, Gesser killing station – can anyone get him out?

    Jerez podenco 26 03 2011 190 This beautiful Podenco Ibicenco is in the Gesser killing station in Cadiz; I have people  who will take him if someone can liaise with Maribel for transport etc.

    Please help. Contact me and I can liaise, or Maribel (in Spanish)  605637101 Maribel

    There are also many more podencos here, look at the link, including puppies.

    And look how many labradors, terriers, even dalmations………all abandoned by their owners and due to be euthanaised.