Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Podencos – cruel treatment by the Spanish hunters

    Albacete podenca 1 2010 250 Podencos suffer severe maltreatment at the hands of the Spanish hunters – abandoned, starving, caught in snares, ends of their noses chopped off to make them look like a pig, chained through the mouth to a wall, stoned to death……………..some have even had 'shot' still inside them, where they have been hit as well as the rabbits!Here's a few examples.

    I make no apologies for posting all these pictures together, let's start off Podenco Post by showing some of the horrors perpetrated against these loving and affectionate dogs, some of whom found loving homes eventually, one who sadly did not, murdered at the hands of a 16 year-old thug.

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  • 25th March 2011 – join the march against animal cruelty

    On www.noalmaltratoanimal.org  you can read or see about a big manifestation through whole Spain on the 25th of March against mistreating of animals and longer sentences in prison for people who are guilty of this.

    There is a comprehensive list of all the major cities and towns where a march is taking place, including time and place to meet.  Please attend and get as many of your friends, supporters, neighbours etc. to take part, if you live in Spain or the Canary and Balearic Islands.  They ask for 80,000 people, I'm sure there could be many more.

    UPDATE    28/03/2011 – people turned out in their thousands, it was very successful.  When I get more news, I'll post more.

  • Starving to death in a coral in Cordoba!

    Starving dogs Cordoba 4 11 02 2011 250 There are no regulations in Spain to which refuges and shelters have to adhere.  Some are a living hell for dogs and cats which have already suffered from maltreatment and abuse.  This is a 'coral' in Cordoba where dogs including podencos are starving to death through lack of food and water.  When dogs get to this stage, they will even attack and eat each other.  There is evidence of this here.  El Arca de Noe Cordoba complained about the situation, and the authorities removed the dogs to the local pound.  Death awaits them, from lethal injection if they haven't already succumbed to infection and illness before them.

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  • Zaragoza killing station – podencos desperately needing rescue

    Podenca Zaragoza 1 08 2011 250 The hunting season is now over and hunters are getting rid of their '4-footed tools'!
    These are the Perricos to be slaughtered in a few days at the Zaragoza perrera. This is the appeal I received

    'We are only two volunteers who have many dogs in kennels which we pay the fees and we can't take any more dogs.  We have all this responsibility on our shoulders and we desperately need adopters for the dogs in our care, and more so we need special people who can rescue these young podencos before they are sacrificed in a few days.

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  • Podencos – victims of Spanish hunters – hear their plea

    La Linea hanged with trap 1 02 2011 250 The following stories have come in showing the unnecessary cruelty which hunters will inflict on their dogs when they are no longer of use nor wanted.  The first podenco was the victim of being hung by a steel belt!  The old one was abandoned at a petrol filling station, searching for food.  The third one – well, you can see the terrible condition, how long had this poor podenco been on the streets of La Cazalla (70km from Seville), with no food.  La Linea at Cadiz is one of the shelters which has hundreds of these dogs, all deserving a forever home.

    Seville perrera puppies 02 2011 250 And two tiny podenco puppies in the Seville perrera!  If you can help them, contact perrosurgentes@hotmail.com

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  • Extremadura hunters – Fepaex says ‘Take Responsibility for your Dogs!

    Extremadura hunter fepaex.org 02 2011 250 Podencos and galgos both suffer unimagineable cruelty at the hands of the Spanish hunters and gitanos – Spanish gypsies.  Most publicity comes from the regions of Andalucia and Murcia, as well as the Spanish Islands Ibiza and the Canary Islands.  However, the Spanish interior including the region of Extremadura is also hell on earth for galgos and podencos.  Here is a report from Fepaex – Federacion de Protectoras de Animales de Extremadura.

    THE PROBLEM for  HUNTING DOGS  in EXTREMADURA =  Irresponsible HUNTERS + passive and complicit

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  • Euro Group for Animal Welfare – action to protect cats and dogs

    Ch 9 3 eurogroup 155 The Euro Group for Animal Welfare have just published their monthly bulletin and this includes an article about protecting Europe's companion cats and dogs.  Read more.

    European Council gives green light for concerted action to protect cats and dogs

    At the end of 2010 EU member state representatives voiced their agrrement for joint EU action to protect Europe's cats and dogs through harmonised policy on identification, breeding and trade.  They endorsed Council Conclusions on the Welfare of Cats and Dogs put forward by the Belgian Presidency.

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  • Valencia – two abandoned podencos, help urgently needed to rescue

    Podenco Valencia 28 01 2011 250 Please help save these two podencos.

    Podenquita young and beautiful abandoned in the street. She is very affectionate and friendly, but She  wears a red collar, appears to have been lost or escaped from a hunter.
    We need foster care or adoption for her, since it is in an area of villas and we know that people there are bothered by her presence.   She is also in danger of mistreatment or abuse.
    Please someone that has a space for her.  It is very urgent!
    Contact: 645784096 tere_sa_ee@hotmail.com or receiving calls in the afternoon.

    And another!

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  • Podencas needing forever homes – can you help?

    Aminda 2 Phoenix 01 2011 190 Mindy and Roda are two gorgeous young podencas which are now in foster care in France and desperately looking for their forever homes.  Here's the story of how they came to be in France.

    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.

    You may not know the breed Podenco but they are a sighthound,like the Pharoah Hound, and are subject to bad treatment and abandonment by the Spanish hunters.  For most in shelters on the Spanish Islands, forever homes in mainland Europe is their only hope of life outside the shelter. They are an extremely loyal breed and make fantastic companions.

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