Podencos in the Canary Islands lead a hellish life and sadly the cost of adopting one to a forever home in Europe is very expensive.
This video from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends shows how some of them are kept, only let out to hunt.
Category: Campaign
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1st May – International Day of the Podenco
May 1st is the International Day of the Podenco, a day to raise awareness and bring to the worlds attention this much forgotten breed. They are not called “Los Grandes Olvidados for nothing and we call on the Podenco community around the world to support this day.
What is a Podenco? From Pyramid to Perrera. My definitive guide to the Podenco – all sale proceeds donated to appeals for help for help for podencos.
What is a Podenco?
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Podencos at Akira Dog Shelter, Benissa, Spain
Podencos for adoption on this weblink.
If you can’t adopt, please sponsor one.
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Podenca Coco hoping for a forever home.
Our 12 year old podenca Coco is such a gem. She is sweet and great with other dogs. Towards people she can be a bit shy. Who would like to give this oldie a chance? After 12 years of hunting and having puppies, her last years should be spend on someone’s sofa. She has now gained weight and will be sterilised soon.
Her suitcases are packed in the hope someone will give this sweet podenca a comfy rest of life.
Interested in her? Contact us on facebook (Tanamera Rescue) or by email stichtingtanamera@gmail.com
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The true face of desolation – old Podenca in the perrera
The true face of desolation. Noelia a granny who lived a very hard and unhappy life. Her little legs are very sore. So little and cute.
Weighing only 9 kg. Only looks for affection since she could never felt anything similar to a caress..She only served to give birth year after year. She’s 10 years old but it seems like a lifetime of bitterness and pain has taken its toll on her. You just have to see her, poor thing.A perrera, the last place for an elderly podenca abandoned by her hunter who she served faithfully for 10 years!
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70 hunting dogs desperately needing to find rescue shelters
Yet another sad example of the horrors endured by Spain’s hunting dogs because there is no law to protect them.
The 6 month old puppies arrived from Alentejo this week. They were brought to Tiny Shelter by the very kind Municipal vet of Alentejo, herself. They are lovely dogs and clearly so excited to be in a new place …away from the CHAOTIC AWFUL PLACE where they lived…
All have small cuts and sores, proof that they had to fight for food , but apart from that, they are lovely ,happy, GRATEFUL puppies, excitedly smelling and investigating everything. He immediately vaccinated them , gave them very good puppy food and toys. These are some of the lucky ones, already removed … close to 20 have been removed…there are 50 left! (more…)
