Here are 3 videos I thought you would enjoy watching. The first one is a tongue-in-cheek one entitled 7 sins of a Podenco and the other 2 are from Podenco Friends.
Illuvia saved from a perrera – no dog should have to be so starved and afraid, yet too many of them suffer this treatment.
Irina and puppies – an illustration of the recall work Bev and Warren do with their rescued podencos.
Contact podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk about adopting a podenco…they always have many waiting for forever homes.
Dogs of Portugal now have Portuguese podengo Gem safe in their care. He’s hoping for a forever home, if you would like to apply, contact Dogs of Portugal direct.
Here’s what they say about him, plus more pix and video.
Here is another article on the subject of vaccines and how often our dogs etc should have them. My horse hasn’t had a vaccination for several years – he is retired – my dogs don’t go anywhere to meet other dogs as we have our own meadows to talk in. At least for them, rabies vaccination is now only every 3 years. But they are still pumped up with the rest of the drugs! As one is 15, one 13 and one 9, surely they are well protected without still needing an annual vaccine?
Anyone else feel the same?
One of the emotional problems of helping the galgos and podencos of Spain is that one wants to help them all, especially those traumatized, injured and needing treatment…and the problem is as bad now as it was when I first became involved in 2007. The difference is that more people are aware of the problem, more people want to help, and more rescue and rehoming associations have been formed.
One lady who used to run a rescue in Greece now runs an animal sanctuary in La Manche, northern France. She has a huge caring heart and land and buildings to help needy animals. Sadly this has led her to difficulties with the French authorities, and you can read about it on this link.
The gendarmes took away 36 of her galgos and podencos to 2 SPA kennels (Societe Protection Animale) and dumped the dogs there without their medication, some with leishmania and a couple with cancer.
Of course Lynn is heartbroken, as am I thinking about the 36 dogs who were happy living carefree lives together, rather than chained to walls in dark buildings, starved by the hunters…neglected…
And now her reputation is being destroyed by the trolls on Facebook who are happily attacking her, rather than the rescue associations who kept sending dogs to her. Plus doing absolutely nothing to try and get the dogs out of the SPA kennels.
What is Leptospirosis? Read the information on this link.
The Daily Telegraph recently reported concerns that the Lepto vaccine is killing dogs in the UK. Read the article here.
DogsFirst – winner of Dragons Den 2013, also has a report on the side effects of the vaccine.
News from the Scooby team.
Last weekend we have traveled to Murcia to collect more animals whose lives were in serious danger.
The people who rescue them, in the end, always end up getting in touch with us, because despite their multiple appeals, can no other association help them save the lives of these innocent beings?. Total has been 24 dogs, between galgos and podencos. And other animals…….
The black galgo is one of the picked up dogs this weekend in Murcia, he has a broken leg and a vet gave the owner the advice to kill him ?? because the operation would cost a lot of money and he would probably never be able anymore to run enough fast for hunting…
Although we have rescued this year various animals with fractures and almost drown in the costs, we can not look the other way and leave this galgo being killed one way or the other?.
Below are photos of some of the dogs, all ex hunters as you can see.
The podencos and galgos in Portugal suffer just as much inhumane treatment and abuse as the ones in Spain, as I often publish on my blogs. Yet they don’t get the media coverage to help them find homes. Here are 4 lovelies who have been taken by a huner to the Dogs of Portugal refuge and who will be hoping forever homes. Contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you would like to adopt one.
Here’s a video of them all. Lovely happy dogs, just ready for a home and loving! How could you resist that gorgeous face of Lina!
Merric is a lovely 5 year old Podenco, good with people and other dogs. He has a bend leg but runs like all other dogs and it does not seem to bother him at all. Does not make him less handsome.
This lovely boy is as good as gold, had a tough tough time as his leg shows though it does not affect him luckily -and so needs a loving family to adopt him
In Albox,contact Patricia Herrera
This is my home.. If you can call it that. I’m imprisoned within these walls without even a window to look out of. My water is green and yet I’m meant to drink it still. I’m being eaten alive by insects, I have no bed to lay on and the food is like eating cardboard. The howls of other dogs who surround me keep me awake at night. They cry for their families, just for someone to love them!
Can you see the marks on the walls behind me? That’s my many failed attempts at escaping this hell hole. I can’t get out, unless someone takes me out. I wonder who will? Will anyone? And where will they take me? Will it be to a new life or a vets room..?
Will I fall asleep and wake up with someone caressing my fur and telling me I’m a good dog? Or will I just never wake up…?
I can’t answer these questions but YOU could.. YOU have the power to free me or any dog in here.. I guess the real question is,
Ibizan Hound Rescue is one of the first podenco rescue and rehoming associations with hundreds of hounds now happily settled in forever homes around the globe. Here’s a link to their website, their story and some of the stunning hounds currently waiting in the hope of finding a place in the heart and home of someone.
