Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Podenco friends – podencos for adoption

    From Bev farmer of Podenco Friends.

    ‘Everyone has always answered our call to help sharing our podencos for adoption and we have had great success but again we ask for you help. To find homes in Spain for Podencos is limited so we look to other countries and we ask for your help to share their details as much as possible. This is the lifeblood of any rescue unless people are aware we have so many waiting for their forever sofa they will remain here’.

    This is a link to all the podencos on fazcebook, Bev again ‘these are some of our ours for adoption we have more that are not ready for their next stage in their lives. We have a number reserved due to leave soon and have some waiting to come to us but have come to a position where we can not accept anymore until some are re-homed we just dont have space to take any more in please hit the share button and lets find these their forever homes. Unless stated all of them have been tested negative for Leishmania, Filaria, Ehlrichia, and anaplasma all are sterilised unless they are puppies. Thank you for your support

  • Pepi’s Refuge – please help with sponsorship for 6 in the UK

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    Rachael Lepage of Leash for Life in Trowbridge, UK, has successfully homed many of the dogs which have been in Pepis refuge, some for years. 6 more lovelies have left the refuge today en route for the UK and forever homes. Rachael has sent this appeal, please donate to help her with kennel fees until the dogs are adopted.

    ‘We have 6 dogs now coming from Pepi’s Refuge which will need homing where the owners Jane and Alan Brian have retired and the refuge is closing. Some of these dogs have been there many years. The dogs will arrive by the weekend. At the time we had many offers of help. It’s now D day and as I don’t have a single foster offer on any of them, I’m really left with finding enough sponsors to cover a few days kennel fees for each of them when they arrive. Each dog will be £11.50 per day and they have to by law stay there 48 hours. Is there anyone that’s willing to chip in? All pledges can be paid direct to the kennels or our PayPal is leashoflife750@gmail.com

    Please help Rachael by donating/sponsoring one or more of the dogs. Even better, contact Rachael if you would like to adopt one of them. The dogs who left today are Bill & Ben, podenco X brothers, Sienna, Podenca Honey, Stitch and Zac.

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  • Marching in Malaga for Day of the Galgo & Podenco

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    Sjors Ferrari is passionate about podencos and flew for the day from Belgium to Malaga to join the march for the podencos and galgos on sunday 4th February 2018. She took 30 of these panels to hand out for marchers’ dogs to wear.

  • Rubbish to the podenquero – treasures to us

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    Look at these two babies, rescued from the Valencia perrera. Here’s the message from Karen Behle.

    ‘Jette aka Daisy (Brown) & Mina alias Jasmina from death in Perrera Valencia urgently searches for a foster. We’ll get the 2 on Friday from killing. They are incredibly scared there, shaking in a pen. We plan a journey between the end of February and mid-March to Germany for both these 2 Hound bitches who are approx. 12 weeks old. Association: Avpd. Contact is via facebook anfrangen va private message’

    Or comment here and I’ll pass it on if you can help. I really would like to exterminate all hunters!.

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  • February 1st – Day of the Galgo

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    In 2016 Yo Galgo Productions made a video highlighting the plight of the galgo. They have now acknowledge that the podencos suffer just as much and in the same way as galgos.

    It’s not only galgos that suffer greatly in Spain. This sweet fellow is a Podenco, another hunting breed that can be found in high numbers at shelters. Just like the galgos they are being discarded or killed when they no longer live up to their owner’s expectations. In the demonstrations all over Spain the 4th of February we also fight to end the suffering of the Podencos. Join us, we have to end this.

    If you are able to view on facebook, here is the link to the Event page with a list of all the cities in Spain marching on 4th February and the people to contact if you can join in.

  • March in Cologne, Germany, 25thJanuary 2018

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    For all podenco and galgo fosterers, adoptants and those who simply love them. Please join in the march if you can.

  • Holiday in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands? Accommodation filling up!

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    A few days ago I published the story of David Tomlinson who retired to Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, to renovate a finca. Instead he rescues and cares for podencos. This is the reality of Fuerteventura and the other Canary Islands…Gran Canaria, Tenerife…what the holidaymakers don’t see.

    These photos are from the perrera on Fuerteventura. Puppies, starving dogs, sick dogs…food thrown through the bars of the cage which is their prison. Most of these dogs will be killed…their only hope is for an association on mainland Europe to get them out. This is what Lucy Andemecraig writes.

    ‘Fuertevetura Perrera 12th January 2018. We have to empty cages! They are filled and the dogs are in danger! URGENT! If you do not adopt, share, to save the lives of these poor furries. All these beautiful podencos and puppies from other races are in the pound and are Fill the cages! they are in danger of being killed before their lives have begun.! 😢 HELP ME.

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  • Portuguese Podengo Aida…looking for a forever home.

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    This sweet little lady is l year old Portuguese Podengo Aida, found on the street and taken in. Sadly she gets upsent when left alone whilst her rescuer is out at work, so she is now with Dogs of Portugal. they have over 700 dogs at the shelter! So Aida needs to get into a forever home soon. You can see videos of her on this link. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you would like to apply to adopt her.

  • Deanimals in Murcia – always fighting for animal welfare

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    I’ve written in the past about Deanimals of Murcia, the lawyers who take on prosecution cases of animal welfare and run training courses for lawyers, police, judges, veterinarians and anyone else involved with animals, training them to carry on in all corners of Spain the work Deanimals pioneered. Founding lawyer Raquel tells me she now has many lawyers doing similar work around Spain and the Canary Islands.

    This story is about an aspect of their work…it’s not about podencos or galgos, it’s about circus animals. I have always abhorred the use of animals in circus, especially ‘wild animals’…travelling all over the place, in cramped conditions, being forced to perform unnatural acts.

    There was outrage in Paris recently when a rare white tiger from a circus was shot dead after escaping from its prison. my research shows that in October 2015 France had no ban on wild animals in travelling circuses, of which there are many in France. Further research now states there are 65 communes in France which ban wild animals in circuses. Sadly the one in which I live in 79, and surrounding communes, does not.

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  • Podenco Pinocho in Caceres – needs an operation to repair his leg

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    A plea for help to pay for the operation to repair the front leg of this sweet little podenco. Here is the story of Pinocho.

    Pinocho is a podenquito of two and a half years that was collected by the City of Tietar, a small town in the province of Cáceres, when he wandered through its streets. They put him in a kind of cuatucho where they kept the materials of the works and two volunteer girls were in charge of feeding him. A month later I was going to be sacrificed, so I brought it home.

    They say that the podencos have very bad luck and adopt themselves worse than other dogs, and it must be true, because two months later Pinocho is still waiting for his definitive family.

    Surely it is a discard of some hunter, because it came with a fracture in his right front leg. We have done two x-rays and it is a poorly welded fracture in which a misalignment has caused an angular deformity. The biomechanical forces are badly distributed and it is forcing the collateral ligaments of the carpus, that’s why it has pain.

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