Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Gran Canaria – free accommodation, self-catering!

    Gran Canaria 1 400 20 9 2017Yet more publicity about the appalling abuse of podencos on Gran Canaria, just a few miles inland from the beaches and apartments frequented by the tourists. This report from Kurt who visited the Island as a tourist. (Google translation)

    ‘After a very difficult year, a week of Gran Canaria, and then you go because it’s almost as far as you can make your nieuwjaarsvoornemens and walk around…. FIRST YOU MEET 2 Neurotic horses in a mini garage and then a Beautiful Dalmatian on the chain that is so scared… well of walking is long gone… crying of powerlessness… in the “house” Strolling I hear a lot of dogs barking and go see…

    Horror of a hundred dogs some dead in a big cage with no water and food….the stink, the crying of those dogs goes through marrow and leg… completely off the map I go home… after that first shock is processed, we rush to the supermarket to get a cart full of food and water…. we get back there at Auschwitz for dogs – there is there a man right next to that cage watering plants while those animals dying of thirst…

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  • The escape artist, climber, digger, Houdini.

    Escaping dog over fence 400I’m an opportunist, an escapee in the making
    I want to run away from you, your love I am forsaking.

    Because I am scared of everything, and you don’t understand
    I’d sooner run away from you and live out on the land.

    Don’t leave that door open, not even just ajar
    Because if you do I’ll be gone, and run and run so far.

    A window left open, to catch the gentle breeze
    For me that’s a piece of cake. I can get through that with ease.

    I can wriggle out of a harness if that is not secure.
    I’ll find a way I know I can, and of that you can be sure.

    I watch for things that you seemingly and carelessly forget
    Like leaving me in the garden. All you’ll have now is regret.

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  • Young podenco – dumped like trash to be killed! Caceres, Spain – URGENT!

    Caceres podenco 400 20 9 2017This young podenco is in the municipal pound in Caceres, southern Spain. He has a front leg injury which urgently needs veterinary attention. He’s terrified…look at his eyes! Poor soul. If he is not taken out soon, he will be murdered in a couple of weeks, pts by the municipal vet…Please contact adopcionescaralapiz@gmail.com or whats app to 625190080

  • Keep your new dog safe…important lessons to learn

    Ann Marie Payne is with SOS Animals in Coin and has become very concerned about the number of posts for lost dogs! Here’s what she writes.

    ‘Lately I’ve seen so many posts about newly adopted dogs escaping.

    You may be excited at the idea of having a new dog, but your dog is probably terrified and will want to flee at the first opportunity.

    Please try to put yourself in their mind and try to imagine this.

    They may have had a miserable life and ended up in the pound, or simply might have got lost and ended up in there. The pound is not a nice place, and many struggle to survive mentally as well as physically. They go into foster and regain some of their trust, only to find themselves crated up and off to somewhere new.

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  • Sign the petition to Save the Strays in Murcia

    Please sign and share widely. No dog should be murdered in a perrera!

  • Adopt a podenco, make their life complete

    Days numbered

    List of podenco rescue and rehoming associations

  • The truth about animal abuse in the Canary Islands (Spain)

    After the four-dog TV show, one of the activists who made it possible, has narrated their desperation and how they have managed to get channel Cuatro out to the Canary Islands to record the program. This video expresses the desperation of the animals who fight for animal rights in the Canary Islands and how they have to confront the abusers, municipalities, politicians and how they do nothing, breaching with their obligations. Complaint after complaint, you see how it is impossible to avoid animal suffering.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=huQvztFNmOQ&app=desktop

  • Podengo x Carmela in Portugal looking for a forever home.

    Pretty little Podengo x in Portugal, looking for a forever home. contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can offer her one.

  • 6 podencos in Jaen – ready for adoption now

    Homeless 6 podencos 400 6 9 2017These 6 podencos were living in a home with their Mom. sadly she is now too ill to care for them and is living in a convent of nuns. These podencos were family pets, so are ready for adoption now. Please, if you have room in your home and heart for one, contact Pedro HUELLADEJAEN@HOTMAIL.COM Can any associations help with foster homes for onward adoption? Please help these lovelies who are wondering what has happened to their home.

  • Help the 4 rescued podenco x pups at SOS Animals

    Libby pups Sue 3 400You may remember at the end of July I appealed for someone to help with a Podenco Mum and her 5 pups, born in a cave. The man caring for them had to leave, there was no room in any of the shelters, but luckily a local volunteer came forward. Mom and one pup are being adopted by their rescuer, but the other 4 pups are in the SOS Animals shelter in Coin and they desperately need the funds to prepare the Pet Passports so these gorgeous pups can be adopted.

    Please share and donate to this fundraiser, every little helps