Category: Campaign

  • 90 podencos entrapped in hell in Mogan, Gran Canaria

    90 Mogan Podencos 400 28 6 2017Whilst the Saving the Gran Canaria Podencos facebook group is helping to rehome a few to mainland Europe and the US, the 90 podencos entrapped in Mogan are still enduring their hellish life. The following was published this week on the 90 Podencos in Mogan facebook page. This is an edited translation.

    ‘The College of Veterinarians of Las Palmas has just presented the “Pet plan” to request of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. It is confirmed as dogs intended for hunting (mostly podencos) are mistreated not only by the hunters but by the officials of the respective consejerìas and councillors. In a document of 112 pages, only mention is made at this point where in so few words it is so gross. Thanks to the School for specifying the person with the name and surname responsible for this discrimination. Cathedral of Gran Canaria’

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  • Podencos at Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – desperately looking for forever homes

    Tammy 400There are many podencos and podenco X dogs at Pepis – some have been waiting years for a forever home – they have been looked after and loved by Jane and Alan and the many volunteers who help there. Please have a look at them and consider giving them the rest of their lives with a home, rather than a kennel

    Females

    Males

    Funds are desperately needed to feed the dogs, to pay off the vet bill…with the poor exchange rate after Brexit it’s hit the refuge hard. Donate here

    Join Pepis Teaming Group if you are in the Eurozone – only 1 euro/month

  • Axarquia Animal Rescue, Malaga – Podenca Bella looking for a forever home

    Axarquaia Bella 400 2Meet Bella, a female podenco, born 1 January 2012. Bella was adopted from Axarquia Animal Rescue to a forever home in the UK, but her owner is unable to care for her any longer so we are desperately looking for a foster or forever home for her, preferably in the UK.

    This beautiful girl is spayed and has up to date vaccinations, microchip and passport.

    Before being rescued, Bella had been living rough in the campo in Spain with her litter of 9 pups. Despite her unfortunate beginnings, Bella settled remarkably well into a loving home. She is gentle natured, enjoys being in the outdoors and going for walks and is good with other dogs, cats and children. She is medium sized at 19kg, height head to floor 65cm; shoulder to floor 50cm.

    Anyone who may be able to help with fostering or can give Bella the forever home she deserves, please e-mail axarquia-rescue@hotmail.com for more information.

  • Black is beautiful – Podenca Laya from Gran Canaria

    Bev Laya 400 6 2017It’s easy to overlook that there are other colours of podencos besides brown & white and chestnut. Here is an absolutely stunning black beauty, now in her forever home in the UK. Here’s her story from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    ‘Laya is ready for her journey to the UK, a pamper session bubble bath and pedicure ready for her final journey to her forever sofa. It wasn’t in Sonja or Dave Mills’ plans to add another podenco to their gang but Laya stole their heart and who can blame them, she is adorable.

    Thank you to Migue Quintero for saving this beautiful pup who didn’t have the greatest of starts on Gran Canaria and came so close to losing her life after being in a nasty accident just before she was rescued .. To Soli for been a fantastic foster mum and taking great care of her.

    Together we saved Laya and now she has a future’

    Bev is at Podenco Friends with more podencos for adoption

  • Marching for the Spanish hounds in Frankfurt, Germany

    Hundreds of podencos and galgos marched through the streets of Frankfurt, Germany on 3rd June 2017 to raise public awareness about the maltreatment of the hounds at the hands of the Spanish hunters. Video on this link.

  • Telde, Gran Canaria – the nightmare for the podencos continues!

    Podenco Telde Canary Islands 400 6 2017Telde is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary … The city Telde is located 4 km from the coast and 16 km south of the island capital Las Palmas.

    SIGN AND SHARE PLEASE

    In the city of Telde, unscrupulous individuals are committing an atrocity against animals that have no name. They are using dogs during the hunting season, and when they are no longer used to hunt, they are thrown alive by a cliff, so that they do not have to feed them any more.

    They repeat the same thing year after year: they keep the dogs in pitiful conditions, making them go hungry and without giving them a minimum of affection. Then they hunt with them, throw them down the ravine at the end of the hunting season and in the next season they look for new dogs to replace the previous ones. Thus repeatedly and without any sanction by the town of Telde.

    There are clear indications of who are the authors of this barbarity and in different plenary sessions of the city council has already been requested to be persecuted and to pay their punishment. But the City of Telde DOES NOTHING. He claims that they do not have to pay for the necropsy that must be done at the Veterinary Institute to investigate how these dogs have died and in whose hands.

    Sign this petition so that we are many who raise the voice of animals. Demand the Telde City Council to take responsibility for stopping this killing of dogs.

    The culprits have to be punished so that next time they will think twice before acting like this against these defenseless animals.

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  • 5th June 2017 – Olivenza Perrera, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain closes down

    Today the notorious privately run Olivenza Perrera closes its doors to dogs, as its licence has not been renewed. But there are still huge problems for the 104 dogs still in there.

    Read the whole story here
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  • The Container Dogs case – the truth

    Container dogs 400 11 2015Regular readers will remember the story a couple of years ago about the Container Dogs in Murcia and the hard work ACTIN association did, along with their lawyer, to try and get the dogs released. Sadly their work has been maligned publicly and the asso has been forced to issue yet another statement about the case.

    ‘Sorry to have to do this again but it still continues and it’s important for future cruelty cases in Spain, please ask people to share and spread the truth.

    There is still a very bad rumour that the dogs involved in this case died, and for reasons that we don’t really understand but are currently being dealt with – the rumour says there was no case, or the dogs didn’t exist and other very damaging things.

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  • Marching in Exeter UK for the Spanish Hounds

    WE MARCH AGAIN, organised by Podenco Support South West

    Monday 1st May 2017, the Day of the Podenco.

    Exeter Cathedral Square 11am to leave at 11.30 along the route as shown on the map below. Please support Spain’s 🇪🇸 hunting dogs.

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