Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • Greyhound Rescue Holland – protest march 21st May 2016

    Herewith report and photos of the protest march in Holland on saturday, 21st May 2016, organised by Greyhound Rescue Holland and DutchGalgoLobby. Over 500 dogs! Brilliant!

  • Saving the Gran Canaria podencos

    Suzannah Stacey is a UK vet who is working hard to help the Gran Canaria podencos who end up in the perrera. Publicity so far has been on facebook and now she has created a website to spread the word further afield. Here is a weblink to the site, please have a look and support these podencos – foster and adopt especially, if you can.

  • Day of the Podenco – official press release from Podenco Alliance

    Link to the official ‘after the event’ press release if any of you can get it published in your local journals, dog magazines etc.

  • Peaceful Protest for Spanish Hounds – 1st May 2016 in London, Manchester & Glasgow – photos

    Herewith my report on the events in the UK on Sunday, 1st May, 2016 when we all got together in London, Manchester and Glasgow to publicise the plight of the Spanish hounds.

  • Peaceful Protest for Spanish Hounds – 1st May 2016 in London, Manchester & Glasgow

    Claire Caulfield podenco 170 4 2016So many podenco passionatas around Europe would love to join the Peaceful Protest Marches in London, Manchester and Glasgow today. They have sent messages of support to the organisers – here’s one from Claire Cauldfield. Claire writes: “Keep up the good work and make everybody aware of the poor hunting dogs’ plight in Spain. I live in Spain. Just 2 weeks after we moved here we found a podenco who had been dumped, barely 9 months old. The owner didn’t want her. We kept her. They are wonderful dogs. As you can see she has made herself at home. We take food every month to 2 dog shelters. It is so sad to see so many dogs there, most of which are hunting dogs. Good luck.”

  • Joanna Lumley OBE backs International Day of the Podenco 1st May 2016

    PRESS RELEASE – 28 APRIL 2016

    A huge pack of ex-Spanish hunting dogs will march to the Spanish Embassy and 10 Downing Street, London on the 1st of May, the International Day of the Podenco, in protest at the mass abandonment of hunting dogs in Spain.

    Families who have adopted abandoned Spanish hunting dogs in the UK will gather with their dogs in Belgrave Square, central London at 11am this 1st of May to mark the International Day of the Podenco. They will march with their dogs to the Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place at 12pm and on to 10 Downing Street for 2pm to protest about the cruel treatment of the podencos, galgos (Spanish greyhounds), pointers, setters, bodegueros and other breeds that are abused in their lives and discarded in their thousands upon thousands every year in Spain.

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  • Axarquaia Animal Rescue – Podenco Flash and his friends waiting for forever homes

    Axarqula rescue Flash 250 4 2016I met some of the volunteers from Axarquia Animal Rescue at the PAES conference last October. Like so many people involved in animal rescue in Spain, they do incredible work for long hours and need supp0ort in homing their hounds. Here is one stunning little podenco.

    Hi everybody, my name is Flash (AAR 1329) and I was found abandoned, hungry and really skinny last October 15, 2015.

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  • Can you help this Podenco – advertised for free on Gumtree UK!!

    This is not the first time a Podenco has been advertised for free on Gumtree in the UK. It makes me blazing that these people don’t understand that, if they can’t keep a dog, they need to tell the rehoming/rescue association so they have a chance to sort the problem out. That is, if the dog was taken into the country through an association…looks like this poor boy wasn’t and there is no backup for him. Grrrrrrr! Can anyone help?

  • Newark Showground 23 & 24 April – All About Dogs Show – Podenco Friends are there

    All About Dogs Roadshow, Newark 400
    Click on this link to find the dates and venues for the All About Dogs Shows in the UK – go along with your Spanish hounds and fly the flag for the podencos and galgos. Podenco Friends will have a stand at some of the shows.

  • PODENCO PATERNINO of Huelva Province – Edy for adoption

    Huelva podenco Edy 170 2Edy – a special and unusual black and white podenco boy who longs to be loved, but is still so shy and nervy and would need a very gentle patient family to build his confidence. Edy was in the kill pound in Valencia and saved by volunteers, he is safe in a kind kennels in Spain but he has got quite stuck and as he only knows rural kennels (for far too long) is very scared of anyone or anything new. But he is the most handsome gentle boy and would become your most wonderful friend. Will you show Edy that he is NOT invisible and that he too can have a loving family of his own, a sofa, soft bed and fabulous walks. Please contact pollymathewson@hotmail.com

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