Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • 8 podenco puppies in Seville perrera – help needed to get them out!

    Seville perrera 8 pods 1 170These podenco puppies are in the Zoosanitaria perrera in Seville province and at great risk of parvo! Pili is appealing for donations to rescue them and get them into foster. Here’s what she says.

    ‘The only adopted was the white boy.. For nearly a month in the kennel.. My partner and I are doing everything possible to save their lives looking for foster until October to get them to Alicante. Also, we are trying to raise for transport.. For Vets and for kennel fees, if necessary. It is very urgent that come out already.. otherwise they may all fall sick and die.

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  • Hounds are addictive – but there has to be an upper adoption limit!

    Animal hoarder poster 250 20 8 2015The above was posted on a friend’s page. (Larger picture below) I thought I’d share it with you as I have learnt that one small association just rehomed a dog to someone who already has 18 dogs! Now, I have 5 dogs, french lurcher, 3 galgos and a podenco. All but one is too old to insure, so vet bills can be expensive. The old lurcher is on tablets which cost my hubbie 100 euros/month. On top of that, of course, we have dog food. I cannot understand how someone can afford 18 – soon to be 19 dogs!

    I know the situation in Spain for the galgos and podencos is horrendous and associations are desperate to home dogs, to make room to rescue another one. But there has to be some sense applied in who is allowed to adopt. In France, if you have more than 9 dogs, you have to register as a kennels.

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  • Podenca Andaluz Sunday – waiting for her forever home

    Sunday_03Has anyone room in their heart and home for this little sweetie?

    Hello, I’m writing to you about my little rescued podenco girl Sunday. She desperately needs a forever home. She was found on the street in May 2015 and has been staying with me since. I have taken care of all her vaccines and deparasiting + chipping, disease tests clean. Her sterilization is pending. She is currently with me in Fuengirola / Spain.

    I have been contacting every organisation and private person I know for months but so far nothing. Please let me know if you can help with her case somehow else. Best, Ani Roschier.

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  • Puerto Mogan, Canary Islands…what the tourists don’t see

    Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Canary Islands on holiday, whether for summer sun or to escape the cold winters of the UK and Europe. They don’t come into contact with ‘real’ life on the Islands, especially the nightmare for the 85,000+ podencos incarcerated there. Here’s the true reality…Perrera Mogan! Please share.

  • Chiquita podenca, Merida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain…not a good address for hunting dogs

    Bev 3 pups 1 250 21 7 2015This is an appeal from Carolina Climent, in Badajoz, which is a very bad place for hunting dogs. Here’s her appeal.

    ‘I have at home a little family looking for good homes. All of them are looking for their families for ever. I rescued the Podenca Mom as she was abandoned in my village. Chiquita had just given birth under a rock, they are the mother and 4 pups, 3 males, 1 female.

    Chiquita is a podenco and the pups mix of Breton and Podenco. The pups are 1 month and 14 days now and I need your help to spread the word to find them a place to be. I have been looking after them all this time and they are ready to go. I would travel a fair distance in order to introduce one of them to the adopter.

    We are in Badajoz, in a village close to Mérida. Please do not hesitate to contact me for details. Thank you very much.’

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  • Signs of Leishmania in dogs

    If you recognise any of these symptoms in your dog, please take it to the vet to be tested for leishmania. I always recommend that, even if your Spanish hound has tested negative for the disease, you should have it retested every year.

  • Letter from a Pererra Employee – the sad truth

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  • PAES International Animal Welfare Conference – October 2015 – book now

    Don’t forget to book your tickets now!

  • GPAR animal rescue in Rute, Granada…Podenco Pluto needs help

    Jenny Russell pod 1 250 7 2015LOOKING URGENTLY FOR A NEW HOME FOR PLUTO – HERE IN SPAIN OR EUROPE OR IN THE UK – PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE
    THANK-YOU
    CONTACT gpar.refuge@gmail.com if anyone can help

    NEWS STORY FROM GPAR – Pluto the Podenco!

    Pluto has had a very bad time. He was a street dog in Rute for over a year and no one was able to get near enough to him to catch him. It was unfortunately an accident he had with a car, that enabled GPAR to rescue him, take him to the vet for treatment and then to the refuge where he has been since Feb this year.

    The accident caused injury to his right paw which is now sightly deformed but he can walk on it although he will need to have another operation and he is waiting to have this.

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  • Portuguese Podengo Thomas – with Many Tears Rescue, Wales

    Many Tears Tom 190Here’s the story of Tom, a Portuguese Podengo x rescued and now with Many Tears Rescue in Wales. He’s looking for his forever family, along with another 9 Podencos – all in the UK in foster. June writes.

    ‘Learning to be loved:

    With all your help we have been able to save a number of dogs that were all going to die on the streets of Portugal.

    These dogs have been doing really well, some are now in permanent homes, whilst others are still awaiting their special day!

    om made his way to my family. Tom is a happy go lucky kind of a guy, but even with his chirpy character and live life to the full attitude you can still see that his soul
    bears scars of his former life! He truly believed that hands were a source of pain and something to be feared, he has been with me just under three weeks now and is just starting to understand that hands can make food and toys appear. If you moved too
    swiftly he would whimper believing a smack was coming his way!

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