Podenco Post

Category: Campaign

  • TAIL Torrox, Andalucia and Goldra Dog Sanctuary, Portugal – please support their dogs

    Two more rescue refuges/associations which help podencos, many needing forever homes.

    Tail Torrox is in Andalucia where Carole has uprooted from her London life to go and live and help the dogs – over 60 at the last count.

    And The Goldra Dog Santuary is in Portugal, with over 100 dogs. There aren’t many shelters in Portugal, dogs have a terrible time abandoned on the streets. If you can sponsor one of their podencos, please help them. And publicise their work, organise a fundraiser, go and stay for a week volunteering.

  • Podenco near Cadiz urgently needs a forever home

    Karen Abu 250 1This lovely little podenco is Abu, with a sad history, the scar of which he wears round his neck! He’s been rescued and is in foster but will need to leave soon, so Karen urgently needs another foster home or preferably a forever home for him. Here’s what she says about him.

    Abu, a small podenco. around 6 years old. boy. healthy. Good with bitches and most boy dogs as long as they aren’t dominant. very good nature. In desperate need of a loving home. Has rope scars from being tied probably for long periods of time while owner leaves for days!! This boy has had his share of misery and now deserves to have some
    quality time!!

    Please contact Karen if you can help or offer him a forever home.

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  • Keyboard bullies – ban them!

    During my working life, I wore 2 hats. One was with BBC Radio, the other was in the legal profession. But both overlapped in so far as I was trained to carry out full research on a subject, check the wording of whatever I wrote and include references where possible to substantiate my claims. This work has stood me in good stead, especially publicising some dishonest working practices by a firm of solicitors which I, with the help of the BBC, exposed on television. There was nothing the solicitors could do about it because the report was full of fact and backed up, and also passed by the BBC legal department.

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  • Diagnosing Leishmaniasis in Dogs

    Anne O’Connor adopted Livia, a podenco with leishmania. She has written in great detail about their journey together to find the best and optimum treatment to enable Livia to live a normal long life. I am pleased to say Anne agreed to the article being included as a chapter in my definitive guide to the Podenco, From Pyramid to Perrera, on sale above.

    Now Anne has taken the time out to write another very informative article on understanding the symptoms of leishmania, to be able to asses your own dog. Thank you Anne, for sharing this with everyone.

    Diagnosing Leishmaniasis in Dogs

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  • Podencos urgently needing special forever homes

    Blind pod 1 Polly 170 7 2014Two podencos, one born blind, one going blind. They desperately need understanding forever homes. Please take a look at them.

    Pocoyo – a gentle boy who is losing his sight and likely to be completely blind soon urgently needs a loving home. Pocoyo is about aged 5 and a really sweet boy but has been stuck in a residencia in Sevilla for a couple of years after being saved from the perrera.

    As he loses his sight life in an overcrowded refuge is getting increasingly bewildering for him. If we can help him then it also frees up his place in the residencia for another podenco on death row. If you can help please get in touch with Polly, who has more information, photos and videos of Pocoyo.

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  • Born in a Valencia Storm Drain – waiting for forever homes – Podencos

    Every day there are appeals to help save young podencos in the Spanish perreras. It’s heartbreaking. Many of them could be saved if there was room in the shelters for them, but the podencos in shelters need homes. Bev Farmer, Podenco Friends, now has over 40 podencos in her care, waiting for forever homes. Earlier in the year a podenco bitch and her 9 puppies was rescued from a drain in Valencia and arrived at Podenco Friends. 6 of the puppies are reserved but 3 still need their forever homes. Have a look at them here. If you are interested, contact Bev direct.

  • URGENT – 1 MILLION SIGNATURES REQUIRED BEFORE 11 OCTOBER

    Please read and sign this petition. The full story is on this link on Galgo News. We need you all to sign and share this petition – 1 million signatures needed by 11 October, to be presented to UNESCO HQ in Paris by Galgos Ethique Europe. As there is no National Federation of hunting clubs for podencos, just individual clubs, GEE are also including hunting with podencos. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

  • Hound Sanctuary – help needed in Munich, Germany in August

    Here we go – the full details of the appeal from Rain of Hound Sanctuary, desperately needing help.

    We have three dogs from different locations in Spain who all need to fly out of Munich on the 24th of August. So here’s what we need:

    1) Transport from Spain to Munich
    2) Depending on when that transport is, they may also need a place to stay for a few days in Munich
    3) Delivery to our flight escort in Munich Airport on the morning of 24th August for departure

    I need someone in Munich to hold 3 podencos for us for two to three days in August until my flight escort gets there to pick them up. We are flying from Munich on the morning of August 24th, on Lufthansa. My volunteer asks that I get the dogs to her at the airport that morning.

    If you are in Germany and can help, please email Rain on WelcometoTheSea@comcast.net

  • Portuguese Podengos – 2 more urgently needing forever homes

    Two more podengos in Portugal who have been waiting far too long for forever homes. Here are the details of Vigo, who I mentioned before – and Branqhuina – Branqhuina especially needs a forever home as she will shortly have to leave her foster. Here is Branqhuina on video – Piloto was her puppy who has been rehomed.

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  • TARA Gran Canaria – Podenco Lex – can anyone foster in Germany or Spain

    TARA Lex 3 250From TARA association on Gran Canaria. You can see that being in the shelter for so long is taking its toll on Lex, no matter the good care the volunteers take of him. He’s spent half his young life in a shelter. He needs to be in a forever home away from the stress of shelter life.

    ‘LEX-LOOKING FOR A HOME- When Lex was found wandering we knew he had an owner, but due to the fact he was not microchipped we could not return him to his home. Lex has been with us in kennels for 18 months and has now become the longest dog to be without a home.

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