From Stef Spode
My organisation North West action for Animals have been asked by local independent rescue EDDAC to help raise the vital finding needed to help these Podenco puppies get to the UK from a high Kill pound in Spain by 16th January. They have effectively been dumped on the rescue and not wanting to turn their back on these pups, together we need to raise a whopping £1100! Please please help if you can. We only have a few days left. The puppies also need foster and forever homes.
Update on Anita, the little podenco injured on the road and left to die. She’s now been operated on, is in foster care and doing very well. There is a video here, if you are able to view it (it’s on facebook), showing her hopping about on 3 legs, happily fostered with some galgos and another podenco. Asociacion Lasanimals
Poet Alan Brian and Pepi with THE BOOK – finally arrived for his for Xmas! Order your copy here Proceeds to Pepis Dog Refuge to help the hounds.
And look what was dumped on them on Xmas Day, under the rubbish bags! Jane says it’s the first time dogs have been dumped in a proper dog bed! 2 more mouths to feed – 80 dogs – costs 650 euros/month to feed them all. Please help, including Satin.
Dioni is hoping to travel 26th December to collect Frankfurther Hoggity Doggity. Here’s the story of another podenco, safe for Xmas, who will be travelling with him from 112carlotagalgos to Last Hope Dog Rescue for preparation for rehoming. Charl tells the story.
‘So while we were away Sebastian was called regarding a rescue. This podenco had been followed by Francisco to his door while he took his dogs out he came back and the young pod sat still on his door step. Waiting.. praying he’d come to the right place. He was taken in by the couple but while we were in Belgium they kept him. So here he is! A sweet young pod. Approx 1 year old.
Frankfurter Hoggity Doggity Fernando has an association to take him – Last Hope Dog Rescue. Irene and Steve Allan are very experienced podenco adoptants, fosterers etc in the association. So I’m now sorting out transport to take him from Kate’s to them. Will keep you posted. BUT – we’ll need to raise the money to pay the transport costs, when I know them.
So, rest easy, Kate, help is on its way. Bless everyone for caring about both Kate and the podenco.
Left to die on the streets of Seville.
Anita, mini podenca, 4,5k, lying in a corner without being able to move after being knocked down… Snuggled up to die without aid, 5 days in the sight of all people, and nobody came to help her’.. In cantillana.
Dreadful example of cruelty and cold indifference… This is the case that reaches us and despite the enormous debts that we have with the vet we cannot leave here…. Anita is in the care of the vet and she needs your help!
The perrita had disappeared from the place where she was knocked down, curled up to die away from the road.
Update on frankfurther hoggity doggity! 11/12/2014
‘He’s really young – only seven months, poor baby.
On Wednesday, Pepino said he’d be fine without an operation.
However, yesterday, he was less bouncy and didn’t want to go for such a long walk, so I’m afraid that his leg may be hurting, perhaps because the vet didn’t have any of those stiff bandages (she’s so useless) and when I went to buy one, the shops were closed for a long weekend for the Annunciación.
I still hope he won’t need an operation.
However, I’d really like to get him to Morón to be seen by the special podenco vet.
Podencoworld Nederland need our help. They are currently in 2nd place to win funding. This will be used to treat many many podencos in Tenerife that have heartworm. Without the treatment they will not survive. All you have to do is click onto the link and nominate Stichting Podencoworld, they are 200 votes behind the leader. Our votes could save many podencos lives thank you
Vote on this link, your name, email address and copy the letters in the box
Update on Frank (as in frankfurters)/Hoppalong Doggity, Podihopper!
‘Thank you for the donation, very kind of you – on my behalf and on behalf of Hopalong Doggerty. He loathes the cheap dry dogfood – he’s very fussy, considering he was starving and on the streets – so I give him brown rice, boiled with carrots and some broth from my own vegetables till it’s soggy and with a whole tin of sardines added once it’s cooled. I don’t blame him about the dogfood – it’s rubbish. He no longer has diarrhoea. Trouble is, a tin of sardines costs 70 centimos. I got him a worm tablet yesterday and will give it to him later – forgot this morning.
A friend of mine has just rescued a podenco in terrible condition…two boys helped her catch him. She is in an area with a lot of hunters and gitanos. She suffers from ill health and has not the means to pay for the vet treatment he needs. So we desperately need an association to take him on. She is in southern Spain. Here’s what she says about him.
1/12/2014 – ‘Walking through the square I saw a very, very thin podenco with one front leg held up and dangling, searching under and around the bins. I asked two little boys to watch him, rushed into the shop which luckily is on the square, grabbed a packet of frankfurters for 2€ and rushed out again. After he’d eaten several, he hopped off, but we followed him and one of the little boys (Gitanos – lots here and not crueller to animals than anyone else) managed to go up to him and gently stroke his head and hold him, while I tied my scarf round his neck.
