Lucy Irvine is walking for Pepis Dog Refuge. They’ve over 70 dogs to care for, all needing forever homes. Here’s what she says about it.
‘It’s a 50km walk through Wallonia in Belgium and it’s spread out over two days, the 5th and 6th of April. You can read why I’m doing it on this link. Let’s hope the weather is kind to me!’
The dogs on Lucy’s page are all for adoption – including gorgeous pointer x Leila. contact Pepis about them.
Regular readers will know that I often mention the podencos waiting in the Canary Islands for forever homes, and that it is expensive to get them to the UK for rehoming. This is an appeal to ask if you can help towards getting this beautiful podenca to her forever home. Laura tells the story.
‘This is AMBER. She is an 18 month old female Podenco. She was found by holidaymakers and ended up in the dog pound. We went and met with them as they desperately wanted to take this beautiful girl home with them.
Plans were made and finances organised but sadly in the last 3 weeks a lot has changed.
The cruelty of the Spanish hunter knows no bounds. I shed so many tears at the stories which arrive in my inbox every week. This story is about Alma, just been rescued and now under the care of Scooby at Zamorra and their vet. Cobie explains.
‘The sad reality for a podenca, a hunting dog of advanced age that no longer “served” and that was found in a state close to dying, completely starved and without any energy to be able to stand up, with severe wounds all over her body, inflicted by beings full of hate and anger and without scruples or feeling.
Rosemary Macdonald tells about the latest rescues with the PEPA animal charity in Valencia.
‘This is Mamma about a year and a bit old the amazing wonderful girl that we rescued after we found her feeding three different sets of puppies only two of them hers, she is now ready to go to a new home she is without a doubt a wonderful dog she is well mannered loving eager to please and she gets on well with other dogs.
This beautiful little podenca is Vida today – remember her battered body when she was found in a bag in a rubbish bin in a village of Valencia. You will be delighted to know that she is recovering very well.
3rd February 2014 – Toledo – hell-hole for galgos and podencos – in a village of Toledo. Podenco puppy found in a rubbish bin inside bag with a strong blow to the head, gored and hypothermic. Taken to the vet for emergency treatment. Prognosis awaited. Have asked for updates (if it survives) and if it was in Fuensilada, Motril, where the beaten and shot podenca was found last year. Two associations helping her, EL ALBERGUE SOLIDARIO DE DORA” and “MAS VIDA”alberguedora@hotmail.es Paypal donations to leoncina@hotmail.com and mark VIDA (Life)
Warning, upsetting picture.
Alicia Andrews lives in Italy and has two rescued podencas. She is now involved in helping to rehome podencos, especially from Lanzarote, Canary Islands. She tells the story of how she became involved with the podencos.
‘When my last remaining dog died back in January 2013, he left a huge hole in my life. I’ve loved animals from the time I was born into a household where there were always rescued dogs and birds around. So when Peanut left me to run over the rainbow bridge and join his mother and siblings (or, at least I like to think that he did), I felt “lost”. Who was going to leap excitedly around my legs when it was time for a walk?
It’s obvious that the hunting season in Spain is now drawing to a close. Perreras overflowing with hunting dogs, podencos, galgos, pointers…as well as thousands of other beautiful dogs – young ones, old ones – confused as to why they have been dumped. Podencos are used in very large number for hunting particularly in Valencia and the high kill perrera is overflowing. Below are some of the poor souls there, including 2 taken by the hunter himself, so can be killed any day, and a couple born in 2005 obviously used for breeding.
Laura writes from The Kennel Klub, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
‘Lanzarote is a small island and we have a very limited area in which to re-home dogs. Unfortunately that does not mean of course that dogs are not abandoned. We are a legally registered association and in the nearly 18 months we have been running we have re-homed 107 dogs.
We don’t have a refuge and save many dogs from the perrera, which means they go into kennels before going to foster homes or lucky enough to be adopted.
A young podenca called PEPA, who appeared this week in Tudela. One of her legs was injured and inflamed. She has their legs has a stroke and inflammation. She’s had vet treatment and medication to get the inflammation down. She is currently in a residencia and the rescuers go every day to care for her. She is very nervous and needs a foster home where she could socialize and learn to trust people.
We need help to pay her vaccinations, chip, neutering, etc.
Contact: animacciontudela@hotmail.com
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