Podenco Post

Category: Fund raising

  • Chocolate podenca Angela saved!

    Bev Angela 1 250 30 3 2013Update from Bev Farmer, who saved Angela from being killed last week.

    Angela had a good first night her blood tests confirm she is positive for ehrlichria but negative for Leishmania, filaria and babesia. She has a severe ear infection, and this has caused irreparable damage to one of her ears. Angela weighs 13 kilos and should be about 20 kilos the photos don’t really reflect how thin she is. She has longer hair but when I bathed her last night I could feel every individual rib and vertebra in her back.

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  • Leire, young podenca on death row in Rioja perrera

    And this young beauty, Leire, due to be killed before Easter. Young female podenca, only 10 months old. Contact is dan.asociacion.madrid@gmail.com. Not now with
    Animales Rioja.

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  • Valencia perrera podencos due to be killed before Easter – no holiday for them!!

    Valencia podencachocolatemarch2013My heart is breaking, yet again. Easter looms. The Spaniards working in the killing stations want to go on holiday, so there will be mass killings on Thursday! Included in those are podencos in Valencia perrera. Dominique tells me the news.

    ‘There is a total of 4 podencos, 1 male, 3 females in the Valencia pound. They are planning a killing again of half the dogs, so the volunteers say, probably Thursday because of Easter Friday being a holiday.

    Chocolate Podenca, not very large in size, skeletal. According to her teeth she is less than 5 years old. She is very affectionate, submissive, very pretty but very thin, hazel eyes, she is very special and noble, and very smart. Please help.

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  • Albalat Animal, Ribera, Valencia – more pix of injured Leo

    Here are some more photos of Leo, the starving and injured podenco rescued by Albalat Animal, Ribera, Valencia. You will see from the state of him that it is a miracle he survived. Here are some more photos of him.

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  • Albalat Animal, Ribera, Valencia – injured podenco – please help

    Albalat Animals pod 250 3 2013This podenco has been named Leo by Albalat Animal Ribera in Valencia province. It took them a month to catch him. As you can see, he has a bad wound to his near hind leg. He is not chipped. He has been examined by a vet who will do tests for a diagnosis as to what work can be done to save his leg, rather than amputate. Albalat Animal are asking for a foster home for him as he needs a lot of attention, care and rest and is on 12-hourly medication.

    Albalat Animal have no shelter, so they desperately need somewhere for this boy to go, and financial help to cover veterinary expenses. So far they have paid out €109.12 and that is just the beginning. Tomorrow we return to do x-rays, in principle 2 to 35.32 euros each. Contact email and Paypal a/c albalatanimal@gmail.com

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  • Two blind podencos in Seville – please donate to their operations

    Macu Atila-4 250I recently reported about two podencos in Seville which Macu had rescued from Palmete, a settlement of galgueros and gitanos from where she saves many hounds. Both the podencos had eye problems. The younger one has been named Atila, just two years old, in good health apart from not being able to see. His problem is that there are waterfalls and tumours in each eye, and if enough money can be raised, the opthamologist can restore Atila’s sight 100%. At the moment, the poor dog spends a lot of time bumping into things or just not moving about atall. The amount needed – 1,600 euros to include the operation and follow-up tests. If Atila does not have the operation, he will be blind for life.

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  • Saved from Valencia & Hellin perrera – kennel fees needed and urgent foster and adoptions

    Valencia saved Joya 200I’d like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all your marvellous people who have donated to save podencos from Hellin and Valencia perrera. Anke and Dominique do amazing work and I’m now happy to show you all the podencos you have helped them save and place in a residencia. The appeal now is for donations to pay the kennel fees until, most importantly, these beauties can be adopted. Here is a list of the dogs, who have now all been named. Please send donations and adoption requests to Anke, Paypal bracobuddha@hotmail.com Applications to adopt in Spain go to Dominique and for anyone out of Spain, to Anke. This link gives the costs involved.

    Here’s Anke’s list of podencos SAVED! (photos in name order below)

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  • Urgently needed – donated goods for a poor animal shelter in Cordoba

    My friend Sandra of NOS in Seville has appealed to me for help in publicising a very poor shelter in Cordoba, which hasn’t even got dog beds. They have about 20 dogs there, including galgos and podencos. You can see some pictures here. Sandra is appealing for donations of dog beds, bedding, food, collars, leads, medicines, feed bowls, anything to help these lovely dogs. Chris Marshall of Almerilife is going back to the UK next week and is willing to bring back donated goods for the shelter. Here are details of how to contact him, and photos of some of the lovely dogs at the shelter.

  • GRIN and Scooby – US & Spanish rockers to visit Scooby

    Great news for Scooby from the GRIN team. Read more here.

  • Seville podencos need help to save their sight

    Macu pod 1 250 3 2013An appeal from Macu in Seville, for two podencos with eye problems, rescued from the gypsy settlement. She would dearly like to make a denuncia against these people but dare not for fear of reprisals. Here’s what she says.

    ‘These two podencos have sight problems. One is male aged 3 years weighing 11 kilos and one female.

    The male is virtually blind and the vet has recommened he be taken to an ophthalmologist, as he believes the sight could possibly be restored. His neck hurts as he extends it to adapt to see.

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