Podenco Post

Category: Fund raising

  • Cordoba – Podenco Bonito – saved from the streets

    Bonita 250Outside of the city centres of Spain, it is very frequent to see an abandoned dog wandering around, or in a ditch, or knocked down at the side of a road, or already dead.

    This young podenca was the latest find by this volunteer. Here’s what she says.

    We have called her Bonita. She was found undernourished, dehydrated and from the state of her breast, she has obviously just been used for breeding. She has a lot scars, an ancient one which could be the result of a trap, we’re not sure.

    We even do not know if the vet will be able to save it, at present she is on daily medication, and will see in a few days is it improves. The problem is there there is no sensitivity in the leg.

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  • Little podenco Noa rescued from a living hell – inhuman hunter again!

    Noa 250 8 2012This is little Noa, a podenco of 1 year old. He was found with his mother and another pup in terrible conditions. His moma was in a state of extreme neglect, skeletal, bleeding, with an impressive pyometra, abused, among her excrement, lying there with babies and trampled by more hounds in a shed where this hunter was breeding and selling for hunting!!

    The hunter wanted the baby sacrificed and said it was worthless, some babies died,,, no wonder .. and this poor little one has been struggling for his life, was in a state of extreme thinness, malnourished, unable to suck his mom, who had problems breathing and bleeding and mastitis…

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  • SARA Protectora, Lanzarote – podencos find homes in the Czech Republic

    SARA Mestiza 1 250 24 1 2012I try hard to remind people that the podencos in the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands have a very tough time. Even worse, their main chance of a forever life outside of the shelters, where they are well looked after and never put down, is to be adopted on mainland Europe. Here’s wonderful news from SARA Protectora on Lanzarote. and please remember, if you are holidaying especially on Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, go along to the local dog shelters and support the volunteers who work tirelessly to help the islands’ abandoned and unwanted.

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  • A Weak Moment – a Tale of Life with a Spanish hunter…

    It’s a common sight on mainland Europe to see hunters in their vehicles, with a small box trailer towing their hunting dogs, squashed in, hardly room to breathe. In Spain, that country well known for sensible laws – I must be joking! – hunters merrily drive around transporting their dogs like that. Yet people licensed legally to transport dogs and cats can be targeted by the authorities. No doubt these authorities are hunters too. We all know they look after their own.

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  • Badly injured podenca mama needs help

    Maribel podenca 250 7 2012Please can any association take this little podenca mama and help repair her leg? It’s obviously been badly broken and has healed at such an angle that she cannot use it and she is in pain. She needs an operation and then adoption, her pups are already reserved. Contact aranchavarea@gmail.com
    maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com

  • Podenco saved from a ravine in Murcia – Galgos del Sol to the rescue

    Ravine pod 1 250 GdS 7 2012A year or so back I published a story about a galgo rescued from a ravine by Baas Galgo. This time it’s a podenco stuck down a deep ravine, rescued by Galgos del Sol with the help of a local fireman. Judging from the skeletal condition of the poor hound, he’d been down there a while. Sometimes the dogs fall down these ravines when hunting, but at this time of year…no hunting…looks like his journey there was a different story. Now he’s safe, very tired, recovering with GdS. The fireman named him Moses. Here are the photos of his rescue.

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  • Cadiz podenca needs operation and a home

    Fiona 250Look at this pretty little podenco running loose on the streets near Cadiz with a hernia the size of a tennis ball between her back legs! Here is the plea.

    ‘Fiona, gathered from the street with a herniated belly, help needed for an operation and then adoption! The vet bill is 220 euros and the invoice will soon go up on the blog, link below.

    Fiona is a beautiful Podenquita, very affectionate, friendly and sociable with other dogs. She came full of ticks and with a terrible fear. Little by little in a home she will recover from her trauma.

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  • SOS Animals – Podencos for adoption – all of them survivors from Spain

    Guadiamar_5 190Here are some beautiful podencos with SOS Animals UK & Spain, desperately hoping they will catch your eye and your heart, forever. They are all young, ready to be trained, with full EU passports and bloodtested. Monica is an especially unusual girl, as the Podenco Orito is not a well known type of podenco, unlike the popular Podenco Ibizan and Podenco Andaluz. Guadiamar and Bembezar are brother and sister and have very unusual markings. Gemma came from Operation Rehala where 120 galgos and podencos were saved in January/February. All these super hounds have a survival story to tell. You can see more about them on the SOS Animals website.

    Guadiamar

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  • More podencos suffering in Seville….

    Macu Maya 250 1 17 7Another sad case taken in by Macu, in Seville. Here’s what Macu says – Hello everyone, this is Maya, a podenquita of 12 years old, who has lived her entire life locked up in a shack of a Hunter, only eating muck and being taken out a couple of days a week to hunt. And being used again and again to breed more puppies.

    She has a big hernia which someone has tried to sew but it is open again and needs to go to a vet for operation. I can’t photo it because she keeps her tail between her lets and runs away.

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  • SARA Lanzarote – saving animals in the Canary Islands

    SARA Rodrigo 190I mention many times how hard it is for the podencos in the Canary Islands to find forever homes. The SARA Lanzarote newsletter popped into my mailbox today and I couldn’t believe that Rodrigo, this beautiful podenco, is still in the SARA shelter – 5 years on! He’s a failed hunter, good to walk on a lead, good with children and adults and other dogs. Surely there must be someone somewhere who has a place in their heart for him?

    They have donzens of deserving podencos there, amongst all the other dogs, please contact them direct if you can help Rodrigo or any of the others.