Podenco Post

Category: Fund raising

  • Malaga – Podenca Ana seeks your help

    Ana 3 Charl 250 1 2012Do you remember the story of Ana, the podenca near Valencia, with a badly injured hind leg and who was so distrustful of humans that it took nearly 3 months to catch her. During that time she had some pups – who are in foster – and is now safe with 112carlotagalgos.

    Ana’s problems were not over after she was caught. Vet Paco examined her injured leg and pronounced it too damaged to repair, then she caught an infection, and now she has had to have surgery to remove her leg. But not to worry, 3-legged amputees can run as fast as 4-legged if they want to! Charl tells Ana’s story so far.

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  • Gran Canaria Winter Sun Holidays – Roque Nublo nightlife

    Gran Canaria podencas 250 5 2 2012Gran Canaria for winter sun holidays! Great! So long as you close your eyes to all the abandoned dogs and cats roaming the Island. These three podenca bitches have been in the camping/picnic area near Roque Nublo since November. The only survive on what they can retrieve from the visitors. A concentrated effort is being made to catch them but, as you can imagine, after all this time, it won’t be easy. TARA shelter on Gran Canaria sent the news. I’ve asked them to let me know if the podencas are caught. And if you go on holiday to Gran Canaria, go and see the shelter at Mogan, they are always pleased to see people interested in their work.

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  • Holidays in Canary Islands? SARA Lanzarote needs your help

    SARA Mestiza 1 250 24 1 2012SARA Lanzarote (Canary Islands) have sent this story about this podenca bitch, yet another of life’s victims discarded by the hunters. Podencos are used on the Spanish islands for hunting rabbit, and suffer horrendous cruelty at the hands of the hunters, just like the galgos and podencos on mainland Spain. The only hope for the deserving dogs in the shelters on Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Ibiza, is to be adopted on the European mainland. Please bear them in mind when considering offering a forever home to a dog. Otherwise these dogs will spend their lives in the shelters.

    SARA tells Mestiza’s story.

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  • Valencia Podenco Andaluz puppy, rescued injured & starving – can you take him into your heart and home?

    Valencia_podenca_1_250__17_1_2012Look at this cute little podenco, less than a year old, found wandering through a ravine with a broken tail and a femur fracture of a hind leg. The leg hung loose, like a rag doll’s leg. He was a skeleton, totally malnourished, with a sore eye and bore injuries on his nose and neck. He’s been called Aradio by his saviours.

    The vet says Aradio has wandered for weeks with his leg dangling, possibly hit by a car. Understandably he was very scared of being caught but couldn’t run far with his injured leg.

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  • Happy rehomings for some lucky podencos

    Thank you to the Little Pod Fondation and Animal Welfare Support Murcia for organising to collect the little Seville podenca puppy and find her a forever home. Iggy Podenco is being adopted by an English couple also in Murcia (thanks to AWSM) and an English family have applied and are currently being approved to adopt Bella. And Luna is the one-eyed podenca with Galgos del Sol, who flew to the US with a galgo companion on 11/1/2012.

    But there are dozens more needing your support and help, and the volunteers and associations are very grateful for whatever you can do, whether it is donations, fostering, adopting.

  • Seville podencos desperately needing help – fosters and donations

    Seville podencos Macu crop 250 1 2012More podencos from the shanty town outside Seville, Macu is desperately trying to save them, struggling to find space in shelters and foster homes. Desperation is the tone of her emails, and who can blame her when you see these poor souls, puppies terrified of what is happening to them, all needing feeding, veterinary checks, kennel fees paying. If you can help with fostering etc and donations to her costs, please paypal macu19782010@hotmail.com tele Seville 665809169. She will be pleased to hear from any Spanish speaker.

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  • Podenco rescued from the shacks of Seville – anyone room for him?

    Macu old podenco 250 1 2012This old boy is another one rescued from the shanty town outside Seville. Here’s what Macu says about him.

    ‘I´ve taken another one out of the shacks settlement but it´s also really urgent. There are too many animals that need help and I´ve just taken out this poor one and a young female because they were the worse cases. I have too many in the residence (kennels) and I need help for this one.

    He´s an old male. He has a bone fracture and it´s for sure he will spend a lot of time at the residence and I can´t keep him there for so long.

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  • Podenca Ana, from Valencia to Malaga – saved from the hunters

    Ana 2 distance 250 1 2012You may remember an appeal for someone to make room in a refuge of home for an injured podenca who had been living rough since October. I’m happy to report that she has now been saved. The podenca has been named Ana, after the village where she had been living. She has been taken in by 112carlotagalgos, travelling by their pet transport company from Ana, Valencia, down to Malaga. Here’s her story.

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  • Seville – the horror behind the glitter that tourists see

    Seville podenco 4 250 Macu 1 2012There are dozens of unsung heroes in Spain, helping the abandoned dogs and cats, funding much of their care themselves whilst working to earn a living. Macu is one such lady, in Seville. Some of the appeals I have posted on Galgo News and Podenco Post have been from her. Here she explains what she tries to do, and the problems she faces, like so many volunteers breed dogs.

    ‘Good afternoon everybody, I´ll try to summarize.
    In this settlement by Seville there are more or less 20 shacks with 30 dogs each one (with their owners). I´ve spent 3 years of my life there, saving galgos, podencos and mixed dogs none wanted by their owners.

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  • Help this little Podenca Andaluz in Seville

    Macu podenca 1 250 12 2011Podenco Andaluz come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large! I have a small, Bebe, she is pocket sized but has THE biggest personality and keeps 5 galgos in order!

    Here’s another very young podenca, now named Conchi-Pepa/Tecla, abandoned, pregnant by a bigger dog. After the puppies, she has been sterlised. She has recovered well from the operation and is in a foster home. But Macu needs help to pay the vet fees, and she desperately needs to find this little podenca her forever home. If you can offer a forever home, please contact Macu. She does an amazing job, keeps these innocent souls at home, or in foster, until someone comes along and can take them. Please, if you can tuck this adorable little Podenca into a corner of your home, next to the fire, contact Macu macu19782010@hotmail.com Mobile Seville 665809169

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