This beauty with special eyes is Strella – she is one of 6 hunting dogs which the owner didn’t want, so he left them all tied up, starved of food and water. The owner wants rid of them asap so foster homes are urgently required.
CAS is appealing on their behalf. CAS is the Costa Animal Society based in Nerja
on Spain’s eastern Costa del Sol. It was founded in 1986 as a registered charity for
the sole purpose of helping abandoned and maltreated animals.
The first podenca I fostered had been taken to the Jaen perrera by her hunter because she had a hernia the size of a tennis ball. She was rescued and operated on and rehomed in France. Her hernia was nothing like the size of this one.
As you can see, the little podenca is petrified. She was kept in a hut, but luckily rescued and is now with a vet for urgent operation. She will have to go into a residencia afterwards unless a fostger/convalescence home comes forward. And her operation will need paying for. Please contact Immaculate if you wish to help, ask for copies of the vet bills etc. Use a Spanish translator package like Google or Spanish dict.
IMMACULATE GOMEZ GONZALEZ CASE NUMBER 3187.0701.23.1388507616 RURAL
movil665809169 macu19782010@hotmail.com
Here’s news of another group of volunteers in an association, working to save the abandoned dogs of Spain, and especially the podencos. Here’s what they say.
‘Protecto Adopta was born from the passion of a very small group of people who want to offer decent lives to these animals History has confirmed they are the best “non-human” friends that we may have, but however, so many times we see them just in kennels, callejeando or even lying in a ditch. Our intention is to educate the people, as well as trying to get homes to all those dogs who have already suffered the cruelty of the human being.’
Look at this fabulous photo. We all love a happy ending and here is one for Pico, one of the TARA Gran Canaria podencos. Here’s what Brian says.
‘This photo is of The Best Little Dog Shelter in Paradise’s beautiful Eva and her gorgeous new baby boy! Too cute for words!
Eva, The Vigilent Volunteer of the Year 2011, from the beginning was a wonderful foster mother for many of the little canine cuties from The Best Little Dog Shelter, and wisely swore never to fall head over heals in love with any of her wards, to keep her fostering efforts a pristine example of what grand fostering is all about — love and release!
Ellen Dobson is fundraising for animal rescue. She’s just become a fan of podencos, which is great, as she is now including SOS Animals in the recipients of her efforts, who work with a Spanish shelter to rehome podencos in the UK.
Ellen will be running the Nottingham (UK) Half-Marathon on Sunday 11th Spetember 2011. If you would like to sponsor her for podencos, click here.
If anyone else can fundraise in this way for podencos, and thereby give them more publicity, please let me know.
Beloved TARA Friends & Animals
These are the guys searing in the scorching sun all these hot summer days. Give yourself a great self-esteem lift and mosey on down to the shelter for a WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSION with this lovely lot! They will raise your spirits, and you will send theirs soaring! Human time and attention will greatly heal the hurt until a foster or adoption companion comes their way.
WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSIONS are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 1715 hours (5:15p.m.); Fridays and Saturdays from 1100 hours (11 a.m.).
Come and enjoy our community playing to make Gran Canaria a Paradise for Animals too!
Happy Paws & Claws, Brian, TARA Volunteer
A note of horror – their facebook page says ‘Dogpound in north of Gran Canaria is getting 25 abandoned dogs EVERY day. Do not buy but adopt !!!’ That’s just on one small island in the Canaries!
News from Carol Idoia: Podenquita on the street, a shelter is urgent needed! Location:Almería
This precious Podenca is in Almería, thrown on the street, she takes refuge in one of the parking places. People will kick her away , run over her with the car or the dog pound will catch her. Let’s save her life, finding her a home,!!! She is docile, little bit afraid of people ……….spread the news please. If you can help please contact: pilistrata@hotmail.com. (0034)646181962
It’s now August and still the stories of abandonment and maltreatment flow in, here is another.
“A plea from Carmen Monclova: Sick galgo and a podenco had been kicked out of their quarters Please help!
Hello every one, as you know this situation is as the same Urgent.
I can’t go there to take pictures but there is a man who takes the dogs that the galgeros dont want or had lost, and let them out into the streets. this man picks them up in his shack and I take them one by one in order of emergency they get out of there in very very bad conditions– the pictures dont lie.
herewith the story of this little podenca, now safe with 112carlottagalgosa. Chael tells the story.
‘Yesterday while at the vets, we were about to leave when approached by a lady Susannah and her husband. For they had rescued an abandoned podenca, victim yet again of which owner or powers that be take responsibility. The norm in Spain, a daily occurrance and the hunting season again, getting closer. Each year I cannot believe it’s one year more with such destruction!
Here is a Happy Tail to beautifully highlight the wonderful work of Sylvia and Eva at The Best Little Dog Shelter in Paradise (Mogan Pound):
Dexie is a 4-5 month old Spirit of Gran Canaria (Podenco Canario) that got the old dumpskee because she is broken – a busted leg. No good for hunting rabbits, therefore off with her head!
Sylvia stepped in with a mighty, “Not on my watch, boys!” Dr. Javier Castellano Vergara, Guancha God of Dumped Dogs, offered to do all the doctoring at cost.
