Podenco Post

Category: Fund raising

  • Scooby Auction 15th May – Donations urgently needed

    Scooby appeal banner 200 Dear friends,

    It is hard to believe that this year will be our 3rd Scooby North America Auction. Actually, we are having 2 auctions this year. One in June and another in December. In the past two years, with your help we have raised enough money to help install a much-needed tile floor in the Hospital and Surgery Center and build numerous brick shelters in the paddocks at the Scooby Animal Refuge in Medina del Campo, Spain.

    This year we are hoping that with your generosity we can build a much needed puppy house. The puppy house will be fully insulated, including the floor. There will be whelping boxes for mom and her pups and a doggy door for the mothers to use the outside areas before the puppies are ready. There will also be room for them to play and romp around and of course beds for them to sleep without always having to be under foot.

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  • Website on Podencos in Dutch and German

    Podenco Book Judy 170 Judy Kleinbongardt is passionate about podencos. She has her own website and she has also written a book about the Podencos, which concentrates on the podencos from Spain – from the organisations and the perreras. It has received very favourable reviews. If there is anyone fluent Dutch/English who would be willing to translate it, please get in touch with either Judy or me.

  • Please help the dogs, every little helps

    Don’t forget to look at the links at the side of Podenco Post. Barcelona Dogs have THE most fantastic leather collars for all types of dogs, and the price will surprise you – not as expensive as you would think. If you purchase a hound collar and give the code Berylgalgos, then a percentage of the purchase price will be donated to my galgo fund. And your friends will be astounded by the sight of your fabulous hound sporting their ‘designer’ collar.

    Bettys Original produce natural food mixes for all types of dogs. They deliver all over Spain; if you order through them, you can contribute to feeding the dogs in two shelters.

  • Crippled, abandoned, starved in Cadiz, podenco Nino needs foster and adopting home

    Nino Cadiz 2 04 04 2011 250 Some years ago I met a small galga who was rehabilitated by Paul and April Carrier of Alpha Dog School, Rota, Cadiz – sadly victims of the recession. This galga had been confined to a small cage during her puppyhood to such an extent that she had curvature of the spine, resulting in a skippy walk – hence her name of Skippy. She was unsurprisingly a happy little galga in spite of her maltreatment as a puppy.

    Here is another example of maltreatment, this time a little podenco. Here is the story of Nino, a small podenco found malnourished, abused and abandoned in Cadiz

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  • Cordoba podenco, rescued, have you room for him?

    Cordoba podenco 2 04 2011 190 This is a plea for help for a lovely podenco rescued from the streets of Cordoba, luckily before being injured on the roads. I know all the refuges are full to bursting, but if anyone can squeeze him in, please contact Carmen below. Here’s his story.

    ‘Hi I found this little guy in Cordoba, at a junction of roads at the entrance of the city … I asked around the area,no one knows ….. some do not even look at you, let along the animals! He stood in front of the car in the middle of the intersection and what should I do? Avoid it and leave it there, alone in the middle of the road? I have a weimaraner very possessive and jealous but I could not leave this podenco there to his fate … so I need your help. He is a podenco X, no one wants a X.

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  • Happy Endings Final Feliz – only not such a happy ending.

    This story is a sample of some of the things which happen to the wonderful volunteers in Spain, struggling to help the abandoned dogs.

    ‘For the last year we have been arranging car boot sales every Sunday in a place called El Marquesado, and successfully got an income for the animals that need help in our area. It has been very hard workload on all our volunteers, but they have done the job without complaining. This car boot sale has been held on what we thought was wasteland as this was an unfenced, abandoned area. We were unable to find out if anyone owned it.

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  • Granada to Fuerteventura – URGENT help to take Braille to his forever home

    Braille blind pod to Fuerte 2 31 03 2011 250 This little podenco has been through horrendous suffering. Braille, run ower and left to die on the road. He lost both his eyes, sadly the vet could not save them, but he is happy and healthy in his foster home. But he really needs a forever home, and one has been found for him. BUT the problem is – Braille is in Granada and his adopting home is Fuerteventura.

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  • Podenco Lucky – can you be his forever family?

    Podenco Lucky is with Galgos del Sol, desperately waiting for his forever family. See his video here. If you can offer him a forever home, please contact GdS direct.

  • Podenca puppy Angela – see her story in video

    Angela was a 5 month old podenca puppy, dumped with no chip nor vaccination in the Jerez killing station in December 2010. Sadly she did not survive with her rescuers, parvo killed her! Here is a video in memory of little Angela. And another one

  • Podenco Canario Samuel – with SARA Lanzarote waiting for his forever family

    SARA Lanzarote Samuel 190 This is Samuel, just 11 months old, in the SARA Lanzarote shelter at Arrecife (Las Palmas). He’s waiting for a forever home, can you offer him one? Visit the website, click on Awaiting Adoption, and you’ll find Samuel and other podencos. Their only hope is adoption off the island on mainland Europe. Contact SARA