This is Penelope, a Portuguese Podengo with Dogs of Portugal, looking for a forever home. Click on this link for more information about her, more pictures, video. Contact DOP if you can offer a forever home.
Category: In the media
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Portuguese Podengo looking for a forever home
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Cat-proofing podencos the Podenco Friends way!
Josephine is a little cat which Bev Farmer took in as a kitten. She is companion to 17 year old Tilly and stands her ground with some of the other podencos at feeding time. Wonderful photos from Bev Farmer. -
Podenca Peaches waiting and waiting forever
Podenca Peaches is a Spanishdeathrowdogz dog, rescued from the kill list in a perrera‘It’s me! Peaches, why does nobody love me enough to share their home with me? I’m a lovely sweet girl who has had a horrible past, when the ladies found me I had a huge hernia, I was in a lot of pain, but now I’m fine, I just need that elusive home. I’m a sweet, friendly girl, in fact I quite like men, very unusual here in Spain. I’ve been waiting for such a long time for my furever home, I wonder if it’s ever going to come. Please share so lots of people see me, it only takes one person to fall in love with me and my life could be changed in an instant. I will come with an adoption contract, passport, spayed and vaccinated. What’s not to love?’
Contact Lynn Judge if you have room in your home and heart for her.
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A life of hell for podencos in the hands of the hunters.
Make 2020 a special year for a lucky podenco – take one into your home and heart. They are loving and loyal and are great characters.
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Podenca Tilly gets her ear cleaned!
Those of you who have a copy of my book From Pyramid to Perrera will know Tilly, Bev Farmer’s beloved podenca who is now 17. Recently Bev took in a stray kitten.
‘Josephine thought an ear massage might be nice for Tilly I’m not sure it was very relaxing for her. But amazed she was so tolerant for a dog that has hated cats her entire life even all these years she can still surprise me.’
https://www.facebook.com/PodencoFriends/videos/609404279808556/
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Podenco Friends – saving the hounds in the terrible storms
From Bev Farmer. I had the pleasure of meeting her friend Janette when I visited Bev a few years ago. This is what happened during one of the worst storms to hit Andalucia. Sadly storms are still forecast to hit the region.‘Just before the big storms hit us in Spain Janette Lopez was contacted by a local perrera 7 galgos and a Podenco had been handed in by a Galguero and could she help .. Her rescue is mainly local adoptions of family type dogs and she doesn’t get much interest in sighthounds. So she asked me if I could team up with her and help with them .. No problem Janette ….
Then a couple of days later I was asked if we could help with a galga who had just given birth in a disused finca surround by rubbish. 3 pups had already died and it was a matter of urgency to get them to safety .. I had no space here to take them so Janette took them. At the time it seemed all manageable, 15 dogs. Then disaster struck and one of the worst Gota Frias recorded in the region hit .. Janette’s rescue was badly flooded and a lot of damage. On top of that she took in 27 dogs displaced because of the storms plus a couple of goats and to date only a couple of people have come forward to claim them.
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El Amigo Fiel Cordoba – another association helping podencos and galgos
Just learnt about this association in Cordoba. It is encouraging to me that, since I started my involvement with the galgos and podencos back in 2007, so many new shelters and associations have been formed, so many more people caring for these wonderful but abused hounds.
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Badajoz – hell on earth for hunting dogs – 46 murdered by a vet
English translation below. They were probably mostly galgos but could include some podencos.
Bone remains found by the Civil Guard Seprona at the scene (EP)
WRITING / AGENCIES , MÉRIDA
12/03/2019 1:26 PM
Updated on
03/12/2019 22:13
The sacrifice of dogs when they are not used for hunting continues to be an extended practice in some areas of Spain. An example of this is the investigation being carried out by the Civil Guard in Tierra de Barros (Badajoz), which has opened proceedings against 12 residents of the region for the killing of 46 dogs .The Benemérita, who has brought the proceedings brought to justice, accuses these people of a crime of animal abuse. Among those investigated, there is a veterinary doctor from the region of La Paz, who is also charged with a crime of documentary falsification, as reported by the Civil Guard .
First inquiries – The case was uncovered with the finding of a dog corpse next to a bag of bones