Podenco Post

Category: In the media

  • Dumped in a plastic bag in a trash bin….Podenco Friends to the rescue

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    What a start to the New Year for Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends; 4 newborn pups dumped in a bag in rubbish, needing feeding every few hours! The pressure of abandoned pups and dogs in Spain never gets any less. Here’s the story of the pups.

    ‘Four new born Podenco pups discovered in the garbage tied up in a plastic bag a couple of days before Christmas. Sounds shocking, how could anybody do something like this to leave such defenceless babies to die a horrible death either from suffocation, hypothermia or starvation. Here in Spain it’s not an isolated incident but a regular occurrence. Podencos usually give birth to large litters 10 or more and it’s not uncommon to hear that the owners want to reduce numbers. Sometimes they will take new born pups to a vet to euthanise and often the vets will contact a rescue and ask for their help. Or the alternative, they throw them in the rubbish/ their life has so little value. Four male pups who don’t command as good a price has females, that was their fate.

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  • To crate or not to crate a dog?

    Read the article here, which I published a few days ago on my Galgo News blog.

  • Portuguese Podengo Aida…looking for a forever home.

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    This sweet little lady is l year old Portuguese Podengo Aida, found on the street and taken in. Sadly she gets upsent when left alone whilst her rescuer is out at work, so she is now with Dogs of Portugal. they have over 700 dogs at the shelter! So Aida needs to get into a forever home soon. You can see videos of her on this link. Please contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you would like to apply to adopt her.

  • Deanimals in Murcia – always fighting for animal welfare

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    I’ve written in the past about Deanimals of Murcia, the lawyers who take on prosecution cases of animal welfare and run training courses for lawyers, police, judges, veterinarians and anyone else involved with animals, training them to carry on in all corners of Spain the work Deanimals pioneered. Founding lawyer Raquel tells me she now has many lawyers doing similar work around Spain and the Canary Islands.

    This story is about an aspect of their work…it’s not about podencos or galgos, it’s about circus animals. I have always abhorred the use of animals in circus, especially ‘wild animals’…travelling all over the place, in cramped conditions, being forced to perform unnatural acts.

    There was outrage in Paris recently when a rare white tiger from a circus was shot dead after escaping from its prison. my research shows that in October 2015 France had no ban on wild animals in travelling circuses, of which there are many in France. Further research now states there are 65 communes in France which ban wild animals in circuses. Sadly the one in which I live in 79, and surrounding communes, does not.

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  • Are you a Caninetrovert?

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  • Podenco Pinocho in Caceres – needs an operation to repair his leg

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    A plea for help to pay for the operation to repair the front leg of this sweet little podenco. Here is the story of Pinocho.

    Pinocho is a podenquito of two and a half years that was collected by the City of Tietar, a small town in the province of Cáceres, when he wandered through its streets. They put him in a kind of cuatucho where they kept the materials of the works and two volunteer girls were in charge of feeding him. A month later I was going to be sacrificed, so I brought it home.

    They say that the podencos have very bad luck and adopt themselves worse than other dogs, and it must be true, because two months later Pinocho is still waiting for his definitive family.

    Surely it is a discard of some hunter, because it came with a fracture in his right front leg. We have done two x-rays and it is a poorly welded fracture in which a misalignment has caused an angular deformity. The biomechanical forces are badly distributed and it is forcing the collateral ligaments of the carpus, that’s why it has pain.

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  • What’s funny about a terrified dog?

    How can someone post this on Youtube and describe it as a ‘funny podenco’…obviously terrified about being tethered to another chain…sick person who finds a terrified dog funny and uncaring bastards that no one came to comfort him! Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

  • To crate or not to crate a dog?

    Interesting article on how to teach your dog to use a crate. Apart from transporting dogs in vehicles/planes or possibly a dog shows, I am not a believer in using crates otherwise…particularly ‘toilet training’ a dog. I have had dogs all of my 70 years and have never had problems toilet training a dog without resorting to a crate. I knew one woman who crated her Weimaraners whenever I visited because she couldn’t control them! In my book, that was because they weren’t trained to behave. On another occasion I was told by a third party that a galgo I had rehomed was being crated and the children allowed to poke fingers at him! He was fine with the children and other dog when I did home tests/checks…to this day I don’t know why she crated him…I didn’t ask because I was so angry! Needless to say, I simply messaged that he was to be brought back to me immediately. Was fine with the grandchildren in his thereafter forever home.

    We all have our own opinions on this subject, these are simply mine.

  • Campaign – get Pet Oxygen Masks on all fire engines

    Can we run this as a campaign…to get pet masks on all fire engines for the brave fire fighters who rescue animals as well as humans. Please share it with all your friends and contacts. Why not fundraise for your local fire station to provide the masks if they don’t already have any.

    http://www.petoxygenmasks.org/

  • Pumpkin – the health benefits for your dog

    Interesting article on the benefits of pumpkin in your dog’s diet. My dogs love vegetables and whenever I am cutting up pumpkin, they are there waiting to share the small pieces of rind.