Podenco Post

Category: In the media

  • Gran Canaria – free accommodation, self-catering!

    Gran Canaria 1 400 20 9 2017Yet more publicity about the appalling abuse of podencos on Gran Canaria, just a few miles inland from the beaches and apartments frequented by the tourists. This report from Kurt who visited the Island as a tourist. (Google translation)

    ‘After a very difficult year, a week of Gran Canaria, and then you go because it’s almost as far as you can make your nieuwjaarsvoornemens and walk around…. FIRST YOU MEET 2 Neurotic horses in a mini garage and then a Beautiful Dalmatian on the chain that is so scared… well of walking is long gone… crying of powerlessness… in the “house” Strolling I hear a lot of dogs barking and go see…

    Horror of a hundred dogs some dead in a big cage with no water and food….the stink, the crying of those dogs goes through marrow and leg… completely off the map I go home… after that first shock is processed, we rush to the supermarket to get a cart full of food and water…. we get back there at Auschwitz for dogs – there is there a man right next to that cage watering plants while those animals dying of thirst…

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  • Update on Podenca Libby’s pups with SOS Animals

    Libbys pups 400 9 2017You will remember my appeal for help for podenca Libby and her 5 pups living in a cave and being fed by an Englishman living nearby. After he had to return to the UK (no choice in the matter) a local lady volunteer with SOS Animals stepped in. Libby and one of her pups are adopted by Vincent and a friend, the other 4 pups are growing fast with SOS Animals.

    Thanks to your generosity along with others, enough money was raised towards vaccinations for the pups. Rescuer Sue has this update.

    ‘Big Bang Theory has provided the inspiration for the names for our four playful sibling puppies…meet (left to right) Howard, Penny, Leonard and Sheldon. They love each other very much. Penny is already reserved for a home in the UK when her papers are ready for travel.’

    If you would like to ask about one of the boys, please contact SOS Animals.

  • The escape artist, climber, digger, Houdini.

    Escaping dog over fence 400I’m an opportunist, an escapee in the making
    I want to run away from you, your love I am forsaking.

    Because I am scared of everything, and you don’t understand
    I’d sooner run away from you and live out on the land.

    Don’t leave that door open, not even just ajar
    Because if you do I’ll be gone, and run and run so far.

    A window left open, to catch the gentle breeze
    For me that’s a piece of cake. I can get through that with ease.

    I can wriggle out of a harness if that is not secure.
    I’ll find a way I know I can, and of that you can be sure.

    I watch for things that you seemingly and carelessly forget
    Like leaving me in the garden. All you’ll have now is regret.

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  • Young podenco – dumped like trash to be killed! Caceres, Spain – URGENT!

    Caceres podenco 400 20 9 2017This young podenco is in the municipal pound in Caceres, southern Spain. He has a front leg injury which urgently needs veterinary attention. He’s terrified…look at his eyes! Poor soul. If he is not taken out soon, he will be murdered in a couple of weeks, pts by the municipal vet…Please contact adopcionescaralapiz@gmail.com or whats app to 625190080

  • Sign the petition to Save the Strays in Murcia

    Please sign and share widely. No dog should be murdered in a perrera!

  • French lesson – how to train your master

    French manipulation of the master 400 9 2017
    How to manipulate your master – French style. Place your chin on their knee and look at them with very soulful eyes!

  • Podenca Thelma – safe from a hunting future

    Thelma 400 6 9 2017From my Help the Podencos facebook page.

    Thelma…… SOS

    This is the youngest podenca of a hunter who fortunately is hospitalized in the hospital, fortunately he can’t take care of it, and fortunately in his family there is no successor hunter.

    He collapsed and the person who was doing everything he could to find all of them, going to check the situation in the shitty place they were kept, took Thelma and took her to the vet.

    9.5 kg, covered, dehydrated, with fleas and anemic. But thanks to her young age, liver and kidneys are fine. And she hasn’t got heartworm. Luckily, the hunter’s vet said she will be fine.

    Fingers crossed she is soon adopted.

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  • The truth about animal abuse in the Canary Islands (Spain)

    After the four-dog TV show, one of the activists who made it possible, has narrated their desperation and how they have managed to get channel Cuatro out to the Canary Islands to record the program. This video expresses the desperation of the animals who fight for animal rights in the Canary Islands and how they have to confront the abusers, municipalities, politicians and how they do nothing, breaching with their obligations. Complaint after complaint, you see how it is impossible to avoid animal suffering.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=huQvztFNmOQ&app=desktop

  • Podengo x Carmela in Portugal looking for a forever home.

    Pretty little Podengo x in Portugal, looking for a forever home. contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you can offer her one.

  • TheKennelKlub & Podenco Friends – working together for the Lanzarote podencos

    Bev Lanzarote podenco 400 24 8 2017One year ago (2016) Laura Johnson sent me a video of a number of Podencos handed into a perrera on Lanzarote.. Until then both of us had been quietly working together for a couple of years rescuing some of the Podencos on the Island… We felt it was time to raise the profile of the situation and the group “Saving the Lanzarote Podencos” was created.

    The perrera they are handed into is one of the bleakest places imaginable, the dogs are crammed into small kennels in a tiny building, there is no where for them to be let out, that is where they stay until the obligatory 21 days pass and if not rescued then can be euthanised.

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