Podenco Post

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  • Podenco Pinta with SOS Podenco Rescue

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    Pinta is an adorablerough haired 9 year old podenca. She has lived all her life on a patio.

    She is a very sweet, cute and affectionate girl once she knows you. Small size, 38-40 cm to the shoulders. Cat workable. Social with dogs. Calmish.

    Negative to Leishmania.

    Contact: sospodencorescue@gmail.com

    Older dogs often get overlooked but they can be wonderful companions with many years of life left in them. We adopted 2 older podencos, sadly lost one to stomach cancer but Rosie is still full of beans and enjoying a comfy loving home.

  • Poem No to Hunting

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    INSIDE THE ZULO By: Marta Navarro Garcia

    Inside the zulu the air breaks, howls, moans, disappears.
    Just like us, that when the season ends
    we have become caged bones,
    rumor of sogas,
    hungry and cold made in spain.

    Sorry, I haven’t introduced myself yet.

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  • More control of Rehala conditions in Spain – PACMA need to step up

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    These are rehala podencos – hired out for the day to hunters just to hunt. Otherwise kept in conditions like this!

    From Plataforma NAC

    Guardia Civil proposes to PACMA – Partido Animalista to intensify inspections on hunting dogs.

    Javier Luna has sent on Friday 1st August a formal request to the Head of the Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) of the Civil Guard to strengthen inspections of rehalas, in the face of the serious situation of abuse suffered by dogs used as hunting tools in Spain.

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  • Start of hunting season in Spain

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    From Galgos 112

    On August 10, the “hunting tooth in hand” period of rabbit begins in Andalucia. It’s a minor type of hunting in which dogs are used to track and capture pieces, without the use of firearms. The terror begins for the poor dogs that won’t stop until February.

    We are noticing how the date is getting closer by the number of greyhounds and podencos that appear lying around: now is when they start to take them out of the zulus to prepare and test them. Every day there are new ones abandoned, they are the ones that aren’t strong or the ones that don’t serve them to hunt.

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  • Podenca Amira – ill with Coronavirus – please help with vet fees

    Sunday 3/08 Amira had a vet appointment scheduled. This extra checkup was supposed to determine why she was losing weight, and it turned into a rollercoaster of emotions. For a couple of days, she refused to eat any food on her own, and that remained a complete mystery to us—until yesterday.

    The vet left nothing to chance. Amira’s eyes looked dull and empty. Distemper was immediately suspected. A blood sample was taken for analysis. Fortunately, the test was negative. A small relief—but short-lived. The next option: Parvo and the Coronavirus. We held our breath.

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  • A long journey ahead for Podenca Amira – dying by the roadside

    The story so far about Amira, from Sandy Galgoslover

    28/07 Last night, at sunset, a remarkable rescue operation took place on a highway heading towards Níjar. A Spanish girl was driving unsuspectingly when she spotted a thin, frail dog staggering along the road. It turned out to be a Podenco girl, dehydrated, confused, and so weak she couldn’t even stand. Her paws were red and painful, burned by the hot asphalt she had walked on in her desperate search for water and a little shade.

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  • How to live with a reactive dog

    We recently went on holiday for a long weekend to a group meet of sighthound adopters. One of the greyhounds was very reactive to most of the other dogs. He was only friendly with a couple of the greyhounds he has met quite often. It’s the first time in over 70 years I have come across a reactive dog and it was very sad.

    Here’s an article about socialising a reactive dog.

  • Podenco Radham with Project Galgo – hoping for a rural forever home

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    From Project Galgo

    Little Radham is available for adoption. He is a young, beautiful, affectionate and wonderful Podenco. Just 2 years of age, this button nosed boy is gorgeous inside and out. He loves cuddles and affection in all forms. Such a pure hearted and innocent boy, who is sociable and playful with all people and other dogs. Radham is cat safe and easy going enough to adapt to a variety of environments.

    We would like Radham to have a loving home in a semi rural location, with a secure garden and preferably another happy dog for company. He’s truly amazing.

    If you’d like to apply to adopt Radham, please do so via the ‘apply’ tab on our website.

    Thank you

  • Podenca Andaluz Rosie goes caravanning

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    There is a UK facebook group called Camping & Caravanning with Greyhounds and Sighthounds. This includes podencos. Recently the group held its first meet at Hertford Caravan Site, in a lovely quiet area bordered by huge trees and bushes in which lived squirrels, a muntjac deer and a fox. 39 hoomans and double that number of greyhounds, lurchers and whippets – and 1 Podenca Andaluz – all gathered for a lovely socialising relaxing weekend.

    My Podenca Rosie is typical of Spanish rescue hounds – very fearful of men. But this weekend she excelled herself, coping with lots of strangers and even bravely accepting attention from a couple of men. Here she’s making friends with greyhound Paddy and his hoomans, plus Rosie’s Dad. The black greyhound is Brian who was very clever at getting into boxes of treats, even with the lids on!

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  • Podencos are survivors – give them a chance

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    From Bev Farmer of Podenco Post.

    “They don’t come broken — they come betrayed.”
    Let them heal. Let them hope. Let them be seen.

    Podencos don’t come into rescue broken – they come betrayed. What the world labels as “problems” are really scars, the habits of survival, not disobedience. They flinch because of hands that once hurt them. They run because no one ever came back. They don’t trust – because trust was never an option.

    But give them time, Give them space. Give them a reason to believe again.

    To witness a Podenco rise from fear. to see hope flicker behind tired eyes, that’s the gift we offer them. ive them a chance.
    They’ve already survived the worst, now let them live the life they were always meant for.”