Podenco Post

Category: In the media

  • Help the 4 rescued podenco x pups at SOS Animals

    Libby pups Sue 3 400You may remember at the end of July I appealed for someone to help with a Podenco Mum and her 5 pups, born in a cave. The man caring for them had to leave, there was no room in any of the shelters, but luckily a local volunteer came forward. Mom and one pup are being adopted by their rescuer, but the other 4 pups are in the SOS Animals shelter in Coin and they desperately need the funds to prepare the Pet Passports so these gorgeous pups can be adopted.

    Please share and donate to this fundraiser, every little helps

  • Don’t let your dogs play in rivers – toxic water kills 8 dogs

    Don’t let your dogs play in rivers and lakes, no matter how tempting. This happened in France.

  • National Geographic – read about the Galgos and Podencos

    Regular readers may remember a few years back I was contacted by London photographer Martin Usborn, who wished to visit Spain to photo the galgos, and wanted the details of a couple of refuges to contact. The result was a stunning coffee table book. Here are links to 2 interesting articles which have appeared in National Geographic magazine, the first one being an interview with Martin.

    Interview with Martin Usborn

    Article 2 – about the galgos

  • Letter to Senor Galguero revisited

    In March 2013 I published this ‘Letter to Senor Galguero‘. Sadly all it expresses still applies today. The Hunting Federations have not improved matters – no controlled breeding of galgos, no mass abandonment, still keeping them in dark underground locked bunkers….what has changed is that there are now millions of Spanish people who are thoroughly ashamed of the bad press the hunters bring to their lovely country and protest vociferously every year throughout major cities in Spain.

    Fermin Perez Martin of Scooby Medina presented a Spanish translation to the Federation of Galgueros when he was in dialogue with them to try and improve the situation. Needless to say, the galgueros refuse to acknowledge they cause a problem!

    We must keep supporting those fighting the cruelty perpetrated on galgos by the galgueros in any way we can.

    Please feel free to share the ‘Letter’but ensure that I am credited as its author.

  • Petition to King Felipe of Spain

    Many of you ask what happens to petitions you sign. Here is one.

    Greyhound Compassion vient de publier une mise à jour sur la pétition «King of Spain should stop Copa S. M. El Rey for annual galgo coursing championship, Spain »

    Closing galgo petition to King Felipe VI

    Thank you all for your support. We’ve reached 3,751 signatures and are now submitting the petition and comments to King Felipe VI of Spain copy to Prime Minister Rajoy before the next coursing season starts and thousands of galgos suffer.

  • Hope for Podencos –

    Two lovely videos of podencos with Hope for Podencos. Who can resist these fabulous hounds.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyvuAMZt0xs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-ADZtiOQs

  • Galicia, Spain – penalising people who help stray animals

    There is a law which allows authorities to penalise people who help stray animals. I published about it recently when Malaga put up posters warning people they would be fined 500 euros for helping stray animals! Galicia province is now proposing to enforce the law, so please sign this petition to protest about it. The petition will be printed off and handed to the authorities.

  • Podencos in the forest

    Lovely video of podencos enjoying themselves in the forest. Wishing all podencos could know happiness like this!

  • The Ugly Face of Mogan, Gran Canaria – Caro de Perro on TV 19/7/2017

    90 Podencos mogan TV prog 4007 2017The fight to help the 90 podencos of Mogan, Gran Canaria, continues. On Wednesday evening this week 19th July 2017 a programme will be show on TV on the subject. The group teaming manager writes this. ‘Wednesday evening 4 TV will show in its program “A Cara de Perro (the face of the dog)” the case of the 90 podencos. After weeks of contact with the producer, the seriousness of the facts, the great documentation and evidence, they did not hesitate to include it in this last program. For those of you who are still there, still fighting for these dogs, I will continue to do all that is in my hands to make the largest possible noise. This program is dedicated to them, the victims. Thank you for supporting!’

    April 2017 Update.

    At the plenary session of the City Council of Agüimes Buenas held in April 2017 the opposition made in the section “Questions and” a consultation on the issue of the ’90 podencos”after nearly 17 months. Here is a video of the meeting; if any Spanish speaker can translate the discussion, it will be appreciated.

    A reminder of the appalling situation first publicised about the 90 podencos of Mogan in January 2016.

  • Podenca Bety – fell or was thrown from an apartment block

    Betty 400 1 6 2017This is Spanish dictionary translation of a story which appeared in a Tenerife paper last month. It’s a story all too common for the podencos of the Canary Islands.

    No one wants to take Betty, the dog who fell from a window

    To Betty, they don’t want to adopt it. The belief that it is only a dog away from the homes and apartments of individuals, not hunters, not taking into account that the podencos as Bety remain dogs. Not so furry or ‘monkeys’ as others, but just as caring and faithful.

    Bety was abandoned by her original owner, a Hunter in the upper area of La Victoria, one month ago at the Teide. I didn’t want it. “It’s a dog’s shit that is useless.” After roaming a place like Las Cañadas, where she was just thrown scraps, she was found by a neighbor of the calle Heraclio Sanchez of the lagoon.

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