This is Celeste, a stunning Gran Canaria podenca rescued from a perrera and available for adoption in the US through the association SHUG, Sighthounds Underground.
Category: In the media
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Gran Canaria Podenca Celeste – for adoption
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More podencos at Pepi’s Refuge – please help!
Jane Brian writes – ‘Went to feed the stray Podenco this afternoon and we saw him spot us with tail wagging come running in front of us…then we spotted this tiny little thing following behind him…also with her tail wagging. I dont care what anyone says…he brought her to us…. because she needed our help.
We had spotted this little thing running in the village about a week ago and stopped the car in the middle of the road trying to catch her…but no luck..she was far too scared to be helped. We saw that she was only using three legs…now by the photo…we can all see why.
She was ready to be helped, now in our vets in the first step to her recovery. At this time we are not sure of the outcome for saving her leg, this is going to be a long and costly process for her and us. This poor little soul has been run over by a vehicle ( our vets words ).
If you would find it in your heart to help this little soul in her healing then please donate Paypal to pepis.dogrefuge@yahoo.co.uk.
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Introducing clicker training with feeding your dog
Extract from Training the Best Dog Ever
First, let’s teach your dog the value of the click. Begin that lesson by once again hand-feeding all your dog’s meals over the next four days. In general, I find that hand-feeding is a good exercise to reintroduce whenever my dogs (or other dogs that I am boarding and training) are learning a new, difficult skill, or when I sense that they are beginning to lose focus.
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Great News – at last a Podenco Calendar! Buy now from Hope for Podencos
Hope for Podencos have produced a Podenco calendar for 2017. Details below.
Costs are £10 per calendar (11,25 euro, 12,25 dollar) postage Europe or USA for 1 to 6 calendars £10 (11,25 euro, 12,25 dollar). Everything other then costs is to let us help more Podencos.
PLEASE SEND your orders and address to hopeforpodencos@outlook.com
please send your payment to paypal address Bianca@qreative.nl (that is with a Q)
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Portuguese Podengo Florence – waiting for her forever home
Dogs of Portugal have this absolutely gorgeous young Portuguese Podengo waiting for her forever home. You can see photos and videos of her on this weblink. Please someone, give her a chance.
If you are thinking of adopting a podenco, please adopt from a shelter. There is a list of rehoming associations here. Don’t adopt from a perrera. Ignore the cries of ‘these dogs will be killed’ because what happens if they are saved – they end up in a shelter, if there is room for them, and then could wait years before getting a home.
Remember, if you adopt a dog from a shelter, then that leaves space for another podenco – maybe abandoned in the campo, starving and injured on a roadside.
Adopt from an association, not a perrera.
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Lanzarote podenco cards for sale
The Lanzarote Podencos greeting cards
A set of six greeting cards of the Lanzarote Podencos Series. There are a limited number available. They are available for a donation of €12.50 per set of six. postage is €3.70 for multiple sets. Please get in touch for postage costs. Contact Laura Johnson or Bev Farmer how many sets of cards you would like.
Payment by Paypal please use family and friends options for payment and add your address …. thank you
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Please sign and share the Petition for all the Spanish hunting hounds
Please sign and share this petition, not just for podencos but for all the hunting hounds on mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. Spanish Dictionary translation, sorry it’s not perfect, but you get the meaning!
We ask that you register abusers of animals and avoid having for life animals ,which it may not have animals to prevent follow maltratandolos SINCE THE LEGISLATION IN SPAIN IS CRUEL TOWARD THE ANIMALS AND called things !!
Pets ,farm animals livestock ,horses , donkeys ect if they are abused must be removed the license for life to this people if the animals are in poor condition and with famine ,conditions higuienicas deprorables ..Ban that dogs hunting or pets, or livestock are animals tied 24 hours 365 days, many caches of animals WITHOUT WATER OR FOOD and COLD and in rescue actions must be on same day of the report.
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Bikejoring – get going with your Podenco!
I’ve published about canicross as an activity with your podenco, now let me introduce you to Bikejoring. You can read all about it on this link. Most podencos are intelligent active working dogs and sports like this suit them. So if you are not a runner for agility or canicross, get on your bike and ride with your dog!
Here are 2 Podenco Friends competing in the UK.
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Podenco Friends and TheKennelKlub – saving the Lanzarote podencos
Lanzarote an Island located 125km of the coast of Africa part of the Canary Islands and one of 17 autonomous communities administered by Spain. A popular tourist destination year round due to its climate yet a few kms inland there is a very different story. Podencos are the primary dog chosen for hunting hidden away from view the situation for them is dire, held in underground caves and just like Mainland Spain high numbers are abandoned or handed into perreras every year. To re-home the podencos from Lanzarote is difficult due to lack of options for flights over seas, very few are re-homed to local people on the island.
It’s a small island with limited facilities and the perreras are unable to keep them due to lack of space so many podencos are euthanised or living in extremely cramped conditions. Saving the Lanzarote Podencos has been created to help and hopefully find more homes for them overseas with the collaboration of the Kennel Klub on Lanzarote and Podenco Friends on mainland Spain.
Our first rescue is of 6 Podencos just recently handed into a Perrera on the Island. All the Podencos will be attended by the Veterinary Clinic that works with Kennel Klub. Each will be fully vaccinated, health checked, blood tested and sent to the laboratories for Leishmania, Filaria, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and will be issued with the original reports from the lab. They will be issued passports, microchipped, sterilized and accompanied with a letter of authority to change the microchip into the new owners name.
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Podenco Spirit – shot in the mouth by a Galguero – shows his fighting spirit
Update on Podenco Spirit. In a solidary and voluntary way, caused only by the idea of making SPIRIT’s life a little better, the ethologist CELESTE ROIG has visited Valencia Sur Hospital Veterinario several times, to make sure that his mental health is the better too.
The days of hospitalization and ABOVE ALL the critical juncture he had to suffer, for being the victim of a shot in the mouth, could have caused him a great trauma.
BUT HIS STRENGHT, HIS WILL TO LIVE AND ALL THE GOOD ENERGY THAT HE IS RECEIVING FROM EVERYONE… ARE GOING TO TURN HIM INTO AN INVINCIBLE!!!!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH Celeste Roig for your gesture.
A BEAUTIFUL chain OF LOVE FOR YOU SPIRIT… you deserve it!