One tends to think of Spain always basking in sunshine. Not at the moment – Andalucia is being battered by torrential rain and storms. The refuges are struggling – please contact any you support to see what help they need.
Category: In the media
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Podenco Pablo – from Torrox to Northumberland
Jane Colton tells the story of how she came to adopt her Podenco Pablo.
‘I worked for the rescue dogs and cats here in Torrox Costa. It is not a registered charity, just a kind German lady who started a long time ago by taking in stray dogs. She was reported to the council and was told she could not keep the animals in her penthouse apartment. She moved to the campo and lived in a large shed for a few years. Now she has a larger building with land and has built concrete kennels for the larger dogs, the smaller dogs and cats live in a gated area adjoining her home, she has 60 dogs now.
My dog and I live in Spain only in the winter now, he does miss the sunshine, so I work in the Spanish market every Monday selling 2nd hand goods. We also have extremely kind people who donate and help in different ways. My rescue Great Dane had recently died of old age and I decided no more dogs, as I was so devastated to lose her.
Then after a couple of months an Ibizan Hound was taken in and I knew I couldn’t resist him, he took two hours to catch, his name is Pablo and I have had him for nearly nine years. I live in the country in Northumberland so in his younger days he caught many rabbits. He carried them home. He enjoyed every last morsel…there have been times when I have waited for him whilst he is hunting and thought I had lost him but as every Podenco owner knows too well, they always return but when?
I would just love another one, but not just yet.’
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Exposing the cruently of the Cazadores of Tenerife, Canary Islands – take action
The Canary Islands. Video of voiceless Tenerife. The harsh reality, that everyone should know.
So live the hounds… in very poor conditions, locked in oppressing filth 24 hours a day, tied up, malnourished, and surrounded by faeces… enduring the heat of summer and the winter rains… their looks of terror say it all….
When they don’t want to hunt or at the end of the period of hunting the cazadores abandon them or kill them, because they no longer “serve”
Not hunting with hounds and other races!!!!!
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Podenco Spirit – shot in the mouth by a galguero – update
Update on podenco Spirit with Refugio la Candela – the podenco who was shot in the mouth and lost the whole of his lower jaw. Eventually when Spirit is strong enough, the Spanish vets hope to build a lower jaw for him.
1/12/2016
This dream is coming true because you deserve it all SPIRIT ♡WHe keeps on improving!!! He has gained weight and soon it is very probable that we can remove the gastric catheter…
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Gran Canaria Podencos – keep signing and sharing
Please keep signing and sharing to help the Gran Canaria podencos.
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Podenco Friends – Lua’s story
A happy ending story from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.
Lua…. her story began back in 2013, a feral podenca and her family surviving on the streets in Seville. She had already had 2 litters of pups. When she first arrived with us she was a very angry dog, ‘don’t invade my personal space, people are the enemy’. It’s taken a long time but today she is very much part of the family living in the house. Jasira helped so much with this change of attitude a very special friendship and Lua felt the loss just as much as us. This year Lua had surgery on her hip, she is no longer in pain, meds were helping and she has made a good recovery.
There are many more podencos at Podenco Friends, all waiting for the chance to have their own family, can you help find them? Email: podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk
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Gran Canaria Podenca Celeste – for adoption
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.
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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)
or by bank IBAN SEPA NL23 INGB0006432064 BIC INGBNL2A