Podenco Post

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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.

  • Lanzarote podenco cards for sale

    Lanzarote podencos cards 400The 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
    PayPal is to: thekennelklub@outlook.com

  • Please sign and share the Petition for all the Spanish hunting hounds

    Petition 400 17 11 2016Please 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!

    Bikejoring Lissy and Pace Gordon Graham 400I’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.

  • Podenco Friends and TheKennelKlub – saving the Lanzarote podencos

    Lanzarote new one 400 5 11 2016Lanzarote 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

    Refugio Candela Spirit 400 10 11 2016Update 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!

  • Sad tale of a Podenco Stray lost in the campo

    Jane catching abandoned podenco 400 5 11 2016This year seems to be the year of abandoned podencos for Pepis Dog Refuge. Yet another stray on the lane to the refuge, Jane Brian working hard to catch him. Here’s another of Alan Brian’s terrific moving poems inspired by this little hound.

    Podenco stray     by Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge

    Although you can see my picture I normally hide away,
    It seems thats how things have to be as im just another stray.
    I’ve lost my home and family, how can this be right,
    Now I have to fend for myself and sleep under the stars at night.
    I sleep here on the wasteland to rest my weary head
    The dirt and rubbish is all I have to make a comfy bed.
    I have no trust in humans, as this picture clearly shows,
    But this lady comes and talks to me then feeds me before she goes.
    I don’t know what will become of me as I did trust once before,
    Maybe I will never trust again, I really can’t be sure.

    Note…this is copyright Alan Brian. His permission must be sought before reposting    young

    Here’s another young podenco rescued by Jane and Alan who is also very good at composing poems!

  • Podenco Spirit with Refugio la Candela – showing his fighting spirit

    In the middle of October a young podenco was spotted running terrified around a highway in Badajoz with a very serious injury to his mouth – in short, the whole of his lower jaw was missing! He was rushed to the veterinary hospital for emergency treatment. Below you will see photos – not all pleasant – but rest assured Spirit, as the podenco has been named – is fighting to survive and eventually the surgeons will rebuild a lower jaw for him. So far vet fees paid are 800 euros but obviously the repair and rehabilitation of Spirit will cost considerably more. If you wish to make a donation, paypal refugiolacandela@gmail.com. Refugio la Candela

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  • New idea on dealing with dog poo in public places

    Now there’s an idea!

  • Podencos galgore at Pepis Dog Refuge – please help feed them

    Pepis podenca 400 2 25 10 2016Hunting hounds galore being abandoned or handed in to Pepis Dog Refuge! Galgos by their hunters, podencos thrown over the fence or abandoned at the gates! These two little beauties arrived earlier in the year, Lulu was thrown over the fence in March and badly injured her leg but when I visited the refuge in September she had made a wonderful recovery. Whilst I was at the refuge we collected 4-month old Vero, lost and injured in the village. Then another little pup abandoned at the gate, another podenco sitting waiting at the gates, and another young one badly in need of feeding! Sadly there isn’t room for him so Jane is leaving food out in the hope that he will hang around until they can squeeze him in. It’s heartbreaking for them.

    Now we are in the countdown to Christmas, please consider ways you can help Pepis and feed the dozens of hounds there. Buy your gifts from the many high street stores through Easyfundraising, buy some Christmas cards, join the teaming group. Or simply send them a donation. Every little helps, especially in this time when the exchange rate to euros has dropped! That means Pepis income has dropped, through no fault of their own.

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