All the information about this important project to help the podencos and galgos at Scooby Medina are on this link.
Category: In the media
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Podencos Tigra and Lola – packing their bags for the UK
(Lola) In just two short weeks Tigra and Lola will be packing their bags for the Uk!
Will you help us raise the money for their boosters and transport?
With so many dogs at the finca our funds have taken quite the beating 🙁 we care for 10 dogs just at the finca costing us €2.50/day/dog! It’s a great price, but it really adds up! And on top are bills, flea and worming!
Please help and donate a few pounds for our hounds!
PayPal: supersighthound@yahoo.co.uk Or for other ways to donate:
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Saving the Gran Canaria podencos – how you can help
Fore many years now I have been publicising the plight of the podencos in the Canary Islands – Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, El Hierro – their main hope of life forever is on mainland Europe and across the Atlantic. The new group Saving the Gran Canaria podencos is doing sterling work, Suzanne Stacey is a vet in the UK who has taken this problem to heart and is already doing sterling work.
Here are some of the stunning podencos in the perrera, most of them will be killed – such an unnecessary waste of life, of beautiful dogs which will make wonderful companion hounds.
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Podenco Puppy in terrible state – now safe and recovering
Here’s the story of this poor podenco puppy, told by Harriet Adie.
Hello dear people.
Please let me introduce you all to Ragga Muffin. He is only 4 months old. Found in this state on 1st June 2016.
He has no hair but I can see it would have been a lovely tan colour with white patches.
His skin is hot, red and caked in scabs, blood and dry flakes. Not to mention ticks and fleas.
His fore feet and legs are terribly swollen and very sore for him to walk on, with his nail beds bleeding and seeping in places.
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A blind podenco hoping for that special forever home
I met some of the lovely Axarquia volunteers at the PAES conference last October. Here is an appeal for a special podenco in their care. Dawn McClelland writes.
Is there anyone out there that can help us to find some contacts to rehome an adorable blind Podenco called Pancho – this lad is blind from birth, managed on the streets for a while and then came into our care. Pancho does not let his disability limit him at all – after 10 minutes he can navigate a new place perfectly. He is utterly gorgeous, loving and a credit to his breed – can anyone help please? Click on the AAR link below to see him.
THis is Pancho’s story – AAR NEED YOUR HELP to find that perfect home for him
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Podenco Canarios Romeo and Valentino – from perrera to forever homes
I’ve always advertised the Canary Islands podenco rescue associations as they desperately need help to rehome these fabulous hounds. Here’s a lovely story about two of them rehomed with Patricia Herrera and her husband.
‘After finding out just how easy it was to adopt a podenco from Gran Canaria through the Saving the Gran Canaria Podencos page, thanks to the amazing help of a certain wonderful someone … I decided that one podenco is never enough and decided to get a pod pal for Valentino, who at 1 needed a playmate as my other dogs are 11, 12 and maybe 16 years old!
As you can see it was a rip roaring success and Romeo and Valentino adore each other and coming from the perrera were both very well socialised and surprisingly also house trained despite their harsh upbringing.
Podencos are such beautiful, gentle and sensitive dogs they can find pound life unbearably stressful and often give up eating and lose the will to live and are so terribly grateful for being saved and shown the love they have longed for all their lives so adopting or fostering is incredibly rewarding. -
Podenco Canario Porron from Lanzarote, hoping for a forever home
RThis is how Rick Beauchamp describes this sofa loving podenco, already in foster in the UK.
‘PORRON IS SETTLING IN THE HOUSE’ One week after Porrons girlfriend left to go to her new home Porron, who initially missed her so badly,is settling into the house very nicely! He loves all our dogs who have accepted him very well and he particularly likes the soft dog sofas, especially if he can find a cuddly toy to chew! He is a lovely boy, 18 months old, house trained, neutered, innoculated and of course microchipped! He loves the car, he even spent a day in the office with me this week where he charmed all the staff and visitors. He really needs his new home to come along quickly . Please email me for further details if you would like to know more about this beautiful, easy boy.
Contact Rick about this ‘ready-made for a home’ young podenco.
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Alicante – hunting hounds in dire situation – anyone help?
This link will take you to a Spanish blog by an animal lover living in the Alicante area who desperately wants some help with a problem of hunting dogs in a dire situation. This is a translation of his article.
HUNTING dogs abused in BENISSA – we have a “neighbour” here in Benissa, Alicante with 6 hunting dogs chained and had imprisoned in a small 2 x 2 mm hole covered with Tin… temperatures in the summer go to more than 50 degrees, dogs suffer terribly, they cry and are barking day and night and live and die in hell on their own “shit”…
My wife and my mother-in-law are traumatized by this cruelty, ave sent our complaint to the City Council, and after 8 months they responded that ‘what do we expect when living in the country’. I have pictures taken of these dogs and their suffering but not sure what to do with them as no one here seems to want to know anything?’
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Lanzarote, Canary Islands – Podenco Canarios hoping for forever homes
Two lovely Podenco Canarios needing their forever homes. Rescued by The Kennel Klub and now in foster homes. Their best hope for a comfy sofa for life is on mainland Europe or the US. Please contact Laura at The Kennel Klub if you would like to be considered for one of these lovelies.
GOLDIE has blossomed in to an extremely handsome young man – he looks like he spends hours every day applying eyeliner jejeje! He is one year old and has been living in a kennel since he was just 3 months old, firstly in the pound and since we rescued him with us. He is extremely affectionate, good with other dogs and a lively, active, fun dog. He knows how to sit but he does need training as he has missed out on his puppy lessons! He will make a great, faithful friend for the right family. He is in Lanzarote but transport could be arranged for the right home.
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Greyhound Rescue Holland – protest march 21st May 2016
Herewith report and photos of the protest march in Holland on saturday, 21st May 2016, organised by Greyhound Rescue Holland and DutchGalgoLobby. Over 500 dogs! Brilliant!