This weekend – 4 & 5 December – my friend Julie is running a fundraiser to help feed the podencos and galgos at Pepis Dog Refuge. She is a Neals Yard Natural Remedies consultant; if you haven’t used their products, now is a good time to start. Have a look at the goodies in the shop on this link. Email Julie if you have any questions. Please help, and please share.
Category: In the media
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Radio Seville publicising a warning to animal abusers, especially galgueros and cazadores
Translation of an article by Polly Matthewson, a podenco passionata with whom I caught up at the PAES conference in Murcia in October 2015.
‘Some positives, even if still very very small, steps forward for animal welfare in Spain. Now animal abuse can result in prison sentences, whereas until July 2015 there were only fines. Here’s a rough English translation of this article titled “The hunting season begins with more punishment for animal abuse” which was published on the website of Radio Sevilla 13.11.15.. For Spanish speakers you can hear the full interview recorded on that webpage too. This is a start.
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Cheap accommodation in Spain for Xmas – stay in a perrera
The waste of precious life by the bastard Spanish hunters just beggars belief! Here is the story from Bav Farmer of Podenco Friends.
‘Four podenco pups handed into a perrera this morning (1/12/2015), 8 weeks old. This is no place for them to be, it’s cold and they are vulnerable to disease. We ca’nt leave them there, they will not survive. So they will be with us in a couple of days. For the moment they have been removed and are in a foster home so they are safe. So it begins, dumping of the pups and I am sure more to come. Merry Christmas!’ podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk
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Podenco Xmas Card – supporting Valencia Perrera Dogs
Podenco Xmas card – brilliant! Raising funds for Valencia Perrera Dogs. Details here.
OUR VERY OWN CHRISTMAS CARDS are on sale NOW !!
Unique illustration created especially for us with ALL PROCEEDS to the Valencia Perrera Dogs email HelpValenciaDogs@gmail.comText on the back:
“Until they all have a home and the podencos start to sing”
“100% of the proceeds of this card go to Valencia Perrera Dogs, helping the pound dogs in Spain”Text inside:
“Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”Size 10 x 15 cms on 350gsm white card
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Say NO to French supermarkets selling live animals
Please sign and share this petition if you agree French supermarkets should NOT sell live animals – bad enough they sell live crabs and lobsters!
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DeAnimals – fighting the corner for animal cruelty in Spain
I’d like to introduce you to another amazing Spanish lady working to stop animal cruelty in Spain. Read the full article here.
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Song for a Galguero
Hey Galguero!
At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
and you DUMPED me
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Living the dream in Spain?
Life in Spain and the Canary Islands is hell for the majority of podencos. Here’s a heart-rending situation some young Spanish volunteers have discovered and they desperately want help to help the dogs…chiefly to get them into shelters (which are mostly full to bursting) and fund some operations. Alejandra tells the story.
‘I’m writing you from Sagunto, a small town on the outskirts of Valencia, desperately asking for your help due to the situation we are living.
About a month ago some girls and I found a group of hounds and hound crossings living in a extreme situation,
We found right away around 25 adult dogs between 6 months and 2 years old. 3 of them had recently given birth, with a total of 18 puppies only a week old.
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The Story of Izzy – happy ending for a failed podenco huntress
Michelle tells the story of how she came to offer a forever home to podenca Izzy.
‘It started with a photo. Not a great nor clear photo, but poignant and heart-breakingnever the less. It was of a tiny female Andalusian hound chained to a wall in a filthy Spanish cellar. No windows, no bed, just damp concrete to sleep on and a rusty dirt encrusted water bowl that was bigger than the dog.
The reason – she wasn’t good at hunting, and like many Spanish hounds in her position, she was thus regarded as trash. The luckier ones are rescued, but many are abandoned, hanged, burned alive, thrown down wells, or stabbed to death. She needed someone to offer her a home, otherwise she would most likely have suffered one of these fates.
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Help needed for 2 young podencas in Jaen
This is an appeal from Fabienne Thys for help with two young podencas…they need foster and forever homes. Is there anyone who can help. These are their details.Lola is living in the courtyard of a member of our association. We think she was pregnant in the summer but she disappeared before having her puppies. She reappeared last month (October) and alone.
Rubi is literally on the streets. She is being fed by some people but is very scared and hard to be approached. We need help to catch her and for somewhere for her to go in foster to help her adjust to life in a home, as she is in danger on the streets, both from an accident or getting pregnant again. A kennel will be no place for her.
Both podencas are in Jaen, Southern Spain and contact info is the following:
email: sjfabi@hotmail.com Phone no: +34 656 61 47 79