Please sign and share this – what planet are these people on that they stick their heads in the sand and ignore the horrendous abandonment of animals in Spain!
Category: In the media
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The Motril Posse in Murcia – Last Hope Dog Rescue in action
Last Hope Dog Rescue, Murcia, now has some beautiful podencos needing forever homes. Irene Allan tells the story.
‘Last year we rescued four puppies from Motril that were feral in the campo. The mother of these puppies has been difficult to catch and has been running with another podenco resulting in more puppies unfortunately. We have now collected the puppies as they were in danger and have delivered a dog trap to catch the mum. If we are successful, we will bring her to the finca to sterilise her and provide a sanctuary, so she may gain trust with us and eventually get Bonita her forever home. These are a couple of videos Steve made of the continuation of the Motril Posse .
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Animal Aid Foundation shelter, Valencia – help desperately needed
A desperately tragic situation – if you can help Femke in anyway, please do. She writes –
‘You have probably heard about the Animal Aid Foundation (AAF) in Valencia, which for personal circumstances has to close its doors after rescuing animals from all over Spain for 20 years. I am one of the volunteers helping to rehome the dogs. There are some Podencos left, would you be able to help with finding homes for them? Thanking in advance.
We are also looking for people who are driving back to the UK happy to take a dog or two, for adoption families we find in the UK, so if you hear of anyone…
Please contact Femke through the website.
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The plight of the podencos
So far this month, 25 podencos in perreras have been posted on my ‘Podencos in Perreras’ facebook page. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Many are starving, some are old, some of them are on CESE which means the hunter has handed them in and said ‘kill as soon as possible’. One poor soul has had his ears and tail cut – they usually do this to dogs who hunt boars. shorter tails and ears usually means less hunting accidents with branches and even with the wild boars. They can even cut them legally in the region where it’s not allowed, because according to the law, cutting the ears and tail off is better for the this kind of dog! He is still in the perrera.
Another sad story is of two podenco puppies – about 6 months old – rescued from a river. They had ropes found their necks attached to rocks. Sadly the little boy was already dead but the little bitch was still alive. She is now in the care of an association. (see photo below)
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Malaga/Estepona area? Puppy training courses at In The Doghouse
Calling people in the Malaga/Estepona area of Andalucia. If you have any puppies which qualify, get in touch with Nando Brown of In The Doghouse.
‘We run a rescue pup course where pups around 10-14 weeks stay with a dog trainer for 5 days, do training, get socialised etc in the hope to get them rehomed – all with Nando. Have you heard of any pups around Malaga area that are in rescue that could take part? The last few have been really successful, a lot of the trainers have taken the ones they had, or helped find homes for them. Be awesome to get some Galgos or Podencos on the course.’
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Sponsor Ellen fundraising for Podenco Friends – Duathlon 21 March 2015
If you click on this link, you can read why Ellen, passionate about podencos,is rising to the challenge of the Duathlon at Clumber Park, Worksop on 21st March. Bud is the latest incumbent to be taken in by Podenco Friends. Please sponsor Ellen if you can and share with everyone. She’s in training, runs to work and back every day, for starters, whatever the weather.
And for anyone who lives near Clumber Park, please go along on 21st March and support this amazing lady!
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Good News from Italy
News from Italy sent to me by Daisy, who translated From Heaven to Hell into Italian.
‘Good news from Italy!
After the shock of the news that, in order to lighten the massive amount of work for the Italian magistrates, some crimes (animal mistreatments included!!!) would have been considered as “less severe” -meaning no prison for animal torturers- thousands of people showed their disgust. The President of the Italian Government, Mr. Matteo Renzi replied that animal lovers shouldn’t be worried because these directions are not law yet and they will be modified. He also said that the Government always listens to everyone.
We really hope so!’