Podenco Post

Category: In the media

  • Cheap accommodation in Tenerife, Canary Islands – food and drinks not included

    Podencos Tenerife 250 3 2013Two stories from PodencoWorld in Holland. To read in English, click on the Translation button top left hand side, drop down menu, click on your language.

    The first one is about 12 podencos living in appalling conditions on a farm in San Roque, Tenerife. The foundation Animal Help Canarias reported the poor state of the hounds on a finca. The way the animals are crammed in the back of a private estate, continuously chained without any room to move. The precarious facilities do not meet the necessary hygiene and dogs have “not even enough food or water,” said a spokesman for the foundation. “Neighbors often call these situations to denounce”.

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  • Podenca found alive in trash bin with microchip savagely cut out of its neck

    Two stories in the news recently about podencos, both the victims of unbelievable cruelty. If you wish to see the pictures, then click on ‘Continue reading’.

    This is the first time I’ve had a story about a podenca dumped in a trash bin, always before it has been galgos who have suffered such an atrocity.

    Someone had stabbed her and destroyed her neck to remove the microchip. After she was thrown in the trash. she remained there for two days without help. She somehow ate garbage to stay alive. Her neck had been torn to remove the microchip. Luckily someone realised she was there and called the police and saved her.

    She is now in Madrid in a veterinary hospital, where they are trying to save her. Her neck has been operated on, and they are working to save her. She has been named Vida.

    The volunteer says, ‘I curse with all my strength these monsters, torturers, no guts, no heart, that they are capable of doing these savage actions. This poor dog has had to suffer a horrible agony. We will fight tooth and nail to save her! Irina.animalessinhogar@gmail.com

    The second story is about a podenco found very close to death in the campo. She was rescued and attempts were made to save her – you will see in the photo she was too weak to stand, was a mere skeleton, and had severe leishmania. Appeals were made on Facebook for donations to save here. Personally, I believe it would have been kinder to put her to sleep, rather than try and revive her and put her through more suffering. Queen did not survive.

    BEWARE, UPSETTING IMAGES

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  • Dogster tells my story of working with greyhounds and galgos

    Dogster is a great website, they have very interesting articles. Please subscribe. They have a column for stories about rescuers of dogs, here is my story.

  • Seville – podencos for hire for hunting!

    I’m still stuck in the UK because of snow, and struggling to post. Here’s a story I received earlier this week, emailed on to associations I hope can help, and now post you the story. Apologies though, as I’m using a computer which won’t allow me to post pix.

    ‘On January 6, 2013 I drove with my husband and adopted dog (from a perrera near Malaga, ‘El Paraiso’) from Tarifa to Seville, and on to Cordoba.

    We stopped at a rural restaurant for coffee where I became aware of a whole lot of dogs crying somewhere in the vicinity.

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  • Podencos urgently need lifesavers – Badajoz and Toledo!

    Badajoz podenco Jim 250 11 2012Heartbreaking stories – Jim is a young podenco on death row in Badajoz perrera, due to be killed on 29th November. Toledo is where the other little podenco is injured and in danger. Here are their stories.

    JIM is a young podenco medium size, very affectionate but nervous – of course, he’s wondering why he is in the perrera. In the video you can see he wants to be friends, in a few days in foster or adoption he would be a happy hound again. If he stays where he is, he will soon be wet, cold and frightened. Please help! He will be murdered on 29th November. SOS Perrera Badajoz 29th November Contact buck_greywolf@hotmail.com

    And this little young podenco was abandoned long ago in a village;

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  • Urgent Help – injured podenca and babies on Murcia Industrial estate

    Murcia podenca baby 200 10 11 2012Urgent appeal for anyone with room to take this injured podenca and her pups – there are at least 4 little puppies. It’s cold and wet. They are on an industrial estate in Murcia, along with a cream male – the 2nd video shows the difference where people will feed a dog if it’s not a podenco or galgo! The volunteer who took the photos has nowhere to take them, so please contact urgently maria.adopcion.animal@gmail.com

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcxK2jYR_A

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_M5WJVkeY

  • Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote – hunters abuse podencos in the Canary Islands!

    For those of you who holiday in the Canary Islands, spare a thought to the podencos used by the hunters. What happens to them when the hunting season finishes? The lucky ones end up in the refuges like SARA Protectora on Lanzarote, TARA on Gran Canaria, Tenerife Dogs & K9 on Tenerife. But what about the hundreds of others? A report on Television Canaria in February 2012 explained!

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  • Happy landings for Podencos Denzil and Dobby

    Videos of two beautiful rescued podencos. They were fostered by a very experienced podenco owner who worked hard over many months on their obedience training.

    #Denzil. His story first appeared on Podenco Post here


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  • Valencia – desperately urgent to save this podenco family on the street

    Valencia podenco family 200 8 2012These podencos are on the street in Valencia – zone Peligro Cazadores, it’s vitally urgent someone gets them somewhere, even if it’s a fenced field…please can anyone help. They’ve been there over a week since they were first spotted. Contact urgently inma.garcia3@facebook.com
    inmame27@hotmail.com

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  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona, fighting to save the galgos and podencos

    AnnaClements_JeromeGuillot_250 EstrasburgoSOS Galgos seeks help from Europe in ending the plight of Spanish galgos

    On 9th June SOS Galgos attended the first international demonstration in defence of Spanish galgos in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The protest condemned the cruelty suffered by galgos at the end of the hunting season. The demonstration was supported by Euro MP, Michèle Striffler. Protests echoing these demands took place in Madrid and Barcelona the following day. (Anna Clements & Jerome Guillot)

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