Podenco Post

Category: In the media

  • Podencos make marvellous agility dogs – a good reason to adopt one!

    Podencos are totally different characters from galgos – who like nothing better than to curl up on a comfy sofa and sleep! Podencos are working dogs and therefore can make marvellous agility dogs. Here are some videos of podencos in agility, and also a Pharoah Hound, a similar breed.

    These videos have to be one of the best reasons to adopt one of these deserving dogs. You can find dozens of them waiting for forever homes and maybe an agility competitor in the weblinks in Podenco Pals. Or check out the list of podenco rescue associations listed.

    Podenco Agility 1 Podenco Agility 2

    Pharoah hound agility

  • The Truth Exposed – Spanish hell on earth for the Podenco

    This is why we need to save the podencos, as well as the galgos. Warning, upsetting images. Please don’t turn away, these wonderful dogs need our voices to speak up for them and demand respect and consideration. They are NOT vermin, they are loving sentient creatures.

  • Starving dogs give Spain a bad name

    Link to an article written by me which was printed in the Weekly Telegraph w/c 16th March 2011

  • Podenca Estrella, survivor of the Jaen killing station

    Estrella and Angie in Jaen 190 I've fostered quite a few podencos, mostly the rough-haired type, from mainland Spain.  One of the most beautiful stories is that of Estrella.  In December 2009 I posted a picture on Galgo News of 3 galgas and a podenca in a cell in the killing station in Jaen.  Rescue of the 3 galgas was arranged but somehow the podenca was overlooked.  I received an appeal from across the ocean in Canada – the podenca is still in Jaen, can you get her out?

    So the wheels were speedily set in motion and the podenca was rescued and taken to a refuge.  An association with whom I work closely, L'Europe des Levriers, then agreed to help get the podenca from Jaen to Madrid, from where I could collect her, along with other galgos we were bringing out to France for rehoming.  So there we were, at the beginning of February 2010, meeting up with Estrella – as the podenca had been named – to bring her home to foster.

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  • 25th March 2011 – join the march against animal cruelty

    On www.noalmaltratoanimal.org  you can read or see about a big manifestation through whole Spain on the 25th of March against mistreating of animals and longer sentences in prison for people who are guilty of this.

    There is a comprehensive list of all the major cities and towns where a march is taking place, including time and place to meet.  Please attend and get as many of your friends, supporters, neighbours etc. to take part, if you live in Spain or the Canary and Balearic Islands.  They ask for 80,000 people, I'm sure there could be many more.

    UPDATE    28/03/2011 – people turned out in their thousands, it was very successful.  When I get more news, I'll post more.

  • Starving to death in a coral in Cordoba!

    Starving dogs Cordoba 4 11 02 2011 250 There are no regulations in Spain to which refuges and shelters have to adhere.  Some are a living hell for dogs and cats which have already suffered from maltreatment and abuse.  This is a 'coral' in Cordoba where dogs including podencos are starving to death through lack of food and water.  When dogs get to this stage, they will even attack and eat each other.  There is evidence of this here.  El Arca de Noe Cordoba complained about the situation, and the authorities removed the dogs to the local pound.  Death awaits them, from lethal injection if they haven't already succumbed to infection and illness before them.

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  • Extremadura hunters – Fepaex says ‘Take Responsibility for your Dogs!

    Extremadura hunter fepaex.org 02 2011 250 Podencos and galgos both suffer unimagineable cruelty at the hands of the Spanish hunters and gitanos – Spanish gypsies.  Most publicity comes from the regions of Andalucia and Murcia, as well as the Spanish Islands Ibiza and the Canary Islands.  However, the Spanish interior including the region of Extremadura is also hell on earth for galgos and podencos.  Here is a report from Fepaex – Federacion de Protectoras de Animales de Extremadura.

    THE PROBLEM for  HUNTING DOGS  in EXTREMADURA =  Irresponsible HUNTERS + passive and complicit

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  • Rick Beauchamp – Podencos from SARA Lanzarote part 3.

    Rick B pods beds 2 home 250 Rick and Lesley Beauchamp are based in Leicestershire in the UK, and each year they travel to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to bring home som Podenco Canarios, whose only hope of a forever life outside the SARA Lanzarote shelter is to be adopted on mainland Europe.

    Here Rick talks about the project and the 3 trips he has made so far.  What is hidden is the true International co-operation which goes on to bring the dogs to the UK; from them choosing the dogs in Lanzarote to arranging flight partners to take the dogs to Europe; to enlisting help from the German population to meet the dogs at the airports; to the absolute exhaustion that Rick and his friend Daryl submot themselves to over a couple of  days.

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  • Podencos – life in the hands of Spanish ‘thugs’

    Paloma Maestud 250 Whilst the plight of the podencos does not have the same high profile as that of the galgos, they suffer a similar life at the hands of the Spanish hunters, especially on the Spanish Islands, the Canary Islands near Africa and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean.

    Here,  one podenco passionata writes about them.

    'The reality is that the life of a podenco is in the hands of "thugs", this is the same as the life of the Galgos, adding to his miserable life also by suffering abandonment by the vast majority of Spanish society. Increasingly they share the same hardships, are also exploited for the same purposes, are just as abused, scraping by in hideouts dark, damp, crowded together, no light, no ventilation, the floor covered with dog dirt, being walk on, and occasionally being thrown a loaf of bread in order to "eat."

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  • Podencas needing forever homes – can you help?

    Aminda 2 Phoenix 01 2011 190 Mindy and Roda are two gorgeous young podencas which are now in foster care in France and desperately looking for their forever homes.  Here's the story of how they came to be in France.

    If you can offer either of them the rest of their life in a forever home, where they will give you total devotion, please contact Phoenix Association.

    You may not know the breed Podenco but they are a sighthound,like the Pharoah Hound, and are subject to bad treatment and abandonment by the Spanish hunters.  For most in shelters on the Spanish Islands, forever homes in mainland Europe is their only hope of life outside the shelter. They are an extremely loyal breed and make fantastic companions.

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