Poor lttle podenca chained up on concrete because her cruel owner doesn’t want her. My friend Carmina de Rea (who helped me with the transport of my galgo Polar from Pepis shelter in Pedrera to get him to me in France) rescued her and she is now in a residencia, I have asked if she has a fundraiser to pay the costs,
If you would like to make a donation, paypal is carminalvarezrea@gmail.com
Vet groups in the UK have been taken over by hedge funds, insurance companies and other groups concerned only with making a profit. This results in fees which many pet owners cannot afford. For people on their own or elderly, a dog or cat is their only companion and the situation is such now that they cannot afford to have a dog or cat because they can’t afford the diabolical vet fees. As wth most things in the UK – it’s yet again RIP OFF BRITAIN! Whatever happened to the caring society?
My experience recently was that my Podenca Rosie had bad diarhorrea and starvation for 3 days did not sort it. Wouldn’t you know it, it was a bank holiday in the UK! So I telephoned my vet surgery which was closed and was referred to another surgery. Usual consultation – check heart, pulse, temperature, gums – prescribed a probiotic paste. Consultation fee – £288 inc vat – total bill £341. I’ve paid it, of course, but that is a huge amount when I’m long retired and living on pensions.
Below is a letter posted on facebook by a vet which says it all.
From David Thomson
My letter to the RCVS (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons)
I am dictating this letter so my spelling and grammar may be incorrect for that I apologise.
It is with a heavy heart and a lot of depressive soul searching that I am sending this email to a governing body that I used to hold in great esteem.
Our blind Podenco Bo recently was so keen to follow Rosie outside into the garden that he slipped on the wet wooden ramp from our back door and his back legs gave way under him. This resulted in him being unable to walk normally and so off he went to see the vet, as it was obviously distressing Bo. He was given a course of anti inlflammatory painkillers which helped him, but his back legs are still sometimes a little ‘off sync’. So I have put him on a half pipette of CBD oil. I found this worked as a natural pain reliever for my galgo Polar a few years back with his arthritic knee join which he had damaged as a puppy.
CBD oil is hemp oil, a natural remedy which I’m a great believer in.
You can read more about it on this weblink.
Video on facebook, hopefully you can see it. 2 are certainly podencos, one possibly a x podenco. At the moment they are being kept together because they are so bonded. Feltie, Porthos, Arthos and Aramis.
It is an EU law that dogs,cats, equines and ferrets (yes, even ferrets!) are microchipped. It doesn’t cost a lot, but it does mean that if your pet is lost or stolen, it is easier to trace. And one should remember that when adopting an animal from an EU country, you should register the microchip in the country in which you live. Again, it’s not difficult. All my Spanish dogs at our French farm were registered with the French microchip database through our vet. Our Spanish dogs with us now in England have their microchips registered with the UK microchip company, such as Pet Log.
This weblink gives you all the reasons you should microchip your pet.
From L’Atelier du Coeur association in France.
‘I present to you RUDY a very nice riugh haired podenco who comes from afar since he was with his sister Leire in a Perrera. Volunteer Marita did what was necessary to get them out of this hell.
They are at the shelter now.
RUDY at 7 months and must not stay too long at Marita’s. Already by his age and also by the number of cuties down there. With no more space, unfortunately the risk of a fight increases.
RUDY like his sister Leire are adoptable throughout France, Belgium and the Swiss border.
They are under association cover via our association.
Contact :: France (0033) 06.76.03.93.11 or atelierducoeur35@gmail.com
