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  • Podenca Amira – ill with Coronavirus – please help with vet fees

    Sunday 3/08 Amira had a vet appointment scheduled. This extra checkup was supposed to determine why she was losing weight, and it turned into a rollercoaster of emotions. For a couple of days, she refused to eat any food on her own, and that remained a complete mystery to us—until yesterday.

    The vet left nothing to chance. Amira’s eyes looked dull and empty. Distemper was immediately suspected. A blood sample was taken for analysis. Fortunately, the test was negative. A small relief—but short-lived. The next option: Parvo and the Coronavirus. We held our breath.

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  • A long journey ahead for Podenca Amira – dying by the roadside

    The story so far about Amira, from Sandy Galgoslover

    28/07 Last night, at sunset, a remarkable rescue operation took place on a highway heading towards Níjar. A Spanish girl was driving unsuspectingly when she spotted a thin, frail dog staggering along the road. It turned out to be a Podenco girl, dehydrated, confused, and so weak she couldn’t even stand. Her paws were red and painful, burned by the hot asphalt she had walked on in her desperate search for water and a little shade.

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  • How to live with a reactive dog

    We recently went on holiday for a long weekend to a group meet of sighthound adopters. One of the greyhounds was very reactive to most of the other dogs. He was only friendly with a couple of the greyhounds he has met quite often. It’s the first time in over 70 years I have come across a reactive dog and it was very sad.

    Here’s an article about socialising a reactive dog.

  • Podenco Radham with Project Galgo – hoping for a rural forever home

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    From Project Galgo

    Little Radham is available for adoption. He is a young, beautiful, affectionate and wonderful Podenco. Just 2 years of age, this button nosed boy is gorgeous inside and out. He loves cuddles and affection in all forms. Such a pure hearted and innocent boy, who is sociable and playful with all people and other dogs. Radham is cat safe and easy going enough to adapt to a variety of environments.

    We would like Radham to have a loving home in a semi rural location, with a secure garden and preferably another happy dog for company. He’s truly amazing.

    If you’d like to apply to adopt Radham, please do so via the ‘apply’ tab on our website.

    Thank you

  • Podenca Andaluz Rosie goes caravanning

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    There is a UK facebook group called Camping & Caravanning with Greyhounds and Sighthounds. This includes podencos. Recently the group held its first meet at Hertford Caravan Site, in a lovely quiet area bordered by huge trees and bushes in which lived squirrels, a muntjac deer and a fox. 39 hoomans and double that number of greyhounds, lurchers and whippets – and 1 Podenca Andaluz – all gathered for a lovely socialising relaxing weekend.

    My Podenca Rosie is typical of Spanish rescue hounds – very fearful of men. But this weekend she excelled herself, coping with lots of strangers and even bravely accepting attention from a couple of men. Here she’s making friends with greyhound Paddy and his hoomans, plus Rosie’s Dad. The black greyhound is Brian who was very clever at getting into boxes of treats, even with the lids on!

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  • Podencos are survivors – give them a chance

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    From Bev Farmer of Podenco Post.

    “They don’t come broken — they come betrayed.”
    Let them heal. Let them hope. Let them be seen.

    Podencos don’t come into rescue broken – they come betrayed. What the world labels as “problems” are really scars, the habits of survival, not disobedience. They flinch because of hands that once hurt them. They run because no one ever came back. They don’t trust – because trust was never an option.

    But give them time, Give them space. Give them a reason to believe again.

    To witness a Podenco rise from fear. to see hope flicker behind tired eyes, that’s the gift we offer them. ive them a chance.
    They’ve already survived the worst, now let them live the life they were always meant for.”

  • Living with a Deaf Dog

    We recently lost our blind dog, but never have we had a deaf dog, and we have had dozens of dogs throughout our lives. Howwver, some white podencos are born deaf, and maybe some older galgos go deaf.

    So this is Here are some tips on living with a deaf dog.”>an article about living with a deaf or blind dog.

  • Addisons disease in dogs

    Weblink to the full article about Addisons Disease in dogs.

  • Galgos Rescue Almeria – podencos for adoption

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    Nando, a stunning chocolate podenco

    Contact Sandy at Galgos Rescue Almeria if you can offer a foster or forever home to one of these young beauties.

  • About the hunting society in Spain

    Plataforma para la Abolición de la Caza.

    The local hunters society had registered numerous partners in the autonomous register without their consent and without their knowledge of their inclusion; some of the registered partners had even passed away for several years. The fact said that there was a possible irregular economic benefit of the social quota, which actually operated as a private quota.

    Several groups of hunters from other provinces were also identified, who brought allegedly valid permits issued by the local hunting society. However, the agents checked that the permits lacked legal validity, since the holders were not part of such society, making this an indispensable requirement to exercise hunting in a social quota.

    Also, with the collaboration of agents of the Civil Guard Post of Sierra de Fuentes (Caceres), they found that certain kinetic activities were being developed in a limited hunting area, where the autonomous regulations expressly prohibit the practiced modality (hunting of storks from a fixed position), which the investigation entailed of six people for allegedly committing a hunting crime.

    #LaVerdadDeLaCaza