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  • URGENT – Podenco’s Owner died, abandoned in the garden

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    Grom Galgos Liberty.

    Very very Urgent !!!!!

    Her anxious look haunts me!!!!

    Looking for Foster or better adopters for Fly, podenco about 4/5 years old. Her owner passed away a week ago and is now alone in the garden. A neighbour comes to feed him and brings him home at night. I stopped by to see him this morning, Fly is scary, but within 10 minutes he came to me.

    HE seems to have been neglected by the absence of care and regular absence of his master and spent a lot of time alone, Fly will therefore need reassurance to trust again. Living with dogs looks ok, for cats we don’t know.

    This cutie is adorable and deserves to find her furever family.

    Contact galgo.liberty@gmail.com

    Or by text 06.74.46.73.95

    Visible in the Aude (Carcassone area, south France).

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  • Living with a blind dog

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    A few weeks ago I introduced you to Bo (Bocelli), a blind podenco we recently adopted from life on a chain in Lorca, Spain. Having both had dogs for all our seven decades of life, we have never had a blind dog. So it is a new experience for us. He has now been with us for a couple of months and is settling in very well. He can now find his way out of the kitchen into the garden to the toilet, and back again. Luckily we have a ramp at our back door rather than steps, which is much easier for him. He hasn’t so far ventured into the rest of the bungalow but no doubt he will do it one day, in his own time.

    He shares his home with Rosely, a sighted podenca, and very often shares his bed with her. She wears a bell on her collar so he always knows where she is. He is at the stage of wanting to play with her in the garden, but after 6 years shut in a shed breeding babies, Rosely doesn’t know how to play. Her main interest is her stuffed toys, baby substitutes I suspect.

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  • Spain is still in the dark ages – no help for the hunting dogs

    From Galgos en Familia.

    WHERE ARE THEIR RIGHTS???

    The Andalusian government declares unconditional help and support to the hunters, for what they declare, to be accomplices of torture. They declare to agree with the suffering, mistreatment, abuse and exploitation, which this sector systematically exerts on the dogs of the so-called “hunting breeds”

    They also motivate them, through grants and bonuses

    And we ask ourselves, where are their rights? The rights of all citizens who do not want to be complicit in this barbarism, of all of us who are not willing to be accomplices or executioners?

    And most importantly, where are their rights? where are the rights of those animals that are tortured, slaughtered, killed and abandoned?

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  • Galgo’s Rescue Almeria – old podenco finds his forever in Italy

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    From Galgo’s Rescue Almeria

    4 years ago Lucky, an old podenco, came to us. We followed him for several weeks and tried to gain his trust and on January 18, 2018 he let himself be caught.

    What he didn’t realize was that his life would change drastically “ from street life to sweet life “.

    Lucky was a vagabond, a loner who had probably roamed the streets for most of his life. He had leishmania, a few months later he also got distemper. But Lucky is a survivor with a huge will to stay alive.

    December 2020 Lucky left GRA and could spend his retirement in Italy at Casa degli Elfi Rescue OdV – Podencos & Co where he also stole everyone’s heart.

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  • From Spain to Canada – Podenco Friends hounds to their forever homes

    From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    Here is a glimpse of behind the scenes and what happened when the dogs land in Canada a few weeks ago.

    I am often asked ‘are the dogs stressed with the flight’, but we prepare them by getting them comfortable with the flight crates. When I take them to vets they always are transported in flight crates and it’s safer for them.

    The dogs arrived and they were relaxed and calm and even though with people they have never met before they take everything in their stride. It takes an incredible amount of work and preparation both here in Spain and Canada so the dogs can fly. The paper work is complex and we have to double and triple check everything dealing with customs on both sides.

    Numerous messages and phone calls and finally they were on their way.

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  • URGENT – email to send to the Spanish Government before end January 2022

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    HELP THE HUNTING DOGS OF SPAIN

    From Scooby. WE NEED YOUR HELP! READ CAREFULLY:

    The Ministry of Agriculture proposes to get hunting dogs out of the future Animal Welfare Act. This proposal leaves hunting dogs completely unprotected, denying them all protection and rights.

    Until February 2, the National Strategy of Cinegetic Management is out for public consultation, so ALL CITIZENS CAN SEND OUR COMPLAINTS, CHANGE PROPOSALS, OR Suggestions to the following email address:

    bzn-comitecaza@mapa.es

    Suggested content of the email: –

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  • Valencia, Spain – another hell for Spanish podencos

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    This is a post from my facebook page from a lady appealing for help to publicise a serious case of cruelty to podencos.

    ‘I am sending this message to all animal organizations.

    I’m going to expose a situation of helplessness and injustice here, because I don’t know where to go.

    In an area outskirts of Valencia, there is a hunter who has about 20 dogs in harsh conditions, without hygiene, between corpses, it only gives them sunlight when he takes them out to hunt, tied up with a half meter chain, one of them right now She has the paw broken with a wound of about 50 centimeters that will end up getting infected.

    He has been reported, but he has the protection and the support of the area police because they are also hunters, so the complaints are left on wet paper.

    He is committing a felony of abuse.

    I swear if he reports me for entering his private property to get evidence (photos, videos), he should be a hair fall for violating animal welfare laws. From where I am you can hear the cries of the dogs day and night.

    If you could send me a cable to spread the message, I would appreciate it. Let’s see if we can get those dogs out of that hell.

    Pvt0s Mi€rda hunters.

  • Spain January 16 – blessing of pets fiesta

    Saint Francis of Assissi is the patron saint of animals and every year usually on the 3rd Sunday of January, ceremonies are held throughout Spain for the blessing of pets.

    Read the story on this weblink

  • Can kinesiology taping help your dog?

    Interesting article on the subject. Have any of my readers used it, has it helped?

  • Introducing blind podenco Bocelli – a new learning curve for us

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    Bocelli (known as Bo) is the second of our newly adopted podencos. Unusually for a white podenco, he is blind rather than deaf as some white dogs are. My OH was actually looking to adopt another galgo but he spotted Bo on the Ibizan Hound Rescue website and was immediately drawn to him. Bo was also on the website of Blind Dog Rescue UK and so I completed the pre-adoption form with them and kept my fingers crossed!

    Bo had been in a wonderful foster home in the UK after apparently spending most of his 8 years on the end of a chain in a ‘horrible place’ in Lorca, Murcia. His fosterer believes he can see shadows/shapes and he adapted well to living in a home environment with other dogs.

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