Category: Regional news

  • Podenca Reina hoping for a forever home

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    Reina – a queen Podenca.  She was handed a hunter… and it makes us so sad to think how easily some people get tired of an animal when it stops serving them as a tool of work.  Fortunately she’s still a happy, noble and affectionate hound and is looking forward to finally finding a real family.
    Almost 5 years old and sociable with other dogs. We don’t think she would fit in with cats because he has quite a hunter instinct.
    She is in Murcia  and can be adopted anywhere in Spain, as long as they personally come to the shelter to pick her up.
    Para adoptarla podéis escribirnos a:  adopcionesalmohadillas@gmail.com
  • Adorable Portuguese Podengo hoping for a forever home

    Video with all the information about him, and the association hoping to rehome him.

  • Podenco Browny with Refugiocan – foster or adopt

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    Browny has been rescued from a ravine, he was next to his dying mother for which unfortunately nothing could be done.
    He is 5 months old and weighs about 5 kilos, he is very very affectionate and needs a home urgently where he is taken care of forever.
    Foster or adopt this cutie!
    Contact   Valencia   651486606
    Telephone  +34 651 48 66 06
  • Podencos at Akira Dog Shelter, Benissa, Spain

    Podencos for adoption on this weblink.

    If you can’t adopt, please sponsor one.

  • Podenca Coco hoping for a forever home.

    Our 12 year old podenca Coco is such a gem. She is sweet and great with other dogs. Towards people she can be a bit shy. Who would like to give this oldie a chance? After 12 years of hunting and having puppies, her last years should be spend on someone’s sofa. She has now gained weight and will be sterilised soon.

    Her suitcases are packed in the hope someone will give this sweet podenca a comfy rest of life.

    Interested in her? Contact us on facebook (Tanamera Rescue) or by email stichtingtanamera@gmail.com

  • Canary Islands – Podenca puppy dumped alive in trash bin

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    Some people found an injured and dying young woman in a trash bin inside a bag.  The little dog was found casually by a volunteer from the Noah’s Ark protective association, who managed to save her life and has reported the case to the Civil Guard. Events took place in Granadilla
    The story of Hannah, a Podencian puppy, is so frightening that it’s hard to believe she had a favorable outcome. The little dog was found badly injured and on the verge of death inside a bag in a garbage container in the neighborhood of Atogo, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, in the south of Tenerife.

    The case has already been reported to the Civil Guard and is in the hands of the Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA), which has opened an investigation to try to identify the author of the events, as explains to @planeta_canario the manager of the Noah’s Ark Protective Association, Beautiful Gallinat. (more…)

  • The true face of desolation – old Podenca in the perrera

    The true face of desolation.  Noelia a granny who lived a very hard and unhappy life.  Her little legs are very sore.  So little and cute.
    Weighing only 9 kg.  Only looks for affection since she could never felt anything similar to a caress..She only served to give birth year after year.  She’s 10 years old but it seems like a lifetime of bitterness and pain has taken its toll on her.  You just have to see her, poor thing.

    A perrera, the last place for an elderly podenca abandoned by her hunter who she served faithfully for 10 years!

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  • 70 hunting dogs desperately needing to find rescue shelters

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    Yet another sad example of the horrors endured by Spain’s hunting dogs because there is no law to protect them.

    The 6 month old puppies arrived from Alentejo this week.  They were brought to Tiny Shelter by the very kind Municipal vet of Alentejo, herself. They are lovely dogs and clearly so excited to be in a new place …away from the CHAOTIC AWFUL PLACE where they lived…
    All have small cuts and sores, proof that they had to fight for food , but apart from that, they are lovely ,happy, GRATEFUL puppies, excitedly smelling and investigating everything. He immediately vaccinated them , gave them very good puppy food and toys.  These are some of the lucky ones, already removed … close to 20 have been removed…there are 50 left! (more…)