Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Update on Reina – the future looks good!

    Manuela podenca after first op 400 29 12 2016Update from Manuela Cornejo on Reina, the little podenca badly injured on a road in Feria, Badajoz.

    16/1/2017 – The latest news I have of Reina is that perhaps with the splint she has on her right leg, it has corrected the dislocation and the vet will not need to re-operate surgically.

    The following is the Thank You from Manuela for everyone’s help in this case. If you donated to the vet fees, the thanks are to you too.

    ‘I can not be happier and grateful. Our Reina already, runs and besides a sponsor that will cover all the expenses of the total medical recovery, has found a human mother (Astrid Mulder) in Holland.

    Yes, I’m excited and write this with a lump in my throat and with tears in my eyes. I do not know how to thank you, how to give back to everyone who, without knowing me personally, you have trusted me and with this appeal, you have saved the life of a wonderful being, our Reina.

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  • 2nd PAES Conference – Challenging the Iceberg – 25 & 26 February 2017

    PAES Conference 2017 400The task facing Rescue and Animal Welfare Organisations in Spain is huge and relentless.

    The constant flow of Animals needing rescue, care and re-homing is similar to seeing the tip of an Iceberg. As with an Iceberg we are seeing the impact of only a small proportion of the problem, the vast majority lies below the surface.

    The unseen mass, is, among others, a compound failure of a clear understanding of the Law affecting Animal Welfare.

    What are the responsibilities and accountabilities of the various agencies ,Municipal, Law Enforcement,
    Veterinary and Legal in applying and reinforcing the Law?

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  • Adana – wonderful work by the volunteers

    Article about Adana, one of the many shelters along the Andalucia coast.

  • Update on Spirit with Refugio La Candela

    Good news again.

    ‘we started the day couldn’t be better? ♡

    Spirit improvement and his liver too!!! 😉

    Many of us wondering each day and is that the clinical situation of spirit has been extremely sensitive since we picked him up with a serious injury in the jaw caused by a shot.

    It takes a long time entered the veterinary hospital Valencia south where we have already done a lot of tests and one of the two operations that he needs to recover the quality of life that was taken from her in a second.

    In one of the counts of control we have noted that his liver was disturbed and he was quickly put on treatment.

    Has been improving every day, even though it’s still under weight is a trend of improvement always…. and that is due to his strength and his will to live.

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  • Podenco Ibicenco and Podenco Canario – 2 separate types – sign the petition

    Podenco petition poster 400 10 1 2017Why should I sign this petition? For over 25 years, podencos have not been considered as sighthounds. The reason behind this was that the SCI (World Dog Organisation based in Switzerland) wanted to put the Canario Podenco and the Ibicenco Podenco, which at the time belonged to two different breed groups, back into one group. The hunting lobbies got involved (especially the Spanish hunting lobby, operating through the Spanish association of dog breeders) and because they feared that hunting with sighthounds might be banned at some point, they asked for those two breeds to be classified as “primitive dogs” and not “sighthounds.” And they won!

    Unfortunately, only Ibicenco, Canario, and Portugese Podencos could be returned to the sighthound group as these are the only officially recognised breeds. Still, that means thousands of dogs! And the Canario Podencos represent the vast majority of dogs found on Spanish islands -and they are the ones who most need our help because they are so hard to reach. Many breeders within the SCI are also trying to push for this breed group change.

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  • Update on Jan, the hung podenca

    Jan neck 400 8 1 2017Update on Jan, the hung podenca.

    7/1/2017. Today she had her first walk outside the clinic
    She is fighting a bad infection but we have high hopes she will make it.On Monday morning I will see her at our clinic in Malaga. We want to say a warm thank you to all who have donated so far.

  • To the Mayor of Cordoba – sign the petition

    Policia Proteccion Animal 400 1 2017A petition with a difference. This one will be sent to the Mayor of Cordoba, Spain. Here is a translation.

    ‘An institution dedicated exclusively to the protection of animals and the respect of animal protection laws is necessary in every city where there are protectionist groups. The animal police must be equipped with veterinary medicine vehicles, a place to recover animals in situations of neglect and abuse, where they have the power to fine and punish the aggressors anywhere.

    We must control cases of abuse and abandonment of animals, and appropriate people who love animals and know all the legislation that exists on the subject. These people should be prepared to deal with animal emergencies, shelter transfers and police power to arrest people accused of ill-treatment and murder of animals.

    Mr. Governor of the province of Cordoba, please do something to stop such abuses, murder and abandonment of animals.

    Please sign and share this petition widely.

  • 10 Canine Commandments

    10 commandments Paranormal 400 copyright Paranormal

  • SOS Rescue – saving abandoned podencos

    Vincente Cervero Lopez of SOS Rescue says ‘Currently we have 6 Rescue teams in Castilla La Mancha, Madrid and Murcia. we want to make two rescue teams more, to be able to help more and better. The equipment for each team costs around 600 euros, which includes loops and traps to capture terrified galgos, a microchip reader, networks and kennel’.

    Videos of their rescue of 2 podencos.

    Video 1 – Podenco with brain injury Berberech

    Video 2 – starving mama podenca and babies

  • Strangled with a metal wire – beating the bastard cazadores!

    Jan neck wire 1 400 4 1 2017Here sadly is an example that podencos suffer the same fate as galgos. This is Jan, luckily now safe with Val’s Podenco Rescue in Spain. She was strangled with a wire embedded in her neck. She will hopefully recover but needs to stay at the clinic for at least another week. She is only 1 year old.

    Anne Buttenhoff says. ‘Next week our vet will see her again.He has experience in these kinds of severe injuries. She has a strong will to live and we are with her all the way. We need to ask for your help for her treatment.If you can help all is very much appreciated. PayPal is valspodencorescue@hotmail.com, mark it family and friends so there is no charge on the donation. Thank you!’

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