Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Podenco Friends and TheKennelKlub – saving the Lanzarote podencos

    Lanzarote new one 400 5 11 2016Lanzarote an Island located 125km of the coast of Africa part of the Canary Islands and one of 17 autonomous communities administered by Spain. A popular tourist destination year round due to its climate yet a few kms inland there is a very different story. Podencos are the primary dog chosen for hunting hidden away from view the situation for them is dire, held in underground caves and just like Mainland Spain high numbers are abandoned or handed into perreras every year. To re-home the podencos from Lanzarote is difficult due to lack of options for flights over seas, very few are re-homed to local people on the island.

    It’s a small island with limited facilities and the perreras are unable to keep them due to lack of space so many podencos are euthanised or living in extremely cramped conditions. Saving the Lanzarote Podencos has been created to help and hopefully find more homes for them overseas with the collaboration of the Kennel Klub on Lanzarote and Podenco Friends on mainland Spain.

    Our first rescue is of 6 Podencos just recently handed into a Perrera on the Island. All the Podencos will be attended by the Veterinary Clinic that works with Kennel Klub. Each will be fully vaccinated, health checked, blood tested and sent to the laboratories for Leishmania, Filaria, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and will be issued with the original reports from the lab. They will be issued passports, microchipped, sterilized and accompanied with a letter of authority to change the microchip into the new owners name.

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  • Podenco Spirit – shot in the mouth by a Galguero – shows his fighting spirit

    Refugio Candela Spirit 400 10 11 2016Update on Podenco Spirit. In a solidary and voluntary way, caused only by the idea of making SPIRIT’s life a little better, the ethologist CELESTE ROIG has visited Valencia Sur Hospital Veterinario several times, to make sure that his mental health is the better too.

    The days of hospitalization and ABOVE ALL the critical juncture he had to suffer, for being the victim of a shot in the mouth, could have caused him a great trauma.

    BUT HIS STRENGHT, HIS WILL TO LIVE AND ALL THE GOOD ENERGY THAT HE IS RECEIVING FROM EVERYONE… ARE GOING TO TURN HIM INTO AN INVINCIBLE!!!!

    THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH Celeste Roig for your gesture.

    A BEAUTIFUL chain OF LOVE FOR YOU SPIRIT… you deserve it!

  • Sad tale of a Podenco Stray lost in the campo

    Jane catching abandoned podenco 400 5 11 2016This year seems to be the year of abandoned podencos for Pepis Dog Refuge. Yet another stray on the lane to the refuge, Jane Brian working hard to catch him. Here’s another of Alan Brian’s terrific moving poems inspired by this little hound.

    Podenco stray     by Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge

    Although you can see my picture I normally hide away,
    It seems thats how things have to be as im just another stray.
    I’ve lost my home and family, how can this be right,
    Now I have to fend for myself and sleep under the stars at night.
    I sleep here on the wasteland to rest my weary head
    The dirt and rubbish is all I have to make a comfy bed.
    I have no trust in humans, as this picture clearly shows,
    But this lady comes and talks to me then feeds me before she goes.
    I don’t know what will become of me as I did trust once before,
    Maybe I will never trust again, I really can’t be sure.

    Note…this is copyright Alan Brian. His permission must be sought before reposting    young

    Here’s another young podenco rescued by Jane and Alan who is also very good at composing poems!

  • Podenco Spirit with Refugio la Candela – showing his fighting spirit

    In the middle of October a young podenco was spotted running terrified around a highway in Badajoz with a very serious injury to his mouth – in short, the whole of his lower jaw was missing! He was rushed to the veterinary hospital for emergency treatment. Below you will see photos – not all pleasant – but rest assured Spirit, as the podenco has been named – is fighting to survive and eventually the surgeons will rebuild a lower jaw for him. So far vet fees paid are 800 euros but obviously the repair and rehabilitation of Spirit will cost considerably more. If you wish to make a donation, paypal refugiolacandela@gmail.com. Refugio la Candela

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  • Cards for sale – raising funds for podencos

    Becks Simmonds 2 400Becks Simmonds adores podencos and she also doodles. Here are some of her fabulous cards, the selection is too large to post all. The cards are blank inside for your own message and designs are for any occasion, not just for Xmas. If you would like to order some they are £1,20 each excluding postage. Contact Becks email /PayPal is becksimmonds1@gmail.com

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  • New idea on dealing with dog poo in public places

    Now there’s an idea!

  • Podencos galgore at Pepis Dog Refuge – please help feed them

    Pepis podenca 400 2 25 10 2016Hunting hounds galore being abandoned or handed in to Pepis Dog Refuge! Galgos by their hunters, podencos thrown over the fence or abandoned at the gates! These two little beauties arrived earlier in the year, Lulu was thrown over the fence in March and badly injured her leg but when I visited the refuge in September she had made a wonderful recovery. Whilst I was at the refuge we collected 4-month old Vero, lost and injured in the village. Then another little pup abandoned at the gate, another podenco sitting waiting at the gates, and another young one badly in need of feeding! Sadly there isn’t room for him so Jane is leaving food out in the hope that he will hang around until they can squeeze him in. It’s heartbreaking for them.

    Now we are in the countdown to Christmas, please consider ways you can help Pepis and feed the dozens of hounds there. Buy your gifts from the many high street stores through Easyfundraising, buy some Christmas cards, join the teaming group. Or simply send them a donation. Every little helps, especially in this time when the exchange rate to euros has dropped! That means Pepis income has dropped, through no fault of their own.

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  • Injured podenca in Salamanca – Scooby to the rescue

    Scooby podenca 410 10 2016A sweet little podenca rescued by Scooby Medina from injury on the road. Read about her here

  • Podenco Friends in Murcia – rebuilding the lives of abused podencos

    Some more videos of the amazing work Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends do for these wonderful but very much abused hounds. Regular readers may remember the appeal for donations for Bud, shown here from when he arrived starving and terrified in a perrera to his path to happiness and forever in the UK.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jX212p7bTo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwbXtSCiIo

  • Podenca Alma – from campo in Spain to comfort in the UK

    Beevers pup 400 8 2016I spotted some lovely photos of a happy little podenca on one of my facebook pages and contacted her adoptant to ask if she would write the story of how she came to acquire a podenco. Jane is very happy to tell you Alma’s story……..

    I was teaching at Molino Del Rey (a yoga retreat in the Andalucian mountains in Spain) in July this year, and one morning, one of the students told me she hadn’t slept well the previous night…..a couple of them had found three puppies dumped at the end of a field, with no food or water, just left in a box, abandoned. So, off we went, just a short walk up the road from the retreat and found them. We only had cows milk given to us very kindly by the retreat owners so we fed them where they were and they drank immediately.

    Alma looked very different from the other two (who turned out to be mastadors, a cross between mastiff and lab), and from the moment I picked her up in my arms, she started to suckle on my neck (she was about 12 inches in length, so very small, and very young). I don’t have children, and this little mite felt like the baby I never had. I was immediately attached to her.

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