Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • What would the European Union do?

    Pause for thought – video link here. And podencos killed in similar numbers, plus millions of other dogs…

  • Podenca Zarita from Podenco Friends – flying the agility flag in the UK!

    Here’s a fabulous video of Zarita showing off her agility skills at various shows around the UK this year. She has been entered in ‘Any Size’ classes because her weaving skills need a little more honing. Get in touch with Bev Farmer to find out more about podencos and agility.

  • Pepi’s Xmas Auction – fabulous range of items for Xmas gifts

    Auction picture 2 400For those of you who are on facebook or able to see facebook pages, Jan, Sam, Nina and I are running an Xmas auction – this is the link to the album.

    There is still an horrendous 5,300 euros vet bill to pay off for Pepi’s refuge and this is the reason we are organising this auction. Please join in if you can, share with your friends.

    Pepi’s Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville, has an outstanding vet bill of 5,300 euros, accumulated since October 2014. How on earth did they run up such an amount, you ask. Quite simply a decrease in donations – on which Pepi’s survives – and a large increase in sick and injured dogs, especially the parvo virus outbreak in all the puppies over several months.

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  • ‘So Much Light’ – support the Spanish rescues

    Another beautiful video and song by Val Petterson.

  • Galgosan – stunning jewellery for sale

    Take a look at the fabulous items on the website. Great Xmas present ideas for hound-loving family and friends.

  • Letter to the Spanish Hunters – they have changed nothing…

    It is now 10 years since members of some prominent galgo/podenco rescue associations – Galgos sin Fronteras, Amigos de los Galgos, Greyhounds in Need and others with the then- met Spanish Minister of the Environment Cristina Narbona and representatives of the Spanish hunting federations to discuss tackling the problem of over-breeding and mass killing/abandonment of their hunting dogs. Sadly the hunters were not prepared to meet any of the reasonable demands of the associations, too arrogant to even acknowledge the problems they caused. Sadly also since then there has not been another Spanish Minister prepared to consider the problem.

    Often I, like the amazing volunteers working on the ground in Spain, woke up angry against the hunters and the long-reaching problems they cause, and so in March 2013 I put fingers to computer and wrote this letter to them! I am reposting here because the contents STILL apply, over 3 years on.

    http://www.galgonews.com/2013/03/a-letter-to-senor-galguero.html

    Please note that copyright belongs to me and no part of this letter can be reused without my permission.

  • Portuguese Podengo Zen – waiting for a forever home?

    Zen is a Portuguese Podengo Zen, now safe with Dogs of Portugal. He’s only 7 months old and was found on the street. Click on this link to see more about him including videos. Contact Dogs of Portugal if you would like to offer him a forever home.

  • Podenco Valentino looking for his forever family

    Bev Valentino 7 months 400 10 2016This stunning podenco is Valentino and he is 7 months old. He’s with Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends and ready for adoption. Contact Bev to learn more.

  • TheKennelKlub and Podenco Friends – saving the Lanzarote podencos

    Bev Sarifa Lanzarote 400 10 2016Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends is now helping Laura Johnson of TheKennelKlub with the Lanzarote podencos. Here’s what Bev writes.

    ‘A picture that says a thousand words……. So many podencos are subjected to such a harsh life they are never loved or treated with kindness like we do with out own dogs. They don’t get to sleep on a sofa o,r a comfy bed, if they are lucky they are are held in cages where they can sleep on the ground. Many don’t even get this, they are restrained on chains 24 hours 7 days a week only released when taken out on a hunt. Then they are abandoned if sick or old, for its much cheaper to get a pup or younger one, than pay for veterinary treatment.

    The Podenco face two battles, a life of subjugation and then a lack of adoptions for they are not viewed suitable as a family pet, the odds are really stacked against them. On the Island of Lanzarote Podencos have been discovered in the most deplorable conditions held in holes in the ground with no natural light, left there for days with stale water and no food. This is 2016 and why this is allowed to continue is beyond me, and with the power of social media today, few people know about the breed outside Spain.

    I can not imagine what goes through their minds when they are handed into a perrera, thrown into cages or corrals with other dogs they have never encountered before. Exposed to other dogs that may carry sickness or disease, fights break out over food for they are fed in hoppers, the strongest survive so many others never eat. It is without doubt a very stressful situation for them. These could be their final days on this earth, for once the perreras are full they have no choice but to euthanise and Podencos are at high risk due to the lack of potential adoptions.

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  • Day of the Dog – Malaga style! And they call this ‘cultural promotion’!

    Day of the Dog 4 400I’ve reported on ‘shows’ like this before. This one was at the end of September. The town/village/what ever FRIGILIANA EAST OF MALAGA has posted this on their town hall’s page where they also post things for tourists
    The post says DIA DEL PERRO = THE DAY OF THE DOG. This is an example of a ‘cultural promotion’. Rather it is barbarity! The dogs spend a baking hot day like this, no water, hundreds more in cages outside. At least they are not chained.

    All other coastal cities in Malaga have a totally different approach to DIA DEL PERRO. Maybe Frigiliana is doing a favor to these poor dogs by exposing how they are maltreated dogs!

    So please share all over the world!

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