Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Hounds are addictive – but there has to be an upper adoption limit!

    Animal hoarder poster 250 20 8 2015The above was posted on a friend’s page. (Larger picture below) I thought I’d share it with you as I have learnt that one small association just rehomed a dog to someone who already has 18 dogs! Now, I have 5 dogs, french lurcher, 3 galgos and a podenco. All but one is too old to insure, so vet bills can be expensive. The old lurcher is on tablets which cost my hubbie 100 euros/month. On top of that, of course, we have dog food. I cannot understand how someone can afford 18 – soon to be 19 dogs!

    I know the situation in Spain for the galgos and podencos is horrendous and associations are desperate to home dogs, to make room to rescue another one. But there has to be some sense applied in who is allowed to adopt. In France, if you have more than 9 dogs, you have to register as a kennels.

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  • Podencos – adopt from an association – the refuges are full to bursting!

    Scooby podenco cooeee 190 8 2015Thumbs up for the Podenco Andaluz! Coooeeee, I am Mickey at the back my galga girlfriend Olijfje and my friend Marleentje. We are adopted in Holland but I have many friends like me in Scooby in Spain who need a home themselves. We are little Podenco Andaluz, we are
    very easy going, we love people and we are very friendly and careful with little children. In the house we are quite like galgo’s but we are hunters and we like to make your garden mouse free. Hope you will give my Scooby friends a chance.

    ALWAYS adopt from a recognised rehoming association, never adopt straight from a perrera where the dogs have not been character tested etc.

  • Introducing George – a ‘child’ of the olive groves

    George's arrival at 8 months 250 Dec 2012The introductory story to George was included in an email from Yvonne Warwick. So I asked her to write the full story of how he came to work his way into her heart and home.

    The original message.     This is my beautiful George! He arrived on our land at around 8 months old. We’d seen him in the village and on our land in the mountains with his parents and two sisters. We believe that the DaddyDog told him to go off
    and seek his fortune when he got to 6 months. He came to us when we were picking our olives…skinny and starving with a wound on his nose.

    We thought long (OK, 3 days!) about what to do…in the meantime he made up his mind that he was staying. Very brave of him to come so close to us….it was meant to be! He is 3 and a bit now and a fantastic dog. Luckily he wasn’t taken as a pup by a hunter. His feral upbringing has meant he has lovely manners and is the sweetest dog ever, though his recall skills could do with improvement!

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  • Malaga fire – hundreds of ‘invisible’ victims

    Hundreds of chained hunting dogs lost their lives this week in a big fire near Malaga. The media stated there were no victims…

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  • Cartagena, Murcia – house rooms to let!

    Bev podenca roof 250 1 8 2015It was reported in the Spanish Newspaper La Verdad today (21 8 2015)that a starving podenca had been seen on the roof of an abandoned house. She is now in the care of Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends, who confirm a denuncia has been submitted to Police at the Cartagena Town Hall.

    The rescue of a Podenco abandoned on a rooftop

    Cartagena Firefighters yesterday (20 8 2015) rescued a Podenca found on the roof of an abandoned house across the street of the Hotel Campomar on the fast lane of La Manga at the height of Algar. They were notified by the legal adviser of the Association for the Defence of Animals (PAES) Maria Jose Xallego.

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  • Animal lover – moving to Spain?

    Here’s a lovely story about Maz Bailey, one of Spain’s many expat heroines…it’s impossible to move there and ignore the plight of the thousands of abandoned dogs.

  • From Pyramid to Perrera – Table of Contents

    Table of Contents – buy the print book on this link

    Room for One More
    Acknowledgements
    About the Author
    Introduction
    Foreword by Edwin Verhaegan, Founder, Podencoworld, Holland

    Chapter 1 Origin and Development of the Podenco

    Chapter 2 Present Day Situation

    Chapter 3 Present Day Situation Canary & Balearic Islands

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  • Podenca Andaluz Sunday – waiting for her forever home

    Sunday_03Has anyone room in their heart and home for this little sweetie?

    Hello, I’m writing to you about my little rescued podenco girl Sunday. She desperately needs a forever home. She was found on the street in May 2015 and has been staying with me since. I have taken care of all her vaccines and deparasiting + chipping, disease tests clean. Her sterilization is pending. She is currently with me in Fuengirola / Spain.

    I have been contacting every organisation and private person I know for months but so far nothing. Please let me know if you can help with her case somehow else. Best, Ani Roschier.

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  • Puerto Mogan, Canary Islands…what the tourists don’t see

    Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Canary Islands on holiday, whether for summer sun or to escape the cold winters of the UK and Europe. They don’t come into contact with ‘real’ life on the Islands, especially the nightmare for the 85,000+ podencos incarcerated there. Here’s the true reality…Perrera Mogan! Please share.

  • Podencos in perreras

    I have a facebook page for podencos in perreras – so far since 1st August there are at 21 podencos posted there…and that is just the tip of the icebert! Most of them will be killed. Such a waste of precious life. What wouldn’t I like to do to the hunters!!