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  • Valencia Floods – SOS Podencos update

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    From SOS Podencos – at one point the water was waste deep.

    31/10/2024
    Most of our dogs are out of the kennel and placed into temporary foster homes. The two remaining are inside the house that is in the kennel, and they will leave today.
    There are still other dogs in the kennel that aren’t ours, but it seems the legal owners don’t want them to go into foster homes..

    Now is the time to clean, fix and rebuild!
    If you can come help, it will be appreciated.
    Here is a video of the state of the kennel. It’s full of mud and water. The fences are broken, ripped from the ground. All the dog food is gone. The dog beds are gone or broken.

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  • Save My Life Benidorm – gofundme page for donations

    Save My Life Benidorm have vans going out on Monday 4th November loaded with food, water, cleaning materials etc to shelters badly affected by the floods. This is the second van load. They have clearance from the Police to go.

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-valencia-flooded-rescues-animals

  • Valencia floods – Save my Life Benidorm update

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    VALENCIA UPDATE – just an update on the Valencian catastrophe and news or our aid and donations.

    Yesterday 1st November saw Save my life and other organisations make their first trip to the area. We were succesful on delivering much needed food water and blankets to 2 different areas. The trip really brought home how bad the situation is in Valencia. There are so many displaced people and pets in the region.

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  • Valencia floods – from Galgos en Familia

    Galgos en Familia also rescue and rehome podencos. This is an update from Vera Thorenaar on 31st October.

    Read it on this weblink.

  • 2 legged podenco

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    @protectorabiosbardos

    Today we ask you something very important for someone very special. Some people who follow us years ago know who Cas is, for the new we explain, Cas appeared run over in the year 2015, the fractures were very severe and after many surgeries finally had to amputate both legs on the same side, we always bet on him despite that the recommendation was euthanasia, in these nine years he proved us that we did the right thing by living a full and happy life, without any kind of restriction.

    Now Cas is starting to get older and needs a chair adapted to his needs, which is very difficult as it is not a normal case, we need someone who controls and knows how to make him adapted to him. Recently we saw a post from @mbenzespana that his engineers had made one, We make this post to get a chair that allows Cas to walk and make his life a little easier.We ask you to share the post to have more chances that this year Cas gets his much deserved Christmas

  • Doszens of Podencos rescued in Alicante

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    I hope you can see this facebook video of dozens of podencos rescued from a compound where they ran loose to breed. Many of the dogs had to be trapped in cages as they hadn’t been handled, and many of the bitches are pregnant.

  • Valencia hard hit with flooding too

    From Bev Farmer

    Today, the sunshine finally returns. I feel incredibly fortunate to be on the periphery of the devastating storms that hit Valencia. Our hearts go out to our friends in the heart of the storm, where shelters have been overwhelmed by the floods. I remember all too well the stress and heartbreak of dealing with similar floods back in 2019—the fear and the urgency, as the water rises so quickly, giving so little time to find safety.

    We’re anxiously awaiting news about the many Podencos at SOS Podenco Rescue who were in a flooded residence. The worry is heavy, and we are hoping for a miracle.

    Please, let it be good news for these innocent lives. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected.

  • SOS Podencos shelter flooded out

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    From SOS Podencos

    Edu, the kennel owner, is alive and seems physically well but he is in shock. Nobody rescued him even if the rescue services were contacted several times for almost 12 hours. They were collapsed. So many people are trapped or missing, so only one person and dogs weren’t the priority.

    Most roads are still closed but his son could go to the road near the kennel that is higher and throw him food over the fence. Some dogs were barking. We don’t know the extent of the damages and the animal deaths.

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  • Devastating floods in Malaga province – shelters flooded out!

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    Horrendous flooding in Malaga Province with many shelters flooded out. On shelter which SS Podencos works with reports the flooding is above knee height making it difficult to open kennels doors. Keep these shelters in your pravers that every animals is rescued and safe.

    Dear friends of the Galgos and Podencos, this morning the heavy rains in Andalucia caused the dreaded flooding of the shelter! The water rose and entered the inside kennels and a great effort by the volunteers saved 40 galgos, podencos and 2 mastines. The dogs were frantically moved to safer ground as the shelter is near the river bed. The dogs went into foster homes and to the residencies we use for the Male Galgo Project. They are all safe. Praying the rain lets up soon! The damage will be evaluated when they can go back in but for sure loss of their washing machine and dryer, and possibly stored food, medicines etc as well.

    They may even need rental equipment for cleaning purposes.

    We are asking for donations for this emergency situation!

    To donate go to www.galgopodencosupport.org say for flood.

    PLEASE HELP our friends at Galgos en Familia in their time of need!! Thank you!!

    Galgos en Familia floods – hope you can see the facebook videos

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  • Join PACMA to fight for the animals of Spain

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    On 15 October PACMA began a decisive and ambitious campaign: they want to add 500 new members before January 1, 2025.

    They say…

    Why? Well, we intend to develop four major actions for next year, and your membership is necessary to make them a reality:

    1. Lower veterinary VAT: We want to launch a campaign to reduce the cost of these services, today a luxury for many families.

    2. Strengthening sentences for animal abuse: We need firm and effective legislation that prevents cruelty to animals and forcefully punishes those responsible. We want to deploy all means of pressure to propose a new reform of the Penal Code.

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