Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Podenco Maneto – big characters in small bodies – looking for forever homes

    Maria Vidal Chika and Koka 250Maria Vidal writes about two beautiful podencos she has in foster, who need forever homes.

    ‘I write from Málaga to ask your help. I need to find this two dogs a forever home, can you help me? (sorry if I make too many mistakes, my English is not very good)

    These are Chicha (light brown) and Koka (brown and white). They are two young female dogs that were abandoned and ill-treated by a hunter. They were born in some kind of puppy mill that breed Manetos (a mutation of the Podenco with shorter paws created in Andalucia), they have the marks that the breeders tattooed on the ears of the dogs so everyone can know where they were bought (it’s the brand). They were sold to a man that taught them to hunt. He left them into a garage and only took them out in hunting season and used them to give birth new puppies twice a year. A couple of years later he decided to abandon the older one, Koka, so he cut her neck, took the microchip out and left her on the street, but then, Chicha ran as fast as she could to escape too. We don’t know how desperate she had to be as to leave her own puppies behind and run away.

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  • Daily Mail article on podencos today 26/8/2014

    If anyone gets the Daily Mail and has seen this article, can you please write in and tell them about Podenco Post and my book? I’ve tried commenting on line – as have others, but it keeps saying 0comments!

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  • Best way to help podencos? Join an existing rescue association

    Malaga pererra pods 1 250 1 2014It’s depressing how many hundreds of podencos are abandoned and dumped in perreras every week – as with the galgos, there is now no let up during the summer months after hunting ends..,Podenco facebook pages are full of gorgeous podencos needing forever homes…I simply can’t post them all here!

    One new development in the past 18 months which does concern me is that, with photos circulating on Facebook of podencos in perreras, some people who live outside of Spain are trying to organise rescuing them and putting them in kennels, sometimes with negative results. Unfortunately this can give podencos a bad name and it’s not good for the dogs themselves.

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  • Saving Alaska – Podenco Friends respond

    Bev Alaska 250 24 7 2014This poor podenco was dumped in a perrera by the owner. Appeals were made on my facebook page Podenco Post to save ‘Grandpa Oldie’ by people outside of Spain. Although she has double the number of podencos she originally planned on having, all waiting for adoption – Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends stepped in to save Grandpa Oldie.

    Grandpa Oldie turned out to be an 11-year old female called Alaska who had been taken to the perrera by her owner, along with an up-to-date vaccination record! Bev says, ‘she is not underweight and looks to be well cared for.’ However, as with all rescued dogs, Bev took Alaska to her vet for checking over, as she was not happy with swelling around her stomach and she also had a temperature.

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  • Scooby Medina on podencos

    Until recently Scooby didn’t rescue podencos but that changed when they recently took in dozens more animals, amongst them pregnant horses, ferrets, goats…all fed on potato crisps! Here’s what Fermin has to say about their podencos.

  • Ticks and fleas on abandoned dogs – podenca fights back!

    Rosemary Skylar baby pod 250 8 2014This little podenca puppy is 3 months old, she was found abandoned with a huge infestation of ticks and fleas. She’s been named Skylar and is being treated but, not surprisingly with the number of huge ticks filled with her blood, she has jaundice. Fingers crossed for the sweet baby. She is with Pepa, if you can help find a forever home for her when she is better. Adorable – how could anyone lose her!

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  • Portuguese Podengo – rescued from the streets, needs her forever home

    Portugal Suki 170 8 2014Look at this gorgeous little Portuguese Podenco – she was lucky to be rescued, Portugal has a bad record for canine suffering. She deserves to live the rest of her life with a family. Please contact Dogs of Portugal if you can help her.

  • Juliet in Granada…wherefore art thou, my family?

    ASAP Juliet 250 1 8 2014
    Introducing Juliet, the perfect podenco for a family. Please take a look at her story and her photos here. And THE most wonderful video illustrating just what a beauty she is. She needs to find her forever family – they must be out there waiting for her. Contact ASAP if you can help

  • Leech Therapy – old fashioned remedies could be best

    Plenty of food for thought in this report by Tunde Patko, on the use of leeches for healing. I will be interested to hear from anyone else who has experience of using leeches.

  • Princess Beatriz – from the streets of Valencia to idyllic Devon

    Beatriz Ellie 1 250 8 2014Always a pleasure to publish a happy rehoming story to illustrate what fabulous pets podencos make. Re-introducing Beatriz, Ellie updates her story.

    18 months to two years have passed since I wrote an article about Beatriz the podenco.
    Beryl kindly asked me for an update.

    Rescued off the street in Valencia on a business trip, I wrote about the perils…and joys of adopting a pod’ (which breed wise I knew next to nothing about at the time).

    Having been through the experience, (and gently encouraged by my bank manager to do so), J suggest people do not adopt dogs off the streets in Spain, or directly from a pound, but go to one of the many, and wonderful refuges and rescues, both in Spain and here in the UK. They have podencos and galgos and bodegueros and Spanish Water dogs and everything crossed and in between! They know the dogs, can match you up – lifestyle wise – and offer all the invaluable and essential help you will need when adopting from abroad, or in the UK.

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