Although I don’t post them here, there are hundreds of podencos being killed in Spanish perreras every week, most of them either puppies or under 3 years old….
Hundreds more podencos are waiting and waiting in shelters and refuges, already safe from being killed. They desperately need forever homes to make room for the ones in perreras to be saved.
Please contact a rescue association if you can offer a forever home to one of these fabulous hounds. Here’s a comprehensive list.
Dawn wrote about adopting her 4 podencos and now she is busy entering fun dog shows with them, and publicising their plight. First weekend in August, little Podengo Portuguese Tilly won Best In Show – here she is!
Better still, don’t take a wine tour, help find homes for these podencos. All these gorgeous podencos are in Animales Rioja shelter, waiting and waiting for forever homes. Let’s share them and hope we can help them.
http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/580
http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/516
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http://www.animalesrioja.es/node/182
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AnimalesRiojaInformacion@gmail.com InternationalAnimalesRioja@gmail.com
Pepis Refuge dogs desperately need forever homes.. they are gorgeous dogs and shouldn’t be spending any more years in kennels, no matter how well looked after they are. Here’s a link to the male dogs, you’ll find Tyson, Henry, Ramble and Ben – his brother Bill is there with him. Bill and Ben are podenco/basenji, really pretty dogs. Please help find all these gorgeous pod boys their forever homes as soon as possible.
Law passed in Portugal on 25th July 2014 making it an offence to hit a dog – that’s in companion dogs, not hunting dogs! Read about it here.
Two more rescue refuges/associations which help podencos, many needing forever homes.
Tail Torrox is in Andalucia where Carole has uprooted from her London life to go and live and help the dogs – over 60 at the last count.
And The Goldra Dog Santuary is in Portugal, with over 100 dogs. There aren’t many shelters in Portugal, dogs have a terrible time abandoned on the streets. If you can sponsor one of their podencos, please help them. And publicise their work, organise a fundraiser, go and stay for a week volunteering.
Unlike the keyboard bully to whom I refer in an earlier post, I don’t profess to know all there is to know about podencos. Yes, I’ve been involved in their rescue, foster, rehoming for several years but in order to complete my definitive guide to the plight of the Podenco – From Pyramid to Perrera – I enlisted the help and experience of several other people involved in helping these wonderful hounds. There are new associations to add to the ever growing list on Podenco Post and only this week I have been introduced to one.
I’d like to introduce you to Charley, a podenco with TAIL Torrox, a refuge in Andalucia. Carly Cole tells his story.
This lovely little podenco is Abu, with a sad history, the scar of which he wears round his neck! He’s been rescued and is in foster but will need to leave soon, so Karen urgently needs another foster home or preferably a forever home for him. Here’s what she says about him.
Abu, a small podenco. around 6 years old. boy. healthy. Good with bitches and most boy dogs as long as they aren’t dominant. very good nature. In desperate need of a loving home. Has rope scars from being tied probably for long periods of time while owner leaves for days!! This boy has had his share of misery and now deserves to have some
quality time!!
Please contact Karen if you can help or offer him a forever home.
During my working life, I wore 2 hats. One was with BBC Radio, the other was in the legal profession. But both overlapped in so far as I was trained to carry out full research on a subject, check the wording of whatever I wrote and include references where possible to substantiate my claims. This work has stood me in good stead, especially publicising some dishonest working practices by a firm of solicitors which I, with the help of the BBC, exposed on television. There was nothing the solicitors could do about it because the report was full of fact and backed up, and also passed by the BBC legal department.
If you buy things from Amazon, please help Axarquia, Malaga, Spain, and raise funds for them at the same time. Here’s the link, scroll down the home page and you will find the links. They have many podencos waiting for forever homes, so here’s another way of helping them.
