Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Diagnosing Leishmaniasis in Dogs

    Anne O’Connor adopted Livia, a podenco with leishmania. She has written in great detail about their journey together to find the best and optimum treatment to enable Livia to live a normal long life. I am pleased to say Anne agreed to the article being included as a chapter in my definitive guide to the Podenco, From Pyramid to Perrera, on sale above.

    Now Anne has taken the time out to write another very informative article on understanding the symptoms of leishmania, to be able to asses your own dog. Thank you Anne, for sharing this with everyone.

    Diagnosing Leishmaniasis in Dogs

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  • puppy dog pix wanted – raising funds for ACTIN

    Got some gorgeous puppy pix of either your own dog or foster dog? Share it with ACTIN and raise funds for their vet fees and legal fees. Here’s the link. Doesn’t matter if your dog is now adult or been adopted …help ACTIN

  • Molly, Foxy Lady, Dave and Tilly – Podenco pals in the UK

    Dawn Richardson 4 pods 250 6 2014Another delightful rehoming story, this time from Dawn Richardson, about her 4 podencos. She regularly takes them to dog shows where they are winning plenty of rosettes.

    ‘I came across Molly our 1st Podenco cross in January 2013 by accident. A friend had invited me to a facebook site called Costa Blanca Dog Homing as she knew we were looking for a dog after losing ours 7 years earlier. I spotted Molly on the site when I saw her photo from Little Pods. Lots of emails later and we reserved Molly pending a home check. The nice lady arrived and gave me lots of info regarding Pods as I never knew or heard about them before. Molly arrived with us in May 2013, and tiny, nervous little girl, but it was love at first sight. Molly soon became more happy & confident but seemed a little lonely.

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  • Podencos urgently needing special forever homes

    Blind pod 1 Polly 170 7 2014Two podencos, one born blind, one going blind. They desperately need understanding forever homes. Please take a look at them.

    Pocoyo – a gentle boy who is losing his sight and likely to be completely blind soon urgently needs a loving home. Pocoyo is about aged 5 and a really sweet boy but has been stuck in a residencia in Sevilla for a couple of years after being saved from the perrera.

    As he loses his sight life in an overcrowded refuge is getting increasingly bewildering for him. If we can help him then it also frees up his place in the residencia for another podenco on death row. If you can help please get in touch with Polly, who has more information, photos and videos of Pocoyo.

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  • Update on Alba – the Toledo podenco

    This is Alba, the podenca we found in Toledo. Look at her improvement. From a deep scaring outside the house to sleep on his bed beside her fosterer. She is doing very well. She is already sterilised and getting some weight.

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  • Born in a Valencia Storm Drain – waiting for forever homes – Podencos

    Every day there are appeals to help save young podencos in the Spanish perreras. It’s heartbreaking. Many of them could be saved if there was room in the shelters for them, but the podencos in shelters need homes. Bev Farmer, Podenco Friends, now has over 40 podencos in her care, waiting for forever homes. Earlier in the year a podenco bitch and her 9 puppies was rescued from a drain in Valencia and arrived at Podenco Friends. 6 of the puppies are reserved but 3 still need their forever homes. Have a look at them here. If you are interested, contact Bev direct.

  • URGENT – 1 MILLION SIGNATURES REQUIRED BEFORE 11 OCTOBER

    Please read and sign this petition. The full story is on this link on Galgo News. We need you all to sign and share this petition – 1 million signatures needed by 11 October, to be presented to UNESCO HQ in Paris by Galgos Ethique Europe. As there is no National Federation of hunting clubs for podencos, just individual clubs, GEE are also including hunting with podencos. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

  • Podenco Friends in Murcia – working for the podencos

    Bev Podenco folders 400Bev Farmer and Warren, Podenco Friends in Murcia are doing incredible work for the podencos. although they only planned on having a couple of dozen in foster, they now have over 40! Here’s an update of their recent achievements from Bev.

    ‘Something to celebrate, in the last two months we have rehomed 28 dogs 26 of them podencos. In addition we were able to include on our transport a Podenco for Galgos Del Sol and a Galgo for Scooby to America, assist with an adoption for a podenco for Irene Allan and re-home another locally.

    14 transports to 6 different countries and it has taken some organizing, many thousands of Kilometers covered via road to get to the airports and then many thousands more with 5 flights over the Atlantic to the US and Canada, 5 flights leaving Alicante for Holland and Belgium and 4 seperate road transports.

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  • Hound Sanctuary in California – helping the podencos

    Rain Jordan lives in California and has become very involved in the plight of the podencos this year. Here you can read her story. weblink to Hound Sanctuary

  • Toledo podenco needs your help please…

    Elena Alonso appeal 250 4 7 2014Elena Alonso does tremendous work helping rescue abandoned podencos…she doesn’t often ask for financial help but she needs it this time. Here’s what she says.

    ‘She is Alba, a podenca found in Toledo, scared of people and starving. She is been rescued because she was in a bad situation in a hunters area. She is a year and her whole life she is been abandoned and mistreated.

    Thank goodness I’ve found an excellent foster, Eva, who is going to help her recover.
    This is the first time I ask for economic support for a case on my own but I have to pay 240 euros for vet expenses.

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