Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Podenca Amber – Lanzarote to UK – can you help?

    The Kennel Club Amber 250 2 2014Regular readers will know that I often mention the podencos waiting in the Canary Islands for forever homes, and that it is expensive to get them to the UK for rehoming. This is an appeal to ask if you can help towards getting this beautiful podenca to her forever home. Laura tells the story.

    ‘This is AMBER. She is an 18 month old female Podenco. She was found by holidaymakers and ended up in the dog pound. We went and met with them as they desperately wanted to take this beautiful girl home with them.

    Plans were made and finances organised but sadly in the last 3 weeks a lot has changed.

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  • Sad reality of life in Spain for Podencos – report from Zamorra

    The cruelty of the Spanish hunter knows no bounds. I shed so many tears at the stories which arrive in my inbox every week. This story is about Alma, just been rescued and now under the care of Scooby at Zamorra and their vet. Cobie explains.

    ‘The sad reality for a podenca, a hunting dog of advanced age that no longer “served” and that was found in a state close to dying, completely starved and without any energy to be able to stand up, with severe wounds all over her body, inflicted by beings full of hate and anger and without scruples or feeling.

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  • PACMA – Canary Islands Government says no to outlawing animal abuse

    PACMA is a political party in Spain, founded in 2003, fighting the abuse and maltreatment of animals. This is a report on their website on a recent action against the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands. (google translation)

    ‘Next March will be a year of delivery of a request to amend the Law 8/1991 on the Animal Protection Party Animalista – PACMA the Canary Islands Government and backed by 30,070 signatures collected throughout the archipelago.

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  • Plight of the Podencos – Kobi finds his family

    Nice story about a podenco mix who chose his forever family.

  • Toledo, Seville, Valencia, Madrid, Cadiz, Malaga, Alicante…

    As I’m always saying, people who holiday in Spain don’t see the REAL Spain.

  • Planning a holiday? Volunteer at a dog shelter in Spain

    Spring will soon be upon us, and I’m sure your thoughts are turning to planning holidays. Why not plan a week or two helping out at a shelter in Spain? The shelters rely on volunteers to help them with the daily chores of looking after dozens of dogs – in the case of Scooby Medina, hundreds of dogs and in the case of Pepis Dog Refuge, Jane and Alan daily look after nearly 80 dogs!

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  • Valencia podencos saved from the campo – ready for adoption with P.E.P.A.

    Rosemary Valencia Mama 250 2 2014Rosemary Macdonald tells about the latest rescues with the PEPA animal charity in Valencia.

    ‘This is Mamma about a year and a bit old the amazing wonderful girl that we rescued after we found her feeding three different sets of puppies only two of them hers, she is now ready to go to a new home she is without a doubt a wonderful dog she is well mannered loving eager to please and she gets on well with other dogs.

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  • Young podencos to be killed – Toledo and Almeria…

    Almeria perrera 250 2 2014My heart is breaking…every day dozens of podencos on death row in perreras…two brothers here, only 5 months old, in Almeria perrera!! “Murtagh” y “Eragon”
    Sex: Boys (brothers) Age: 01/10/2013 contact: adopcionesanua@gmail.com

    But if people don’t foster or adopt, then there isn’t room in shelters to save the death row dogs. And a pretty little bitch, no good for hunting, afraid of gunshot, so her owner took her to the vet to be pts – foster home needed and then adoption. In Toledo. Such a needless waste of precious lives…(Spain) 660 43 10 16 or Aspaan Asociación Protectora Amigos de los Animales (photo below)

    If any of you have ‘room for just one more’, please consider a podenco. There’s a comprehensive list of associations here.

    Aspaan (Ani Mals) podenca 250 12 2 2014

  • Rehala hunting in Spain

    Here you can read the reality of the Rehalas – podencos and other hunting dogs kept solely for hiring out in packs under the charge of a Rehalero. Click on the ‘Translate’drop-down box for English/German

  • Update on Podenca Vida – beaten and dumped to die

    Valencia Vida 170 10 2 2014This beautiful little podenca is Vida today – remember her battered body when she was found in a bag in a rubbish bin in a village of Valencia. You will be delighted to know that she is recovering very well.