Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • SARA Lanzarote Open Day – 21st July 2012

    If you are going to Lanzarote or are already there and picking up your emails, please go along to the SARA Protectora Open Day on 21st July 2012. They have dozens of podencos there who need homes, so you could spread the word about them when you get back home!

    In addition to the Campaign Against Abandonment, on Saturday July 21 will hold an Open Day where you can come visit us from 10:30 to 17h.

    You can come and walk our dogs and being with our kittens, visit the shelter and see how we work, buy things in our market, eat one of our deli food (paella, pizza, tortillas, pie …) and above all, to say NO TO ABANDONMENT!

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  • A word of warning

    I’ve received some disturbing information in the last few days from a couple of different sources about podencos being taken out of Spanish perreras to the UK for adoption. It’s being carried out by individuals who, I am told, have been turned down as adoptants by recognised established associations.

    Whilst wishing to rescue abandoned podencos is admirable, the methods being used by these persons is irresponsible both for the dogs and the adoptants.

    They are not an association, they do not have experience of owning a podenco, and already a couple of the podencos they have ‘rehomed’ have been returned – to the recognised associations. The concern is that in future podencos adopted through these people could end up in British shelters.

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  • More podencos suffering in Seville….

    Macu Maya 250 1 17 7Another sad case taken in by Macu, in Seville. Here’s what Macu says – Hello everyone, this is Maya, a podenquita of 12 years old, who has lived her entire life locked up in a shack of a Hunter, only eating muck and being taken out a couple of days a week to hunt. And being used again and again to breed more puppies.

    She has a big hernia which someone has tried to sew but it is open again and needs to go to a vet for operation. I can’t photo it because she keeps her tail between her lets and runs away.

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  • Badajoz – abandoned, injured, desperately needing foster and adoption

    White pod 1 250 7 2012Another injured podenco no longer wanted by the hunter. Urgently needs a foster or adoption, if any associations can help.

    ‘Hello I am a perrita of approximately seven months that due to a break of the right paw my proprietor (Hunter) already does not need me,

    I am very young but I already have one of my paws fractured, he was forcing me to cover to run and to run and due to the effort that it was doing I broke the sinews…
    also I have been hurt by pellets in the body, he did that to make me scare and run faster!

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  • Podencoworld, Little Pod Foundation – saving a podenco family in Malaga

    Bev Farmer podenco babies 250 7 2012On 29th June I posted a plea for help for help for a podenco mom and her puppies. Bev Farmer liaised with PodencoWorld in Holland and Little Pod Foundation to save the family. Bev tells the story.

    ‘I saw the post on Facebook about a Dutch family arriving on holiday in Malaga only to find a Podenco had just given birth to a litter of Pups under the BBQ. They had contacted many of the local refuges but there was no space available and the only other solution was the local Perrera, who advised the family that they would destroy the mum & puppies.

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  • Podenca Ana – finds sanctuary and her forever home through 112carlotagalgos

    Regular readers will remember the story of podenca Ana, rescued with her puppies from the campo near Valencia She now has her forever home and you can read the rest of her story here. together with that of galgo Rey, who had a very badly injured leg. And if you can help towards the vet fees for their expensive operations and treatment, please donate via the website.

  • Podenco Vidal – Appel des Levriers find his forever home in France

    Vidal chained 250This photo was of Vidal, a podenco chained up in a disused building. Luckily he was found and rescued. I’ve finally found out what happened to him.

    Vidal was chained to a wall, he tried to free his head from the chain around his neck but it got caught in his mouth and he was then left like that as nobody really bothered with him. He then eventually either broke free or he was turned loose. When he began running around the town centre people saw his plight and the town hall was very pro-active in assisting with his capture and getting him a rescue place. He travelled to France where Sandrine, of Appel of Levriers, placed him in a foster home. The family fell in love with him and adopted him. Here’s a photo of him with his friends, and a stuffed rabit which he adores.

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  • Podencas Linda and Maggie – foster and forever homes needed

    Linda 250 dog links 1 7 2012Two more podencos hoping they will get a forever home. Here are their stories.

    ‘Linda is just 18 months old and has already suffered at the hands of her cruel hunter owner. Some of her puppies were rescued and got away to homes, but others were killed and now Linda herself is left behind with a very very uncertain future!! It has been known that the hunters return in August to steal the dogs back from the refuge because they are good breeders…….. so poor little Linda could just disappear one day back to her life of horror!

    This breed make wonderful pets, gentle, intelligent, playful and adorable. Please contact us if you can help Linda – even if it’s to foster her till we can get her a forever home here in France or even through contacts we have in the UK. We must get her out and safe as soon as possible! Call on :-05 65 69 12 26 or email at :- doglinks.fr@gmail.com to save this little sweet creature from disappearing back to a life of cruelty.

    Maggie 1 250 dog links 7 2012Little Maggie is 4 yrs old and weighs 15kgs – so she’s a small medium rough-haired Podenca Andaluz – and she’s an angel we’re told!

    She arrived at a refuge in Spain as a tiny puppy and then spent 4 years there, locked up and never knowing life outside her cage – imagine this! She was recently brought out of Spain to a foster home here in France and is now finding out how wonderful life can be! She is slowly learning that people can be kind, food is good and how her gentle, affectionate nature brings out the best in people! She plays with cats, explores her garden, adores walks and to roll in the perfumed lavender, and soaking up the sun in her new found freedom.

    Maggie 2 250 dopg links 7 2012Maggie will need another dog for company, an enclosed, safe garden and continuing TLC and patience to fully build up her confidence and trust. To know a Podenca is to love them! Doglinks has a rescued one who was so badly treated we never thought she would ever trust humans again…….. but she has, because this breed is intelligent, but above all kind and accepting, grateful and giving.

    Please think of giving them a good home please and if Maggie (or others) would be welcome and cared for in your home, please contact us : 05 65 69 12 26 or email direct at :- doglinks.fr@gmail.com You will never make a better decision by taking on one of these amazing dogs. Thank you!’

    Linda in the refuge.

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  • Bullas boys searching for forever homes – contact Ibizan Hound Rescue

    Bullas Desperate Dan 250 7 2012I recently posted an appeal for homes for some podenco puppies whose Mom was one of the podencas rescued from Bullas, Murcia, in Operation Rehala. 4 of the pups are still waiting for their forever homes. They are in foster in Spain and will be ready to travel to the UK at the end of July. They will be stunning Ibizan Hounds and, as mentioned before, the breed can make superb agility dogs – they often compete in agility in Germany. If you can offer one of these gorgeous boys a home, please contact Valerie of Ibizan Hound Rescue.

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  • Podenca Beatriz – from Valencia to Devon, UK

    Bea collar 190 6 2012We all love happy endings and here’s another one, about this beautiful podenca bitch called Beatriz. Ellie tells her story.

    ‘Having spotted Beatriz on the Paws On Spain Adopt A Pet rescue site
    two months ago, Bea is now in her new forever home down on the farm in
    North Devon, UK. Rescued in a terrible state, emaciated and very
    scared, Bea has come on in leaps and bounds, thanks to the care she
    received from Paws On in Ontinyent, a small, privately run rescue.

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