Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • A bird’s eye view on Spain , animals and owners!

    Prohitited_to_Abandon_250 PosterI’ve received the following article which is quite thought provoking.

    Spain is a country which is on now its knees. It’s gone from dictatorship to good presidency and bringing a country up on form and being recognised as a good place to be. From there, the previous government to the current one, the latter was voted in December 2011, brought bad practices into its own when they took over. The country became run down, the people suffer, but as always, the politicians walk away with clean hands and a tidy pension until death. To compound the negative results of that government’s actions, Spain was hit with the Global crisis.

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  • A.P.A.S.A., Javea – podencos desperate for forever families

    APASA Pampa 200 4 2012I’ve just been pointed in the direction of APASA, Javea, originally a dog pound which was taken over and for a few years has been privately run. It’s in Javea, on the Costa Blanca. You can read about their work on the above link.

    They also have about 50 podencos waiting for adoption, have a look at these beauties by clicking on ‘Podencos’ on the right hand side of the page (there isn’t a direct weblink) (This one is Pampa) They are all hoping someone somewhere will offer them a forever life in a home. Some of these dogs have been in the shelter for most of their lives, some of them for nearly 10 years!

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  • Seville podenca – appeal for help with vet fees

    Macu podenca 1 250 4 2012This is another plea for help from Macu in Seville, who rescues podencos from a gypsy settlement – Chaplin, Tecla, and several others featured on Podenco Post.

    ‘Please, I need your help. I rescued this dog from Seville´s gigpsy settlement. I had to do it because she was in the street but a man said that it was his but didn´t give her any care. I´ve rescued her today but my residence is closed the whole week and I work the whole day. Because of this I´ve found a boy who works taking care of dogs in his house and takes them to the vet and everything. He has taken the dog to the vet and you can read the analiysis below.

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  • Podenca Pati with Galgo Connection Spain, Valencia – donate to vet fees

    Pati Silvia 1 250 4 2012Pati is a young podenca bitch rescued by Galgo Connection Spain with a very badly injured front leg. She was rushed to the vet who operated on it to save it. Silvia of GCS is appealing for donations to help pay the vet fee. Donate via the above link.

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  • Huesca Perrera – overflowing, 30 dogs on death row

    Huesca perrera Popo 250 4 2012Huesca perrera is, like all the rest in Spain, full to overflowing with abandoned dogs – pedigree dogs (4 English setters), puppies, beautiful xbreeds, alsations, labradors…and some podencos.

    This is what the vet at Huesca says. ‘ I am Jose and I work in the kennel in Huesca, We try to find a family or people who sponsor the dogs we have, until they are adopted, so first of all thank your for your concern with the dogs because we need people who want to co-operate and help us.

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  • Save this podenco in SPA Carcassone, France – saved!

    Carcassone podenco 250 Snoop 4 2012Urgent appeals received from a French contact.

    ‘I am looking for help for a Podenco who is currently in the SPA in Carcassonne. They are a breed very close to my heart since we rescued one from Spain two years ago, who had been very badly beaten, and we have managed to bring back her joy to live and we adore her – she will never leave us till her life is done!

    I have too many rescue dogs here at home (12) to be able to help Snoop, the Podenco in Carcassonne SPA, but I’m desperate for him to find a foster home because he’s ill and needs help to recover.

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  • Young Podencos on death row in Rioja perrera

    Cotton 250 20 months Rioja 4 2012Two young podencos,Cotton is only 5 months old, the other is only 8 months old, in Rioja perrera, due to be killed first week April Please contact animalesrioja@gmail.com. Cotton is the white one, Lupita is the white/brown. Two stunning podencos with their whole life before them – surely? Have to say I don’t know how people can work in perreras killing such beautiful dogs.

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  • Podenco Andaluz, abandoned and injured – SOS Animals to the rescue

    Lara 250 SOS Animals 2010This is Lara, a little Podenco Andaluz found abandoned and ill. She was rescued by an English couple who contacted SOS Animals. She’s now recovered and living happily in her forever home in the UK. Read her story here. SOS animals (UK) and Spain are a charity and rely solely on fundraising and donations. Please help them help more dogs like Lara and Chaplin.

  • From Spain to America – GRIN help the hounds

    GRIN Nando%20Manolo 250These four are heading to the U.S. on April 2nd. They will land in New York and will be living in New England, New York, South Carolina and Missouri.

    Transport April 2, 2012 – GRIN has facilitated the transport of these four lucky doggies..I say doggies as they are a combination of a Galgo and Podencos. Our volunteer, Marylou Hecht from New Hampshire, will be our flight patron for this trip as well as bringing back her boy Nando from Ibizen Hound Rescue who GRIN has the pleasure of working with for first time.

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  • From Seville to England – Podenco Campanero Chaplin finds paradise

    Chaplin 1In October 2011 I received an appeal from Macu in Seville. She works hard to rescue mainly podencos from a gypsy enclave. One of the podencos was a big hair boy which she called Chaplin, a Podenco Campanero, the type used for hunting boar. I posted an appeal for someone to take Chaplin into their hearts and he was spotted by a PP reader, Norma, in Scotland. She is a volunteer with SOS Animals and had enlisted their agreement to Chaplin being taken under their wing.

    Macu doesn’t speak English so initially Norma and I had a problem communicating with Macu, whereupon I enlisted the help of my friend Marisa, who acted as translator and mediator. A foster home was found for Chaplin and SOS Animals and Macu began the pocess of preparing him for entry into the UK. In February 2012 he travelled from Spain to the UK with Ruso, another podenco from Macu.

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