Podenco Post

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  • Fuerteventura Dog Pound – where podencos often end up

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    Podencos in the Canary Islands suffer an horrendous amount of maltreatment and often end up spending their lives in shelters. Fuerteventura is one of the smallest of the Canary Islands and their fate is sealed as soon as they are born.

  • The Faithful Hound – Podencos in Scotland

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    The Faithful Hound project now completed

    Discarded in Spain, Loved in Scotland

    Step into the magical world of “Podencos In Scotland,” a mesmerizing coffee table book that combines Scotland’s romantic landscapes with the irresistible charm of the Podenco.

    Read more about it and order your copy on this weblink. Raising funds for Podenco rescue associations.

    And Podenco Post got a plug too!

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  • Breaking News – animal shelter being closed down in Antas, Almeria

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    From PAWS PATAS Animal Shelter

    Dear friends & supporters

    Some of you may be aware of a developing situation at another animal shelter within our region.

    Paws-Patas have been asked by both the Ayuntamiento de Antas and a District Judge to urgently take in over 100 animals into our care.

    We are therefore, in conjunction with the authorities and our trusted partners, undertaking an emergency operation to co-ordinate the safe transition of these animals into our care.

    This is a difficult and challenging situation for all concerned and our absolute priority, as always, is for the welfare of the animals.

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  • Free Spanish Hounds – peaceful protest London February 2024

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    Join the Peaceful Protest in London in February 2024/

    Every year in Spain the hunting season finishes on 1st February and now thousands march in cities throughout Spain to protest about the abuse and maltreatment of galgos and podencos. Thounsands of them thrown out in the campo, in perreras, on the street to get injured – because the bloody galgueros won’t keep a dog if it’s not hunting or breeding more galgos!

    Visit this website for updates on the peaceful protest in London on 3rd February 2024.

    Fill in the online form to tell us if you can join us.

    Help us share the story of your Spanish dog(s) by providing details and photos

    You can also purchase limited edition merchandise for the protest!
    Link here: http://www.freespanishhounds.co.uk/

  • Fuerteventura Dog Rescue, Canary Islands – Podenco Presley hoping for a forever home

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    Podencos on the Canary Islands have a very hard life and their only hope of a forever home is on mainland Europe. This lovely boy is Presley with Fuerteventura Dog Rescue.

    ‘Presley

    Found on 7/28/23 in Corralejo along with Nelson.
    He’s a 11-month-old podenco, very friendly, playful, and affectionate.
    He gets along well with all dogs and people.

    He needs a forever home.

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  • Remembering a beloved pet

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    They saw you watching over them
    As they finally closed their eyes
    They smelt your scent as they breathed
    In and out for the last time
    They heard the way your voice broke
    As you told them they were loved
    They felt you as you held them
    With your gentle, farewell touch

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  • Educating the Younger Generations – for associations involved in dog rescue

    Order your pack from GIN on this weblink

  • Podenco Honey with Greyhound Protection UK – hoping for a forever home

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    Honey is another stunning podenca rescued from Spain and now in a foster home in the UK. Read all about her on this weblink and contact the association direct if you can offer her a forever home.

  • Podenco Aslam -livng wiith a broken body for too long

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    How has this poor podenco lived for so long with a broken body. Here is his story.

    ‘He is Aslam, a young man with a sad story. Aslam was found in January 2023. They saw him alone, limping and looking for food. After one more they managed to catch him but they had nowhere to take him.

    A good man took care of him, took him to the vet and they saw that he had a broken hind leg femur, but the operation was very expensive, so they couldn’t operate on him.

    We knew the story of Aslam months ago, we don’t want to imagine the pain he must have gone through all these months…. A few days ago Aslam arrived at Suspiros along with two other puppies he shared a kennel with (we introduce them this weekend). He’s already been to the vet and confirmed that the femur is still broken and very displaced, so he has to be operated on. But of course, the recovery from that surgery is long and very difficult to do at the shelter.

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  • Podenco Wilf enjoying his forever life

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    Do you remember last year I reported the story of a little podenco badly injured and left at the side of the road, unable to even stand up. Podencos in Need Scotland kindly stepped in, arranged for his operations and transport to the UK. I’m delighted to report that he has made an excellent recovery and is now enjoying the sort of life every podenco should have in his forever home. He’s even got another podenco for company and has recently been on a caravan holiday!

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