From Prodean Animal Shelter La Linea.
Yuma born Dec 2021
Yuma is a stunning large podenca, she is a gentle girl but is anxious of visitors and will require an experienced foster or adopter to help her adjust
Category: Regional news
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Prodean Animal Shelter La Linea, Cadiz – nervous podenca seeks a special forever home
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Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends has done a tremendous amount to raise the profile of Podencos – not quite so ‘Invisible’ as they were 12-15 years ago when I first started to foster some back in 2007. Here Bev shares the story of how she and her late partner Warren became involved with these wonderful hounds.‘Angela .. the first senior podenco we rescued back in 2013.
I collected Angela from the perrera, she was 12 years old and surrendered by her owner. When I reached to pick her up I prepared myself for the weight of an adult dog. I took in a sharp breath as it was like picking up a puppy, she was so thin. She had a lot of health issues, a huge hernia her ear was a mess and her kidneys were failing.
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Day of the Podenco – Podencos – the most loyal of dogs
Everyone should have at least one!Hope for Podencos was started several years ago by Irene and SteveAllan. Sadly Irene died in 2020 and Steve is no longer able to continue with the rescues and is returning to the UK. Galgos del Sol are amongst the podenco rescue associations working to take over the podencos still in his care.
List of Podenco rescue associations by country.
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Abandoned in a concrete pit to die – rescued and rehomed
A story from 5 years ago.‘2 podencos found in an abandoned concrete pit with these contraptions in their mouths so they couldn’t bark or eat. Scratch marks all over the walls where they had desperately tried to get out. Rescued by Galgos del Sol. Video at the shelter, on this weblink.
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Podenca Rosie diary – what she’s been up to
I’m still careful when I walk Rosie where I let her run free, knowing the hunting instinct of podencos and also she is still very frightened of some noises. We also wanted to see how Bo coped with staying in accommodation other than his home base, where he is very confident. So I hired a small cottage in a nice village on the Lincolnshire coast.Lovely property, newly updated and all on the ground floor, so no stairs to cope with. Plus a very nice secluded rear garden, podenco-proof!
Lovely walks on the very long beach at both Sutton on Sea and Huttoft, where at the latter we could park right on the beach!
And where Rosie could run free!
Blind Bo coped amazingly well, soon learning to follow our voices to find his way around and through the rear patio door and conservatory to the garden.
We dined in a lovely local hotel, very dog friendly, which was obviously very popular with dog owners considering the number of canines there besides our two!
Two very tired podencos at the end of the day!
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From a volunteer in a shelter to running a shelter
Back in 2007 when I first travelled to Spain with L’Europe des Levriers to bring rescued galgos and podencos back to our French home for foster and adoption, Galgo News was started. One of the first people to contact me for help in publicising galgos in shelters was Tina Solera, then a volunteer who discovered an injured galgo needing help. It’s been interesting to follow the work of Tina since then with her association Galgos del Sol, to the shelter she now presides over. See the video on this weblink
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El Refugio de Brown – podenca desperately needing a forever home
This little podenca was living on the streets of Zafra for months – it took a lot of effort and patience to catch her. She is a special little podenca and now she needs to know what it is like to have a home of her own forever.I’ve asked for more details about her.
Contact protectoradea@gmail.com
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El Refugio de Brown in Badajoz, Extramadura – desperately needing help – donations, fosters, adoptions
From Lidia Martinez in Badajoz, Extramadura, a terrible place for hinting dogs.
‘I introduce myself I am Lidia Martinez and I am a teamer and collaborator of El Refugio de Brown in Zafra Badajoz, her situation is very hard, there are only two people managing more than 100 animals, at a cost monthly of € 2,000 or more in veterinary and residency expenses, already they do not have their own premises, as the city council evicted them from its facilities and also many animals from the kennels from Extremadura and Andalucia.
Please we ask you to value the possibility of being part of these groups since all help is fundamental and donations are desperately needed.
I leave you the link to their website so you can know them a little more and the links of their two groups.
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Podenco Invisibles in Malaga desperately needing forever homes.
Spanish Animals in Not is an association in Malaga and they have some Podenco Invisibles who desperately need forever homes – currently in foster in Malaga.BONNIE, female, 2 years old. Totally healthy, with everything up to date. A reall sweet small Podenca who will blossom in a home. She’s been in the shelter for nearly 2 years.
LILLY female, 1 year old, 9.5kg , healthy, up to date.PIPO PIPPI POLLY
These three babies were rescued with the intervention of Malaga firefighters. They were stuck in a hole in the Sierra de Antequera, crying inconsolably, a very difficult rescue.
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Abandoned tripod Podenca now safe with Galgos del Sol
The bastard hunters have no feelings – to abandon a podenca with part of a leg missing. This is the type of injury which can occur when the dog is trapped in an illegal snare.
Watch this Podenca go from desperate when rescued to wagging her tail with hope… even when shes missing half of her leg. She’s been named Horchita. Sadly she is nowhere near fit enough yet to be operated on.
During my years on rescues with L’Europe des Levriers we brought many tripods out of Spain to France for rehoming. We found that the ones with a high amputation coped much better than a couple who were left with a longer stump, as they often tried putting that leg down.