SOS Podenco Rescue
We use the donations to save podencos from the streets and killing station, get them vet treatment, spay them, vaccinated them and pay the monthly kennel fees. When they are ready, we search adopters and foster homes for them
You can help us save more podencos with only 1 euro per month!
This is the worst case of mange I have seen in the 13 years since I’ve been helping the hounds in Spain. The Prdotectora Lugo in Galicia says ‘This little angel arrived a couple of hours ago at the Lugo Protectora, it looks like a little boy, brought here by the lacero from Begonte, it will be the waste of some hunter. Starving, sick and mostly cold dead, got into the heat of blankets and heat lamp. To know his life, what the poor guy has gone through, now he has to heal his body and surely his soul.
To the one who mistreats an animal like this, I wish the universe pays for it with the worst of life and the worst of deaths.’
Sandy says
‘Today we welcomed Lucia, this young podenco was seen by Melanie and Chris last week. They quickly gained her confidence and she came to eat with them, and today they were able to catch her.
At first sight Lucia appears to be in good health, Monday we take her to the vet for a full check up.’
This is Podenco Pino, handed to Dogs of Portugal by his hunter because the little chap is afraid of guns! Sensible hound! To learn more about him, click on this link. Contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you have room in your home and heart for him.
Lovely pix of Podenca Esca and her pups; 2 of the pups are already reserved for forever homes and you can see how well Esca’s leg is healing. Marvellous work by Bev and her vet team.
Gulliver is a 2 year old podenco campanero found abandoned in Jaén. He is shy with people (more of men). He is excellent with other dogs, gets on with everyone no matter the size. Likes to play with them.
Not tested with cats yet.
Big size, 65-70 cm to the shoulders.
Ideally he should have a home with another dog in a calm area and with a garden.
Contact: sospodencorescue@gmail.com
From SOS Podenco Rescue.
These 2 sisters are Vera and Ayla are cat workable! They are very affectionate with people but they depend on each other so we would love to find a forever home either together or separately but with another dog so they are not alone.
Contact: sospodencorescue@gmail.com
My little Podenca Andaluz Bebe is now 17 going on 18 and age is starting to catch up with her. She’s already very grey in her face, on her legs and behind her ears. Cataracts are developing in her eyes and her hearing – in her gorgeous pointy ears – is failing.
Here’s an interesting article on coping with hearing loss in dogs.
Happy New Year to you all.
Let’s hope the nightmare of 2020 and the virus will not be repeated in 2021 and that we may soon return to ‘normality’. For our beloved hounds, nothing much has changed. Some dogs were adopted to help people through isolation, hopefully they will stay there for their natural lives, knowing comfort, a full belly and lots of love.
Thank you for reading my blog and for supporting the appeals for help which I receive from shelters and associations. It still saddens me and makes me angry over the attitude of the hunters that their dogs are simply tools to be disposed of when they are no longer of use.
