Meet Vera, a pocket sized podenca only a year old. She’s a failed hunter and has an injured hip and pelvis, probably from a bad kick. Vera needs a lot of help, for her veterinary expenses, the little one still doesn’t have a foster home to recover from the operation. She is very sweet, sensitive and quiet and needs an opportunity to start being happy, she’s already known the worst of this life, it’s time to start enjoying it. Please give a home to this sweetheart. Adopt and save a life!

The second podenca is Susi, (photo below) a podenca who was abandoned and left to look after herself, only a baby. She is full of tenderness with her bambi face and her sweetness. She’s loving and playful, sweet and sensitive and needs needs a family to grow strong, healthy and happy, someone to guide her on her way of socialization, so important in a puppy to feel safe and loved, someone to fall in love with her and want to give a home. She will be medium sized.

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From Mo Swatek.

Mr BLANC, rescued from one of the worst places we saw in 20 years charity work. We went to BULLAS, THE HOUND HELL (here the pictures of our Bullas rescue mission, Caution terrible images where galgos and podencos ate each other) and a very haunting documentary about this case https://vimeo.com/38920299

Mr BLANC was so terrified, we thought he will have a heart attack from the stress. Today he is the most loving and clingy dog, the most friendly and outgoing.

Everybody knows by know the plight of the galgos but unfortunately their brothers, the podencos, have no lobby. They suffer so much in the hunting hound packs, reduced into small cold places, abandoned and killed when ever they seem to be useless to their heartless owners. These lovely podencos are barely appreciated as pets but they deserve it so much.

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You may remember at the beginning of November I published a story about a British couple climbing in the Everest mountain range to raise funds for the Podencos of Spain. Well, they completed their climb and this was their update 11 November. (Sorry, there are so many stories to post that I get behind in some of the less urgent ones!!)

’11/11 Hello lovely people! We are back from Kyajo Ri and just about defrosted. The past five days were the hardest and most intense of our lives. We have been pushed to the limits mentally and physically. This was no walk in the park. We made it to 6,000 meters after four gruelling days of ascending the mountain.

Devastatingly we had to turn back just 180 meters before the summit. The technical rock sections which come just before the snowy summit were coated in ice, this made climbing up them very difficult and very slow. The fixed rope was also coated in ice which meant the jumar didn’t slide as it should. After many attempts and many falls (legs are black and blue) we decided to turn back. Kalden (our guide) said we were just too late in the season, winter had already come to Kyajo Ri!

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Had to share this lovely photo with you – Andy and Cherry keeping snug!

This is an article published by Mo Swatek as a result of an article she read…but does not give the link to it. I would guess it relates to US airlines, possibly Delta as on this link, rather than European.

AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS WANT TO RESTRICT THE TRANSPORT OF DOGS AND AS USUAL, THE BLAME IS ON THE DOGS INSTEAD OF THEIR OWNERS

Mo Swatek writes. ‘First of all I find it really disgusting that airports are allowed to use carpeting where thousands of people walk on daily. Billions of human germs could be in that carpet, impossible to disinfect. So the pee of a dog is probably the less harrassing that could happen when we let, for example a child touching the carpet. I have seen men spitting on carpets and other disgusting things.

As for dogs flying, in general… the humans are to be blamed for all the mess, not the dogs. The humans are not respectful with their environment, no matter where and their reckless behavior causes people to complain about dogs but generally they should complain about the dogs’ owners.

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Besides the obvious, Humans often ask; What is the difference between a Galgo and a Podenco? I want to explain it by an example:

A Trip to the Dog Park

We Arrive;
The Galgos are running like crazy.
The Pods welcome every dog, man, tree, blade of grass with endless, constantly changing, body language and facial expressions.

The First Five Minutes after Arrival;
The galgos are running like crazy.
The Pods dig up seventy small animals, they create mounds of undefinable mud, which sticks to everything it touches.

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Another lovely Podenco by artist Teresa Watkin.

Read the article and see the photos on this link.