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  • Tenerife – What the tourists don’t see – the true Tenerife

    Podencos Tenerife 400 7 3 2017And the podencos on Tenerife, Canary Islands, continue to suffer. Below is a Spanish dictionary translation of this newspaper article published on 7th March 2017.

    The difficult relationship between hunters and animal rights lived this weekend a new episode, this time in the District of Valleseco. Several members of the first group have denounced in the national police that some unknown, supposed defenders of animals, on Saturday broke the padlock of a few kennels located at the entrance of the neighborhood – in a Court of the mountain – and released several hunting dogs, which could not be recovered by their owners until Sunday noon.

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  • Puerto Mogan, Canary Islands…what the tourists don’t see

    Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Canary Islands on holiday, whether for summer sun or to escape the cold winters of the UK and Europe. They don’t come into contact with ‘real’ life on the Islands, especially the nightmare for the 85,000+ podencos incarcerated there. Here’s the true reality…Perrera Mogan! Please share.

  • Another cruelty case on Tenerife

    Santa 250 9 11 2014This poor soul is a Podenca Canario which was dumped in a Tenerife perrera by her hunter owner, after a lifetime of producing babies – and starvation. She could barely stand, had a huge abcess on her face and a fever. She is being cared for by the vets of Albergue Comarcal Valle Colino. Once the fever had subsided, the abcess was removed but an inoperatble tumour was discovered on her face.

    These are the updates from Ailsa Mcgibney from 9th November. An offer of a comfortable loving home has been made, where Santa, as she has been named, can live out her days.

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  • Real life story from Tenerife, Canary Islands –

    Murdered podenca Guardia Civil 250 5 2014Tenerife, Canary Islands. A 77 year old man has been arrested because he murdered his pregnant podenca who was due shortly to give birth!

    A neighbour reported hearing him kill the dog by beating it to death so agents from the Garachico nature protection service (Seprona) went to the place of the complaint. They found the podenca buried and a vet certified that death was because the animal had received repeated blows in the cranial area, as well as that the hound was about to give birth.

    And the following story from Jane Brian of Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville.

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  • Accommodation on Tenerife urgently needed

    Tenerife Refugio la esperanza marisa 250As regular readers know, I remind people about the podencos on the Canary Islands who have a terrible life with the hunters and whose main chance of a forever home is on mainland Europe. Here’s a heartbreaking story about a shelter on Tenerife. Please help if you can.

    Marisa Traen’s refuge (Refugio de la Esperanza del Sur) with her many Podencos has to move!

    The new piece of land has been found, but is not ready yet to receive the many animals!! And now the council of Adeje announced a few days ago, that the property where they still are, has to be cleared before the 8th December!! (supposedly for promoting the place with hotels) and that the 89 dogs will be put to sleep if they are still there on that date!

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  • Tenerife, Canary Islands – life behind the sunshine and beaches

    Regular readers will know I frequently highlight the maltreatment of the podencos on the Canary Islands. They have a terrible life and their only real chance of a forever home is on mainland Europe.

    Evil metal snares are often used in woods and forests and sadly the podencos get caught up in them. The picture below is an illustration of one such case. This female Podenca was found like this in the forest in La Esperanza and is now in Valle Colino shelter in La Laguna, Tenerife. They think her leg has been cut by a trap… She now urgently needs a foster or a forever home. Contact a.vallecolino @ hotmail.es

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