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  • Podenco Canarios Romeo and Valentino – from perrera to forever homes

    Patricia Herrera 2 250I’ve always advertised the Canary Islands podenco rescue associations as they desperately need help to rehome these fabulous hounds. Here’s a lovely story about two of them rehomed with Patricia Herrera and her husband.

    ‘After finding out just how easy it was to adopt a podenco from Gran Canaria through the Saving the Gran Canaria Podencos page, thanks to the amazing help of a certain wonderful someone … I decided that one podenco is never enough and decided to get a pod pal for Valentino, who at 1 needed a playmate as my other dogs are 11, 12 and maybe 16 years old!

    As you can see it was a rip roaring success and Romeo and Valentino adore each other and coming from the perrera were both very well socialised and surprisingly also house trained despite their harsh upbringing.
    Podencos are such beautiful, gentle and sensitive dogs they can find pound life unbearably stressful and often give up eating and lose the will to live and are so terribly grateful for being saved and shown the love they have longed for all their lives so adopting or fostering is incredibly rewarding.

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  • Podenco Canario Lisa – happy in a forever home

    TARA Lisa 250It’s always great to have a happy homing story. Here’s one about a lucky Podenca Canario rescued and rehomed by TARA association.

    ‘LISA joined the TARA family 11 months ago when she was found on a goat farm that was soon christened “hell” Some caring tourists had stumbled across this place, and could not believe the conditions the animals were kept in.

    Everyday they took food and water to the dogs, and knew they wanted to help some escape these conditions. They contacted TARA and asked for help, and we stepped in to ensure that at least some of the dogs could be saved.

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  • TARA Gran Canaria – Podenco Lex – can anyone foster in Germany or Spain

    TARA Lex 3 250From TARA association on Gran Canaria. You can see that being in the shelter for so long is taking its toll on Lex, no matter the good care the volunteers take of him. He’s spent half his young life in a shelter. He needs to be in a forever home away from the stress of shelter life.

    ‘LEX-LOOKING FOR A HOME- When Lex was found wandering we knew he had an owner, but due to the fact he was not microchipped we could not return him to his home. Lex has been with us in kennels for 18 months and has now become the longest dog to be without a home.

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  • Cheap Accommodation on Gran Canaria now available

    In February 2014, as a result of a complaint made to Seprona (Society for Protection of Nature in the Civil Guard), a ‘person of Spanish Nationality’ was charged with the crime of abuse and neglect of animals in the village of Vallebron, in the municipality of La Oliva. On his farm were six Podenco Canarios, two already dead, the others were starving. The place also did not meet adequate requirements for the protection of animals.

    http://www.laprovincia.es/fuerteventura/2014/02/22/seprona-imputa-vecino-vallebron-maltrato/591849.html

    This is the harsh reality of life for the tens of thousands of podencos living on the Canary Islands. It’s what the tourists don’t see. Please share the story and tell them!

  • Sun, sea and accommodation in Lanzarote, Canary Islands

    The Kennel Club Lanzarote perrera Red 250Laura writes from The Kennel Klub, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

    ‘Lanzarote is a small island and we have a very limited area in which to re-home dogs. Unfortunately that does not mean of course that dogs are not abandoned. We are a legally registered association and in the nearly 18 months we have been running we have re-homed 107 dogs.

    We don’t have a refuge and save many dogs from the perrera, which means they go into kennels before going to foster homes or lucky enough to be adopted.

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