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  • Gran Canaria – reality of life for podencos behind the sunshine and sangria

    Black podenca Emmi Animales GC 3 2016 250Gran Canaria – This black podenca was beaten to kill her and dumped in a trash bin. She was found, barely alive, rescued and taken to a vet. Karen, a Belgian podenco passionata who herself has a black podenca, has written this tribute to Emmi – who is bravely hanging onto life with enormous care from the vet team and volunteers.

    Sweet Podenco girl,
    Posting this picture on FB
    could make people turn away
    quickly scrolling past the horror done to you…
    But then no one would ever know you
    nor about your fight
    and that of good people
    for your precious Life.

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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.

  • 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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  • 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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  • Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to Helsinki, Finland – are you flying this route soon?

    An appeal for help from TARA on Gran Canaria.

    ‘We have wonderful new homes waiting for equally wonderful dogs in Finland (thank you Sanna, Rita, and all the rest of the fabulous Fins who are reaching out to help someone – dogs, cats, humans)!

    What is needed now is folks flying from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to Helsinki – the sooner the better.

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