If you click on this link, you can read why Ellen, passionate about podencos,is rising to the challenge of the Duathlon at Clumber Park, Worksop on 21st March. Bud is the latest incumbent to be taken in by Podenco Friends. Please sponsor Ellen if you can and share with everyone. She’s in training, runs to work and back every day, for starters, whatever the weather.
And for anyone who lives near Clumber Park, please go along on 21st March and support this amazing lady!
A photo to make you smile. Purdy, one of Snow White‘s pups, at play on the beach.
Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends tells the story of JASIRA
‘I see so many Podencos in so many terrible situations. I see them by the roadside badly injured, having been hit by a car and left to die. I see them wandering the countryside, emaciated and very often with broken limbs. I see them with their spirits all but destroyed from having been incarcerated in a perrera.
After this amount of exposure to such horrific sights, it’s hard not to begin to accept this as the norm here in Spain. Most of our rescued podencos require a lot of care to bring them back to good health, both physically and mentally.
But now I have seen something which shook even me to the core. I have seen some terrible sights but this has to be one of the worst.
You may remember Lucia, a Podenca Andaluz whose back had been sliced from shoulder to tail and left to heal on its own. this little podenco is similar in looks and size and not far from the same area where Lucia was abandoned. Bev Farmer reports.
‘I had a call from a golf course about a podenco that had been there for a couple of months.
We went to try and catch her, nearly caught her 3 times but it was not to be and after 8 hours and night time we called it a day. Tried again the following day but she had learnt that if she follows the golf carts, the players feed her, so she leads us a merry dance so no joy. Have left strict instruction they are not to feed her and we will try again tomorrow.
