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Tag: Gran Canaria

  • TARA – saving the animals on Gran Canaria – visit the shelter

    Beloved TARA Friends & Animals

    These are the guys searing in the scorching sun all these hot summer days. Give yourself a great self-esteem lift and mosey on down to the shelter for a WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSION with this lovely lot! They will raise your spirits, and you will send theirs soaring! Human time and attention will greatly heal the hurt until a foster or adoption companion comes their way.

    WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSIONS are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 1715 hours (5:15p.m.); Fridays and Saturdays from 1100 hours (11 a.m.).

    Come and enjoy our community playing to make Gran Canaria a Paradise for Animals too!

    Happy Paws & Claws, Brian, TARA Volunteer

    A note of horror – their facebook page says ‘Dogpound in north of Gran Canaria is getting 25 abandoned dogs EVERY day. Do not buy but adopt !!!’ That’s just on one small island in the Canaries!

  • Gran Canaria, dogs starved to death – Seprona on the case

    Gran Canario podenco Ed July 2011 200 Podencoworld reports this story.

    The Guardia Civil Seprona Santa Maria de Guía (Gran Canaria), has accused a man of an alleged crime of animal abuse and neglect after an investigation and finding several dogs in poor condition. One of the officers who went to investigate, found two lofts, which was a strong odour.

    Upon entering the room he saw two podencos on chains. One of them was still alive, but emaciated due to malnutrition, probably because there was no trace of food and water around. A short distance away lay the body of another podenco,extremely thin in appearance and with several bite wounds, with clear signs of having been partially devoured. The Civil Guard found another dead dog, this time of the Boxer breed.

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  • TARA animal shelter, Gran Canaria – podencos searching for forever homes

    TARA Mogan Vitola May 2011 250 Brian Baptist is a volunteer with TARA, an animal rescue shelter in the beautiful port of Mogan on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. He’s passionate about the podencos on the island and the hard life they have. Here’s what he writes.

    ‘Canario Podencos are a breed of canine that evolved from goddesses and gods of Egyptian folklore. If any canine is god-like, it must certainly be the Podenco. They are beautiful beyond belief – ethereal in presence and physicality. Despite their reputation as a hunting dogs, they are in truth just about the best family pet for whom a human could hope.

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  • Website on Podencos in Dutch and German

    Podenco Book Judy 170 Judy Kleinbongardt is passionate about podencos. She has her own website and she has also written a book about the Podencos, which concentrates on the podencos from Spain – from the organisations and the perreras. It has received very favourable reviews. If there is anyone fluent Dutch/English who would be willing to translate it, please get in touch with either Judy or me.

  • Spending their lives in a shelter – can you change that forever?

    SARA Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The only hope for podencos in their shelter is for them to be adopted in mainland Europe. These are beautiful dogs who deserve a life in a forever home. Please take a look at them. If they are not adopted, they will spend the rest of their lives in the shelter. The dogs are listed in alphabetical order, and their photos run in the same way. I would add that the descriptions say that they may hunt – but then again, what type of dog would not ‘hunt’ if a cat or deer ran past its nose?!

    SARA Cachorro Braille 190 Cachorro Braile: He has been handed into our shelter by his owner on the 29th of november 2008, when he was only 2 months old. He is a very friendly dog with everybody, but in the same time very shy. If you take him out for a walk you need to force him at the start, but after a while he relaxes and enjoys it and is always looking out for the person with him. He is not interested in hunting.

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  • The Truth Exposed – Spanish hell on earth for the Podenco

    This is why we need to save the podencos, as well as the galgos. Warning, upsetting images. Please don’t turn away, these wonderful dogs need our voices to speak up for them and demand respect and consideration. They are NOT vermin, they are loving sentient creatures.

  • 25th March 2011 – join the march against animal cruelty

    On www.noalmaltratoanimal.org  you can read or see about a big manifestation through whole Spain on the 25th of March against mistreating of animals and longer sentences in prison for people who are guilty of this.

    There is a comprehensive list of all the major cities and towns where a march is taking place, including time and place to meet.  Please attend and get as many of your friends, supporters, neighbours etc. to take part, if you live in Spain or the Canary and Balearic Islands.  They ask for 80,000 people, I'm sure there could be many more.

    UPDATE    28/03/2011 – people turned out in their thousands, it was very successful.  When I get more news, I'll post more.

  • SARA Lanzarote – rescuing podencos in the Canary Islands

    Cristina 2 (SARA shelter) 250 Through my passion for greyhounds/galgos and subsequent involvement in publicising the plight of the galgos in Spain, I was introduced to the Podenco,  used in Spain and the Spanish Islands for hunting rabbit.  Whilst they are not abandoned each year in such huge numbers as the galgos, the life of a podenco runs parallel in many ways and they too suffer indescribable cruelty at the hands of the unforgiving hunters.

    Through Galgo News I have met a couple of British volunteers who live on Lanzarote and are very involved with the SARA Lanzarote animal shelter and raising awareness of the problems faced by the podencos there.  What you will read here also applies to the life of a podenco on mainland Spain too.

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  • Rick Beauchamp – Podencos from SARA Lanzarote part 2

    Rick B pods runway 250 Here's the story of Rick's trip from the UK to Lanzarote in April 2010.

    'Well, we all got back safe and sound around 6am yesterday morning.

    The trip was pretty uneventful really, we got to Cologne around 8pm on Monday evening and stayed in a very pleasant little hotel near the station. ( The rooms were on the 4th floor so it’s a good job that the Poddys were’nt being picked up until the next day) The lovely people in the hotel looked after us very well indeed, finding us a free parking space for the night and extending it through the following day until we were ready to leave.

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  • Rick Beauchamp – Podencos from SARA Lanzarote part 3.

    Rick B pods beds 2 home 250 Rick and Lesley Beauchamp are based in Leicestershire in the UK, and each year they travel to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to bring home som Podenco Canarios, whose only hope of a forever life outside the SARA Lanzarote shelter is to be adopted on mainland Europe.

    Here Rick talks about the project and the 3 trips he has made so far.  What is hidden is the true International co-operation which goes on to bring the dogs to the UK; from them choosing the dogs in Lanzarote to arranging flight partners to take the dogs to Europe; to enlisting help from the German population to meet the dogs at the airports; to the absolute exhaustion that Rick and his friend Daryl submot themselves to over a couple of  days.

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