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  • 12 October, start of the Spanish hunting season

    October 12, marks the beginning of the hunting season and with it, the terrible countdown for thousands of greyhounds and hunting dogs in Spain. Once again, these noble animals, used and exploited, face an uncertain fate: abandonment, mistreatment, or death when they cease to be useful for hunting.  The cycle of abuse is repeating. Countless innocent lives are already sentenced.  Behind every specimen of breeding, there is a potential discard.  Enough with the abuse and systematic neglect.
    It is urgent and necessary to put an end to uncontrolled breeding and the cruel discardment of greyhounds and hunting dogs.  They deserve respect, love and an existence free of suffering, not mere tools to use and throw away.
    Follow us, support us and join us for the end of the hunt: https://linktr.ee/plataformanac

  • Update on abandoned Podencos in Ibiza – feed, foster, adopt

    Ibiza podencos 400 15 3 2017Update on the abandoned podencos on Ibiza – 26 4 2017 from Assaibi Eivissa

    Associació animalista de les Illes Balears – we have rescued 23 podencos and are 36 are with Can Dog Ibiza. 23 podencos are now in Mallorca with Olga from Amics dels animals d’Esporles, with Laura from Rescate Animal, with Victoria from Pro animales de Mallorca and with Helga from Arca de Noé in Andratx.

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  • ‘You cannot be serious?!’ Tenerife – Cock fighting and hunting with dogs

    Canary Islands'Antonio Porras 400Look at the face of this man…does he live in a cave, is he blind. Does he not see the reality of life for Podencos on Tenerife and the other Canary Islands? Here’s the link to an article in a local newspaper with an English translation.

    Hunters and galleros of Güímar, Tenerife, with the support of the local hunting federations of the Canary Islands and the National Federation, have teamed up to present an initiative in defense of cock fighting and hunting with dogs and oppose a motion presented to the Mayor Carmen Luisa Castro (PP) by the United Canarian Network Against Animal Abuse, which asks for a ban on Cock fighting. controlling the use of hunting dogs and to put an end to experiments on animals in laboratories, among other measures.

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  • Packs of wild podencos on Ibiza!

    Ibiza pack of wild podencos 400 2 2017This is a Spanish dictionary translation of the newspaper report. It is not the first time I have reported about packs of podencos living rough on Ibiza. Some years ago a cazadore was prosecuted and jailed for letting his podencos roam the streets and the ones he bred from were kept in terrible conditions.

    New packs of wild podencos alarmed residents of Es Cubells (video below)

    @Noudiari/Como already took place years ago, the podencos packs return to populate the area of Es Cubells, triggering the alarm and complaints from neighbuors, who denounce that they invade their property and even fight with their pets.

    IB3 Ara Mateix program has reflected the complaint of a neighbour, who explains that the podencos “are everywhere” and that can add up to “200 or 300” in the area. Also explains that they appear by his house in a pack of “30 or 40” to attack my dog. “One day I am going to find it dead”, he says.

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  • Strangled with a metal wire – beating the bastard cazadores!

    Jan neck wire 1 400 4 1 2017Here sadly is an example that podencos suffer the same fate as galgos. This is Jan, luckily now safe with Val’s Podenco Rescue in Spain. She was strangled with a wire embedded in her neck. She will hopefully recover but needs to stay at the clinic for at least another week. She is only 1 year old.

    Anne Buttenhoff says. ‘Next week our vet will see her again.He has experience in these kinds of severe injuries. She has a strong will to live and we are with her all the way. We need to ask for your help for her treatment.If you can help all is very much appreciated. PayPal is valspodencorescue@hotmail.com, mark it family and friends so there is no charge on the donation. Thank you!’

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  • Portuguese Podengo Florence – waiting for her forever home

    Dogs of Portugal have this absolutely gorgeous young Portuguese Podengo waiting for her forever home. You can see photos and videos of her on this weblink. Please someone, give her a chance.

    If you are thinking of adopting a podenco, please adopt from a shelter. There is a list of rehoming associations here. Don’t adopt from a perrera. Ignore the cries of ‘these dogs will be killed’ because what happens if they are saved – they end up in a shelter, if there is room for them, and then could wait years before getting a home.

    Remember, if you adopt a dog from a shelter, then that leaves space for another podenco – maybe abandoned in the campo, starving and injured on a roadside.

    Adopt from an association, not a perrera.

  • Bikejoring – get going with your Podenco!

    Bikejoring Lissy and Pace Gordon Graham 400I’ve published about canicross as an activity with your podenco, now let me introduce you to Bikejoring. You can read all about it on this link. Most podencos are intelligent active working dogs and sports like this suit them. So if you are not a runner for agility or canicross, get on your bike and ride with your dog!

    Here are 2 Podenco Friends competing in the UK.

  • Sad tale of a Podenco Stray lost in the campo

    Jane catching abandoned podenco 400 5 11 2016This year seems to be the year of abandoned podencos for Pepis Dog Refuge. Yet another stray on the lane to the refuge, Jane Brian working hard to catch him. Here’s another of Alan Brian’s terrific moving poems inspired by this little hound.

    Podenco stray     by Alan Brian of Pepis Dog Refuge

    Although you can see my picture I normally hide away,
    It seems thats how things have to be as im just another stray.
    I’ve lost my home and family, how can this be right,
    Now I have to fend for myself and sleep under the stars at night.
    I sleep here on the wasteland to rest my weary head
    The dirt and rubbish is all I have to make a comfy bed.
    I have no trust in humans, as this picture clearly shows,
    But this lady comes and talks to me then feeds me before she goes.
    I don’t know what will become of me as I did trust once before,
    Maybe I will never trust again, I really can’t be sure.

    Note…this is copyright Alan Brian. His permission must be sought before reposting    young

    Here’s another young podenco rescued by Jane and Alan who is also very good at composing poems!

  • Podenco Spirit with Refugio la Candela – showing his fighting spirit

    In the middle of October a young podenco was spotted running terrified around a highway in Badajoz with a very serious injury to his mouth – in short, the whole of his lower jaw was missing! He was rushed to the veterinary hospital for emergency treatment. Below you will see photos – not all pleasant – but rest assured Spirit, as the podenco has been named – is fighting to survive and eventually the surgeons will rebuild a lower jaw for him. So far vet fees paid are 800 euros but obviously the repair and rehabilitation of Spirit will cost considerably more. If you wish to make a donation, paypal refugiolacandela@gmail.com. Refugio la Candela

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  • Podenca Alma – from campo in Spain to comfort in the UK

    Beevers pup 400 8 2016I spotted some lovely photos of a happy little podenca on one of my facebook pages and contacted her adoptant to ask if she would write the story of how she came to acquire a podenco. Jane is very happy to tell you Alma’s story……..

    I was teaching at Molino Del Rey (a yoga retreat in the Andalucian mountains in Spain) in July this year, and one morning, one of the students told me she hadn’t slept well the previous night…..a couple of them had found three puppies dumped at the end of a field, with no food or water, just left in a box, abandoned. So, off we went, just a short walk up the road from the retreat and found them. We only had cows milk given to us very kindly by the retreat owners so we fed them where they were and they drank immediately.

    Alma looked very different from the other two (who turned out to be mastadors, a cross between mastiff and lab), and from the moment I picked her up in my arms, she started to suckle on my neck (she was about 12 inches in length, so very small, and very young). I don’t have children, and this little mite felt like the baby I never had. I was immediately attached to her.

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