4 Podencos rescued from Mairena with LASA and needing help with vet fees, food, and a very sick podenca bitch rescued off the street in Valencia. Mesquegossos association need help with vet fees for her.She has an agressive form of scab and anemia. She was tested on Mediteranean diseases and came back negative! She now has a long way ahead of treatments against the scab. She will go to a foster home, get good high protein food and rest. And Gala in Valencia too. Please help if you can.
Tag: help the podencos
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Podenca Jasira in Murcia – lucky to be alive
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.
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SARA Lanzarote – saving the podencos in the Canary Islands
To animals, every day is the same, there are no fete days, bank holidays, Easter, Christmas. Their main concern is a warm bed, food and fresh water, and caring hands. Many people will have whizzed off to the Canary Islands for Christmas in the sun – spare a thought for all the volunteers working to look after all the abandoned and rescued dogs – specially the podencos – most of whom will spend their lives in a refuge unless they are adopted abroad.
Sara Protectora on Lanzarote has over 150 dogs and 70 cats. Read more about their work here – click on the Union Jack for the english pages. More on their work here and a photo album
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Calpe, Alicante – Xmas accommodation?
I’ve copied this story from the Anonymous Animal Defenders Spain facebook page – the story was first reported on 16th December, below you can read the updates. (google translation)
These dogs have been located on a property (apparently abandoned) in the Alicante town of Calpe, their situation has been reported to Seprona, hopefully something is done and act fast.
DESCRIPTION:
There were several kennels, 1 which looks upon arrival to the property is the PITBULL, desperate because he did touch, you can see that the space you have is very small, like a kennel, surely it is used for breeding.
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Urgent appeal for podencos in Tenerife
Regular readers will know I always mention the refuges in the Canary Islands and the podencos there whose main hope of a forever home is on mainland Europe. Now there is terrible news from of the shelters.
There has been torrential rain in Tenerife and the refuge Tierra Blanca has suffered badly with flooding. If anyone would like to help a podenco to have a shelter from the elements, below is more information and an translation from María Isabel Padilla Peraza vet and manager of Tierra blanca.
We currently have over 130 Podencos in our patio area , an open area that has been devastated by rain. Right now we are constructing the area , but besides building costs we need funds to buy shelters.
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Valencia podencos – together forever
When I visited Bev, I met two of the 50+ podencos rescued from a hellhole in Valencia. Their necks bore the marks made by the chains and collars. After rehabilitation with Bev and Warren, they have now both found their forever family. a wonderful happy story!
Bev writes. As we prepare Nacha for her big trip to America to Sallie Lisa and her team at Grateful Greyhounds Inc. there is another twist to this story. One I had secretly hoped for and this week it has become a reality. We got confirmation that Nacha will be reunited with Esme and these two Podencos will never be separated again. Martha Feltenstein, who has already adopted Esme, was at the airport on the 5th December to welcome Nacha and take her home. This fantastic ending to such a sad story has only come about from the co-operation and team work of so many people.
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Podenco Friends – Bev Farmer tells her story
It’s 10 years since Bev Farmer first met Tilly and so began her journey into the world of the podencos – life was never to be the same! Bev tells her story.
10 years ago this month I encountered my very first Podenco. We had suddenly lost one of our dogs and called into a local shelter. Tilly was curled up in ball shivering and looking so vulnerable, so yes we will have her. She had been discovered in a large refuse bin covered in rubbish with one of her front legs badly broken.
So, having absolutely no idea what a “Podenco” was, we took her home.
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Animales Rioja – a new refuge for the rescued dogs
Animales Rioja have many rescued dogs including several podencos which have been waiting for forever homes for a while. This one is Jim, a Portugues Podenco. Here’s a video of their new accommodation.
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Alicante area – 2 podencas needing help
These two podenca bitches were found alont the Aspe-Crevillente road, Alicante. They have no collars or chip. The people who rescued them have 3 dogs already and can’t keep these podencas much longer. If no shelter or asso can take them, they will be taken to the pound. Please help. Anyone interested, contact rhodhopis@gmail.com
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Accommodation on Tenerife urgently needed
As regular readers know, I remind people about the podencos on the Canary Islands who have a terrible life with the hunters and whose main chance of a forever home is on mainland Europe. Here’s a heartbreaking story about a shelter on Tenerife. Please help if you can.
Marisa Traen’s refuge (Refugio de la Esperanza del Sur) with her many Podencos has to move!
The new piece of land has been found, but is not ready yet to receive the many animals!! And now the council of Adeje announced a few days ago, that the property where they still are, has to be cleared before the 8th December!! (supposedly for promoting the place with hotels) and that the 89 dogs will be put to sleep if they are still there on that date!