And tiny Pepa, only 6 kgs and 18 months old, in Cordoba, Montilla municipal perrera, she does not understand why. And already she has had a little of puppies. She is very sweet, nervous just wants to feel love and give love in return. What has she done wrong? She’s been born a podenca in Spain!!
PEPA
Sex: female
Age: April 2012
Race: Podenca
Weight: 6 kg
Contact: conluzanimal@gmail.com
I’m still stuck in the UK because of snow, and struggling to post. Here’s a story I received earlier this week, emailed on to associations I hope can help, and now post you the story. Apologies though, as I’m using a computer which won’t allow me to post pix.
‘On January 6, 2013 I drove with my husband and adopted dog (from a perrera near Malaga, ‘El Paraiso’) from Tarifa to Seville, and on to Cordoba.
We stopped at a rural restaurant for coffee where I became aware of a whole lot of dogs crying somewhere in the vicinity.
Lovely video of the Baas Galgo podencos which were in the Villa del Rio shelter, Cordoba. The association was given notice to leave by the beginning of November (nothing the association had done wrong, the place is owned by galgueros!) If you can offer a forever home to any of the pods, contact the associations on the video, direct.
Appeal in today.HELP desperate: The spoils of hunting in Cordoba. Story from the volunteer.
‘This is what hunting brings, hundreds of abandoned animals when they can no longer serve, whatever age, race or sex. This is an urgent case, like everyone else, but it’s terrible to see them thus knowing what they are going through. They are 3 podencos: one male and two females, all very young.
They are abandoned in an industrial estate where it is common to have clandestine sheds where hunters breed dogs and have them without seeing the light of day, only when they take them to hunt, in sub-human conditions. When they do not hunt, this is what happens: begging in the area, skin and bones, hardly having the breath to survive.
Good news about podenca Tanke from Laura, the vet student at Cordoba University. They have taken an x-ray of Tanke’s lung and it is clear, she hasn’t got metastisis. They also have enough money to operate on her next Monday (29/10) and will keep us up to date. If everything goes ok, Laura says Tanke will be ready for adoption by the middle of December.
Laura writes from Cordoba. ‘We are some students of veterinary medicine in Cordoba (Spain) and 2 weeks ago we found an old female podenco here. This is the story……..please help us:
This is Tanke, she is a female Podenco Andaluz dog about 10 years old. She is educated, really lovely and obedient.
She was found battered and abandoned 2 weeks ago in Cordoba (Spain). When we found her, she had a huge wound where the microchip was before. Now she is cured…..but during the veterinary examination, it was discovered that she has crystalline sclerosis and retinal atrophy, so she will lose sight gradually.
Urgently need to find somewhere for this beautiful little 2yr old podenca which the hunter does not want because she won’t hunt. He’s now going to kill her. She’s in a tiny kennel with two others, with only water, filthy dirty with excrement. In a town near Cordoba.
Contact mujerpetirroja@gmail.com
(cristina alcantara lopez)
Outside of the city centres of Spain, it is very frequent to see an abandoned dog wandering around, or in a ditch, or knocked down at the side of a road, or already dead.
This young podenca was the latest find by this volunteer. Here’s what she says.
We have called her Bonita. She was found undernourished, dehydrated and from the state of her breast, she has obviously just been used for breeding. She has a lot scars, an ancient one which could be the result of a trap, we’re not sure.
We even do not know if the vet will be able to save it, at present she is on daily medication, and will see in a few days is it improves. The problem is there there is no sensitivity in the leg.
News just in. ‘This is a desperate plea from a girl living in the Cordoba area. Three podenco puppies, around 4-5 months old in the middle of a field, where there are many hunters. A month ago the girl found a podenco hanging from a tree there. Please please someone contact her to help catch the pups and take them to a place of safety. (No pics yet) They are in the province of Cordoba.
Contact – MIRIANCASTELL@GMAIL.COM, TEL.630280583 620388_259292454190573_767668383
And here’s another podenco pup, about 5 months old. He’s not in bad condition apart from having had a leg fracture which has not yet healed. He was hanging around the Penarroya-‘s Visitor Center, Cordoba. He’s been called Haku. Contact srta.velasco@gmail.com / 697 227 123
or elarcadenoecordoba@gmail.com
