Tag: hotels in Porto

  • Podencos in Portugal – a hell for hunting dogs – the law needs changing to protect them

    This story was on my facebook page Save the Galgo. The events happened between 20-24 May 2013. Please read what has happened, sign the petition and write to the authorities listed at the end of the article.

    Do you go to Portugal on holiday?

    This is the story of forty dogs – loving, open, friendly, gentle dogs kept in hell.

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  • Aanifeira in Portugal – saving a blind podenco

    Aanifeira gaia- 200 7 10 2012We sometimes question the wisdom of spending valuable and scarce resources on saving very sick or injured animals but, given the choice, I’m sure we would all make the effort. How many lovely stories have we read about hounds saved – Esperanza, Alphonso, Ulysees, and now Miel. Here is a wonderful story about a blind podenco in Portugal, rescued sick, starving, injured and blind from a major road. Aanifeira gave her a chance – here’s her story.