Tell everyone what life is REALLY like on the Canary Islands – all of them, even the smallest island – for podencos. Please don’t turn away, your sorrow is nothing compared to the suffering of these hounds. If you want to help, get in touch with any of the associations on this list – they need all the help they can get.
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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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Cheap accommodation in Tenerife, Canary Islands – food and drinks not included
Two stories from PodencoWorld in Holland. To read in English, click on the Translation button top left hand side, drop down menu, click on your language.
The first one is about 12 podencos living in appalling conditions on a farm in San Roque, Tenerife. The foundation Animal Help Canarias reported the poor state of the hounds on a finca. The way the animals are crammed in the back of a private estate, continuously chained without any room to move. The precarious facilities do not meet the necessary hygiene and dogs have “not even enough food or water,” said a spokesman for the foundation. “Neighbors often call these situations to denounce”.
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SARA Protectora, Lanzarote, Canary Islands – please adopt an Island podenco – give them a chance
I have highlighted often the problem for podencos on the Spanish Islands…Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Ibiza, Mallorca. People go on holiday to these places and don’t see the hell of life for the dogs and cats (mainly) on the islands, where the only hope of a forever life is to be adopted abroad – Europe, Scandinavia, UK.
SARA Protectora on Lanzarote have dozens of deserving podencos… Rick and Lesley Beauchamp take a few to the UK for rehoming, a few go to Germany and the Czech Republic. BUT the cost of flights can be prohibitive and also it needs one person for every 2 dogs on a flight.
Here are a few of the dozens in the refuge on Lanzarote…over 60 Podenco Caqnario, different from the Podenco Ibicenco in appearance but not in character – if you can’t adopt one, please go along to the shelter and walk a dog, support the volunteers, anything to help them keep going.
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Arrecife, Lanzarote – SARA Protectora Podenco Publicity Day!
I’m catching up on posts, as have been away on holiday for a week with my son and grandsons. Here’s a marvellous event which is much needed in the Canary Islands where the podencos have a very hard life, and local people need to know what marvellous pets they can make.
SARA Lanzarote are organising an event on 24th November at Arrecife, and hope that it’s not too late for podenco associations elsewhere and on mainland Spain to organise something at the same time. Here’s the report from SARA Lanzarote.
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SARA Protectora, Lanzarote – podencos find homes in the Czech Republic
I try hard to remind people that the podencos in the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands have a very tough time. Even worse, their main chance of a forever life outside of the shelters, where they are well looked after and never put down, is to be adopted on mainland Europe. Here’s wonderful news from SARA Protectora on Lanzarote. and please remember, if you are holidaying especially on Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, go along to the local dog shelters and support the volunteers who work tirelessly to help the islands’ abandoned and unwanted.
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Holidays in Canary Islands? SARA Lanzarote needs your help
SARA Lanzarote (Canary Islands) have sent this story about this podenca bitch, yet another of life’s victims discarded by the hunters. Podencos are used on the Spanish islands for hunting rabbit, and suffer horrendous cruelty at the hands of the hunters, just like the galgos and podencos on mainland Spain. The only hope for the deserving dogs in the shelters on Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Ibiza, is to be adopted on the European mainland. Please bear them in mind when considering offering a forever home to a dog. Otherwise these dogs will spend their lives in the shelters.
SARA tells Mestiza’s story.
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TARA Podenco Pico – finds his forever home on Gran Canaria
Look at this fabulous photo. We all love a happy ending and here is one for Pico, one of the TARA Gran Canaria podencos. Here’s what Brian says.
‘This photo is of The Best Little Dog Shelter in Paradise’s beautiful Eva and her gorgeous new baby boy! Too cute for words!
Eva, The Vigilent Volunteer of the Year 2011, from the beginning was a wonderful foster mother for many of the little canine cuties from The Best Little Dog Shelter, and wisely swore never to fall head over heals in love with any of her wards, to keep her fostering efforts a pristine example of what grand fostering is all about — love and release!
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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.