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  • Cartagena, Murcia – house rooms to let!

    Bev podenca roof 250 1 8 2015It was reported in the Spanish Newspaper La Verdad today (21 8 2015)that a starving podenca had been seen on the roof of an abandoned house. She is now in the care of Bev and Warren of Podenco Friends, who confirm a denuncia has been submitted to Police at the Cartagena Town Hall.

    The rescue of a Podenco abandoned on a rooftop

    Cartagena Firefighters yesterday (20 8 2015) rescued a Podenca found on the roof of an abandoned house across the street of the Hotel Campomar on the fast lane of La Manga at the height of Algar. They were notified by the legal adviser of the Association for the Defence of Animals (PAES) Maria Jose Xallego.

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  • Cheap accommodation in Spain

    Little pod 50 days 2 250There’s room in the trashbin … from whence this little soul was rescued! News from Little Pod Asssociation in Murcia. Just a tiny baby podenca girl, 50 days old and thrown in a bin like trash!!! She sustained some horrific injuries and her front leg has already been amputated. She has been named Sara. She is now safe with LPA and already has offers of a forever home, when she is recovered enough.

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  • Valencia Container dogs…update

    ACTIN Container dogs 250 18 7 2015Here is the latest news from ACTIN about the situation for the container dogs. Permission now given to publicise this. Please continue to support ACTIN‘s legal team, a successful outcome for this case can be a precedent for use in the whole of Spain!

    ‘The owners have kept their dogs in the container for 5 years, we are trying to find out about previous dogs. Actin was only informed of this 2 months ago. Previous denuncias and complaints in the past, since 2010, have had no effect. Right now there are 4 dogs and 1 puppy inside; we can report some positive changes. The dogs have food and water, this has improved. The owners have coated the inside of the container with a material to regulate temperature, heat inside is the same as outside; we are not satisfied with this, BUT it is 20 degrees less than it would have been.

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  • From Perrera to Finca Podenco Friends, Murcia – meet Perla

    Bev Farmer tells the story of Perla.

    Perla arrived on Friday 35d July 2015 and we have given her some space but yet another Podenca terrified out of her mind. This is not fear from a change of circumstances, this is from a deeply rooted sustained abuse of some type. She will need many months of help and support to break her out of this world of terror she lives in.

    In the last 3 months we have taken in 5 podencos all very similar issues and it cant be just because they are nervous by nature. Dogs learn by association the positive and the negatives and if treated badly for long enough, establish what hurts them is to be avoided.

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  • Braveheart – ACTIN in action again

    Valiente 1 250 14 5 2015Less than a week ago (May 2015) one of Actin’s team was contacted and asked to investigate this terrible case; a dog tied up on a chain in a hidden cave in a horrible town in Murcia where animals are treated like garbage…

    On arrival they found this most pathetic and sad sight and because of what he suffered they named him Valiente, (Brave). Valiente attached to a short chain, old, skinny, sick and hardly able to move, the saddest of souls. He was about to give up, the rescuers were just in time to help him – before he succumbed to his life of misery.

    Valiente is about 10 years old, so sad to think someone had him living this hell for all his life and caused him to be in such pain and endure such suffering. His condition as diagnosed by the vet; arthritis atrophy, osteoarthritis atrophy, cachexy, and sclerosis in the eye, amazingly he is not positive for leishmania.

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  • Podenca Fortuna – let’s make her fortunate – find her forever home.

    Fortuna Marcella 250 5 2015This is Fortuna, only a year old, taken from a hunter as she was in danger. She is already spayed and is about 40 cm. She is great with other animals, children and people. She is a lovely little Spanish Podenco.

    There are hundreds and hundreds of gorgeous podencos like Fortuna, in foster and refuges. Adopt one of these, and you make room for a podenco in a perrera. ADOPT a refuge/foster dog.

    Let’s find Fortuna a family of her own, she is gorgeous.

    Contact: Marcella Sally Wyatt Birnbaum – marcella@thebirnbaums.us – wassup (0034) 637585689

  • Podenco Moreno – a hard life at the hands of a galguero

    Bev Moreno 250 15 3 2015The story of Moreno, from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    For many months we have been talking with the local hunters to show them there is an alternative for the Podencos they no longer want or need. Last week they handed Moreno into our care. He needs a complicated surgery to try and save his front leg. This is from a fracture that happened over a year ago and was left to heal with no treatment. If gives him a lot of pain at the moment, he is just about terrified of everything. We are working with him to try and build a level of trust in us.

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  • Little Pod Association, Murcia – saving the podencos

    Little Pod gypsy 170 2 2015Little Pod Association are working with a Spanish volunteer to help podencos and galgos in a terrible situation with a gitano in Murcia. Here is what Marie Stacey says about the situation, including the current rescue of 3 more dogs in a terrible state.

    ‘Our beautiful Verity and Diana were both resuced from a Gypsie in Valencia. We knew he had more dogs and a lovely lady has been working hard to get some more of the dogs released. He has just agreed to release 3 more. We are desperately trying to secure the release of another that looks really ill but at the moment he is saying no.

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  • All Podencos should enjoy life

    From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends, Murcia

    This video is to say thank you to everyone for believing in us and allowing us to realise our dream. A year of a thousand tears and a million smiles. Times when we were overwhelmed and it all felt too much…. then those magic moments when anything seemed possible. So many of you have reached out and helped in so many ways without you we could not have achieved so much for this forgotten breed of Spain.

    Together we saved so many … together we gave them a future. We will never ever be to able to express how grateful we are to each and every one who supported us

    our family….. our friends…. our Podenco Friends

    Podenco Friends – Our Year 2014

    For our family our friends our Podenco Friends

  • Podenco Friends – finding forever homes for rescued podencos

    Bev Alexa 250 5 2014Two lovely stories from Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.

    Alexa what a story…. discovered in a remote location in Valencia heavily pregnant. Its not always straightforward to catch them especially in open land and couldn’t give her any sedation due to her pregnancy. Silvia Guau Guau and her team kept us updated and then one day she disappeared for 3 days no sign so she must have given birth somewhere. We never expected how dramatic her rescue would become.

    A few days later she was sighted badly injured an attack from a wild boar a call went out to the Spanish community in Valencia and people came forward to help. We got a message they had caught her but could not find the pups what did they want me to do. I had to make a judgement call and say bring her she needs medical attention if we left her, both Alexa and the pups would perish.

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