So many sad stories about abandoned podencos – here are some more beautiful videos by Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends, to bring a smile to your face. You can contact Bev at podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk if you want to help her, especially if you can offer a forever home to any of them.
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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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Podencos in Murcia waiting for forever homes
As usual, my recent visit to Spain was full of action and, even better, rescued dogs! You can read about my visit to ACTIN on this link. From there I spent a couple of days with Bev and Warren and their 26 podencos at the finca they recently moved to. Most of the podencos are waiting for their forever homes, including Solo and Carina. Little puppy Sky and his best buddy Rembrandt already have adoptions arranged, as does Dave and little Maneto Lily. Please contact Bev if you would like more information on her podencos. She will shortly have a website where you can see them all.
Enjoy this video of some of the podencos at play.
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Picking up puppies on a Murcia motorway
A beautiful video of Bev Farmer’s husband Warren returning home from a shopping trip with e little extras.
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Podenca Amira in Murcia – from hell en route to happiness
Amira A heart warming tale about a beautiful podenca. Bev tells her story.
Introducing Amira who came from a Perrera. At first she was reserved by a Spanish association but she escaped the next day and lived wild in the campo for weeks. Someone managed to catch her and they wouldn’t take her back so the perrera contacted me and asked if I would take her.
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Podenco Andaluz Solo – seeking his forever home and family
Introducing handsome podenco Solo, who is with Bev Farmer. He’s desperate for a family and a loving home to call his own for the rest of his life. Can you find a place for him? Bev Farmer describes his character.
‘This is Solo he has been at Pepis Refuge since he first wandered into their gates as a puppy back in 2008.
For some reason no one has shown any interest in him, it’s such a shame that he has not had a family of his own for 5 years.
To help out Solo has come to us and he is a super Podenco very friendly loves to play with the other dogs very quick to learn and wants to please. He is a really affectionate dog and not a loner and at night time he sits on Warre’sn lap while Warren’s drinking a beer or two.
I think he will be brilliant at agility and we will start with some training with him. He has his passport up to date vaccinations, blood tested and negative and is castrated. Thank you to Beryl who sponsored Solo and organised for him to travel to us.
To adopt Solo please email me; podencofriends@hotmail.co.uk‘
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Training a Podenco – superb Obedience and Agility Dogs
I can’t emphasise enough what fabulous hounds podencos are; marvellous companion dogs and, if you get a young one, easy to train and marvellous agility dogs (they are very popular in agility competitions in Germany especially). Bev Farmer fosters podencos and works hard on training them for forever homes. Here’s a great video which illustrates just how well podencos respond to training.
Bev was one of the many volunteers who went to Bullas on Operation Rehala at the beginning of 2012 and here is what she says.
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Izzy Wizzy Isabella – Little podenca looking for her forever family
Here is Isabella, living at home with Bev Farmer and Warren. Bev says, ‘she wasn’t coping staying in the kennels. She is much brighter and content and we call her Iizzy Wizzy now she is so full of life and fun!
Isabella is one of our older girls at 6/7 years old. She has a large tattoo in her ear, an older form of identification than a microchip, showing that she belonged to a hunter with whom she spent her early years, and was then a long time in a shelter.