Poet Alan Brian and Pepi with THE BOOK – finally arrived for his for Xmas! Order your copy here Proceeds to Pepis Dog Refuge to help the hounds.
And look what was dumped on them on Xmas Day, under the rubbish bags! Jane says it’s the first time dogs have been dumped in a proper dog bed! 2 more mouths to feed – 80 dogs – costs 650 euros/month to feed them all. Please help, including Satin.
Left to die on the streets of Seville.
Anita, mini podenca, 4,5k, lying in a corner without being able to move after being knocked down… Snuggled up to die without aid, 5 days in the sight of all people, and nobody came to help her’.. In cantillana.
Dreadful example of cruelty and cold indifference… This is the case that reaches us and despite the enormous debts that we have with the vet we cannot leave here…. Anita is in the care of the vet and she needs your help!
The perrita had disappeared from the place where she was knocked down, curled up to die away from the road.
A friend of mine has just rescued a podenco in terrible condition…two boys helped her catch him. She is in an area with a lot of hunters and gitanos. She suffers from ill health and has not the means to pay for the vet treatment he needs. So we desperately need an association to take him on. She is in southern Spain. Here’s what she says about him.
1/12/2014 – ‘Walking through the square I saw a very, very thin podenco with one front leg held up and dangling, searching under and around the bins. I asked two little boys to watch him, rushed into the shop which luckily is on the square, grabbed a packet of frankfurters for 2€ and rushed out again. After he’d eaten several, he hopped off, but we followed him and one of the little boys (Gitanos – lots here and not crueller to animals than anyone else) managed to go up to him and gently stroke his head and hold him, while I tied my scarf round his neck.
20 years ago Jane and Alan Brian moved to Spain to open a caravan park. Instead they found a hung galgo in the olive groves around them and started their journey to save and rehome hundreds of dogs. Alan write amusing and poignant verse and I have now collected these into a book, interspersed with stories of some Pepis dogs who found forever homes. Please buy a copy, all proceeds from the sale will go to the Pepis dogs, including podencos. It’s Print on Demand, so will only be printed when you pay for it, allow 2 weeks. An ideal present for your dog-loving friends.
Unlike the keyboard bully to whom I refer in an earlier post, I don’t profess to know all there is to know about podencos. Yes, I’ve been involved in their rescue, foster, rehoming for several years but in order to complete my definitive guide to the plight of the Podenco – From Pyramid to Perrera – I enlisted the help and experience of several other people involved in helping these wonderful hounds. There are new associations to add to the ever growing list on Podenco Post and only this week I have been introduced to one.
I’d like to introduce you to Charley, a podenco with TAIL Torrox, a refuge in Andalucia. Carly Cole tells his story.
This is an appeal from Carmina in Seville about Argos, a lovely little podenco with RECAL Association – http://asociacion-recal.blogspot.com.es/ They need help with finding forever homes for their Podencos.
Please, it would be possible that you will publish in Podenco Post the request for help for them? I send you photos and details of ARGOS, a beautiful brown-chocolate male that has no luck. Thank you very much for your help.
ARGOS:
Sterilized Male
Date of birth: May 23, 2012
Height: 40 cm # Weight:14 kg
Character: Quiet, affectionate, obedient. He doesn’t bark. He knows how to walk on a leash and can live with other dogs.
Please sponsor Lucy, she is a long way off her target! She is walking for 2 days to raise funds for Pepis Dog Refuge to pay for food, vaccinations, Scalibor collars, wormers, tick treatment…some of the podencos have been there for 2 & 3 years….they all need forever homes too, they are beautiful dogs.
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Every day I’m receiving appeals for podencos on death row in the perreras….but until podencos in residencias and refuges are adopted, there isn’t any room for the others. Heartbreaking. However, here are two young ones which need help.
Little podenco puppy Chiqui was on the streets in Malaga. The dog catcher was going to get him but he has been rescued. However, donations are needed to pay for the residencia and also the vet for vaccinations. You can paypal donations here to Elena Elena Alonso is keeping me updated. The cost for him in residencia is 60 euros/month so let’s donate and keep him safe!
And this poor little soul – another puppy – here’s its story.
THE HUNTERS. Taken by Jane and Alan Brian, Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville.
‘We took this picture to show how close and dangerous these men are. The picture shows how close he was to our house, and he fired his shotgun next to the dog pens. The other hunter at the top of the hill, behind our house, we saw him shoot his gun towards the house, at a rabbit running, most hunters locally, respect that this is our home, but out of town hunters, just do what they want, and that’s to kill……’
Pity the podencos with him, what will he do with them when hunting ends…
Many years ago I wrote about the horrendous conditions for the dogs in Mairena perrera, near Seville. For a while the volunteers were refused access because of the photos which were published. volunteers now have access to the dogs again.
Maria says ‘There are currently 12 podencos at Mairena’s dog pound. This is one of the worst dog pounds in Spain. The dogs are not fed properly, they are sick and nobody cares, the dogs are not euthanasied properly (they don’t use the normal “stuff” and the dog takes forever to die), “galgueros” (hunters) are VIP visitors and can adopt all the dogs they want… Please, help them.’
