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Tag: Las Palmas

  • Podenca Canario Mami – saved from starvation on Gran Canaria

    Mami 1 Peter Pod 250 09 2011 It’s easy to overlook that the popular holiday desinations of Ibiza and the Canary Islands are also part of Spain. Whilst Ibiza is quite close to the mainland, the Canary Islands are down in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa. Life on these islands is hard for the animals – many used by tourists – whilst hundreds of others are used for hunting. Luckily there are rescue associations picking up the pieces, but the only hope of a life for an animal outside an animal shelter or refuge is to be adopted on mainland Europe.

    This is the story of Mami, a Podenco Canario, whose mouth was taped up before she was dumped in the mountains on Gran Canaria, abandoned to a slow and painful death.

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  • Holiday accommodation in Las Palmas, Canary Islands? Not for these podencos

    Gran Canaria podencos 200 3 08 2011 Podencos in Las Palmas, Canary Islands; chained to walls, starving, thirsty….the article explains the Order of 28th June 2011 establishing the legal periods for hunting in the year 2011 and conditions and limitations for the said activity in the autonomous Community of the Canary Islands – thank you to Juan Seco. The photos speak for themselves. Contact the association, if you are going there.

    There is a post below which, translated says ‘Hello. These photographs and facts are not on the island of Gran Canaria, but on the small island of la Palma, in the season of hunting, also in the Canary Islands. …..SEASON of hunting on the island of LA PALMA 2011…… I apologise, my geography is not as perfect as I thought.

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  • Podenco Canario Samuel – with SARA Lanzarote waiting for his forever family

    SARA Lanzarote Samuel 190 This is Samuel, just 11 months old, in the SARA Lanzarote shelter at Arrecife (Las Palmas). He’s waiting for a forever home, can you offer him one? Visit the website, click on Awaiting Adoption, and you’ll find Samuel and other podencos. Their only hope is adoption off the island on mainland Europe. Contact SARA