Many of you will remember Vivienne as a tireless worker on behalf of the animals in Spain. Her partner Dan is a gifted creator of fabulous mosaics, many of which adorn the walls of hotels, restaurants, bars in Spain, as well as running courses at Tara Casa. Vivienne is now working in mosaic too, raising funds for dog rescue.
If you would love a mosaic portrait of a much loved pet, this is the weblink to their website. Also the weblink to the Tara Casa Retreat holidays.
Urgently seeks home for these podenco puppies, which are in the Rambla Clada (Alhama de Murcia). A volunteer has been feeding them for the past month, but she can’t take them home, there are too many! They desperately need fosters and adoptions. They are small podencos. They are males and one female; the whitey and who has more white spots are males, the more dark spots is female. Thank you
Contact patriciacayuelaportela@gmail.com tele: (Spain 0034) 619442217
You remember the story of the Bullas, Murcia, rescue of 120 hunting dogs, mostly podencos. It’s great to follow the stories of their rehomings and here is a tale about a really special Bullas Boy, who was born deaf. Denise Heaton adopted him and tells his story so far.
‘Fanta’s story starts from when heavily pregnant Mama named Maya was rescued from the Bullas Camp by Ibizan Hound Rescue along with around 120 other dogs that went to various other rescues. On 4/4/12 Maya gave birth to 8 gorgeous pups under the care of Ibizan Hound Rescue fostered by Diane Hughes, who did a brilliant job with both Mum and her babies.
This photo is the very first one I saw of Fanta, and it made me fall in love with the little guy. I decided at that moment that I wanted to adopt him. A week or so later Diane Hughes & Valerie Wood contacted me to tell me the news that Fanta was profoundly deaf and asked if I still wanted to proceed with the adoption. I felt that the fact he was deaf shouldn’t make much of a difference only that it made him even more special.
On 27/07/12 I finally got to pick up my special boy in Birmingham. It was such a special moment to finally meet him along with his Mamma, Siblings & the other adopters & not forgetting Diane & Brian who transported them from Spain.
Fanta is a wonderful addition to our family and is no different from a hearing dog. His best friend is a little Shi Tzu boy called Bentley who I adopted from The Little Dog Rescue. They spend hours chasing and playing; it’s such a joy watching them.
Fanta responds very well to training through a series of hand signals and is a star at training class. I have had lots of wonderful advice from The Deaf Dog Network who also have a Facebook page and would urge everyone to join who is thinking of adopting a deaf dog.
You can find out more about Fanta and his siblings on our facebook page entitled Bullas Babes.
Lastly a huge thank you to Ibizan Hound Rescue for trusting me with the care of such a beautiful, special boy and of course the fabulous job they do saving these amazing dogs’.
Interestingly, I’ve known white cats which are deaf, and also a white boxer dog.
Aanifeira association in Portugal have written about one of their disabled dogs.
There is a belief in Europe that guard dogs should be chained up. There is also a belief in Europe that any dog can be chained up, many of them without even shelter. I see it here in France – a border collie chained up in a farmyard particularly angers me. Podencos also suffer this maltreatment and Aaniferira, a Portuguese animal rescue association, have published a piece about dealing with the problem. You can read more about it here.
Here are some beautiful podencos with SOS Animals UK & Spain, desperately hoping they will catch your eye and your heart, forever. They are all young, ready to be trained, with full EU passports and bloodtested. Monica is an especially unusual girl, as the Podenco Orito is not a well known type of podenco, unlike the popular Podenco Ibizan and Podenco Andaluz. Guadiamar and Bembezar are brother and sister and have very unusual markings. Gemma came from Operation Rehala where 120 galgos and podencos were saved in January/February. All these super hounds have a survival story to tell. You can see more about them on the SOS Animals website.
Guadiamar
I recently posted an appeal for homes for some podenco puppies whose Mom was one of the podencas rescued from Bullas, Murcia, in Operation Rehala. 4 of the pups are still waiting for their forever homes. They are in foster in Spain and will be ready to travel to the UK at the end of July. They will be stunning Ibizan Hounds and, as mentioned before, the breed can make superb agility dogs – they often compete in agility in Germany. If you can offer one of these gorgeous boys a home, please contact Valerie of Ibizan Hound Rescue.
SOS Cuenca have hundreds of dogs in the pound, each hoping they will catch the eye of someone who will take them into their heart and home. Here are some of the beautiful podencos which have been waiting for months…including 4 at the end which are podenco x. Most of them are babies, between 1-2 years old. They all get on well with other dogs, are affectionate, not been tested with cats, Aron, the chocolate one, needs to get out urgently because the other dogs won’t let him to the food and he is losing weight. Simeon is still nervous. If you can offer a home to one of them, please contact Oscar at SOS Cuenca. Website
Photos in the following order: Aron (above), Chedar, Chus & Olga, Cima, Gabo, Mar, Radar, Simeon, xpods Estre, Trucha, Otis, Viernes (galgo/podenco)
This gorgeous little podenco puppy was thrown from a car onto the street. Luckily uninjured, she was rescued and is now in the safe hands of Bev Farmer, who is earning a well-deserved reputation for training podencos to prepare them for finding forever homes. Here’s the story of Jazzy so far.
‘Another post on Facebook, another Podenco dumped, this time thrown out of a car without any consideration what would happen to this puppy. At 7am Michelle heard a car racing off and a dog screaming. Her first thought was that a dog had been seriously hurt. She rushed out of her house to see a puppy on the street shaking in fear and covered in oil. Her front claws were ripped, a classic sign of having been dragged along by a car.
4 of the Bullas Babes, podencos rescued in the Orhuela, Bullas, project, have now arrived in the UK. Terri and Star, Molly and Ella have all been adopted and are now with their forever families. We wish them well in their new life, flying the flag for the podencos and alerting people to the cruelty perpetrated against these fabulous hounds. Thanks to Little Pod Foundation in Murcia and SOS Animals UK. Well done to all.
Pro-Galgo took 8 of the Bullas dogs, here’s the latest news about them. If you want to adopt, apply direct to Pro-Galgo.
