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  • Podenca Andaluz Sunday – waiting for her forever home

    Sunday_03Has anyone room in their heart and home for this little sweetie?

    Hello, I’m writing to you about my little rescued podenco girl Sunday. She desperately needs a forever home. She was found on the street in May 2015 and has been staying with me since. I have taken care of all her vaccines and deparasiting + chipping, disease tests clean. Her sterilization is pending. She is currently with me in Fuengirola / Spain.

    I have been contacting every organisation and private person I know for months but so far nothing. Please let me know if you can help with her case somehow else. Best, Ani Roschier.

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  • Podenca Ivy in Italy

    Ivy garden 250 Italy 7Gabriella shares the story of how she came to adopt Podenca Ivy.

    ‘I here summarise my love story with Ivy…..

    In all my life (I am 57) I have never had a dog. I always preferred cats (at present 3 fantastic cats, 1 Burmese and 2 Burmillas live with me in my apartment…). However, last year, I casually discovered the GACI, an Italian association for the recovery of greyhounds (from Ireland), galgos and podencos (from Spain). In this way I have heard about the destiny of these hunting and running heroes, the way they are fully exploited and, if they are very lucky, abandoned.

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  • Podencos – A national treasure or just trash?

    Bev Podencos give them a future 250Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends writes.

    What is about Podencos that incite such passion for them….. for me I see beauty nobility intelligence a creature so unique and magical, those who have adopted one will understand how special and sensitive they are. These should be the national treasure of Spain to be held in reverence to be proud of…. such a truly magnificent creature they should be recognized has part of the national heritage of Spain for they date back to 3000 BC. Yet daily we receive more and reports of Podencos abused, abandoned handed in to Perreras.

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  • Podenco Andaluz in Mexico

    The small Podenco Andaluz is bred and used for hunting in Mexico, where they are known as Podenco Arcabuceros. Here’s a short video of them hunting, mostly quail and rabbits. Also a link to the website of a Podenquero who breeds them, some of which he exports to Andalucia, Spain! As if there aren’t enough podencos there – overbred and abandoned!

  • Podencos – Enano, Maneto, Canario, Ibicenco, Orito, Andaluz, Campanero

    I’ve been writing about and publicising the plight of the podencos for many years – alongside my work for the galgos. Here’s an article I wrote about the different types of podenco. Unlike the galgo of which there is only smooth haired and rough haired, the podenco varies from the Enano and Maneto which are small like a dachshund up to the large Campanero which is shaggy and used to hunt wild boar. A podenco to suit every home!

  • Valencia podencos – discarded like trash in the perrera

    It’s obvious that the hunting season in Spain is now drawing to a close. Perreras overflowing with hunting dogs, podencos, galgos, pointers…as well as thousands of other beautiful dogs – young ones, old ones – confused as to why they have been dumped. Podencos are used in very large number for hunting particularly in Valencia and the high kill perrera is overflowing. Below are some of the poor souls there, including 2 taken by the hunter himself, so can be killed any day, and a couple born in 2005 obviously used for breeding.

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  • A podenco not wanted – because the hunter mutilated him!

    Not wanted Nestle 250 7 2013This is Nestle, look what the bloody hunter did to mutilate him. And yet he is still an affectionate, loyal and trusting podenco. Ok, not pure podenco, but it’s not his fault the hunter cut off his beautiful huge podenco ears…Can anyone offer him a forever home so he is no longer ‘Not Wanted?’ contact via the website.

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  • Valencia perrera – Podenco dumping capital! 2 more need saving

    Valencia perrera 3 females arrive 250 2 2013These 3 females, 2 of which are podencos, arrived that way in the perrera to be dumped by owner. All affectionate, all CESE which means they are fast track to killing, the perrera does not have to hold them for 20 days because the owner has signed them over to be killed.

    A third podenca dumped there at the same time, look at the injury to her, plus her teats – she’s obviously had lots of babies…apparently the injury has been treated. But then the bastard took her to be murdered!

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  • Podenco stray in Solano, Valencia – urgently needed to get him off the streets

    Urgent: Sweet William needs a foster or forever home. Can you help???
    Call Diane 664 585 275

    This stunning boy (see pix below)is a malnourished stray in Solano. Between 1 and 2 years old. We are desperate to get him a foster home to give us the time to find him a forever home. Believed to have been dumped when his owners moved away. He will be vaccinated and neutered soon.

    This is an amazing looking dog, he is very friendly and obviously used to being a pet. Still very skinny, he is doing well and the vet says he will make a full recovery. He adores people and is great with other dogs. He is very gentle and sweet and just wants someone of his very own to love.

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  • Podenca Malaika – from Spanish hell to Spanish heaven!

    Bev Malaika golf course 250 1 2013Regular readers will know the name Bev Farmer, who is a podenco passionata in Murcia and works tirelessly to help abandoned podencos on the route to a forever life. She also takes some stunning photos, I’m hoping she will have time to put together a podenco calendar for next year.

    This is her story about Malaika, a young podenca bitch loose on a golf course.

    ‘There is something so special about Malaika, and the second I saw her I felt a very strong connection and had no intention of leaving her on that Golf course no matter what it took to catch her. Now she is with us and where will remain with us for ever.

    Mike, who is a steward on the golf course, tried for months to get help for her and he never gave up. The day we caught her, Mike wiped a few tears away. Hannah, his wife, named her Malaika, which is Swalili for Angel and a perfect name

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