Drone footage of the Great Global Greyhound Walk 2025 at Croft Farm Water Park, Tewkesbury, UK. 327 hounds counted through the gates, several podencos including Rosie took part.
2 more podencos at the event.
Tag: podencos
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Chained through the mouth, dropped in an empty pool and left to an agonising death!
Many years ago I posted a story about Vidal, a podenco chained through the mouth to a wall in a derelict building and left to die. Luckily he was discovered, rescued, and found a forever home. He is the featured podenco on my Help the Podencos facebook page.Here is the story of 3 podencos this week found in a similar state.
‘On 1st November) animal rights activists were called to an empty old pool by the police. There, there was a sight of horror. 3 podencos were left there. As if it wasn’t bad enough, they three iron and tied to their head so they couldn’t take food or water. They were literally taken to “die” there. On the walls are marks to see where they tried to escape. They didn’t have a chance without help. There is despair in their eyes, they had already given up hope. And worse, the nights are very cold now. We are stunned, speechless, sad and angry. The Podencos need support now.’https://www.facebook.com/groups/171121343593436/
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Podenco Footprints on Lanzarote
Regular readers will know that I have been appealing for help for the Canary Island podencos since I first created my blogs back in 2007. A prohibitive factor in the adoption of Podenco Canarios is the cost of flights to mainland Europe for forever homes. In the past three or four years there has been an explosion of publicity for these fabulous hounds, largely due to facebook pages. I’d like to introduce another Lanzarote group who are helping hounds in the Teguise area. Huella y Huella – footprints.
‘Huella a Huella is a group which raises awareness, sensitization and well-being in general to the animals in Lanzarote from schools to those working in the field of animal protection and promotion of awareness-raising actions.
So we want to create a set of which all form part, institutions, associations and citizens, and together, bring this great project to term.
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Packs of wild podencos on Ibiza!
This is a Spanish dictionary translation of the newspaper report. It is not the first time I have reported about packs of podencos living rough on Ibiza. Some years ago a cazadore was prosecuted and jailed for letting his podencos roam the streets and the ones he bred from were kept in terrible conditions.
New packs of wild podencos alarmed residents of Es Cubells (video below)
@Noudiari/Como already took place years ago, the podencos packs return to populate the area of Es Cubells, triggering the alarm and complaints from neighbuors, who denounce that they invade their property and even fight with their pets.
IB3 Ara Mateix program has reflected the complaint of a neighbour, who explains that the podencos “are everywhere” and that can add up to “200 or 300” in the area. Also explains that they appear by his house in a pack of “30 or 40” to attack my dog. “One day I am going to find it dead”, he says.
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Bikejoring – get going with your Podenco!
I’ve published about canicross as an activity with your podenco, now let me introduce you to Bikejoring. You can read all about it on this link. Most podencos are intelligent active working dogs and sports like this suit them. So if you are not a runner for agility or canicross, get on your bike and ride with your dog!
Here are 2 Podenco Friends competing in the UK.
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TheKennelKlub and Podenco Friends – saving the Lanzarote podencos
Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends is now helping Laura Johnson of TheKennelKlub with the Lanzarote podencos. Here’s what Bev writes.
‘A picture that says a thousand words……. So many podencos are subjected to such a harsh life they are never loved or treated with kindness like we do with out own dogs. They don’t get to sleep on a sofa o,r a comfy bed, if they are lucky they are are held in cages where they can sleep on the ground. Many don’t even get this, they are restrained on chains 24 hours 7 days a week only released when taken out on a hunt. Then they are abandoned if sick or old, for its much cheaper to get a pup or younger one, than pay for veterinary treatment.
The Podenco face two battles, a life of subjugation and then a lack of adoptions for they are not viewed suitable as a family pet, the odds are really stacked against them. On the Island of Lanzarote Podencos have been discovered in the most deplorable conditions held in holes in the ground with no natural light, left there for days with stale water and no food. This is 2016 and why this is allowed to continue is beyond me, and with the power of social media today, few people know about the breed outside Spain.
I can not imagine what goes through their minds when they are handed into a perrera, thrown into cages or corrals with other dogs they have never encountered before. Exposed to other dogs that may carry sickness or disease, fights break out over food for they are fed in hoppers, the strongest survive so many others never eat. It is without doubt a very stressful situation for them. These could be their final days on this earth, for once the perreras are full they have no choice but to euthanise and Podencos are at high risk due to the lack of potential adoptions.
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Princess Beatriz – from the streets of Valencia to idyllic Devon
Always a pleasure to publish a happy rehoming story to illustrate what fabulous pets podencos make. Re-introducing Beatriz, Ellie updates her story.
18 months to two years have passed since I wrote an article about Beatriz the podenco.
Beryl kindly asked me for an update.Rescued off the street in Valencia on a business trip, I wrote about the perils…and joys of adopting a pod’ (which breed wise I knew next to nothing about at the time).
Having been through the experience, (and gently encouraged by my bank manager to do so), J suggest people do not adopt dogs off the streets in Spain, or directly from a pound, but go to one of the many, and wonderful refuges and rescues, both in Spain and here in the UK. They have podencos and galgos and bodegueros and Spanish Water dogs and everything crossed and in between! They know the dogs, can match you up – lifestyle wise – and offer all the invaluable and essential help you will need when adopting from abroad, or in the UK.
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Podenco Post fundraising shop
Welcome to Podenco Post fundraising shop. Proceeds from the sale of items will be used to donate to appeals for help for vet fees for sick and injured podencos.
Prices are reasonable as I collect direct from the printer. Herewith prices, please copy and paste your order and email to me banddbrennan@yahoo.co.uk
If ordering more than one, postage prices will vary.
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Adaana – please help the ‘invisible’ podencos find forever homes
Appeal from Adaana – if their rescued podencos don’t soon find homes, they can’t help the others already on the street needing taking to safety. Here’s what they say.
‘We’re getting near February, and we know that with the end of the hunting season we’ll suffer a new wave of “hunting tools” dropped everywhere, while those which we already rescued remain invisible, without finding a home.
I send you a collage we made to promote them. The main photo is of Podenco Friends in Murcia, in the other photos: Miga, Amber, Lucía, Chance, Shabie y Bonsai. Real beauties!! More here.
We are already receiving requests for help for other podencos who, like them, have been used and discarded, but we can’t do more, especially if our rescued don’t achieve to find their new homes.
Help us to break this spell that makes them invisible, help us to promote them.
Amber was seen by a college of us with her owners and a lot of other podencos, hunting in a forbidden area. She approached them to tell them they shouldn’t be hunting there and they left. Amber caught her eye, because she seemed so young and clumsy… the next day she saw Amber on her own, and the next, … she was scared, but as the days went passed she got more confident and now she’s understood that there’s nothing to be scared about, and she’s a wonderful dog.
Miga was during nearly a month following in the distance a girl every time she walked her dog, she looked skinny and harmed. Between this person and a few neighbors they kept feeding her and trying to catch her, and at last, they achieved to catch her and they took her to the vet: she had a peculiar wound in her mouth, and the vet said it’s quite usual in the area, that hunters drop them with their mouth shut so that they aren’t able to hunt, but she was lucky to manage to get rid of it. Also, she was pregnant (we’ve sterilized her).
Though she walks perfectly on the leash and she accepts manipulation, she’s still quite scared, and she prefers to remain in the distance if possible.
Contact Adaana about their podencos and Podenco Friends