This poor bitch is one of three podencos abandoned close to the River (murcia). A boy who saw them and took the pictures said they look young, are skin and bones. Another man in the area is trying to shoot them. Please contact any of these people to find the exact area if you can help. With the heat, and without food and water in the middle of the campo, they will not last long.
bravo612716@hotmail.com
ardillabubble@hotmail.com
delamaingauche@gmail.com
SARA Protectora Lanzarote have 3 dogs going back to the UK in mid-July, who are searching for their forever homes. Here they are:
Jorge
Age: 5
Type: Cross Podenco
Sex: Neutered male
Colour: Brown/white
Jorge has been in SARA for too long and needs a forever home. We sought him out recently because his name kept on appearing on the Sara lists and it seemed that our paths ought to cross.
As with many small refuges, Galgos del Sol struggles for funding to pay for veterinary care and feed for their galgos and podencos. This is one of them, Frank, a podenco x found running up a motorway, starving and frightened. He is approx 1yrs old and fully vaccined and castrated. At present he is too thin. His bloods are negative for leishmania, erlichia and filaria. Frank has a serious food allergy which causes extreme diarrhoea, his pancreas has tested ok and he needs a special food diet. He’s now been taken into the vet clinic for further tests, including an endoscopy.
This is going to cost 500 euros, a lot of money, if you can donate towards the cost of Frank’s vet fees, you will make a big difference to the life of this young dog. At present we are working with a vet to find a diet that suits him.
These two young podencas are on death row in Cuenca perrera, Denka, Gina and Cuca. If anyone can take them,
contacto: Milagros Sanchez Fernandez milaa21085@hotmail.com
Has anyone room to take in this podenca bitch, living rough on the streets of La Puebla de Cazalla, 70km from Seville. Syhe’s very pregnant and about to give birth,
Contact amdara@hotmail.es , maquirosa9@hotmail.com
Here is a fascinating article about the Ibizan Hounds on the island of Ibiza, some of which are being used as PAT (Pets As Therapy) dogs. In England my greyhound Molly was a PAT dog and we used to have great fun visiting a retirement home – folks used to love to talk about dogs they had owned, and Molly really enjoyed birthdays when she got to share the cake!
The article also explains the other activities which young Ibizan Hounds can be trained for – search and rescue, agility and so on. Podencos – whatever type – are not just for hunting or simply a companion dog. Since they are active working dogs, using them for PAT, agility and so on can enhance your ownership of one of these fantastic dogs.
There is a list of associations on Podenco Post which specialise in rescuing and rehoming podencos – please give a thought to offering one a forever home.
Leishmania is the third most important canine disease worldwide, caused by a sandfly. It bites an infected dog, then passes on the disease by biting another dog. It is diagnosed by blood test and, if caught soon enough, can be treated. Untreated, the dog will die. The disease is preventable by the use of a Scalibor collar (similar to a flea collar) but unfortunately these are expensive. Now there is a new cheaper alternative.
Sighthound Welfare Trust have launched this appeal on behalf of Baas Galgo.
This is a sad story of podencos at the bottom of Spain, La Linea, near Cadiz and opposite Gibraltar. Podenco World tells the story of Peter’s Diary, Peter runs the La Linea animal shelter, 600 dogs including 200 podencos.
Pedro’s Diary: Crimes against innocent podencos.
These podencos are in the killing station in Cordoba, on death row. It was not their choice that they were born in Spain…..that their lives should end like this.
Here’s another podenco desperately waiting for his forever family.
‘Hi all, I’m Emi. Arantxa, a volunteer from the kennel Etxauri. This is Bo, who who loves and does not understand how nobody has even noticed him.
BO came in August 2009 from a seedy kennel in Valencia. His kennelmate Scooby died, and Bo was alone and sad. We rescued him from there 2 years ago and he is still waiting in our kennels, but why? Bo is a hound, Ibizan and Portuguese. Beautiful, noble, good and happy in essence, loves to walk in the mountains and is obedient and loyal. Bo needs a home, but mostly, Bo deserves a family.’
CONTACT TO ADOPT A BO: ARANTXA, TXIKAS OF Etxauri lasupernena_sun@hotmail.com
