Podenco Post

Tag: refuge

  • Spending their lives in a shelter – can you change that forever?

    SARA Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The only hope for podencos in their shelter is for them to be adopted in mainland Europe. These are beautiful dogs who deserve a life in a forever home. Please take a look at them. If they are not adopted, they will spend the rest of their lives in the shelter. The dogs are listed in alphabetical order, and their photos run in the same way. I would add that the descriptions say that they may hunt – but then again, what type of dog would not ‘hunt’ if a cat or deer ran past its nose?!

    SARA Cachorro Braille 190 Cachorro Braile: He has been handed into our shelter by his owner on the 29th of november 2008, when he was only 2 months old. He is a very friendly dog with everybody, but in the same time very shy. If you take him out for a walk you need to force him at the start, but after a while he relaxes and enjoys it and is always looking out for the person with him. He is not interested in hunting.

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  • Encasa, a podenco x pup who story touches everyone’s hearts.

    Introducing Encasa, the story of a podenco x puppy who spent the first 4 years of his life in the PAWS refuge in Spain, and to Ibizan Hound Rescue who gave him a forever home. This illustrates what fantastic pets these adorable dogs make.

  • More podencos on death row, Jerez/Gesser

    Jerez Gesser podencos 2 28 03 2011 150 These little beauties are in the Jerez/Gesser killing station – can anyone help them? There are two males and a female Contact Maribel

    Jerez Gesser podenco 1 28 03 2011 150

  • Starving to death in a coral in Cordoba!

    Starving dogs Cordoba 4 11 02 2011 250 There are no regulations in Spain to which refuges and shelters have to adhere.  Some are a living hell for dogs and cats which have already suffered from maltreatment and abuse.  This is a 'coral' in Cordoba where dogs including podencos are starving to death through lack of food and water.  When dogs get to this stage, they will even attack and eat each other.  There is evidence of this here.  El Arca de Noe Cordoba complained about the situation, and the authorities removed the dogs to the local pound.  Death awaits them, from lethal injection if they haven't already succumbed to infection and illness before them.

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  • Extremadura hunters – Fepaex says ‘Take Responsibility for your Dogs!

    Extremadura hunter fepaex.org 02 2011 250 Podencos and galgos both suffer unimagineable cruelty at the hands of the Spanish hunters and gitanos – Spanish gypsies.  Most publicity comes from the regions of Andalucia and Murcia, as well as the Spanish Islands Ibiza and the Canary Islands.  However, the Spanish interior including the region of Extremadura is also hell on earth for galgos and podencos.  Here is a report from Fepaex – Federacion de Protectoras de Animales de Extremadura.

    THE PROBLEM for  HUNTING DOGS  in EXTREMADURA =  Irresponsible HUNTERS + passive and complicit

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  • Podencos – life in the hands of Spanish ‘thugs’

    Paloma Maestud 250 Whilst the plight of the podencos does not have the same high profile as that of the galgos, they suffer a similar life at the hands of the Spanish hunters, especially on the Spanish Islands, the Canary Islands near Africa and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean.

    Here,  one podenco passionata writes about them.

    'The reality is that the life of a podenco is in the hands of "thugs", this is the same as the life of the Galgos, adding to his miserable life also by suffering abandonment by the vast majority of Spanish society. Increasingly they share the same hardships, are also exploited for the same purposes, are just as abused, scraping by in hideouts dark, damp, crowded together, no light, no ventilation, the floor covered with dog dirt, being walk on, and occasionally being thrown a loaf of bread in order to "eat."

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  • Podencos desperately needing forever homes – due in UK June 2011

    SARA Lanz Dobby crop 190 01 2011 These absolutely beautiful galgos are on the Canary Island of Lanzarote.  They are in the good care of the refuge SARA Lanzarote.  Their only hope of a forever life outside of these kennels – they don't put a dog down – is to be adopted on mainland Europe and in the UK.  These particular podencos will be travelling to the UK in June 2011 when their passports are clear, and will be in the kennels of Rick and Lesley Beauchamp in Leicestershire.  Please contact them direct about any of these deserving beauties.

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  • Podencas needing forever homes – can you help?

    Aminda 2 Phoenix 01 2011 190 Mindy and Roda are two gorgeous young podencas which are now in foster care in France and desperately looking for their forever homes.  Here's the story of how they came to be in France.

    If you can offer either of them the rest of their life in a forever home, where they will give you total devotion, please contact Phoenix Association.

    You may not know the breed Podenco but they are a sighthound,like the Pharoah Hound, and are subject to bad treatment and abandonment by the Spanish hunters.  For most in shelters on the Spanish Islands, forever homes in mainland Europe is their only hope of life outside the shelter. They are an extremely loyal breed and make fantastic companions.

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  • Podencos – not a fashion accessory but a member of the family

    Jane Lanes thoughts 01 2011 190 Jane Lanes is a Podenco passionata and here she talks about her feelings towards this much maligned breed and her special canine family member, Dana.

    Within the world of dogs, there is a race that moves me. Yes, the podencos (all and each of them, andaluces, ibicencos, pharaoh hound, canarios, crossbreeds… all!!). And I know I'm not objective, since Dana is a podenco and a greyhound crossbreed. But everything has its explanation.

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