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  • Insuring your podenco – share your experience

    On a recent post on my Podenco Post facebook page, a question was asked for help with insuring a podenco in the UK. Below I have posted the thread of the conversation. If any of you have experience which you can share, please do. (Each paragraph is a comment by a different person).

    ‘Some breed assistance with insurance please. Hope a Spanish Podenco three year old came from mainland Spain. Tesco pet insurance is classed as an Ibizan hound cost £12 month. Theo a Podenco Canario from Lanzarote, they want to class as a Cirneco dell’Etna same age cost £27 a month. They are now looking into matters but I suspect many of you are far more knowledgeable with the breed so any help you can give will be appreciated and any info on who you use to insure your poddies?

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  • Surrounded by Podencos…adopt one

    Janice Ball pods 1 250Another lovely rehoming story, from Janice Ball, who proves that podencos are addictive – you can’t have just one, you need more!

    The story of how I came to own 4 Podencos is down to me joining facebook, until then I had never heard of a Podenco! I started to see them on various rescue sites and then I spotted Suzi who had been in kennels for over 2 years and no one had enquired about her, she really touched my heart strings and I just fell in love with her. I adopted her there and then and she came over in 2013. She has been with me now a year and she is the prettiest most loving dog ever who greets all her fellow brothers and sisters every morning with kisses and licks. She loves all people and dogs but is not too keen on cats or birds as she sees these as something to chase as she has almost certainly done a bit of hunting at some point in her past life in Spain.

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  • Podenco Canario Marlin – from Lanzarote to the UK

    SARA Marlin 4 Rescued as a puppy by SARA Protectora in Lanzarote, Marlin is now in foster in the UK and awaiting his forever home. Foster dad Rick describes this beautiful boy.

    ‘MARLIN 4 yr old Podenco Canario dog. Medium sized light tan coloured dog found wandering the streets as a puppy , having been in SARA shelter on Lanzarote since. Now in the UK and looking for a forever home!

    He is neutered, microchipped, inoculated and passported. He is housetrained, people friendly, children friendly and dog friendly. Unlike many of his brred he has not shown any signs of being an escape artist in the garden or indeed interest in running off when on his walks. He much prefers to stay close to his friends where he can play chase the ball and chase each other!

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  • PACMA – Canary Islands Government says no to outlawing animal abuse

    PACMA is a political party in Spain, founded in 2003, fighting the abuse and maltreatment of animals. This is a report on their website on a recent action against the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands. (google translation)

    ‘Next March will be a year of delivery of a request to amend the Law 8/1991 on the Animal Protection Party Animalista – PACMA the Canary Islands Government and backed by 30,070 signatures collected throughout the archipelago.

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  • SARA Lanzarote – saving the podencos in the Canary Islands

    SARA Janubio 170 12 2013To animals, every day is the same, there are no fete days, bank holidays, Easter, Christmas. Their main concern is a warm bed, food and fresh water, and caring hands. Many people will have whizzed off to the Canary Islands for Christmas in the sun – spare a thought for all the volunteers working to look after all the abandoned and rescued dogs – specially the podencos – most of whom will spend their lives in a refuge unless they are adopted abroad.

    Sara Protectora on Lanzarote has over 150 dogs and 70 cats. Read more about their work here – click on the Union Jack for the english pages. More on their work here and a photo album

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  • SARA Protectora, Lanzarote – saving dogs

    SARA Protectora clavel 170 9 2013The Canary Island podencos have a very hard life and here’s just one example. Meet Clavel, or Carnation in English. Here is what SARA say.

    Clavel is the name we have given to this little male podenco, which the owner brought to our premises on the order of Seprona, who went to the house to process the complaint. They ordered that the dog be taken to our kennels to be treated and of course to be found a new home. The owner knew that the eye had been bad for a long time and that as of course it hadn’t been treated, the eye just exploded, with all the suffering that entails.

    It was necessary to remove the eye and now he is recuperating from the operation.

    Thank you to Seprona for taking action for this little dog and bringing him to us so that he can be treated.

    If you would like to offer Clavel a loving forever home, contact SARA Protectora.

  • Cheap accommodation in Tenerife, Canary Islands – food and drinks not included

    Podencos Tenerife 250 3 2013Two stories from PodencoWorld in Holland. To read in English, click on the Translation button top left hand side, drop down menu, click on your language.

    The first one is about 12 podencos living in appalling conditions on a farm in San Roque, Tenerife. The foundation Animal Help Canarias reported the poor state of the hounds on a finca. The way the animals are crammed in the back of a private estate, continuously chained without any room to move. The precarious facilities do not meet the necessary hygiene and dogs have “not even enough food or water,” said a spokesman for the foundation. “Neighbors often call these situations to denounce”.

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  • SARA Protectora, Lanzarote, Canary Islands – please adopt an Island podenco – give them a chance

    SARA_Cafeina_190I have highlighted often the problem for podencos on the Spanish Islands…Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Ibiza, Mallorca. People go on holiday to these places and don’t see the hell of life for the dogs and cats (mainly) on the islands, where the only hope of a forever life is to be adopted abroad – Europe, Scandinavia, UK.

    SARA Protectora on Lanzarote have dozens of deserving podencos… Rick and Lesley Beauchamp take a few to the UK for rehoming, a few go to Germany and the Czech Republic. BUT the cost of flights can be prohibitive and also it needs one person for every 2 dogs on a flight.

    Here are a few of the dozens in the refuge on Lanzarote…over 60 Podenco Caqnario, different from the Podenco Ibicenco in appearance but not in character – if you can’t adopt one, please go along to the shelter and walk a dog, support the volunteers, anything to help them keep going.

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  • Arrecife, Lanzarote – SARA Protectora Podenco Publicity Day!

    SARA Lanzarote even 190t 24 11 2012I’m catching up on posts, as have been away on holiday for a week with my son and grandsons. Here’s a marvellous event which is much needed in the Canary Islands where the podencos have a very hard life, and local people need to know what marvellous pets they can make.

    SARA Lanzarote are organising an event on 24th November at Arrecife, and hope that it’s not too late for podenco associations elsewhere and on mainland Spain to organise something at the same time. Here’s the report from SARA Lanzarote.

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  • SARA Protectora, Lanzarote – podencos find homes in the Czech Republic

    SARA Mestiza 1 250 24 1 2012I try hard to remind people that the podencos in the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands have a very tough time. Even worse, their main chance of a forever life outside of the shelters, where they are well looked after and never put down, is to be adopted on mainland Europe. Here’s wonderful news from SARA Protectora on Lanzarote. and please remember, if you are holidaying especially on Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, go along to the local dog shelters and support the volunteers who work tirelessly to help the islands’ abandoned and unwanted.

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