From Plataforma NAC
And the podencos on Tenerife, Canary Islands, continue to suffer. Below is a Spanish dictionary translation of this newspaper article published on 7th March 2017.
The difficult relationship between hunters and animal rights lived this weekend a new episode, this time in the District of Valleseco. Several members of the first group have denounced in the national police that some unknown, supposed defenders of animals, on Saturday broke the padlock of a few kennels located at the entrance of the neighborhood – in a Court of the mountain – and released several hunting dogs, which could not be recovered by their owners until Sunday noon.
I’ve reported on ‘shows’ like this before. This one was at the end of September. The town/village/what ever FRIGILIANA EAST OF MALAGA has posted this on their town hall’s page where they also post things for tourists
The post says DIA DEL PERRO = THE DAY OF THE DOG. This is an example of a ‘cultural promotion’. Rather it is barbarity! The dogs spend a baking hot day like this, no water, hundreds more in cages outside. At least they are not chained.
All other coastal cities in Malaga have a totally different approach to DIA DEL PERRO. Maybe Frigiliana is doing a favor to these poor dogs by exposing how they are maltreated dogs!
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This stunning podenco is Zeus, at the Actua Animalista refuge. Here’s what Antonio Ramirez Garcia about his story. https://m.facebook.com/story.php…
Zeus in adoption
Contact https://m.facebook.com/actua.animalista/
Phone 661755769
**** I’m Zeus.****
It’s a long time since I left.
The truth is that I was never happy, always treated me badly.
I lived in a place surrounded and with a small roof to get out of the cold and the rain.
I’m just out to hunt, until one day they stopped doing it.
I don’t run long enough for that person to whom I belonged.
A few days later they took me in the middle of the field with another dog like me and they cut us loose.
I didn’t know what to do, whether to run, or wait until my master gave me an order.
I was disoriented.
I’ve never lived through a similar situation.
I’ve always advertised the Canary Islands podenco rescue associations as they desperately need help to rehome these fabulous hounds. Here’s a lovely story about two of them rehomed with Patricia Herrera and her husband.
‘After finding out just how easy it was to adopt a podenco from Gran Canaria through the Saving the Gran Canaria Podencos page, thanks to the amazing help of a certain wonderful someone … I decided that one podenco is never enough and decided to get a pod pal for Valentino, who at 1 needed a playmate as my other dogs are 11, 12 and maybe 16 years old!
As you can see it was a rip roaring success and Romeo and Valentino adore each other and coming from the perrera were both very well socialised and surprisingly also house trained despite their harsh upbringing.
Podencos are such beautiful, gentle and sensitive dogs they can find pound life unbearably stressful and often give up eating and lose the will to live and are so terribly grateful for being saved and shown the love they have longed for all their lives so adopting or fostering is incredibly rewarding.
Gran Canaria – This black podenca was beaten to kill her and dumped in a trash bin. She was found, barely alive, rescued and taken to a vet. Karen, a Belgian podenco passionata who herself has a black podenca, has written this tribute to Emmi – who is bravely hanging onto life with enormous care from the vet team and volunteers.
Sweet Podenco girl,
Posting this picture on FB
could make people turn away
quickly scrolling past the horror done to you…
But then no one would ever know you
nor about your fight
and that of good people
for your precious Life.
The hung hound
The title could also be: cruelty goes on and on and on…From Cadiz Scooby took this Podenco. He had just been found with the rope still round his neck. It is a miracle how he did survive with this deep wound at all but he did. He has been treated by the vet, and he is already living in Fermin´s pack with a big bandage around his
neck. He’s been named Noel.
He has been promised a home where he will find love and protection forever. Could it be with you??
Contact Scooby direct.
It’s a wonder this poor podenco still had the strength to stand. Luckily he is now with Galgos 112 and receiving veterinary care to heal his body and soul. Here’s what Galgos 112 say about him.
‘Sucre is exhausted and weak. His condition is lousy, severe malnutrition and ulcers on all the pressure points on his bones. We are waiting for his blood analysis bu his anaemia is evident. He’s also dehydrated. He still has the strength to move around and respondes to each caress and gesture of love. He has suffered a lot in his young life.
My name is Patricia Almansa and I´m the head of Galgos del Sur, a little animal organization from Córdoba, Andalucía (South Spain). We have a big problem with podencos, nobody ask for they and we didn´t find any organization who help them.
The last case is very urgent. We rescued 4 podenco puppies one week ago from a dumpster (ribbish bin). They were in a bag closed with tape. Just in Córdoba we have a heat wave with temperatures higher than 45º; if we hadn´t found in this moment then I´m sure they would have died soon. They have a lot of ticks, wounds, it took us 3 days to take out everything and clean them.
We need help to find good homes for the little podencas, they can´t grow in a kennel. Could anyone help us? There is one boy Bruma (first pic), and 3 girls Arena, Brisa and Marea
