Podenco Post

Tag: shelter

  • Male Portuguese Podengos looking for forever homes

    Jackie Dias Dick 400
    A couple of days ago I published some beautiful female Portuguese Podengos looking for forever homes. These are the male Portuguese podengos at the same shelter, run by friends of Jackie Dias, 30 minutes from Porto. The males are neutered and completing their vaccination programmes. They will eventually be microchipped and get an EU Pet Passport.

    Information for adoptees outside of Portugal on how the best way they can ship a dog to a foreign country can be given.

    Contact: jb.dias18@gmail.com

    Introducing DICK – (pic above) Male Podengo and very handsome – a true podengo with the bat-like ears! He also has a great temperament. He suffered a lot at the hands of hunters and eventually it is thought that after losing his scent on a hunt he got lost and was found hungry and thirsty. He is looking for a forever home.

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  • Female Portuguese Podengos looking for forever homes

    Jackie Dias Lucha 1 28 11 2018
    Jackie Dias lives in Portugal and has a couple of friends who run a small shelter in the north around 30 mins drive from Porto. Many of their dogs are Portuguese Podengos which are now on their way to being fully vaccinated, spayed/neutered and microchipped when the adoption process takes place.

    Information for adoptees outside of Portugal on how the best way they can ship a dog to a foreign country can be given.

    Contact: jb.dias18@gmail.com

    Here is my my email as the contact and I can then channel contacts to my friends who run this shelter.

    Please have a look at these lovely sweet podengos, they tend to be forgotten when there are so many in Spain too.

    This one is TUCHA – Female Podenga sweet and always looking for cuddles.

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  • 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.

  • 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 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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  • Welcome to Podenco Post – Publicising everything about and for the Podencos

    Animal Images 2008 065 250 Welcome to Podenco Post.  This blog will be run on similar lines to Galgo News, only this time the Podencos come first!

    They too suffer inexplicable cruelty at the hands of the hunters, especially on the Spanish Islands, the Balearics and the Canary Islands.  And their main hope of a forever life outside the shelters and refuges on these islands is to be adopted on mainland Europe.

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