Podenco Post

Tag: Spain

  • Anna, Xativa, Valencia – abandoned podenca needs somewhere to go

    Anna podenca 1 250 12 2011This is an urgent appeal for someone to take in this beautiful young podenca. She is in Anna, near Xativa in the Province of Valencia. This is the story from the lady who wants to save her.

    ‘I have been feeding her since October. I live in Anna which is about 20 minutes from Xativa. I have contacted PEPA and she is on their website but they have nowhere for her to go. I have also contacted SOS Galgos. No one seems able to help.

    She has a problem with her leg and she will need an operation which I would be happy to pay for. I do not want to remove her until I have somewhere for her to go.

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  • Urgent appeal, white podenca needs room somewhere – please help

    White podenca 1 250 12 2011URGENT APPEAL This beautiful starving young white podenca was found on the streets in Castellon by some boys and has been shut in a storage room.

    ‘The boys says that if they canb’t find anyone to take it, they will put it back on the street, as they have a problem with the neighbours! We can’t take in any more dogs, we have 15 in kennels including two which are very sick. Please can someone take her urgently.’

    contacto:salvandounavida@gmail.com
    http://adoptasalvaunavida.com/

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  • Murcia Podenca desperate for new home before Xmas

    Murcia Podenca 1 190 12 2011People who don’t make arrangements to have their pets looked after when they go on holiday really make me angry. I’ve just received this appeal in from Spain. This podenca is in Murcia, can anyone help take her?

    ‘PLEASE! ¡I need your help from Spain! This femalePodenco has only 6 month old.The person who has this bitch has told us that he goes on vacation for Christmas and if we don’t do anything for the bitch he will take it to the pound. It is very urgent to find a home as it may be sacrificed in the perrera.

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  • Estepona, Spain – Guardia Civil drag dog by van

    Great anger in Spain with yet another example of animal cruelty. Read about the dog being dragged along the road by a Guardia Civil van, in the Olive Press

  • Help this little Podenca Andaluz in Seville

    Macu podenca 1 250 12 2011Podenco Andaluz come in 3 sizes, small, medium and large! I have a small, Bebe, she is pocket sized but has THE biggest personality and keeps 5 galgos in order!

    Here’s another very young podenca, now named Conchi-Pepa/Tecla, abandoned, pregnant by a bigger dog. After the puppies, she has been sterlised. She has recovered well from the operation and is in a foster home. But Macu needs help to pay the vet fees, and she desperately needs to find this little podenca her forever home. If you can offer a forever home, please contact Macu. She does an amazing job, keeps these innocent souls at home, or in foster, until someone comes along and can take them. Please, if you can tuck this adorable little Podenca into a corner of your home, next to the fire, contact Macu macu19782010@hotmail.com Mobile Seville 665809169

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  • Podenca abandoned on the streets, Galgo Connection Spain saves her

    Mina Silvia 190 12 2011Another little soul, abandoned on the streets at just 4 months old! This is little podenca Mina, found with an injured/malformed back leg, which has now been operated on successfully, making her a typical puppy, happy and playful.

    Mina is desperate to find a forever home where she can grow and blossom with care and love. If anyone can take this cute little sould into their heart and home, please contact Silvia Galgos Connection Spain. Silvia speaks excellent English

  • Little Podenca Andaluz Lucy, lucky to survive an horrendous attack

    Lucy accident 250 4 12 2011You may remember little podenca Lucy, recently rescued from beside a railway track. She was going through the process of having her EU passport prepared when she was the victim of a terrible attack by bigger dogs which nearly killed her. The second such incident I have reported recently.

    She has umpteen wounds and stitches all over her body; she has a puncture wound almost on the jugular – a little bit closer and Lucy would not be with us. A miracle that she is.

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  • Animal Welfare Murcia – new group to join

    Vivienne Wharton lives in Spain and is horrified with the terrible situation of abandoned dogs and cats. So she has just set up a group Animal Welfare Murcia. Here’s what she says.

    ‘I have no experience of writing to governments or campaigning. I only know I have a very strong urge to do something about the terrible situation in Spain, as I cannot bear what I see on an almost daily basis.

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  • Two Happy Endings – Estrella and Lola

    Estrella& Truman Frances 250 11 2011Followers of Galgo News 2 years ago may remember the story of Estrella, the rough haired podenca left behind in the Cell of 4 at Jaen killing station; the 3 galgas were rescued and rehomed. Estrella wasn’t supposed to be left behind but somehow she was missed. Happily her fate was discovered by Eva Andrews of Scooby Medina and, with the help of L’Europe des Levriers with whom I have worked on rescues, Estrella was brought out of Spain into foster with me.

    Estrella was rehomed with a lovely young Englishwoman, Frances, and here’s what she writes about Estrella today.

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  • TARA Shelter, Gran Canaria – a successful neutering programme

    TARA neutering 1250 09 2011TARA Animal Shelter on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, in September ran a neutering programme for dogs and cats with the help of a Danish team of vets and nurses. Brian, a volunteer with TARA, reports on the success.

    The dog and cat neutering project in Mogan county from 14 to 21 September proved a big hit for all concerned.

    It was a most collaborative effort indeed: TARA Animal Respect Association recruited Danish Friends of Animals to supply professional animal medical staff to Gran Canaria providing the surgery skills and pharmaceuticals as a donation to the local cause of animal welfare.

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