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Tag: Spanish hunters

  • Life for the podencos of mainland Spain, Canary Islands and Balearic Islands

    A video exposing the truth about life for the podenco born into a hunting home on mainland Spain, or on one of the Canary Islands or Balearic Islands such as Ibiza. Upsetting photos but please do not turn away – remember that each and every one of these podencos has suffered so much more – and most of them have been saved. Thank you PodencoWorld.

  • Urgent – Cordoba Podenco to be killed by hunter – need a safe place for her

    Cordoba podenco 200 1 9 2012Urgently need to find somewhere for this beautiful little 2yr old podenca which the hunter does not want because she won’t hunt. He’s now going to kill her. She’s in a tiny kennel with two others, with only water, filthy dirty with excrement. In a town near Cordoba.
    Contact mujerpetirroja@gmail.com
    Cordoba podenco 200 2 9 2012(cristina alcantara lopez)

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  • Little podenco Noa rescued from a living hell – inhuman hunter again!

    Noa 250 8 2012This is little Noa, a podenco of 1 year old. He was found with his mother and another pup in terrible conditions. His moma was in a state of extreme neglect, skeletal, bleeding, with an impressive pyometra, abused, among her excrement, lying there with babies and trampled by more hounds in a shed where this hunter was breeding and selling for hunting!!

    The hunter wanted the baby sacrificed and said it was worthless, some babies died,,, no wonder .. and this poor little one has been struggling for his life, was in a state of extreme thinness, malnourished, unable to suck his mom, who had problems breathing and bleeding and mastitis…

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  • Pig or Podenco? More barbarity from the Spanish hunters or genetic mutation?

    Bella nose 8 2012The barbarity of some Spanish hunters defies belief at times. This beautiful young podenca is a victim of one type of inexplicable cruelty – cutting the nose to make the podenca look like a pig! I’ve come across this before, twice we have brought podencos out of Spain who have suffered this barbarity. Poor Joy had problems drinking, as water tended to go up his nostrils – what was left of them. And his trauma….with a lot of love and patience, especially on the part of his foster family, over many months he became a very affectionate little chap.

    This is Bella, and she urgently needs a foster home, as she is currently in a locked garage.

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  • Another Podenco puppy abandoned in Seville – needing his guardian angel

    Donut-2 250 6 2012And here’s another podenco pup, found abandoned in a swamp! carmina says ‘Donut is a little puppy Podenco (6-8 months old) rescued wandering around a swamp in Seville. His condition was critical, he was emaciated, malnourished. Right now is recovering in a kennel, But his godmother can not afford to pay the kennel fees much longer. It is very necessary to find accommodation or adoption for him.’

    Please, contact with Carmina Álvarez (she speaks/writes English) carminalvarezrea@gmail.com.

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  • Ibizan Hound Rescue – podencos from a Bullas Babe in the UK for adoption

    Bullas%20mum 250 IHRMore news about the Bullas Babes, the podencos taken in by Little Pod Foundation, who had been rescued in January 2012 along with tens of galgos in a compound in Bullas, Murcia. The owner used the dogs for breeding to sell to the Spanish hunters. These podenco puppies are from a Bullas podenca, now safe with Ibizan Hound Rescue in the UK and looking for forever homes. If you would like to be considered as an adoptant, please contact Valerie Wood www.ibizanhoundrescue.com

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  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona, fighting to save the galgos and podencos

    AnnaClements_JeromeGuillot_250 EstrasburgoSOS Galgos seeks help from Europe in ending the plight of Spanish galgos

    On 9th June SOS Galgos attended the first international demonstration in defence of Spanish galgos in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The protest condemned the cruelty suffered by galgos at the end of the hunting season. The demonstration was supported by Euro MP, Michèle Striffler. Protests echoing these demands took place in Madrid and Barcelona the following day. (Anna Clements & Jerome Guillot)

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  • Holidays in Canary Islands? SARA Lanzarote needs your help

    SARA Mestiza 1 250 24 1 2012SARA Lanzarote (Canary Islands) have sent this story about this podenca bitch, yet another of life’s victims discarded by the hunters. Podencos are used on the Spanish islands for hunting rabbit, and suffer horrendous cruelty at the hands of the hunters, just like the galgos and podencos on mainland Spain. The only hope for the deserving dogs in the shelters on Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Ibiza, is to be adopted on the European mainland. Please bear them in mind when considering offering a forever home to a dog. Otherwise these dogs will spend their lives in the shelters.

    SARA tells Mestiza’s story.

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  • BEBE – a Podenca Andaluz – rescued injured from a Seville motorway

    Family animals 2010 040 210 Bebe is my miniature Podenca Andaluz.  Here is her story.

    Bebe was found, traumatised with fear, starving and dumped on a Seville autoroute.  She had been badly injured by a vehicle and her left hind leg damaged to such an extent that she could not walk on it.  She was rescued by a volunteer from an animal refuge and taken to her home.  The following day, a vet at the refuge clinic diagnosed a badly dislocated hip and other wounds to her body from the accident.  Her age was put at between 3-6 years old.

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