Podenco Post

Tag: TARA animal shelter

  • 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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  • TARA Gran Canaria – Podenco Lex – can anyone foster in Germany or Spain

    TARA Lex 3 250From TARA association on Gran Canaria. You can see that being in the shelter for so long is taking its toll on Lex, no matter the good care the volunteers take of him. He’s spent half his young life in a shelter. He needs to be in a forever home away from the stress of shelter life.

    ‘LEX-LOOKING FOR A HOME- When Lex was found wandering we knew he had an owner, but due to the fact he was not microchipped we could not return him to his home. Lex has been with us in kennels for 18 months and has now become the longest dog to be without a home.

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  • Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to Helsinki, Finland – are you flying this route soon?

    An appeal for help from TARA on Gran Canaria.

    ‘We have wonderful new homes waiting for equally wonderful dogs in Finland (thank you Sanna, Rita, and all the rest of the fabulous Fins who are reaching out to help someone – dogs, cats, humans)!

    What is needed now is folks flying from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to Helsinki – the sooner the better.

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  • TARA Podenco Pico – finds his forever home on Gran Canaria

    Eva and Pico 190 TARA Gran Canaria 08 2011 Look at this fabulous photo. We all love a happy ending and here is one for Pico, one of the TARA Gran Canaria podencos. Here’s what Brian says.

    ‘This photo is of The Best Little Dog Shelter in Paradise’s beautiful Eva and her gorgeous new baby boy! Too cute for words!

    Eva, The Vigilent Volunteer of the Year 2011, from the beginning was a wonderful foster mother for many of the little canine cuties from The Best Little Dog Shelter, and wisely swore never to fall head over heals in love with any of her wards, to keep her fostering efforts a pristine example of what grand fostering is all about — love and release!

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  • TARA – saving the animals on Gran Canaria – visit the shelter

    Beloved TARA Friends & Animals

    These are the guys searing in the scorching sun all these hot summer days. Give yourself a great self-esteem lift and mosey on down to the shelter for a WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSION with this lovely lot! They will raise your spirits, and you will send theirs soaring! Human time and attention will greatly heal the hurt until a foster or adoption companion comes their way.

    WALK, TALK, TOUCH SESSIONS are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 1715 hours (5:15p.m.); Fridays and Saturdays from 1100 hours (11 a.m.).

    Come and enjoy our community playing to make Gran Canaria a Paradise for Animals too!

    Happy Paws & Claws, Brian, TARA Volunteer

    A note of horror – their facebook page says ‘Dogpound in north of Gran Canaria is getting 25 abandoned dogs EVERY day. Do not buy but adopt !!!’ That’s just on one small island in the Canaries!

  • TARA animal shelter, Gran Canaria – podencos searching for forever homes

    TARA Mogan Vitola May 2011 250 Brian Baptist is a volunteer with TARA, an animal rescue shelter in the beautiful port of Mogan on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. He’s passionate about the podencos on the island and the hard life they have. Here’s what he writes.

    ‘Canario Podencos are a breed of canine that evolved from goddesses and gods of Egyptian folklore. If any canine is god-like, it must certainly be the Podenco. They are beautiful beyond belief – ethereal in presence and physicality. Despite their reputation as a hunting dogs, they are in truth just about the best family pet for whom a human could hope.

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