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  • Last Hope Dog Rescue – podencos waiting for forever homes

    Irene Izzy 250These gorgeous podencos are with Last Hope Dog Rescue. Please, let’s find forever homes for them. Contact Last Hope Dog Rescue if you can help.

    Irene Allen describes their characters.

    First up is Izzy, a 13 week old Podenco Maneto and will be small when fully grown, about the size of a Jack Russell. She s fully vaccinated and passported and is adorable and full of fun .

    Madison (brown & white) is 5 months old and was saved form the hands of a vet who had her tied to a wall for ten days waiting to put her to sleep! She is an adorable Podenco mix and is very very loving and playful. She sleeps on the sofa in the living room at night and is a very chilled wee girl. She is passported and fully vaccinated

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  • Podencas Linda and Maggie – foster and forever homes needed

    Linda 250 dog links 1 7 2012Two more podencos hoping they will get a forever home. Here are their stories.

    ‘Linda is just 18 months old and has already suffered at the hands of her cruel hunter owner. Some of her puppies were rescued and got away to homes, but others were killed and now Linda herself is left behind with a very very uncertain future!! It has been known that the hunters return in August to steal the dogs back from the refuge because they are good breeders…….. so poor little Linda could just disappear one day back to her life of horror!

    This breed make wonderful pets, gentle, intelligent, playful and adorable. Please contact us if you can help Linda – even if it’s to foster her till we can get her a forever home here in France or even through contacts we have in the UK. We must get her out and safe as soon as possible! Call on :-05 65 69 12 26 or email at :- doglinks.fr@gmail.com to save this little sweet creature from disappearing back to a life of cruelty.

    Maggie 1 250 dog links 7 2012Little Maggie is 4 yrs old and weighs 15kgs – so she’s a small medium rough-haired Podenca Andaluz – and she’s an angel we’re told!

    She arrived at a refuge in Spain as a tiny puppy and then spent 4 years there, locked up and never knowing life outside her cage – imagine this! She was recently brought out of Spain to a foster home here in France and is now finding out how wonderful life can be! She is slowly learning that people can be kind, food is good and how her gentle, affectionate nature brings out the best in people! She plays with cats, explores her garden, adores walks and to roll in the perfumed lavender, and soaking up the sun in her new found freedom.

    Maggie 2 250 dopg links 7 2012Maggie will need another dog for company, an enclosed, safe garden and continuing TLC and patience to fully build up her confidence and trust. To know a Podenca is to love them! Doglinks has a rescued one who was so badly treated we never thought she would ever trust humans again…….. but she has, because this breed is intelligent, but above all kind and accepting, grateful and giving.

    Please think of giving them a good home please and if Maggie (or others) would be welcome and cared for in your home, please contact us : 05 65 69 12 26 or email direct at :- doglinks.fr@gmail.com You will never make a better decision by taking on one of these amazing dogs. Thank you!’

    Linda in the refuge.

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  • Podenca Coco lands on her feet in Alhaurin

    Coco 4 Emma 250 sleeping 4 2012Introducing Coco, a podenca andaluz, who knew just the right people to pick forever!
    Emma tells the tale.

    ‘We first moved to Spain at the start of April 2011 and were staying at a villa near Alhaurin el Grande. The first day we arrived my partner Richard was looking in a river close to the villa, when a small head popped out of a hole, to his surprise it was a little puppy! I couldn’t believe it when he walked in with her, she was so cute. We asked around and was told she was abandoned and nobody wanted her (which unfortunately is supposed to be common), I was shocked how anyone could just dump such a sweet puppy!

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  • Podenco Bambi – looking for a forever home

    Bambi 1 190 San Animal Santuario 4 2012Introducing Bambi, a 1 year old male podenco who had been hit by a car and suffered traumatic blindness and shock. As you can see from the photos below, he is now looking fine and thriving……ready for a foster or forever home. If you can find a place in your home and heart for him, contact audrey@sananimal.org
    http://www.sananimal.org

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  • Reflections on the Bullas, Murcia, rescue on 9th March 2012 – 120 dogs

    The Shame of Spain -250 Viv 3 2012Regular readers will have been following the two large rescues carried out in Murcia in January and February 2012, namely at a gypsy camp with 74 dogs, and Bullas with 120 dogs. Vivienne Wharton lives near Cartegena, Murcia and has written about her experiences with the Bullas rescue on 9th March 2012.

    The shame in Spain

    I recently started my activities in a facebook group – Animal Welfare Support Murcia, whilst waiting for my Association, Actin, to be registered by the Town Hall. Actin – Animal Care Treatment International Network is not a rescue charity but an Association which will endeavor to make changes to the overwhelming situation of abandoned and neglected dogs, cats and other domestic animals in the region. We plan to do this through many activities including education and campaigns.

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  • The harsh reality of life for a podenco in the hands of a Spanish hunter

    Two more stories from Podencoworld.

    For the past 3 years, this individual hasbneen keeping animals in appalling conditions. Tucked away in a cabin, they live between amongst their muck on a short chain or rope without any room to move, without food, how do they survive. Seprona has been alerted but not yet taken action.

    Cordoba June 2011 – In the historic center of Cordoba, another podenco living in appalling conditions. Between the excrement, the dog is full of parasites, starving, without food and water, tied to a short rope. Occasionally there is someone who throws some food from the gate.

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  • Cheap accommodation in Cordoba!

    Dumped Cordoba 06 2011 250 Dumped by a dustbin in Cordoba – another victim.

  • 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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