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From Pyramid to Perrera - The Story of the Podenco - English & French

From Pyramid to Perrera - The Story of the Podenco. Get a taster here.

Thanks to Beverley Farmer of Podenco Friends for the beautiful portrait of Jazz adorning the front cover.

Available now only as an ebook, click on this link.

'De La Pyramide a La Perrera' - French version buy as an ebook here.

All print copies are sold out in both English and French.

Italian translation in the pipeline.

And don't forget to order Podenco t-shirts and mousepads

Very pregnant and injured - Podenca Esca now safe with Podenco Friends

A few days ago Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends put out an appeal for this podenca, which a group of volunteers were trying to capture. If they could get her, they needed transport to get her to Bev.

'URGENT - TRANSPORT NEEDED FOR AN INURED AND PREGNANT PODENCA
Currently located in Campotejar on the border of Granada and Jaen to go to Murcia please message me if you can help
Esca has been on the streets for 2 months ....2 weeks ago she was caught in an animal trap, the owner of the trap released her but let her go. She is unable to walk on the leg and the bone is exposed and she is also pregnant. It's urgent she gets to see a vet.

Tina Reeves who lives in the village has been trying to catch her for weeks and been feeding her, this afternoon Esca had the good sense to enter into Tina's house. It's a very rural part of Spain and there are no local vets.

Hope for Podencos 2021 calender - order before 1 November

I've just discovered Hope For Podencos have a calendar again for next year. You need to order by 1st November as the order for the printing goes in on 2nd November. The calendar is 14 euros and will be superb quality.

Here's the link to order now.

Galgo's Rescue Almeria - need donations to pay for leishmania treatment

Galgo's Rescue Almeria have 6 hounds needing leishmania treatment, including Podenco Lucky pictured here. They are struggling to raise funds for the medication, please donate if you can to their GoFundMe appeal on this weblink.

Disposing of dog poop

If like me you have a few hounds, I've had 5 at one time, down to 2 now and a podenca, then disposing of their poop can be a problem. A friend of mine with kennels uses a stack of old tyres, building them up one at a time to a tower. She covers the poop with soil and leaves and it eventually breaks down into compost.

Here's a similar idea as well as several others.

Podenca Crystal relaxing at home in Canada

Remember the story recently of Podenca Crystal who escaped from her crate at Toronto airport. The whole airport was shut down whilst a dozen volunteers attempted to catch her. Luckily due to the excellent recall training she received with Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends, she was eventually captured safely. Now she's relaxing in her for ever home - the look on her face says 'who, me' I never caused all that trouble!!'

Galgo's Rescue Almeria - Podenco Tyler waiting for a forever home.

From Sandy at Galgo's Rescue Almeria.

This is Podenco Tyler. He came to us from the perrera, we don't know why he was in there. He is a very friendly young dog who deserves to be in a forever home. Contact me if you can offer him one.

Akira Dog Sanctuary - Podenca Patsy just arrived

From hayleyobrien@live.co.uk

This is Patsy, very pretty and just a young one. Hopefully she won't be waiting long as she is very friendly and good with dogs.

Contact Hayley on the weblink above.

Name : Patsy
D.O.B: 01.09.2019
Sex: Female
Size: Medium
Breed: podenco
Spayed: tbc
Good with kids
Good with dogs

Podenco Ibicenco Turbo waiting for a forever home

From Sandy at Galgo's Rescue Almemria.

.Rescuing animals...

It stays a thin line between joy and pain.

This week GRA welcomed this beautiful Podenco Ibicenco. This beautiful big boy is only 9 months young, he’s is used to living with a small dog and a cat. Unfortunately due to a change of circumstances he could not stay with his family and GRA was asked to find him a new home.

If you're considering giving him a new home, you should know he's a young dog, so he still needs a strict education.' Contact Sandy direct.

Video of Turbo

Portuguese Podengo x Kiri with Dogs of Portugal - hoping for a forever home

This is Kiri, a Portuguese Podengo X who was dumped at the shelter of Dogs of Portugal by his owner, after living in a home for 6 years! How strange it must be for him. Read about him and see more pix on this weblink and contact Dogs of Portugal if you are interested in him.

Podenca Kira - hoping for a forever home in her twilight years

From Protectora Malaga

'There are many people who when they see their dogs get old, get upset and suffer in anticipation of the ending that unfortunately will come. They would like them to be eternal, never to leave and always live with them. They take care of them, they spoil them, they do what is necessary to save their dog, to help him spend a few more years. I've met a lot of people like this in the Protectora.

But unfortunately there are others with different behavior, because when your dog, or any other animal, ages and is sick, they abandon it because it no longer serves its use: entertain the children, show off how beautiful it is, hunt. That's happened to poor Kira, aged 14, she has stopped serving someone, someone who never loved her, and they have abandoned her in Zoosanitarian.

She's with us now. We'd like to know something about her story, to tell us what she was used for, but we'll never know, although seeing her race, and her state, it's not hard for us to imagine.