Podenco Post

Sighthounds 2 Save, Belgium - helping the galgos and podencos

Regular readers will know that I often publicise the plight of the podencos on the Canary Islands, where their only hope of a forever home is on mainland Europe. Sighthounds 2 Save was created in 2008 and besides helping the Irish Greyhounds and Spanish Galgo, they work on rehoming the podencos of Tenerife and Lanzarote.

Podenco Canario, Maneto, Enana, Andaluz and more...

This is an article I wrote a few years ago which first published on Galgo News - before I created this blog Podenco Post - from when the podencos have gone from strength to strength.

Meet the podencos - an alternative form of energy

Lovely video of podenco puppies with Podenco Friends Bev Farmer. She reckons it's an alternative form of energy!

And another of Bev's fabulous podenco hounds.

Podencos and more podencos...

a fascinating look into the history of the Podenco Ibicenco

And one about the Podenco Canario on Fuerteventura

Here you can see there are now Podencos in Hungary

From Lanzarote to the UK - tales of SARA Protectora Podenco Canarios

Tales from Leicestershire and Rick and Lesley Beauchamp - rehomers of the Podenco Canarios from SARA Protectora on Lanzarote. Contact them here for information about the podencos they currently have waiting for homes, including these. Meet some of the SARA Protectora podencos.

Podenco Post pause

Today I am off to Spain for a week to visit Viv Wharton of ACTIN and find out more about their work and then to Bev Farmer to immerse myself in podencos. However, I've scheduled some stories to publish, so keep reading.

Arca Sevilla and Julio - the tale of a little podenco puppy

This is the tale of a little podenco puppy called Julio, because he was found injured by the roadside in Seville in July 2013, saved by Arca Sevilla.

The story of Julio is like many other hunting dogs. When not used for hunting, are not responsive to the expectations of the hunter, they are abandoned to their fate. And their fate is often very poor. So Julio, a young podenquito, just a puppy, probably not starting out as a hunter like his owner wanted, he was alone and abandoned. Looking for life as he could, through fear, hunger and thirst, more thin, more damaged, more suspicious of all ... one day, do not know when or how but he suffered an accident and his front leg was seriously damaged. Then came the pain and infection. In these conditions her would soon have died, anonymously, like many others before him.

On death row - two terrified podencos - URGENT!

And these two poor babies on death row (don't know which perrera).

Lucia and Fernando will die at the end of the week! Can we save them? Reserved but nowhere to go. If somewhere is not found and they are paid for, they will return to the perrera... Just been told Fernando will be pts on THURSDAY!

FERNANDO is only about 8 months old, kind and curious but very scared. He will gain in confidence in a loving home. And Lucia is about 3 years old, terrified in the perrera.

If we can get sponsors for them to go in a residence, even better a foster and forever homes, then we can get them out. Paypal me [email protected] and I'll send donations on, mark them Lucia Fernando.

SARA Protectora, Lanzarote - saving dogs

The Canary Island podencos have a very hard life and here's just one example. Meet Clavel, or Carnation in English. Here is what SARA say.

Clavel is the name we have given to this little male podenco, which the owner brought to our premises on the order of Seprona, who went to the house to process the complaint. They ordered that the dog be taken to our kennels to be treated and of course to be found a new home. The owner knew that the eye had been bad for a long time and that as of course it hadn’t been treated, the eye just exploded, with all the suffering that entails.

It was necessary to remove the eye and now he is recuperating from the operation.

Thank you to Seprona for taking action for this little dog and bringing him to us so that he can be treated.

If you would like to offer Clavel a loving forever home, contact SARA Protectora.

Please join this protest against the murder of Romanian street dogs...

Please join this protest about the murder of Romanian street dogs - they are already being killed inhumanely On-line petition here