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URGENT -abandoned podenco puppies near Motril, Spain

This is an urgent appeal for help for these abandoned podenco puppies in Motril. Caroline Bejar sends the information below. Please contact her if you can help, and share widely.

The information I have yesterday there were 5 puppies. today I contacted the person who sent me the photos she lives in IZBOR (GRANADA) about 25 km from Motril where I live. Some neighbors have caught 3 puppies, the person who contacted me to catch a female today and a male with the mama in the street. The puppies are 2 months old, the mother is very fearful and difficult to touch. That's all I know. I would like to know if they can be made to help the 2 puppies and the dog.

I speak Spanish, French and German and some English
my phone is 0034 663165102

Pray for Podenco Spirit today

Do you remember the story of Podenco Spirit, the poor hound picked up off the street with the lower half of his jaw shot off?! After all the care of the team of volunteers with Refugio La Candela and an amazing veterinary team, today Spirit is in the Valencia Veterinary Hospital to have an operation which will change his life, hopefully, and he will be able to eat properly.

Here's what the team say.

Spirit is already in the field of surgery of the Valencia sur hospital veterinario.

Now the moment has come; all vets and doctors who take care of the operation are ready.

He was just put in the operating theatre where he's prepared for anesthesia and will start the operation we've been waiting for, which will normalize his life.

Gran Canaria - free accommodation, self-catering!

Yet more publicity about the appalling abuse of podencos on Gran Canaria, just a few miles inland from the beaches and apartments frequented by the tourists. This report from Kurt who visited the Island as a tourist. (Google translation)

'After a very difficult year, a week of Gran Canaria, and then you go because it's almost as far as you can make your nieuwjaarsvoornemens and walk around.... FIRST YOU MEET 2 Neurotic horses in a mini garage and then a Beautiful Dalmatian on the chain that is so scared... well of walking is long gone... crying of powerlessness... in the "house" Strolling I hear a lot of dogs barking and go see...

Horror of a hundred dogs some dead in a big cage with no water and food....the stink, the crying of those dogs goes through marrow and leg... completely off the map I go home... after that first shock is processed, we rush to the supermarket to get a cart full of food and water.... we get back there at Auschwitz for dogs - there is there a man right next to that cage watering plants while those animals dying of thirst...

Update on Podenca Libby's pups with SOS Animals

You will remember my appeal for help for podenca Libby and her 5 pups living in a cave and being fed by an Englishman living nearby. After he had to return to the UK (no choice in the matter) a local lady volunteer with SOS Animals stepped in. Libby and one of her pups are adopted by Vincent and a friend, the other 4 pups are growing fast with SOS Animals.

Thanks to your generosity along with others, enough money was raised towards vaccinations for the pups. Rescuer Sue has this update.

'Big Bang Theory has provided the inspiration for the names for our four playful sibling puppies...meet (left to right) Howard, Penny, Leonard and Sheldon. They love each other very much. Penny is already reserved for a home in the UK when her papers are ready for travel.'

If you would like to ask about one of the boys, please contact SOS Animals.

The escape artist, climber, digger, Houdini.

I'm an opportunist, an escapee in the making
I want to run away from you, your love I am forsaking.

Because I am scared of everything, and you don't understand
I'd sooner run away from you and live out on the land.

Don't leave that door open, not even just ajar
Because if you do I'll be gone, and run and run so far.

A window left open, to catch the gentle breeze
For me that's a piece of cake. I can get through that with ease.

I can wriggle out of a harness if that is not secure.
I'll find a way I know I can, and of that you can be sure.

I watch for things that you seemingly and carelessly forget
Like leaving me in the garden. All you'll have now is regret.

Apologies

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Young podenco - dumped like trash to be killed! Caceres, Spain - URGENT!

This young podenco is in the municipal pound in Caceres, southern Spain. He has a front leg injury which urgently needs veterinary attention. He's terrified...look at his eyes! Poor soul. If he is not taken out soon, he will be murdered in a couple of weeks, pts by the municipal vet...Please contact adopcionescaralapiz@gmail.com or whats app to 625190080

Keep your new dog safe...important lessons to learn

Ann Marie Payne is with SOS Animals in Coin and has become very concerned about the number of posts for lost dogs! Here's what she writes.

'Lately I've seen so many posts about newly adopted dogs escaping.

You may be excited at the idea of having a new dog, but your dog is probably terrified and will want to flee at the first opportunity.

Please try to put yourself in their mind and try to imagine this.

They may have had a miserable life and ended up in the pound, or simply might have got lost and ended up in there. The pound is not a nice place, and many struggle to survive mentally as well as physically. They go into foster and regain some of their trust, only to find themselves crated up and off to somewhere new.

Sign the petition to Save the Strays in Murcia

Please sign and share widely. No dog should be murdered in a perrera!

French lesson - how to train your master

How to manipulate your master - French style. Place your chin on their knee and look at them with very soulful eyes!