Podenco Post

Update on Podencos Camilo & Eloy in their forever home in Germany

From Polly Mathewson.

Dear Friends of our CAMILO & ELOY podenco brothers, now proudly going by their new adoptive names MIGUEL & MIGAS, it is incredible to see the strides the boys are taking now on only DAY 3 of their new lives in Germany with their loving forever Mums Regina and Monika and their sweet pod siblings Whoopie and Muffin.

The video of the boys tentatively creeping out of the cosy igloo to explore is from this SUNDAY NIGHT, just hours after they arrived from their long journey from southern Spain to northern Germany! Amazing. And their other video eating side by side. How proud we are of our shy little loves and how grateful we are to their new family, the KeksBande (The Biscuit Gang) for helping Migas-Eloy and Miguelito-Cami to feel this secure and so comfy already.

Podencos Camilo and Eloy - en route for their forever home.

From Polly Mathewson, who has been helping these 2 brothers for many years.

'CAMILO & ELOY are heading home today (23/7/2021) and feel so HAPPY! You can turn up the volume to hear them joyfully whistling!

They also have a very long list of friends who they want to thank.

After the tragedy of spending all of their eight years of life so far "In Kennels & In-Visible" our shy beautiful Spaniards, podenco brothers, ELOY & CAMILO, set off today Friday 23 July to arrive on Saturday 24 July with their wonderful forever family in Germany, Mums Regina Schnelle & Monika Habner and poddie siblings Whoopie and Muffin. This is a dream come true for our two.

The boys have endured so many frightened, lonely and sad years, but this last year has been an increasingly good one since we could move them to Costapet kennels near Malaga for rehabilitation. It's been a year in which they have found increasing confidence and more friends, canine and human, than they could have imagined. Their extended family has become enormous!
Our boys are grateful beyond words or woofs, for all the love they have received from everyone - as am I - one of their 3 temporary Mums and writing this on their behalf.

Please sign and share for the laboratory dogs

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591775?fbclid=IwAR2iBW6ClTkwDyT98tscNtmm7hP1dJcUv44UNOcsDhB5x0SdXf52hF4jBc8

Protectora Scooby - podenca Chia hoping for a forever home

From Scooby.

'Chia is a podenquita of about one year old.

She gets along well with other dogs and can live with cats. With people she is affectionate, although until she gains confidence she can be a bit shy. Chip ... 538641.

Do you want to give Chia the home that she so needs? Please, send us an email to [email protected]

Why punishing your dog doesn't work

Read the full article on this link.

Podenco pups abandoned at 2 months old - Galgos Rescue Almeria caring for them

From Sandy Galgoslover.

'New in our care these 3 gorgeous podenco puppies. They were found in a box at the hospital in Huercal Overa, and APA Nueva Vida brought them to the vet for a check up and giving the first care.

2 girls and a boy (Caramella, Santina & Gino) approximately 2 months old. Jean Minett was so kind to pick them up at the clinic and she also offered to foster them for a while.

Many thanks APA to save them, Jean to foster them and Helping Animals Almanzora to support one of the 3 musketeers.

All help / support for the other 2 rascals is welcome.

Please sign and share widely - help the podencos of Gran Canaria

This appeal is from the Association which worked to free the Podencos of Mogan and is caring for them ready for rehoming.

'Every year in the field many see our grounds and neighborhoods invaded by hunters who respect nothing. We get pellets in the yard, dogs get in the house, hens kill us, break us crops, fences, pipes... threatening us. We fear for our lives, our animals and goods.

They take advantage of places with few neighbors and little surveillance to commit their atrocities. Officers usually arrive late if they arrive and we are unprotected by lack of surveillance and impunity for hunters.

They also don't respect the environment, they hunt in special protection areas where hunting is prohibited, they shoot protected birds, cats and whatever is terrified.'

We want the law to be enforced. Respect for the safety zones, not allowed to hunt alongside houses, crops, domestic animals, roads, recreational areas and protected spaces. Increase the available troopers and take measures to ensure compliance with existing regulations.

Update from PACMA on the Podencos of Mogan, Gran Canaria

From PACMA

'Good news. The case of the Podencos de Mogán, which you will surely remember, is finally advancing in the courts. Statements have been taken and, in general, the instruction of the procedure seems to be on the right track. We will fight to the end to obtain the maximum sentence for the people responsible for the terrible state in which these dogs were.

After years of intense struggle by PACMA together with protectors from the area, in April 2020, at last, those known as "the 90 podencos de Mogán", who lived crowded, famished and among their own excrement in this municipality of Gran Canaria, they were seized and rescued from a life of exploitation and mistreatment. A few months ago we were able to see how they recover, free and happy, in foster homes.

Already in 2013 we began to denounce the horrible situation of mistreatment and overcrowding experienced by the podencos used for illegal breeding and hunting in the Canary Islands. In Mogán, the PACMA team witnessed and documented the deplorable confinement of almost a hundred hounds, locked in cages, severely malnourished, without any hygienic measures, living with the corpses of their companions and feeding on their own faeces. After years of fighting and denunciations, last year their luck finally changed.

At PACMA we work every day to save animals like them from exploitation, abandonment and abuse, to toughen penalties and to prohibit hunting.

Hopefully there will be more good news about this case soon. And, as always, for them, the fight continues!'

Bev Farmer - victim of a poisonous Spanish centipede

News from Bev.

'A month ago I posted that I had been bitten by Scolopendra, a giant centipede here in Spain, whilst asleep in bed. At the the time I was not too concerned as few years ago I was bitten by one and it made me feel un well for a couple of days but nothing major.

This time is was very different and it made me very ill, causing problems with weakness in my muscles, my kidneys and affecting my nervous system. At the point where it bit me the skin became necrotic and I was covered in a rash and was quite worried when the medics started taking about meningitis.

I am over the worse of it and they think this reaction was much stronger because I had been bitten in the past. However it has left me having to pace myself and taking a break from Face book/social media. Just to say all the dogs are fine and I will post updates for everyone.

Give rescue dogs a chance

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