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Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert, Seville - overflowing with podencos needing forever homes

The great forgotten ones...

When we think of dogs abandoned for hunting, we always think of galgos. But... what about all those podencos that are also used and thrown away by hunters?

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At the Benjamin Mehnert Foundation, there are hundreds of them waiting for an opportunity, a helping hand, a family..

If only we were guided by the heart, adoptions wouldn't understand color or race.

If we would only look into her eyes..

Adopt a podenco. Save a life.

Help us continue to save lives.

Help us to continue saving lives.

Podenco William with Akira Dog Shelter - super podenco ready for his forever home

From Hayley O'Brien at Akira Dog Shelter

William needs a forever home

William was a lucky boy, and he had the chance to spend a day out of the shelter with one of our fabulous staff members and her dog. He was so well-behaved and really enjoyed the canine company.

William is only young at 12 months old.

William travels well in the car and enjoys long walks. He is a dream to walk on the leash with no pulling. William is clean in his kennel. He is a very gentle soul yet still active and playful. He is hugely affectionate and loves a cuddle and a fuss.
William is castrated and vaccinated, and he has a passport and microchip. He can travel if required, and we are happy to help with transport arrangements.

You can contact us for further information on Whatsapp at +34 657 689 567. You can also email akirashelter@aol.com.

Video of William

Podenco Tangu in Cordoba - hoping for a forever home

From Salvando Corazones Peludo

Tangu has no past, only a future.

Tangu is full of tenderness that treasures in his soul, transcends his skin, and when you pat him your arms embrace so much love. It melts and you melt. He doesn't feel the cold anymore, only the beat of a single heart, yours melted with his and takes your breath away....

And you look at him and he looks at you, and you kiss him and he kisses you, and you talk to him and he answers you... with the look, with the ears, with the soul of podenco, with the rescue heart that only knows gratitude. He has an ocean of joy and affection to share, to spend without scars with you, your human and dog family, every single day for many years.

Tangu, joy, tenderness, affection and loyalty wrapped up in some of that shyness that disappears at a kind gesture.. you can't ask for more from a creature of just 10 kilos and 10 months, but if you ask for the moon he will bring it to you!!!.

Saving a dog's life with CPR

Blind Podenco Bocelli finds his feet at the dog park

It's now 10 months since we adopted blind Podenco Bocelli from Blind Dogs UK, and rescued by volunteers working in Spain with Ibizan Hound Rescue. The vet thinks his blindness was caused by an untreated eye infection when he was tethered and starved on the end of a chain in the Lorca region of southern Spain. He can see shadows, but his sense of direction is governed by his acute hearing and amazing nose!

Trained to walk up a ramp into the back of our car, each Sunday morning we take him and his housemate Rosely to a local private dog park where Bo enjoys wandering freely and confidently, in his own little world. Once a month he goes to the local Dog Cafe where he finds his way around the tables and chairs and he's also been to the coast and paddled in the sea - always on lead there!

So for anyone who has a dog losing its sight, don't be concerned, they adapt amazingly well to life. And if you are thinking of adopting a dog, why not one from Blind Dogs UK - they deserve a forever home too.

When will they punish the right end of the lead?

Although this poem is about a 'dangerous' breed, it could just as easily apply to any podenco in a perrera which has a kill policy, where the podencos are dumped by the hunter!

More on the Demonstrations in Spain 16 October 2022

This bus will be travelling around Madrid all this week demonstrating about the lack of protection in law for the Spanish hunting dogs.

Sunday 16 October - demonstrations in Spain and Spanish Islands

Sunday 16th October. Demonstrations across Spain to demand the inclusion of hunting dogs in the new Spanish animal protection laws. It is an outrage that the government should exclude them. Same dogs. Same law. #MismosPerrosMismaLey

12:00 horas

✔️ Donostia: Frente al Ayuntamiento. Alderdi – Eder Parkea 1.

A Special home needed for Podenca Bonnie, waiting in the Canary Islands

This beautiful podenca is in the municipal shelter in Albergue, San Bartolome, Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Her main hope of a special forever home is on mainland Europe. Please consider offering her a forever home.

'I know, I'm not like the others, I need to be more careful because I was born with a wrong leg and I need to fix it when I grow up and this is why... that I'm not like the others.

But I have two ears.... two beautiful eyes and most of all a heart... just like the others ... who can give you so much love and show you how grateful I would be to come into your life forever. I believe in you, and I wait for you. With love BONNIE.

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Protests on Gran Canaria to support the hunting dogs

FAUDA - Federation of United Associations for the Defence of Animals - on Gran Canaria recently supported the Campaign against hunting dogs being exclused from the Animal Protection Act.

Susana Griso joins the campaign so that hunting dogs are not excluded from the Animal Protection Act. It is unacceptable that dogs who are the most vulnerable are left out of the law that should protect them.

PSOE
PSOE Congreso
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón
#Mismosperrosmismaley