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Podencos in Need Scotland - 2023 calendar

PINS now have their 2023 calendar for sale, £15 including pp in UK.

'If you would like to place a calendar order, they are £15 for the first one and £13 for second and subsequent ones. This includes UK postage.

Please send payment to PayPal pinscotland16@gmail.com choosing friends and family option so we don't lose money to charges.
Please include your name and address for postage.

Thanks

2 new arrivals at Podenco Friends in Murcia

From Bev Farmer - as ever, always there for the podencos.

Rory .. new arrival this week. A big Podenco Ibicenco that is pitifully thin and very frightened. He’s been in a perrera since
22nd September and the volunteers have managed to get him out for walks and spend some time with him.

He is about 2 years old and this photo does not reflect what poor condition he is in. Give him a couple of days to get over the transport then take him to our vets for tests health checks etc.

You see… there are people who claim Podencos don’t get abused … I say - look at this beautiful soul, what did he do so wrong to be treated so badly .. it will take months to get him back to good health.'

Also new to the shelter this week is Bimba...

Update on injured Podenco Wilf

Pleased to report that Wilf, the badly injured podenco left lying at the side of the road and rescued by the PINS organisation has now had his stitches out and is making a good recovery, although still on very limited exercise. And enough money was raised from the Kilt Walk to pay for his operation and for 4 more rescued podencos to have Pet Passports and vet/travel expenses to bring them to the UK for foster and homing. Thank you.

Podencos Mary, Mungo and Midge - read the full horror story and appeal for help

Several associations were involved in rescuing over 70 from an horrendous shelter. This is part of the story. This is what happens in a country with no RSPCA.

Read the whole story on this weblink.

How brave are the volunteers who deal with such a situation,

Injured podencos in Spain - just left to suffer?!

Twice on 3rd September 2022 on my Podenco Post facebook page, photos and appeals have been published about injured podencos...the first one the hunter doesn't want it, the second one videod and left at the side of the road!!! So many times I feel impotent that I can't go and get them!! Here's the story of the first one, which does have a positive ending.

PODENCO WITH BROKEN LEG! The beautiful chocolate brown podenco was no longer wanted by its owner due to a knee injury. Walter has many scars on his body… his life was terrible.

The hunting dog breeds most frequently abandoned are podencos and galgos.
When they’re no longer useful to their owners, these dogs meet a tragic end. Many are shot, poisoned, hanged from trees, or thrown over ravines at the end of Spain’s hare coursing season.

We need urgently HELP FROM ANY ASSOCIATION!

Contact: Natasha Trillo#

Update: UK association will take him and rehome but we need your help for his operation: 700€

PayPal: Anewleashforliferescue@outlook.com Ref: Walter Please, help him

The Story of Galgo's Rescue Almeria

In 2015 Sandy and John Cortebeeck sold up in Belgium and moved to Almeria to open a kennels. As with all good intentions, for dog lovers in Spain, the mass abandonment of galgos and podencos takes over everyone's life. Thank goodness there are people willing to give up almost everything to help these amazing dogs, treated like rubbish by the sub-human Spanish galgueros.

Click on this weblink to read the full story.

3 Podencos safe with Galgos Rescue Almeria

Earlier this month Galgos Rescue Almeria, along with other rescues, were involved in taking to safety over 70 dogs living in terrible conditions in a shelter which the authorities closed down. These 3 podencos were among the dogs GRA took to their shelter.

'We picked up these 3 podencos in terrible condition and now a period of recovery and healing can begin for them, as well as the galgos we took too. They've been in an unimaginable filthy shelter for God knows how long and unsurprisingly they all have Anaplasma and Erlichia, fleas and ticks. Fortunately it can be treated but also can't be underestimated. Untreated it can also be deadly.

They've now had a shower, for one boy we need to visit a groomer because his coat is in bad shape. You can see flea infestation needs treating urgently too. Named Madroño, Artillero and Teddy.

Any help with vet fees will be gratefully received.

Paypal|: galgosrescuealmeria@gmail.com

Walking in Scotland for Podencos in Need

Podencos in Need Scotland help rehome both podencos and galgos. As with all the rescue organisations, they rely on donations and fundraising. Here's the latest fundraiser.

Just 5 weeks until Edinburgh Kiltwalk, when Levi the Galgo and family are walking to raise awareness and funds for PINS. Not sure if training walks have been manageable in this heat but their fundraising is coming along nicely. Thanks for all the donations so far!

If any of our supporters would like to sponsor their efforts then please use the link below

Donate on this link.

Old sick podenca dumped in the campo to die

From Astrid Jordon from whom I adopted Rosely

WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP.....PLEASE

It never ends but this is truly the lowest humanity can sink........

This 12 year old Podenca was found severely dehydrated and very underweight, out in the burning hot temperatures currently plaguing Spain. She was wandering alone in the countryside and arrived at an isolated country house. The owner of the house called Eleanor Nikki Fearn to tell her that a dog had appeared there in very bad condition.
She was taken straight to the vet and it was discovered she also has aenemia and several mammary tumours. She is really in a very bad state and definitely has not known any happiness in her long life.

Podenco in Spain - abandoned, injured on the road, saved

And another story not uncommon for the abandoned hunting hounds in Spain, from the same shelter involved with the mass rescue of 58 hounds recently.

This morning I was leaving my parents' house when I found a podenco puppy in the middle of the street. I stopped the car in the middle but wouldn't let me catch him and started running away. After almost half an hour running around trying to catch him he ended up getting lost in the streets. I took a few more turns but I couldn't see him again.

Although we don't have space in the shelter, I am very sad that I can't help him.

Then I get a picture of a girl I know from the association of my town and I see that the one in the picture is he. I notice he got run over and he has a very ugly lump in his abdomen, makes me so mad it happened.Thanks to Anabel, Marilo, Luna, etc. from the association the little one is now in our clinic. He is being tested because he peed with blood and wasn't eating or drinking. So far the tests look like he got lucky and they're not serious. Our vet has named him Raffaello because he says he's the only white chocolate candy.

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