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Hope for Podencos 2025 Calendar

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Protectora Scooby - summer newsletter - Animal Rescue Transitions To ‘Bureaucrazy’

Fermin writes.

As many of you know, the Scooby shelter grew organically from doing the best we could with limited resources and still
making tangible improvements for our rescued animals, nursing them back from the brink to overcome sickness and
adversity to become dogs and cats well enough to go to loving adoption families. Yes we had tragedies but our small team
shared the work and helped the animals to a better life. I still remember a volunteer vet from Scotland, in the twilight of his
career, telling me to welcome volunteer vets but crucially to make sure they had solid experience because in a ‘field’
medical setting, she said we’d need people who were skilled to work with what’s available, rather than the early career medical professionals who would not yet be ready to work in a situation needing ingenuity and technical resourcefulness. I still remember this vet stitching by candlelight when we were blighted with power cuts.

Podenca Gaia - lost her babies, dumped in a Fuerteventura perrera!

The approximately 3-year-old Podenco dog has had to go through everything in her life.

Gaia and her babies were rescued by an animal welfare colleague in Fuerteventura. The owner was a hunter and dumped the babies in a hole in the ground so that Mama Gaia couldn't get to her babies (videos about this in the comments). He said he didn't want them anymore, the babies aren't Podenco's but mixed breeds, that's what he said. The puppies have now all been adopted, but Gaia is still in the Perrera!!️

Gaia is very social with all the dogs, she even takes care of newly arrived abandoned babies. Gaia is still very cautious and reserved with people, and needs some time to trust new people. The stressful environment takes a lot out of the beautiful dog and we hope that she will soon have the chance to be with experienced and loving people. A quiet environment would probably make a big difference for Gaia and she could learn at her own pace , to let go, to gain trust, and to enjoy life on the sunny side.

Would you like to give Gaia a home? Click here to apply. Simply click on the link below.

https://sandohelp.de/tier
Your team of sando e. V. - Rescue A Soul
Donation account
Volksbank Bielefeld - Gütersloh eG
IBAN: DE654786001251018575800
PayPal: [email protected]

Protectora Scooby - costs of running a shelter

From Fermin - Scooby Shelter Running Costs: Veterinary

We have a number of running costs to keep the Scooby shelter perational and thought it would be worth focussing on different
internal cost groups to demonstrate how much we rely on your donations and how we spend the money you give us. In this
newsletter we highlight our veterinary costs.

We are fortunate to have our onsite clinic and our own vets. Our vets are salaried and we can present them with most of the medical conditions we come across as well as all of our spays and castrations. Sometimes we have to refer veterinary work to specialists or off-site vets but generally we rely on the skill of our Scooby vets.

Protectora Scooby - summer newsletter - A Bad Law

A Bad Law

We continue to operate our rescue in the context of the very bad legislative amendment enacted in 2023. A new and very ambitious update to the animal welfare law in Spain was passed in January 2022. The law itself includes training for dog owners, penalties for animal cruelty, prohibition of puppy farming and sales of pets in pet shops. All of this is totally laudable and
necessary. However, the PSOE Party (Spanish Socialist Workers), the senior partner in the coalition government, subsequently proposed an amendment to the law to exclude hunting, working and guarding dogs. The amendment was approved in 2023. Commentators say the PSOE initiated the amendment fearing reactions from rural voters.

Protectora Scooby - summer newsletter - the Scooby Van

The Scooby summer newsletter is 12 pages long. Sadly they don't have anyone to put it on the Internet available for me to link you to it. So over the next few weeks I'll be posting parts of the newsletter here. The first part - there are 9! - is about the Scooby van which suffered front end damage. No photos to post as I can't save them from the pdf file.

' The Scooby Van

Our van is back on its wheels! For that we are very grateful to a grant-funding body we contacted to help us make up the shortfall left by the insurance claim. Even though we were not at fault in the accident, the insurance policy paid only part of the cost of the repair.

And it was a big one! In addition to the damaged wing, we needed a new chassis. Our supportive mechanic and owner of our local Iveco garage restored the van to full working order within the most costeffective budget he possibly could.

Hope for Podencos Merchandise

If you are passionate about podencos you will love this merchandise.

Click on this weblink to visit the Hope for Podencos shop.

Podenco felt sewing kit

Newly available. Podenco felt sewing kit on this weblink.

3 rescued podencos - donations needed for transport to shelter

These 3 podencos have been rescued and transport is arranged to take them to a shelter.

'UPDATE: We have an asso who will take care of them but we have to pay the transporter: €130 for all 3 dogs. Once again, we need your help.Update, so far 80 euros has been donated so we need 50 euros more.

Three stooges - all puppies. What can we say? Their looks don't scream at us. Fear, panic, despair... We can take them out, break the chains that torture them. We are looking for an asso to offer them this waiting family and godmothers to help with their rescue.

TO HELP the 3 pods

Paypal : [email protected] Communication "the 3 pods"

Contact : MP

Podenco Friends Appeal for Esca and Hope vet fees

From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends. Regular readers will know that over many years Bev has helped hundreds of podencos, and it's not often she asks for help with vet fees. Please support her on this appeal.

'Esca & Hope.. They are both due their annual reviews.

Most of you will know that Hope was born with problems with her back legs basically her patellas are at the back of her knees. The tendons and ligaments in her back legs never fully developed and are like stone but it's never stopped her getting on with life, she is 10 years old this year.

Esca was caught in an animal trap which snapped around her front leg, it broke the radias close to the wrist, she also lost about 50% of her tendons and ligaments. Living on the street for weeks heavily pregnant, too much damage was done to the ligaments and tendons, they were beyond repair.