Podenco Post

Sunday 2nd February 2025 - Europe is marching for the Spanish Hunting Dogs

From Platforma NAC (No a la Caza)

[INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS] Europe united against cruelty. 32 European cities will take to the streets to demand an end to dog hunting. All details on this weblink.

Thanks to international solidarity, thousands of abandoned hunting dogs in Spain find a second chance.

Hunting with hounds in Spain is a barbaric practice that condemns thousands of animals to a lifetime of suffering and, in many cases, to violent death. It is time to ban this atrocity and ensure the well-being of all sentient beings.

🇪🇸 Spain, wake up! We are the only country in the EU that allows this barbarism.

Saturday 2nd February 2025 - for those marching in the UK

Less than 3 WEEKS TO GO! And over 500 people and 300 dogs signed up over the 3 locations

Once you are signed up via the website and have provided your mobile number, you’ll be invited to join a WhatsApp group for your location. Once a week, we’re sharing details in those groups of the route, meeting point etc along with other key info.

Nearer the time, we’ll use those groups to provide other important updates and more detail of the day. It’s our only way of communicating with you all so please look out for WhatsApp group invites. If you are signed up but haven’t had an invite, please message us and we can help

PACMA - need politicians to fight for animal rights in Spain

From PACMA we want to inform you that we are going to file a criminal complaint following the regrettable events that occurred on Friday 03/01/25 at the Granada Royal Herald parade, where a man kneed an ox in the face in front of dozens of children.

Many people have asked us how it is possible that there are still so many animals involved in these shows: the answer, although painful, is that the new animal protection law excludes practically all animals that are not dogs, cats or ferrets and as long as they are not for hunting or work. This excludes oxen, camels, horses, sheep, cows and other animals unfairly called “production animals”.

We need politicians committed to animals

Fuerteventura, Canary Islands - hell for podencos

Life for podencos on the Canary Islands is hell. Shelters do their best but no one on the Islands adopts podencos and it is expensive to fly them out to Europe to forever homes.

For six months, the 4-year-old Podenco dog Kala has been hanging on a chain in Perrera on Fuerteventura waiting for her human. Especially a torture for a Podenco with a great need to run. Kala weighs 18kg, is not castrated and shows himself good and social in the Perrera. Video of Kala, chained up in full sun with no water!!

If you have fallen in love with Kala, then please fill out the interest form. On this weblink.

This is for us the basis for a detailed telephone conversation with you, where we are happy to answer all your questions.
The team of sando e. V. - Rescue A Soul

Click on this weblink for other podencos in the shelter waiting for forever homes.

Donation account

Volksbank Bielefeld - Gütersloh eG
IBAN: DE65478601251018575800

PayPal: [email protected]

Akira Dog Sanctuary - stunning podencos waiting for forever homes

Akira Dog Sanctuary have podencos for adoption, some waiting forever. Click on the weblinks which will take you to a full description about the dog and lots of photos and some videos.

Merlin is a stunning boy who really deserves a home, boy, he's been in the shelter for 4 years! He really deserves to know the comfort of a forever home. Who can resist those ears?! Please contact the shelter direct if you can help him, maybe you have a place in your heart for him.

https://www.akira-animals.com/animals/merlin-2/

Canela is another stunning podenca in the shelter hoping for a forever home.

https://www.akira-animals.com/animals/canela/

Bodie arrived at the shelter pregnant. Her babies have been adopted but Bodie is still waiting for her forever home.

https://www.akira-animals.com/animals/bodie/

Last on this list but not least is FEE, only 2 years old, looking for a rural home forever.

https://www.akira-animals.com/animals/fee/

Galgos Rescue Almeria - looking back on 2024

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Epiphany, Three Kings Day, the end of the Christmas period and the day to look back for the last time and close 2024.

First of all, we would like to thank all our partners for the wonderful collaborations. Thanks to joined forces, some 163 sweethearts were able to leave the shelter and start their new lives. New or renewed collaborations were also established with Italy, Lithuania, England and Germany.

In February we were able to pick up our GRA van that was fully sponsored by Greyhounds in Need 🇬🇧 for which a huge thank you.

Hope for Podencos - the latest news

Read all the latest news about Hope for Podencos on this weblink, including some podencos hoping for forever homes.

Looking back on 2024

So another year draws to a close. Another year when the Spanish government has done nothing to protect the hunting dogs, their over-breeding, the cruelty of the galgueros, using them just as a hunting tool and discarding at the end of January when hunting in Spain finishes each year. Thousands abandoned in the campo, dumped in perreras, dumped outside shelters.

One difference in my 15 years involved with the plight of the galgos and podencos is that there aren't the hangings in olive groves which there used to be. The bad publicity has possibly been one influencing factor, plus the increase in shelters and rescue associations to help these wonderful dogs to find forever homes around the world.

Podenco Friends - remembering 10 years ago

From Bev Farmer.

This photo takes me back 10 years to a time when three special Podencos came into our care late in 2014. Each of these boys, Juan, Raine, and Zeus, arrived with a story of sadness but also filled us with determination to help them.

Juan was found near our finca, @@abandoned in the sweltering heat of summer. Dehydrated and confused, he was lucky to have been spotted by friends who brought him to safety.

Akira Dog Sanctuary - so many beautiful podencos needing forever homes

Akira Dog Sanctuary - read all about the shelter and association on this weblink.

They have some beautiful podencos waiting for forever homes. Have a look at them on this weblink.

This is a weblink to Canela, how wonderful if she could find her forever home in 2025. Contact the shelter direct.