Yet another story about a podenco! This time it is about mine, little Bebe, my Podenca Andaluz, rescued injured from a Seville motorway 2 1/2 years ago. My vet operated on her injured leg, and now Bebe is the fastest Pod on 4 legs!! I haven’t been able to train her to come to me when she is outside of the house, the vet thought she was about 5 or 6 when rescued, so probably too old to train. So when we walk the dogs, Bebe is on a harness and long lead, and then on a long tether on a long line when in the courtyard with the other dogs. Our courtyard is enclosed for galgos and Podenco Canarios and Ibicencos, but not the miniatures. We have to leave one or two small escape routes for our cat, in case she ventures into the courtyard when the dogs are loose.
Category: Advice
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Podenca Andaluz Bebe – off on an adventure in rural France!
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Botulism in dogs – a warning to owners
Interesting article sent to me. It’s got me thinking, since I have horses and hay. And lurcher Floyd got to a dead leveret before me the other day, and devoured it.
Symptoms described here.
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Holiday postcards get out of Spain – donated parcels for shelters can’t get in!
As you know, during the autumn and winter I mention how much the associations and refuges in Spain need dog coats for the thin-coated galgos to survive the severe winter night-time temperatures.
For anyone considering sending dog coats to Spain, please be careful to use a courrier service or a galgo rescue association outside of Spain to ensure safe delivery of the parcel.
Spain is often described to me by those who live there as a Third World Country; this is an example of the corruption and red tape existing in the postal service.
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New Year fireworks can frighten dogs – Baas Galgo suggests Bach Flower Remedies
For those of you with dogs, especially galgos and greyhounds, Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo has some advice on keeping the canines calm.
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Denouncing Animal Cruelty in Spain – What To Do
This is what The Bright Eyes Society says you should do if you come across a case of animal cruelty in Spain.
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The correct paperwork – identification of a Spanish dog
Mo Swatek is founder and president of Pro-Galgo. She lives and works in Spain and has considerable experience of the plight of the galgos, as well as all the other abandoned dogs there. Her association has rehomed many of their rescued dogs abroad, including the UK where the DEFRA requirements of taking a dog into the UK are very strict.
She has written an explanation (in Spanish and German) on her website of the procedures to be followed by the shelters and refuges in Spain with regard to the microchipping and vaccination of all and any dogs which are intended to be taken out of Spain for rehoming, including their transportation, and it is up to the different rescue associations to make sure that, for every dog they take, its EU canine passport and paperwork are correct.
She says ‘ I work only and exclusively with people that are members of PRO-GALGO INTERNATIONAL and can be trusted. I was fed up of being cheated by rescue groups, not paid, not receiving any adoption fees and not having any information about the whereabouts of our ex dogs… and finding out that no home checks had been done etc etc’.
Everyone is concerned to help the galgos and podencos escape their lives of hell in Spain, but it is vital that all of us who take one of these deserving and loving dogs check as far as we possibly can that their paperwork is in order, including the passport carrying a photo of the dog.
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What Killed Karmel?
So many of you have followed the regular updates on the progress of Karmel’s health, since we first visited the vet with her in April 2008. What killed her?
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Pemphigus Foliaceous – Update on Galga Karmel
30/01/09 Update on Karmel, my galga Espagnol, who has been suffering from a terrible genetic disease for nearly a year now.
We have been backwards and forwards to the vet. Karmel had been doing very well on Megasolene, 3/4 pill morning and evening. We then introduced Imurel, which is the human treatment for this disease, which does not have any side effects. Unfortunately, after a week, the disease started to break out on Karmel’s face again. We therefore had to increase the dose of megasolene to control this.On Wednesday Karmel’s breathing rose to 19 per minute, not exhorbitantly high, but also noisy. Straight off to the vet again. Blood test and X-ray.
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Update on Karmel and Pemphigus Foliaceous
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Update on Karmel – Pemphigus Foliaceous under control at last
Update on Karmel 17/11
Karmel has been on 1 Megasolene tablet per day for the past couple of months, and this has kept the Pemphigus Foliaceous symptoms from reappearing. Her hair is slowly growing back where she previously suffered hair loss from the pistules, and with a daily spray of Humiderm, her skin is less dry. In herself she is a normal happy galga.
Yesterday she had another trip to the vet, for more tablets and to give a blood sample.