Tag: help the podenco

  • Cheap accommodation in Valencia – food not included!

    Valencia mom crop 1 06 2011 250 Look carefully, you might see a puppy in there. And it’s not only the animals for whom life is hard. It is also hard for animal rescuers. This is a tale from one, near Valencia. She’s been trying to rescue a galga and her puppies. This is the story.

    ‘Today was a horrible day. Again I saw the mother walking through the village and crossing or standing in the middle of the road, cars rushing by, these people do not even reduce their speed to avoid the dog.

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  • IDOD Dog Walk – walking lanes & tracks in France for rescued dogs in Spain

    IDOD Dog Walk 17 04 2011 033 350 International Day of the Dog is now into its 6th year, always on the last Sunday in April. 2011 so happens to also be Easter Sunday, so I held my fundraising IDOD Dog Walk a week early on 17th April. The sun shone brightly on St Pardoux with over 50 dogs and their loving owners turning up for a leisurely stroll along the delightful lanes and tracks which surround this small village in Western France, where I live.

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