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  • Pregnant podenca on a Spanish street – in danger of the hunters

    CRIS 7 SEPT Charl 250 Yet another little lady, abandoned on the streets to survive, with a bellyful of pups! The refuges are full to overflowing, but it’s important to get this podenca off the streets before she has her babies. Hunting is about to start, and it’s a dangerous time for them all to be out and insecure.

    The people who sent the plea for help for her cannot take her in as they already have several cases in the same position but they would finance her journey to another place if a foster home came up

    Contact asbaal.adopciones@gmail.com
    TF. (Spain) 676229686

  • Podenca Mary, Galga Dana, 112carlotagalgos-desperately needing help

    Mary in kennels 01 09 2010.JPG cropped You will remember I posted about the rescue by Charl del Rio of 112carlotagalgos (newly formed association) of Mary, the podenca puppy abandoned at a petrol filling station. Isn’t she absolutely gorgeous? And also Dana, a galga in kennels who is very stressed by her situation.

    Charl’s association 112carlotagalgos, is just born, and so doesn’t have any backup funds -any which have been donated so far have gone out immediately to pay for vet fees and kennel costs for these two deserving dogs.

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  • Update on Podenca Mary and introducing Galga Dana

    Mary 1 Charl 08 2010 250 Mary has now been bathed, wormed, flea treatment, ticks removed, and taken to the vet – age estimated just 5-6 months old. See how tiny she is, sitting next to the laundry basket! Not surprisingly, she has no microchip. She has tested negative for leishmania, just waiting for the results for ehrlichia and filaria. These should be back in a couple of days, and then she will be vaccinated etc. Once this has been done, she will go to the kennels with Dana.

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  • Mary, a young podenca rescued in Alhaurin, Spain, desperately needing help

    Alhaurin baby 1 Charl 08 2010.JPG cropped 250 A picture of sheer unadulterated terror in the eyes of this little dog! Charl del Rio found her at a petrol station, lost, terrified, hungry. She managed to catch her, called her Mary as she is like a little lamb, and now tells the story.

    ‘I went to visit the galgo Charlie after his castration, and on the way home I stopped at the petrol station in Alhaurin, where I found this little lost soul, a baby podenco which looks like a little fox, COVERED in pinchy thorns… it was late, I got to the petrol station and thought ill put petrol in the car. I stopped walking and she came up behind me. At a distance I thought she was older than she was, but I then could see she was just a baby.

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  • Podenca Andaluz Bebe – off on an adventure in rural France!

    Animal Images 2008 070 250 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.

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  • Podenca Minerva in Seville looking for a forever home

    Minerva6-150x150 250 And another gorgeous podenca rescued last month and looking for her forever home.

    Minerva in Roman mythology, among other things, goddess of wisdom. And our podenquita proved to be very wise when she decided that she should continue to the door of the house of Angel and his girlfriend. Somehow she knew they would take her.

    Our kids spent hours and hours ridding her of a lot of parasites, they gave her a bath and after a hearty meal, Minerva, as a baby calm and confident, fell asleep. On waking we have found a sweetheart.

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  • Podenca Maria, injured and surviving on the streets of Seville

    Maria-10 Assn. ARCA Aug 2010 190 This little podenca is Maria, who was abandoned and has lived most of her life on the streets of a village near to Seville, too terrified to be caught. Searching for food amongst rubbish, dodging vehicles on the road, bearing puppies.

    She was finally captured last month by an association ARCA, along with her 3 puppies. She has been hit twice by vehicles and has suffered a compression of the spinal cord which has resulted in a loss of feeling, and poor movement.

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  • Podenco Scooby is also looking for his forever family, he is in the UK already

    Scooby Pro Galgo 07 2010 250 And yet another podenco, in the UK already, looking for a forever home. He’s with Pro-Galgo and this is what Mo Swatek says about him.

    ‘Goku, or Scooby as we have now called him, is one of the Podencos that arrived from Spain recently. He is around 18 months old and is absolutely stunning. He has the most amazing ears and grin and wonderful red coat.

    Scooby is very playful and loves to play tug with a raggy toy, either with his kennel mate or with visitors. He can still be a little shy of new people but is very loving and confident when he gets to know you.Scooby could live with older (10+), calm and gentle children.

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  • Oco, podenco saved from the streets of Spain, waiting for a forever home

    Oco 1 250 Please could anybody offer a forever home to this adorable podenco, currently in foster in southern France.

    Oco was found on the streets in Spain with long curly claws. His only friend was a cat and an abandoned galga (Spanish greyhound). His owner didn’t care about him and pretended he’d given him to a friend.

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  • Podenco Barajas – looking for his forever home

    Here are two videos of Barajas, the podenca saved by Silvia in Valencia, looking for his forever home.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVGSHgvVr_U&feature=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrVUf7ZIwl4&feature=channel

    Contact Silvia

    UPDATE – Barajas will travel to his forever home in the USA at the end of September, courtesy of Telma Shaw and GRIN (Galgo Rescue International Network.) Travelling with Barajas will be galgos Sofie and Angie.