Podencos are the hounds used for hunting in the Canary Islands. Their life is as tough, if not more so, than for the galgos and podencos on mainland Spain. 85,000+ podencos in the Canary Islands. This is just one of the perreras. And you think the perreras in Spain are hellish!
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Tombola for Pepis Dog Refuge – buy tickets now
Two more super items added…knitted coat for a galgo/greyhound and a fun wooden plaque.
Buy your tickets now! Help pay for the vet treatment for Anca, old podenco who’s spent a lifetime breeding puppies, kicked in the eye and dumped. Now receiving vet care and love at Pepis Refuge. -
Greyhound at Dogs Trust UK needs a forever home
Great that so many galgos from Spain are rehomed, but for everyone homed in the UK, a British greyhound is overlooked. Like this one.
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Tombola for Pepis Dog Refuge – buy tickets now – lovely prizes
There are over 70 dogs at Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville, including galgos and podencos. This year alone 2 heavily pregnant galga bitches were dumped there, producing 19 pure galgo puppies; two more young galgos were thrown over the perimeter fence, luckily neither was injured; and this month a hunter brought his galgo as he no longer wanted him. Add to this the podencos who have been there since puppies, awaiting adoption, one recently dumped at the gates in a box. And now old girl Anka, a lifetime spent breeding puppies, kicked in the eye, dumped, and needing vet care. All these dogs need vaccinations, sterilising, chipping and more. PLUS it costs 700 euros/month to feed all these dogs.
So I’m appealing to you on behalf of the hounds at Pepis Dog Refuge to help them by purchasing some tickets in this tombola. First prize is a copy of Martin Usborne’s superb book ‘Where Hunting Dogs Rest’, donated by and personally signed by Martin.
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Owning a dog in Switzerland
Information from a reader who lives in Switzerland, about the regulations for owning and keeping a dog.
In Switzerland: Dog owners have to pay a yearly fee for each dog, depending on weight. In addition he must attend a dog school to learn handle his dog, and do that with each dog he owns. This is all registered at the City hall (ayuntamiento).
This could be a way towards a solution everywhere in the future.
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Dumped in trash bin…no 3
The horror for the dogs goes on. Having reported two separate stories of galgo pups being dumped in rubbish bins…here’s a third one, now saved.
Outrageous! Until when are we going to have to keep living these situations??
This morning (30/7/2015) we were in the car when we saw a group of people with two Guardia Civile looking in a dumpster. We stopped immediately because we feared the worst. And so it was, a galguita pup about 3 months had been lying in the dumpster in a bag.
Poor baby, being inside of the bag and nearly 40 degrees of temperature. Immediately I communicate to the Guardia Civile that we are a rescue and, even though at first they put to us a million questions! Finally we get the puppy to the vet.
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Spanish holidays – where do the perrera dogs go?
Spare some thought for the hundreds of dogs in Spanish perreras. Many of them close for August so the staff can go on holiday. The dogs are all killed before they close.