What a wonderful Christmas present Valerie. Three very striking dogs.

How on earth has there been no interest in Petra - she's gorgeous!

What wonderful news, an excellent Christmas for all three, have to admit when you said three I was hoping to see wee Ozzie in that list I'm sure his turn will come soon.

We just simply cannot home sight hounds over here which is why we went down the route of the ibizan hound website and trying to promote the dogs in the UK. Whilst here they are two a penny and seen all over the place scavenging or squashed in roads, you very rarely see podenco type dogs in Britain. In her almost two years with us one person has expressed interest in Petra and that was a Spanish hunter and we do not home to them. She has been on our Dutch website for almost a year and, again, nothing! Also, Lexi is absolutely stunning with those blue eyes and she has been here since June with not one person asking about her. As for poor little Ozzie - he has been here a year with no takers but he is a firm favourite with everybody who helps at the shelter, he is such a lovely little dog.

Ozzie enjoying tea break


Ozzie loves the children who come to help at the shelter

To date we have homed 6 podencos to the UK and thus far all the homings have been really successful. The first one left us in October of last year and since then we homed a few more. We realised that people in the UK are really interested in these dogs and so launched the specific website. Most importantly the hits we get tend to be from people who understand the needs and demands of owning a sight hound which is great. The lady hopefully taking Petra has a retired racing grey and the lady hoping to take Lexi has 3 greys.

What beautiful dogs - so glad they finally have the opportunity for a forever home

Oh as I am new just really got to read up on Annabel's Story, and she is the most adorable wee girl ever, Corky is too obviously, but she is a sweetie. In York we used to walk with a Man that was a bit scary at first but he had 3 dogs brought back from Spain 1 teeny little X and a spaniel x and a Podengo, which to all of us was the most unusual looking dog we had ever seen. but intimidating that he was, they were all street dogs and he only got the Podengo as she had got herself stuck in some railings and he freed her but as a consequence she followed him everywhere. He was so fussy over her he would stress if any rambunctious dogs came near (er mine). Loved those dogs to bits and they are having the best of walks and good food as the Podengo is a tad chubby. So the moral of the story is... big scary skinhead...soft heart.