Volunteers from the Sara animal shelter are trying to recover a podenco, who arrived at their facilities with "his eye burst". The agents of Seprona reported his owner on September 8 and filed "four administrative files for four different concepts" related to the animal, according to the Civil Guard to La Voz.
Seprona went to the home of this man, whom he denounced and asked to take the animal to the shelter to be treated. The volunteers received this podenco, whom they have named Clavel, and had to remove his eye. "Now he is recovering favorably and quite quickly," says Flavia Baridon, one of the volunteers.
Baridon believes that the eye problem may be either "from a blow or something that was not treated." The owner explained to the members of the shelter that he had "been having a bad eye for a while" and that he did not take him to a veterinarian, so it "ended up bursting". "The owner handed over the dog without resistance after Seprona told him to. There was not much conversation with him, because it is usually difficult to maintain conversations with hunters," says Baridon.
This animal, who is 5 years old, arrived at the shelter with a "very skittish" behavior. "Most podencos usually arrive like that. Now, Clavel is gradually gaining confidence with the caregivers, he is encouraged, eats well and has a good appetite," says this volunteer.
The shelter will wait to give him up for adoption until his wounds heal and his behavior is not so skittish. "If there is anyone who wants to help him, they can call us and when he recovers, adopt him," says this volunteer.
In "deplorable" condition
In addition, the shelter says that the animals that are arriving lately at its headquarters are in a "deplorable" state of health. "About two months ago a podenca arrived, who is still recovering in Sara. Her eye had not burst, but the eyeball was out. We are absolutely overwhelmed and more so with the deplorable condition in which dogs and cats are arriving," warns Flavia Baridon.
