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> Our Podengos > Our Podengos in 2010
Our Podengos in 2010 |  | | | Bucky dressed up as Santa for the holidays and made many people smile! |
Thought we would update our photos along with the New Year. Our Podengos have been developing so well -- Bucky is now certified with the Delta Society and will be working at the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital. And Sericaia, Donzela and Ruby all have special jobs and ongoing training.
This is a breed that loves to learn and enriches our lives as they develop!
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Sericaia do Vale Negro (Caia) |  | | | On a very cold and snowy day, Caia just loves relaxing on the cover of the outdoor hot tub! |
Little Caia was the first Podengo in the United States to win a Best in Show and she continues to be the little princess. Elegant, smart, charming and a bit aloof, she can also be spunky and funny and very playful. This is certainly a diverse breed and Caia represents it well. |
Donzela do Porto Novo |  | | | Donzela is so happy to be with Kip that she puts her huge ears straight back. |
Donzela has lots of character, is clever and grumpy and happy and joyful, all mixed together. She loves to learn new things and is very close with baby Ruby. Donzela was born on Kip's birthday, and they share a special bond.
Her dad is Dooze and her mom is the ever lovely Amalia. |
Porto Novo's Gustava GObama (Ruby) |  | | | Fearless and forthright, Ruby has never met a person she did not like! |
Little Ruby got her name because she is kind of red in color and has the personality of a piano player in a saloon -- exceptionally outgoing, confident, and lots of fun. She is our only smooth coat Podengo, so we sometimes call her "the Naked Monkey."
Her mom is Caia and her dad is Schwartz and she was born on election day 2008. |
Ginja |  | | | Ginja has her own little door to go in and out of the garden as she wishes. It has a very big, very old stone fencing around it and she is very safe there, lots of birds too! |
Ginja was our second Podengo. Kip brought her home from a trip to Portugal in 2001 and she lived with us in Newport, Rhode Island. My daughter, who lives in London, and she fell in love, and Ginja fell deeply in love with Bob too, so I took her to England myself five years ago. She is an entirely happy, bossy, incredibly smart little girl who loves her garden and her home very much. |
Schwartz! |  | | | Little Schwartz loves the snow and was happy to find it even snows in London. |
Schwartz, formally known as Delico Doce do Vale Negro, came to live in Old Saybrook in 2007 and moved to London in December 2008 to join little Ginja in my daughter's home there. Schwartz and Ginja have become fast friends and are affectionately called "the Monstronsities" by Liz.
They are truly wonderful companions and full of laughs! |
Amalia |  | | | Here she is -- Queen Mali! |
Best known as "Mali", this intelligent, interesting, personable girl lives in Maine with her person Mark and goes boating a lot, always wearing the required vest. Mali is Donzela's mom and Manny's daughter and one of the most wonderful Podengos in the world. |
Dooze |  | | | The Dooze races across the beach on Martha's Vineyard last summer, always happy and speedy! |
Little Saloio de Viamonte is really known as Dooze and lives in West Hartford with his loving owner, my cousin Julie and his best pal, a big Lab called Mick.
Dooze is Donzela's dad. He fell totally in love with his girlfriend Amalia. |
Amor do Porto Novo |  | | | No, Amor is not driving, just getting ready to leave after a very nice visit with us here in Old Saybrook. Wonderful girl! |
Amor was our first puppy, born in Newport on Valentine's Day. Her mom is little Ginja and dad is the amazing Manny. Amor lives with a 4-generation family close by in Connecticut and comes to visit. She has a great personality and charms everyone who meets her. |
Cassie |  | | | Cassie is a tiny girl but has a super big personality! |
Cassie came to us on Thanksgiving and is a lovely little girl, well trained and very smart, who is now with the delightful Chauncey and his fabulous family. She is as sweet and sassy as they come! |
Chauncey & Cassie |  | | | That's Cassie in the front, Chauncey behind, and both loving the camera. |
Chauncey (aka Chauncey do Porto Novo)and Cassie, the new addition to his household, are doing well. They look alike but she is about half his size. Both are lovely Podengos with that great fun loving spirit indigenous to the breed. |
Fidalga da Casa de Sao Domingos (Fida) |  | | | Fida loves the woods and running with her pal Archie. |
Pretty Fida came from Portugal and lived with us for many years. She is very happy now too, living out in Minnesota with little Archie and lots of land and loving people.
Fida is also the face on the popular "I've Been Podengoed" button. What a girl! |
Zangao and Lali |  | | | That is little Lali on the left - you can see that she and Zangao are a great pair! |
Zangao here from Portugal in 2006. Lali (Eulalia do Porto Novo) was born here in Old Saybrook in 2007 -- our Caia is her mom and Bucky is her dad. Handsome Zangao and beautiful Lali live in Massachusetts. Zangao serves as a therapy dog in hospice care and both he and Lali go on many hiking trips with their people, scaling the peaks of New England. |
Icaro Do Vale Negro (Ike) |  | | | Ike is a Champion and holds a number of titles and is one of the finest dogs in America! |
Little Ike came to live with us in 2004 after a trip to Portugal. In 2006, I took Ike to a show in North Carolina, where I met some wonderful people, Trish & Kirk Weber, who fell in love with him. Over the year we talked a lot and finally I let him go to help start their kennel in Independence, Kentucky. And Ike has been a fabulous show dog, pet and stud dog, fathering the largest litter that we have ever heard of -- 7 beautiful Podengo Pequenos.
But mostly, Ike has a great big heart and a wonderful sweetness. |
Manny |  | | | We imagine that this cartoon is Manny (on the right) talking with his half-brother Bucky. Seems like a conversation they would have :) |
Last but not least. Manny was our first Podengo and lives in Hartford with his person Linda and her family and spends much time with his beloved Richard and his super beloved Red Sox. Manny is an amazing dog and has been a pathfinder in the Podengo show world here in the United States. He has also given us some wonderful puppies. |
Manny Portrait |  | | | This is so Manny. What a fabulous dog! |
I just found this photo taken during one of Linda and Richard's visits here with Manny. Love it! |
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