Right next to the video on the Flower Puppy boxers is a video on Pequenos being bred in England. One is being exported to America.
Betty Judge imported over 40 Pequenos from Portugal to form a gene pool. Until 2002 she bred terriers but found Podengos to be less of a handful. She believes that there are 600 in Britain, although I suspect that there are many more that have come in as rescue dogs. Here is a link to her video of Pequeno puppies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quhcn245VAU
She has a very good general knowledge of the breed. But my own experience differs from hers in some respects. Medios are definitely scent-hounds that run off and will not come back, when there is prey about. It is hard to accept that they are not greedy. Nor could I call Maria suspicious of strangers or very obedient. And wire-coat Pequenos were certainly not bred from a mix of dogs in England as someone in the Kennel Club apparently claimed.
But it is well worth watching to see the puppies.
Betty Judge imported over 40 Pequenos from Portugal to form a gene pool. Until 2002 she bred terriers but found Podengos to be less of a handful. She believes that there are 600 in Britain, although I suspect that there are many more that have come in as rescue dogs. Here is a link to her video of Pequeno puppies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quhcn245VAU
She has a very good general knowledge of the breed. But my own experience differs from hers in some respects. Medios are definitely scent-hounds that run off and will not come back, when there is prey about. It is hard to accept that they are not greedy. Nor could I call Maria suspicious of strangers or very obedient. And wire-coat Pequenos were certainly not bred from a mix of dogs in England as someone in the Kennel Club apparently claimed.
But it is well worth watching to see the puppies.