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Welcome to the first organization to represent all sizes of Podengos hunting in the United States!
History The PHCA represents hunting Podengos in the USA -- Podengo Pequenos, Podengo Medios, and Podengo Grandes. PHCA was originally incorporated in April, 2004 to represent all Portuguese Podengos in the United States. On July 15, 2004, working closely with the Portuguese Podengo Club of America (PPCA), the applicant of record to AKC for acceptance of the Portuguese Podengo into the American Kennel Club's Foundation Stock Service, at which time Podengo Medios and Podengo Pequenos, both smooth and wire coats, were on PPCA's roster.
This application was the first formal step taken towards full recognition of the Portuguese Podengo by the AKC. In April, 2005, the AKC approved the application. Shortly thereafter, the PPCA came to represent the Portuguese Podengo Pequeno and modified its name to Portuguese Podengo Pequeno Club of America (PPPCA). The Podengo Medio Club of the USA was formed to represent the Podengo Medio and has a warm and collegial relationship with PPPCA, its sister club, which represents smooth and wire coat Podengo Pequenos exclusively and may be seen at www.podengos.com
If you are interested in learning about the small (Pequeno) Podengo, consider joining the Portuguese Podengo Pequeno Club of America, the first, largest and most active club for the Podengo Pequeno in the United States. PPPCA filed the first papers to record the breed in the AKC-FSS and is dedicated to its advancement to full recognition by the American Kennel Club, which is scheduled for January 1, 2013. You may join PPPCA and get into the best Podengo Pequeno network in the USA at www.podengos.com/joinus/
How the Podengo got its Name
The word Podengo was used in Portugal at least as early as the 16th century to refer to pack-hunting dogs. The full name then was Podengo de Mostra (the Mostra part referring to a pack). Over time, this was shortened to Podengo and referred to multi-sensory, endurance-trotting, pack-hunting dogs. The Portuguese do not have a word for hound, so use the word Podengo as a specific term for the kind of primitive, prick-eared, hunting dogs like us that were distributed around the Mediterranean basin 2,000 years ago by the Phoenicians.
Podengos hunt rabbits, which in Portugal live mostly in rock crevices and thick briars, rather than in underground warrens. The Medio works in tandem with the smaller Podengo, the Pequeno, to flush rabbits from crevices and dense briars, as well as to chase, track, kill and retrieve the rabbit. Medios and Grandes also hunt deer and wild boar.
So that's what's in the name!
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