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Welcome to the only organization to exclusively represent the Podengo Medio in the United States!
PCUSA was incorporated in April, 2004 to represent ALL Portuguese Podengos in the United States -- Medios, Pequenos and Grandes. On July 15, 2004, PCUSA, working closely with the Portuguese Podengo Club of America (PPCA), was 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, both smooth and wire coat, were on PCUSA's roster.
This application was the first formal step taken towards eventual full recognition of the Portuguese Podengo by the AKC. In April, 2005, the AKC approved the application. Shortly thereafter, PCUSA merged with the PPCA and the name PPCA was accepted for use. PCUSA later reconstituted itself as the Podengo Medio Club of the USA (PMCUSA) to represent the Podengo Medio and has a warm and collegial relationship with its sister club, now called the Portuguese Podengo Pequeno Club of America (PPPCA), which represents the Podengo Pequeno 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. You may join PPPCA and get into the best Podengo Pequeno network in the USA at www.podengos.com/joinus/
Contact us to learn more about the Podengo Medio at podengocentral@aol.com
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.
So that's what's in the name!
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