Li’l Abner, above, is a

Portuguese Podengo Pequeno, Smooth Coat

PIONEER’S LI’L ABNER

HAS A NEW SHOW HOME!

Broken Road Kennel

Milton, Indiana

Strut your stuff, Abner!

Ester, Paco and Za Za are all

UKC CHAMPIONS!!

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Pioneer Podengos is a kennel devoted to furthering the rare Portuguese Podengo Pequeno breed in the United States. Pequeno means “small” in Portuguese. The breed has both a wire and smooth coat variety.

OUR BABIES

Za-Za de Viamonte (Za-Za) was our first Podengo bitch to be imported. Za-Za is from Miguel Sabino’s Viamonte Kennel in Portugal. She recently earned her UKC Championship, a Group One and Two, and was 5^th in UKC’s Top Ten for 2007. Za-Za whelped a beautiful boy on 11/29/08. She’s a great mommy!

Plushcourt Ega (“Ester”) was the second Podengo bitch to join us and our first UKC Champion. She was second in the UKC Top Ten for 2007 and was imported from Betty Judge’s Plushcourt Kennel in England.

Paco do Vale do Poco (“Paco”) is our only adult male at the moment and was imported from Vitor and Gabriela Veiga’s Vale do Poco kennel in Portugal. Paco recently won his UKC Championship!! Paco also sired a 5-puppy litter for P-P Paradise Kennel and another male puppy for Pioneer Podengos! Way to go Paco!

FUTURE PLANS

Over the last year, Pioneer Podengos has been registering our breeding stock with AKC’s Foundation Stock Service as well as performing medical tests in order to register our Podengos with OFA, CERF, and AKC’s DNA registry. As a kennel, we believe in the health of our breed and any future litters. Therefore, we are doing all we can to ensure our dogs’ well-being.

Now that we have our first puppy from Za-Za and Paco, we plan to breed Ester with Paco next. Keep watching for news in the spring.