PRESS RELEASE May 20, 2013

The President of the Protectora de Animales y Medio Ambiente Scooby,Fermín Pérez Martín, received on Sunday
the visit of the President of the National Federation of Galgos, Luis Ángel Herrera Vegas, and the Secretary, Juan Carlos Ramos Martín, at the Scooby facilities in Medina. The goal of this informal meeting was getting closer stances on the galgos. A good
understanding and the pursuit of the animal welfare, will contribute to further meetings with the aim of improving the quality of life for the galgos in Castilla y León and in Spain.

From Scooby we want to thank the Federation to be willing to seek common points addressed to safeguard the rights of our galgos and the commitment to work together to reach points of agreement.

And more chicken...

You know that we want to open the farm at Scooby and use it for educational purposes and one of them is that we learn where our food is coming from, like the eggs and the whole process. This and the fact they have asked me to take up a few poor hens from a chickenbattery, of the egginstrustry, all this makes that we have had our female flying circus grow immensely in quantity, I felt sorry for them because these poor things would have been slaughtered without ever having felt the ground beneath their feet or a male next to them, so I thought that was really sad, so I could not let that happen and now we have them here, and I don’t know if it is because of spring coming near or not, but our rooster just keeps on thanking me for his new companions. Kisses, hugs, bites and an affectionate cock-a-doodle-do

 

Some other things

We have finished making the corridor to the lower patios, we’re going to put in a door to get there quickly from whatever part of the refuge if need be, and now we are repairing the canopies that give shade, both to the dogs and the people. As you know we are trying to open the refuge to the public and throughout the refuge we have installed six giant moneyboxes so that the visitors when they pass those and feel the need to make a donation to preserve the beautiful things that we have in the refuge, they can do so immediately, they don’t have to wait, we are now starting to make repairs to the lower patios and as you can see we don’t ever stop, and that is a good thing because it means we’re alive!

 

New stories

Not a long ago I was talking to Enrique about the possibility to get a X-ray machine and he suggested not to, since the trauma cases are rare and therefore we would not require one. Why did I even mention it! It happens to be that we have four trauma cases at the shelter just now. These are four broken legs we have to operate, one of them from a dog that we picked from Zamora, and another from the kennel from Valladolid. The fact is that we have to face, again, four difficult and expensive operations, so I have no other choice but to ask for your help once more (and by the way tell Enrique to be quiet, don’t jinx it). We will be presenting each one of the cases.

And if this is not enough, we have received a very special looking puppy (looks like a Mastin/Australian Shepherd cross) who is absolutely blind! Initially we had certain doubts because it defended very well but Mar, who is temporarily fostering him, has confirmed it, it bumps into everything in the house, trees, chairs, tables. This teaches us once more, that happiness is not to have what you love but to love what you have. It is such a lovely dog, but with a vision problem and its name is Timy. For him we are looking for a loving and suitable home!! Kisses, hugs, licks, loving purrs. Fermin

We are opening

Next Saturday the eighteenth is a day for all those in our community who love animals for then we will have the official opening of our new shelter in Zamora, which was constructed in record time,  we rented the structure that was used for pigs and it had to be completely restructured to make it suitable to house dogs. As I said we will have the opening Saturday afternoon at 5, and we hope to collect blankets, food for our animals, dog beds, feeding throughs and drinking bowls, we will also take some with us from Medina,  we will offer a snack but if you can bring something to eat too even better, the more the merrier, our Scooby shop will be there and we got commemorative T-shirts for sale. The place of action is at Valcabado, a small village next to Zamora, you cannot miss it if you just follow the road. Kisses and hugs for everyone. Fermín