Well, any
kind of education is very important and at Scooby we have an educational
potential that is very very very important, based at first on our dogs and cats
being here, most of them galgos, we are going to plan an educational process,
of compassion for animals, ways to prevent abuse, unwanted litters, hoping that
our visitors, when they find out that our animals are neutered see that it’s
not a bad thing but it only is advantageous, and then we hope that they will do
the same with their pets, prevention of abandonment, animal education and promotion
of adoption vs. buying.
We also
have the enormous potential of the farm animals, through them and their
different stories we could explain how they live in a farm and all the
suffering that implies, but also that the children can interact with the
animals, we can imagine that they will be able to touch them, groom them or
feed them.
And if that
is not enough, we also propose to form a zoo of silhouettes that are pictures
of our own animals from our ecosystems; we are going to start with reproducing
a cereal steppe, a Mediterranean forest and a riverside forest and wetland with
animals belonging to each of these ecosystems. Activities will be especially
for schoolchildren of different ages, we will make a field guide with different
educational activities, I really do believe we can make history in the world of
animal protection, with concepts of animal wellbeing that are not well known in
this Spain. I will keep you posted on how things progress. Loving kisses,
bites, crowing and meows from all of us. Fermin
