It’s June and I have
a lot to do at work, correcting exams, giving notes, etc, etc. But the good
thing is that I have to wait less days for my holidays, and I really do need
them, this year has been tiring in all aspects, at work and with Scooby as
well..it has been quite a few years
rescuing animals, and then they tell you that you have no idea what it’s about.
But well, there are
always things like that to deal with, part of the job, so I am going to give
you some news; the donkey had a little
one, a female we are going to call Marie, the refuge in Zamora is filling up
faster than we would want it.
As you know our policy is to put in a bid for the
recollection of abandoned animals in those places where it’s being done by a
company that has to make profit, we know that we are going to do a better job
and we think this is better because this way we save all animals, even with the
problems of overpopulation we might be getting, but the other option , like a
lot of others do, is to go to the doghouses and pick up a few, the ones that
have the most chance to be adopted and let the rest be put to sleep. It’s clear
that you don’t believe that a lot of
them are being put down because we now have the problem that people seem to
think that they are perfectly safe where they are, here with us and we will
never put them down, so now those people are going to the doghouses to rescue
dogs there, because they DO have an expiration date so maybe I should start
lying to you and tell you that it is true what some people have been saying
about us, that at Scooby dogs are being killed every day. So we have to find
them homes as soon as possible, these poor little animals. Yes, it is needed to
get them out of here as soon as possible but not because they kill each other,
that is a lie, but because they are adorable and they need a home and if not we
have to give them an expiration date to
get them adopted. Lately we have been getting all types and colors, don’t
understand why but it seems as if people, when they know the dogs are being
picked up by a refuge organisation, it will be easier for them to abandon their
pet, because our pickups have doubled and tripled in numbers compared to
previous years, in Salamanca we are
picking up litters of cats, all the cats in the world and a few more, same
thing with puppies, we even picked up a litter with three little galgos with
scabies, all being treated now. I think we have to start at the beginning and
try to prevent this unbridled breeding of pets that won’t have any future, so I think we should start some campaigns,
starting with a campaign for raising awareness, then from the vets a campaign
for neutering at reasonable prices and
further on a campaign on implementing the laws, fining those that breed without
permits. What is clear is that it is a battle on many fronts, not only on the
animal rescue side. I would do it like this
-
Information
and awareness
-
Making
neutering easier
-
Imposing
fines.
It is unbelievable that still you find signs with
animals for sales on walls in the cities or announcement in the newspaper, in
the second hand section, it is a fiscal fraud because I am sure they are not
paying taxes and that the taxoffice is not doing anything is unbelievable.
Kisses, hugs, bites and loving licks, Fermin
