Dear everyone,
Thank you very much for your help today at our extra jumble sale.
Thanks very much for spreading the load at the end of the event and
for the jumble convoy through the lanes! Well, altogether we raised
£304.75, not bad at all. We’re expecting another £16 from book
sales, so we should get to £320. For a first go in a new venue, this
wasn’t at all bad. Thank you very much.
We have some good news too. The British Small Animal Veterinary
Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with Scooby to
offer a neutering course at the shelter to its newly qualified vets
and to vets returning from a career break. The aim of the course is
for the vets to improve their surgical neutering skills. There are
more details here http://www.bsava.com/CPD/Scooby.aspx
This comes at a time when Scooby wants to improve its onsite clinic
and buy an ambulance so that a Scooby team member and vet can collect
the strays and unneutered dogs from their owners from the much deeper
rural environs. Greyhound Compassion is launching its fund-raising
campaign to contribute to this “Pup Prevention Plan” on Sunday 6 July
with a lunch and dog walk hosted by Mrs. Hazel Spear at her home in
Hertfordshire. Everyone and all breeds are welcome. The lunch party
and dog walk will cost £10 per head. All proceeds will go to the “Pup
Prevention Plan”. Please let us know if you would like to reserve a
place, if you haven’t already done so. It is heart warming to
realise that the Scooby shelter started out as a two storey building
and a neighbouring ruin housing the local stray galgos and other
breeds more than 20 years ago. Now, thanks to the contributions GC
and its team have made to Scooby, we have helped to bring about a
purpose built shelter with running water, electricity and an on-site
clinic, which now has a relationship with an organisation like the
BSAVA and has managed to start to bring animal cruelty prosecutions
in a country traditionally hostile to animal welfare. This is a
tribute to all of those jumble sales and street collections! Thank
you very much to everyone and we hope you will join us for a glass of
wine and dog walk on 6 July to toast the shelter. This is fantastic
news for Scooby! We’re hoping for this to be good kick-off to a
ground-breaking plan for Spain.
With very many thanks
Greyhound Compassion
