Requiem for Gala

Gala is the last female galgo we picked up from the doghouse, they intented to hang her but she must have been able to get away from that terrible fate, and somebody found her and brought her to the doghouse where we went to pick her up, she has just given birth so the most probable thing is that they have killed the pups and then they tried to hang her.  I won’t tell you all there is to it, because if I did I would end up with one bad word after another. Greetings, sad greetings, Fermin

 

We need your help 2

Winter has come and our horses are outside, so we made them some shelters and we put some coats on them. The coats were free but the shelters costed us a lot but it was clear we could not leave them out in the open.

And if that is not enough, we have a load of puppies and kittens that are certainly adorable, these little podenco and galgo mixes, and they need a house now, they really need a home now, these stories about this little black puppy that came in undernourished and with decalcified legs, and our little kittens with the enormous pupils, the expenses with the puppies are enormous, if they don’t  have parvo they have something like calicivirus or rhinotracheitus, some of the smaller galgomixes had parvo, well several have had parvo but these two were in a very serious state and luckily have managed to get ahead, and of course it is obvious that when they are not feeling well we need to put the heater on and our electric bill has skyrocketed, so as you can see our bills are huge and therefore we need your help to pay them. Kisses, hugs, bites and loving licks, Fermin

Slide-Show:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LesfV0hSA&feature=youtu.be

We need your help

Lately we have been faced with a large quantity of enormous expenses, broken legs have become too regular so that every time we need to have them operated on, here comes Ivan, who is an excellent vet but every time he needs to come it is costing us a lot of money. Scooby as you know doesn´t not wait until we have the money together and then operate, but we have it done and later I will ask you for the money to pay for the operation.  I am going to present you with a few cases;

Ofelia, the female galgo that was brought to Cobie by a gipsy because she broke her leg running. Result: an operation to set the leg, now she is fine.

Michael the mix: car accident, as a result the leg and hip broken, required operation and now is doing fine.

Aaron the Braco: Broken leg with several bone fragments, a very difficult operation but currently doing well, as you can see these operations are very expensive. 

Even though Ivan is giving us a good price, these are expensive operations no matter what.

Kisses, hugs, bites and loving licks, Fermin

A lucky donkey

You have heard it in other stories, the typical phonecall about an animal in need of help, and there we go, this is one of the things I like about Scooby; where there is an animal in need, there we are going without caring about the distance or how much it is going to cost us.

When we went to see her, the owner told us boldly that he was waiting for her to die of thirst or hunger, that due to the crisis raising donkeys wasn’t profitable anymore without any subsidies so I am afraid we will be picking them up more and more. The certain thing was that the bas**rd of an owner had her tied up next to the food but he made sure the leash was short enough so she would not be able to reach it.

The good thing is that the vet has seen her today and within limits she is fine and only needs food and somebody to take care of her wounds, and above all she has a big appetite so we think and hope she will be doing fine soon. A sad bray with all my love for this poor thing that has to suffer because of humans. Fermin.

 

Day number 1 for our new fosterlings from Merida...

...of their new life.

As you can see there´s a lot of work and expenses lying ahead us but we are so happy to have them here in safety and now we are looking forward to the challenge to change their shape and also to conjure the spark of life back in their sad eyes. What they seem to be longing for most, next the food of course, is warmth. Although they are all wearing at least one coat, they spend every possible minute in the sun as if they need to charge their solar cell. For this reason we would love to fill our empty gas-tank, so we can turn on the heating above their baskets during the cold nights. That´s another 1500 Euro for which we are asking your help. 

But we don´t just want to ask for money but also send out a profound thank you to all of you who already donated for these dogs. You are fantastic people and we are so happy we can count on our friends when we need them.

Fermín

We will keep you posted about the progress of the dogs and for now, have a look at their first day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdOhP3okk8&feature=youtu.be