How good, how nice

We have just realized that our Facebook page, yes the new one , the one that you don’t follow and you should follow because in that web page we want to publish all the information from all the Scoobys all over the world, from Scooby North America, scooby Lowlands, Germany, France , Italy, Zamora and of course the scooby mother that is Scooby Medina, well how I was telling you, something very interesting has happened and it is : The galgueros follow us on Facebook, or it is or they are just answering any publication that appear about galgos on Facebook, I don’t think so, anyway it is funny because they are trying to convince me that they are good people, in fact I am sure that there are good galgueros, this is why we signed an agreement with them, but I am sure that there are lot more bad galgueros and they are giving a very bad image to all of them,  but also the good galgueros are guilty, yes you are guilty when you witness another one mistreating their dogs and you are doing nothing, don’t blame us , blame your colleagues , they are the ones that are mistreating the dogs, we only show to the whole world what is happening, don’t try to say that it is a business , because it is not , somebody has told you that the best defense is a good attack , but you are wrong your best defense is to collaborate with the animal welfare organizations to finish with all these abusers. Good luck with your change of mentality, until you are not able to change your chip in relation with the animals, we will not be able to be friends. Fermín

By the way look on Facebook Sociedad Protectora de Animales Scooby

When you lend a dog a helping hand..

There are instances when an animals path crosses with that of a person that doesn’t treat them the way they deserve, but the story of Cepillo, a precios podenco, is different.

Cepillo appeared in the village of Tornedizos de Arevalo around Christmas, letting himself be loved by anyone that came close to him. Little by little, a woman from the village, Consuelo, started to put down food for him next to her house, and not only that, she also left some blankets next to her door so he could spend the wintertime in the best possible conditions.

The dog has a great hunting instinct so he brings Consuelo hares and rabbits many times and that’s the reason for the threats from the hunters, who say that the dog is interfering with their hobby and that’s why they want to get rid of him.

After having him checked out by the vet and finding that his health is perfect, they put up signs in the village to have him adopted, with the bad luck that they could not find anybody willing to offer him a home.

One day the dog did not come back to the home of the woman that had been loyally taking care of him and she got worried, so worried she could not sleep at night. And that same night, at around 3 in the morning she heard barking outside of her house, barking that suggested pain. Cepillo was there, but this time he came back to the house that offered him food and warm blankets, with a trap embedded in one of his paws.

Consuelo woke up her husband who managed to remove the clamp and they go back to bed after giving him first aid.

The next day they took him to the vet again who gave antibiotics and bandages.

Then Consuelo decided to tie him up at her house but when she saw the sadness of the dog because he could no longer go out and take a walk in the fields in liberty, and since she already had a little dog in the house she could not take him inside, and after the advice of the vet, Consuelo decided to call Scooby. With sadness, knowing she can no longer see him every day, she talks to one of our workers Pablo to pick up Cepillo so they can find him a home where he is no longer being threatened by hunters, far from traps and as much food and blankets that he needs.

Cepillo has shown us what a good loving and quiet dog he is, now it is your turn. Do you want to offer him a home?

 

Thank you and invitation from Greyhound Compassion

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

Different things that make me angry.

Now I am going to start telling you different things that make me angry, I am sure that there are so many that I will have enough for several articles, but this is a beginning.

The first question is; all these people that thinks that we are working on animal welfare because we don’t have anything else to do.

These are a bunch of stupid people without brain , they think that abandoning dogs we are going to be more happy because then we keep going with our organization, nothing to do with my real feelings, whoever who knows me a bit, should know that I like the animals but mainly I would like to like only my own animals and not all the animals abandoned every year, sincerely I would prefer to go to the beach every weekend better than going in an exhausting transport of dogs to Europe to save them, but obviously we cannot do anything different while there are so many ………… in this world we need to keep working, there is an interview from me somewhere a lot of years ago and there I was saying that I would like to close the shelter and instead of that the shelter is becoming bigger and bigger.

The second question is to be politically correct so I cannot say what I really want to say, I have been in this galgo world forever so I know everything and everybody and sometimes I would like to scream really loud but I cannot because then Christiane, she is German and very correct and she doesn’t allow me to do it. But one day ………………..

Big kisses, and loving licks. Fermin

Short news 4

I think it is the fourth time that I write small news, we do have big histories but sometimes I prefer to write simple things about the daily life at Scooby, like for example now that the winter has come back again, it is really cold now and windy so now that we expect good weather , it has changed completely.

The new place for the horses is complete and absolutely great, we have plenty of space and now that everything is clean and tidy, it looks absolutely great, by the way I will write something about the horses separately. By the way, there we have an old like a swimming pool used for irrigation and I have offered workers and volunteers to clean up and to use it like a swimming pool in summer.

Our geese and ducks are like crazy laying eggs and I really feel sorry to remove them but we cannot do anything else to avoid too many animals with feathers in our lake, but they are really aggressive defending their “children”

We have remodeled absolutely the transport van so hopefully the transports will be even more safe for the dogs and also we will have more space for them, it will be also lighter so we can transport a little bit more on our way back.

We are becoming absolutely professionals in the transport now we have also the Telepeajes for Spain and France so we don’t need to stop at the toll stations, the dogs will get less stressed and the drivers also.

Our educational project is going really well, we have already started with several visits to schools and we hope that the schools will start visiting us as soon as when the weather will be better, now is too cold.

And we don't have a great feeling of self-importance

At this moment we are rescuing all the galgos from many many perreras all over Spain like Merida, several times, in fact whenever Ana has too many galgos we go there and we rescue all of them, Tomelloso in Castilla La mancha, of course from Valladolid you have already seen some of the dogs that we rescued from there, Talavera  de la Reina and Toledo , we are receiving dogs from Murcia, now we will go to Jerez to take some dogs from Maribel, it means that whenever there is a galgo in need, scooby is there helping and we can only do it because of your support, if we have a single space we will not let down a galgo in this country, after that, we will ask you to help us with the invoices or with the rehoming but obviously we cannot allow that a dog dies while we have a space, and this is a compromise that I personally have with the galgos.

And apart from that all the galgos that we have rescued due to the agreement with the regional federation of galgos, we have received many from good galgueros from different places, so that agreement is making something good for the galgos, but we still expect lot more.

 Now something completely different , while I was speaking with somebody in the south because they need help with their galgos, she told me something that made me think, she told me if we rescue all the galgos or only certain ones and like all of you know, I told her that all of them and I asked her why she was asking me that, and she told me that our friends from FBM now they are rescuing only females and I can understand why, it is because their organizations  in Europe rehoming galgos are rehoming mainly bitches and I am sorry but I think that everybody should make an effort to rehome also males and even black males, what kind of animal lovers we will be if we leave the poor males behind , and this is why I am asking you to make an effort , to make a big effort and to rehome males, I know that males, we can be more difficult sometimes but in the most of the cases we are simply adorable , we are so silly , our brain is so short that nobody can blame us because simply we are not responsible, because we are not intelligent enough for example today my Tino when I have gone outside he had peed in the porch instead of doing it outside so I needed to punish him, but even in these cases he is adorable. We don’t want to reach the point that we need to say no to males and black dogs and this is why I am writing this all the galgos need to have a chance, the males and the black dogs also suffer with the galgueros so they also deserve a place in our hearts. Kisses, bites and loving licks. Fermín