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

And we went to Merida

And there we found the following: 15 galgos that we rescued and we made a deal with Ana that every time she finds one that she calls us, so she did and we went there and we brought them all in, without looking if they were white or black, male or female, I am afraid some of them have scabs or Leishmania and they are going to cost us a lot, but mostly a lot of time and love to have them recover. Most of all love for the animals we have enough to give so in a short time you will see that they will be ready and calling at your door to see if you are willing to make space for them on your sofa.

This has been a flying start for Simonetta and Cobie who have gone over to pick them up once it has been arranged and I must admit that women in this aspect are a lot more caring than men, they brought blankets and coats for them because the metal at this time is very hard and cold, they have left various coats there in Merida in case they would find another, these are the first pictures, tomorrow I will make some more and put them on the site. Little barks of hope because I hope they will recuperate soon, they look healthy and have just been hungry. Fermin

Slide-Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WiD7DfD2MI&feature=youtu.be