Urgent help needed: our dogs need food.

Hello our friends, we know we are always asking you for renewed efforts to help us but Scooby is going through a tough time right now. Right now we have over 900 dogs in our care and to feed them is asking the utmost of us regarding the costs. We are talking about Eur 6000 a month.

As you can imagine, an amount that is very difficult for us to get together. And that is the reason that, for the benefit of our animals, we are again asking you for your help which is urgently needed. For the people in Spain or those who are close to one of our set ups in either Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Palencia or Zamora we ask you to bring us as much food as you possibly can, and for those further away both national and international, because of the costs of transport we ask you to help us financially to cover the costs of feeding our animals,

We are in a desperate situation because even though we should be saying we will not take up more animals we just cannot leave them without our and your help, they deserve a chance and that is the whole reason Scooby is there, to give hope to these and many more animals.

You can also help us by adopting or fostering one or more of our dogs, and if you might know of any company that could help us out with food or work with us, we really would appreciate it, and please share this with your contacts, friends and family and let them know in what situation we are in and what we need. Please we do count on you to do your utmost in trying to find ways to help us. Every little bit of help, as small as it might seem, makes the world of difference for us in these hard times.

You know there are a lot of ways to help us but our main concern right now is to feed them. We are talking about 900 dogs but the number of animals that depend on Scooby is much larger. You can imagine the financial consequences this has in just one month.

Please think of them, they are the most important and help us in any way possible. Share, promote and HELP one more time. Thanks for taking the time to read this, to understand us and for helping us, we really are grateful.

If you work with us making a donation, making a virtual adoption, becoming a Scooby member of becoming a Teamer for just 1 euro a month, you can help us continue to do our work.

A small gesture can change their lives. Don’t you think it is worth it?

Join Teaming:
https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina?lang=es_ES

Make a donation, become a member or adopt virtually:
http://scoobymedina.org/es/how_you_can_help.html

THANK YOU!!

Scooby finds an assassinated galgo in a plot between Medina and Moraleja

PRESS RELEASE  24th of March 2015

On a plot between the villages of Moraleja en Medina del Campo the Sociedad Protectora de Animales y Medio Ambiente Scooby last Monday afternoon found an assassinated galgo. The president of the organization himself, Fermin Perez was informed by two workers of the same organization who were walking with their dogs in the area when they found the remains of the galgo.

Arriving at the scene together with a veterinary doctor, they could only conclude that it concerned a young female galgo that suffered a blow to the head with a heavy object, that looked like it caused its immediate death. The animal had no means of identification, as could be confirmed by the chipreader.

Scooby has been fighting the killing of galgos for over 30 years and even though the numbers have gone down considerably during the last years, there are still cases like this occurring regularly.

This is the reason we continue to fight daily to achieve that all animals will have a means of identification, so we can control the number of animals and their owners. It is very important as well that their owners are organized to be able to control the number of galgos they own and the condition they are in,

This is a joint effort for various organizations to work together, primarily the galgo federations, who will have to instate that the galgueros have to be able to identify both themselves and their galgos, and on the other side the authorities involved who will have to check the identifications and make sure the laws are  abided, and the refuges to watch and care for the abandoned animals and report any cases like this one.

For more information please contact:

Rebeca Cid Rodríguez

Prensa y Comunicación Scooby

comunicación@scoobymedina.org  

If you want to look at the pictures you can do it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LBLSQDq6QI&feature=youtu.be

An important day for the dogs of "paddock 7"

On Monday the 23rd of March, Simonetta took the dogs with broken paws to the "Clinica Meditteranea" in Madrid. where they will build in plates and figure out the right procedures for the oncoming operations.

We found foster homes for them in Madrid who will take care of the dogs in the meantime until their treatment is completed.

From here we would like to thank the clinic very much for giving these brave dogs a second chance. We would also like to say thank to the foster families who will look after the dogs until they are ready to go and of course to all of you who offered their help.

If you would like to help us cover the costs for the material used in the operations you can either do that through our teaming site or paying onto our bank account.

Once again a million thanks! Without you nothing would be possible!

Teaming:https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina

Bank account:

Sociedad Protectora de Animales Scooby
Bankinter Valladolid

number bank account: 0128/0212/51/0103853927

IBAN: : ES6101280212510103853927
BIC: BKBKESMM

Pepe and Cicio urgently need special food

These little ones are called Pepe and Cicio, and they were rescued together with their brothers in a terrible condition. Undernourished, ill and scared out of their minds.  When they arrived at our place they were checked out by our vets who gave them a treatment immediately because they had parvo. It has been a long and hard process and even though we did what we could, only these two brave ones managed to survive. Now, a month later, they have managed to overcome the disease but their legs have become this way because of the malnourishment. Even so they are trying to integrate with the other pups and be normal but they can hardly manage to run or stay upright for a long time. When you enter to say hello, they try to run towards you to be petted, and they are always the last to get there. These champions deserve a normal life and to be able to play like any pup, and to get there they will need mostly food with a high nutritional value, something that we cannot afford because it is very expensive. After giving them this high quality food, we will have to see how they develop, and if they don’t get better we have to take them to the specialist to see what can be done. The next weeks are the most important and they need this food as soon as possible. Pepe and Cicio will be enormously grateful if you can donate for their high quality special puppy food, either the food itself or funds so we can get it for them. Would you want to help these babies?

Thank you!

Making a donation: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/how_you_can_help.html

Join the teaming (for only 1 Euro/month): https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina?lang=en_UK

  

Help for our "broken legs gang"

Today we have good news for you. A few days ago we informed you about a group of dogs we rescued lately that came to Scooby with broken paws. Again we asked for your solidarity to make their costly treatment possible. Once more our President Fermín, together with all the workers and volunteers got everything going to find collaborators. Amongst others we got into contact with the "Centro Veterinario Mediterráneo" that is located in Madrid. And once again they offered us their help. They will do the operations on the dogs and Scooby has to pay for the implants (plates and screws) only.

You can´t imagine how grateful we are to the whole team of the "Centro Veterinario Mediterráneo". They gave these dogs a new opportunity, which is very imrpessive for us. We would like to also thank all the others for their commitment and support, for example by sharing the post. Without you nothing would be possible. Thank you so much!