From the amazing pen of Nellie Doodles.
‘A smile & a few kind words can really change someone’s day
Kind words are like sugar, the more you put in, the sweeter the day.
Be kind, always.’
Author: Beryl Brennan
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New Year Resolution
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Protectora Scooby Newsletter 2 – Welfare and Tired Computers
From Fermin Perez.
We are always pushing for welfare developments for animals living in Spain. Unexpectedly we acquired a new dimension to this area of our work. The Spanish government proposed an update to our animal welfare legislation. It was so ground-breaking, it seemed too good to be true. We realised it was when the Government acquiesced to demands from the Spanish hunting community and agreed to exclude hunting dogs. Given the thousands of hunting dogs exploited, abused and dumped in Spain every year, this is an amendment to the proposed legislative update Spanish rescues and animal advocates are unwilling to take lying down. We have been part of an active campaign calling on the Government to withdraw the amendment. It centres on the fact a dog is a dog and all breeds should be equal in the eyes of the law : “#MismosPerrosMismaLey”. We write more about this issue later in the newsletter but sadly it looks as if the Government is unwilling to take the necessary steps to protect hunting dogs.
Tired Computers
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Galga Eden – ready for a forever home atlast
Regular readers will remember the story of the galga starving and covered heavily in ticks, who luckily went into the care of Galgos Rescue Almeria. Sandy Galgoslover now give an update.‘Galgo’s Rescue Almeria is feeling emotional.
Being born as a galgo in Spain means a life of deprivation, neglect, abuse, humiliation…..
We can try to repair the damage and prepare them to integrate in a world unknown to them. After a period of rehabilitation, many can build a new and different life, although some carry permanent mental damage.
How Eden’s life began we will never know, what we do know is how it goes from the day she was freed. There were rumors, stories circulated, but we never imagined that there was a place worse than hell where animals were left to their fate in a horrific way. The date August 4, 2022 is etched in our brains as a day we will never forget. Anger, emotions….. so many feelings haunted our minds when we rescued Eden from this place. It was terrible to see, when we arrived at the vet everyone was shocked. They had never seen anything like it.
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Bo and Rosely celebrating Christmas – Happy Christmas to everyone
Regular readers will know we sadly lost our last 2 galgos in April (Polar) and July (Bracken) 2021. At the moment we have 2 podencos, Rosely (a timid little Podenca Andaluz) and Bocelli (blind after life on the end of a chain). Here’s how they have been celebrating Christmas.As they wear harnesses when out and about, I decorated them with some Christmas pattern material, ribbon and Christmas tree decorations! They spent a fun day at the Dog Park we visit every Sunday Morning where the team put on a wonderful buffet which included cocktail sausages and chunks of cheese – well woofed by our 2!
The following day we trotted off to a Fun Dog Show – Bo’s first one – where he won first prize in ‘Dog with the shiniest nose like Rudolf’. Rosie excelled with first prize in the ‘Egg and Spoon Race’ – the ‘egg’ was made of mashed tuna – and second place in ‘Musical Chairs’ which involved us walking around and standing frozen when the music stopped.
Great fun – canine parties for Xmas instead of children’s parties!!
We wish all our readers a Happy and Healthy Festive Season and may the best of 2022 be the worst of 2023. (Think about it!)
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Protectora Scooby Newsletter 1
Unfortunately Protectora Scooby no longer have their volunteer posting their English blog. So I have copied their December newsletter and I’ll be publishing installments over the courts of the next couple of weeks. Here’s No 1 from Fermin.Thank you very much to everyone who has helped Scooby over the last year. We are grateful to those who donated in aid of our rescue and rehabilitation work; offered a permanent or foster home to one of our dogs or cats; worked as a volunteer with our animals; and have raised funds in their community and amongst friends. We are thankful to the lawyers who have helped us prepare for cruelty cases going to court. Thanks are also due to a small number of volunteer, support groups to home dogs and cats in
Spain and internationally. This is crucial for the animals, the adopters and our shelter. Without adoptions
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Dogs – nail trimming
Like our own nails, our dog’s claws also grow. We’re always nervous about taking too much off but our dogs don’t go to the vet often enough to ask them to do it – at a cost! Rosie gets walk enough that her claws are worn down naturally but Bo – being blind – doesn’t like walking on tarmac and concrete so he needs his claws clipping.
Here’s an article on the subject.
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Tasmania – fighting dog racing
Here’s the weblink to another of the Lawmaker Spotlighs by grey2kusa – this time about a criminal lawyer fighting greyhound racing in Tasmania.
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I am an animal rescuer…
I am a animal rescuer
I have fallen in love a hundred times
and cried a thousand tearsWe are a quiet and determined family
making a difference every dayNothing more rewarding
Than saving a life
No higher recognition
than watching them blossom