Don’t forget to sponsor Team Pepis in the Duathlon on Saturday, 19th March 2016. We need to raise 4,000 euros to pay off the outstanding vet bill for Pepis Dog Refuge. Details here.
Category: Fund raising
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Scooby Refuge gets a charity shop!
A charity clean-up and start-up
Last week (7/3/2016) a group of Greyhound Compassion volunteers spent a few days at the Scooby shelter to help the Scooby team. The intake of galgos peaks in the first three months of the year as the galgueros discard their galgos at the end of the annual coursing season. The shelter was full to the brim because an average of 40 galgos a week had been rescued in the first two months of this year.
Read the story here.
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Duathlon, 19th March 2016, Clumber Park, Nottingham – Sponsor Team Pepis!
Pepis Dog Refuge in Pedrera, Seville, has an outstanding vet bill so far of nearly 4,000 euros! That includes sterilization of dogs (the first thing to be done with the arrival of each new dog, to prevent unwanted puppies), vaccinations, dogs needing operations, medication…the list is endless.
It’s desperate that this bill is cleared and to that end Ellen Stevens and 2 friends have entered the team event in the Duathlon at Clumber Park, Nottingham, on 19th March 2016. If you look on the Youcaring link below, you can read all about it.
Please sponsor Team Pepis and share widely with family and friends. Let’s raise the total and more if possible.
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Scooby Medina and Scooby Valladolid – saving galgos and podencos
So how many galgos and podencos did the Scooby team in January and February 2016? Cobie at Valladolid has been counting.
Maybe you read the news on the Scooby blog or maybe you don´t, but the histories about the trips Scooby makes to save galgos is every time a different one, it´s not that we repeat the same rescues every time. Therefore I put them here again and it’s from January until 23 February, so the rescues from December and before are not included:
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Scooby rescues 50 more hunting dogs in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
50 Greyhounds and hounds from Castilla La Mancha…
In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…
Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.Sunday the 10th. of January we had to go to pick up some 50 galgos and podencos in a shelter in Tomelloso were every day a few galgos are brought in by their loving owners or mostly, are just thrown over the fence.
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DeAnimals – Courses on animal welfare for lawyers, Seprona, animal volunteers, judges
On 23rd January DeAnimals specialist animal welfare lawyers, held another successful course for people in authority who want to study the laws for animals; animal welfare; prison law and how to make a denounce against animal abuse. Delegates included Seprona, local police, national police, a judge and a lawyer; it was also attended by an Actin Committee member. The course also covered working to make an ANIMAL PROTECTION group that can help to make important changes in Spain and different cities and towns in Spain.
The principal and important things to make changes in Spain is the INFORMATION, the information and knowledge of the laws gives power to the legal process and this is the true key to making changes in Spain for animals.
Actin sponsored 6 people on the course, which was enabled by a generous donator.
The next course will probably be Saturday 9 April in Murcia, to be confirmed. It will start at 9.30 to 19.30h with food included. The price with food will be approximately 90 to 95 pounds. Actin may be able to sponsor a delegate, if they are unable to afford the costs and can demonstrate that this course will help them in their working capacity, as an animal welfare advocate.
DeAnimals will also be running a course for lawyers, association and police about animal law, prison law and abuse of animals in the official College of lawyers in Sevilla. This course is free to everyone, trainee lawyers, police and association. Actin will be sponsoring this course.
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35 More galgos rescued from Jerez (Cadiz) perrera by Scooby
Fermin Perez Martin, president of Scooby, tells the story.
‘On Monday 18/1/2016 we went to Jerez to pick up 35 more galgos, who now are sitting comfortably in our shelter.
We should have taken 36 galgos, but during the release of 5 galgos from the back of a trailor carried by their galguerro, one of the galgos was so terrified, he broke free from his leash, gave many bite wounds to his former ‘master’, and he fled for his life. This is sad, very sad that a galgo who was so close to the chance at a better life with us, took his chance of freedom to escape the life he knew, to be used only as a tool.
We hope that the volunteers in Jerez will find him and eventually he will get the life he deserves, and this highlights the huge importance of our work, travelling great distances to save as many of these mistreated souls that we possibly can.
Please support us in our even increasing work, you will be seeing the many new faces of our wonderful galgos appearing soon and ready for adoption.’Ways to help us:
Making a donation: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/how_you_can_help.html
Making a virtual adoption: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/virtual_adoption/index.html
Adopt one of our animals: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/adoption/index.html
Become a volunteer: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/volunteering.html
Join the teaming (for only 1 Euro/month): https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina?lang=en_UK -
Scooby takes 50 Galgos & podencos from Castilla La Mancha…
From Fermin Perez Martin, president of Scooby refuge.
‘In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…
Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.