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ACTIN, making changes for animals in Spain.

Animal care Treatment International Network has been set up to make changes for the animals in Spain, who suffer abandonment and cruelty. What we plan to do is to bring awareness of the problems to the world’s media. We need to promote education, new legislation and support neutering campaigns. It is necessary to get support Internationally to put pressure to bear on the Spanish government and to persuade them to take more responsibility for the lack of animal welfare in Spain. ACTIN plans in the future to bring about these changes through media awareness. Actin will tell the truth of how it is on an everyday basis, particularly in the country villages of Murcia, where there is a lot of ignorance and abuse. They will tell of what the volunteers deal with and how the abuse of animals is getting worse. ACTIN will endeavor to bring about campaigns for sterilization and education in schools. There is a need for a Society to protect the animals and this is what ACTIN aim to do in the future but we need much support to achieve our aims.

WHY would an owner send their pet to a pound?
Thursday, January 2, 2014 @ 4:24 PM

When you visit your vet, why not ask if they know what the local Perrera is like and if they recommend their clients to send their dogs there when they don't want them anymore?...could be an important step to enlighten some of our vets, as they may not know....please read the article for the explanation of this post....

 

"The results of our pound project and getting the poor pups out resulted in many losses due to parvo virus and we still have puppies sick in the veterinary hospital.

All together we lost six tiny pups, (the last casualty, rescued on Christmas Eve and named Eve, died just last night, on New Year’s day), one older pup and an adult terrier we named Heindrich, who was probably once someone’s pet.

We discovered after taking two dogs out this week that owners actually telephone the pounds when their dogs are not working out, maybe they have started fighting with another dog in the house, (as was the case with one dog who we got out this week), our vet put the owner in touch with us and they told us they called the pound and someone came to collect their so called beloved pet. They paid 60 euros for him to be taken away and was informed that a home would be found. We know for sure that if our team had not visited this pound and seen this poor dog, his future was hopeless.

Other reasons – maybe people cannot afford to keep their dog anymore, or the dog has got old and sick. These are all the scenarios we have learnt about just from the few we rescued from the horrendous pound we have been talking about recently. Why would anyone send there dog to a pound? How could you send it somewhere where you know nothing of the care and conditions in the place? We now think there should be some kind of warning to people, please do consider anything else other than the pounds.

We are not saying they are all bad but in the forefront of minds at Actin at the moment, is the one we do know about and we would highly recommend no-one sends their dog there. Imagine how a poor bewildered pet feels, when they have been loved and lived with their Family, to suddenly find themselves, in a cold barren cage, with a stone floor, freezing in the winter and baking in the summer, the floors hosed down without consideration for the dog and then hardly any food and no-one to see them at weekends or holidays. If sick just left and no consideration of which dogs they may be kenneled with…puppies, Mums and pups and no hope for being adopted as it is not advertised or open to the public.

When and if we ever find out what becomes of the dogs that are not kept there, I wonder how the ex – owners will feel. We will make it public, please consider another option!!"

Source: ACTIN-SPAIN

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Donating – As a member of ACTIN you will be donating to help us with our campaigns, funding our lawyer and sponsoring the animals in our care depending on the options you choose. Now that we are a year old, we need regular funds coming in that we can rely on to help fund our work and push on towards greater successes.

Information – As a member of ACTIN you will have access to the member’s area on the website where you can be kept up to date with information about the association, depending on the membership options you have chosen. You will be emailed regular newsletter from ACTIN, and have access to updates about the animals in our care.



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Rachel Vauls said:
Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 8:03 AM

Not all perreras are bad. My local pound at Motril does everything it can to rehome animals. It even has a Facebook page which seems to be successful in finding dogs new homes. When there is a death list they really make a big push to get the dogs rescued. I'm keeping an eye out for my next dog from there.


jamesensor said:
Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 10:04 AM

The attitude of many Spaniards towards dogs is quite different from that of many north European. We found a young, male Swiss Herder type, a beautiful white ball of fluff like a small polar bear, roaming loose in our complex. Every time that a family arrived for a couple of week`s stay, he would attach himself to them, and for a fortnight he would be happy. He used to lie outside their gates at night, hoping to be adopted.

In preparation for rescuing him we took him to a vet for a rabies vaccination and whilst waiting for the centrifuge to separate the blood, we sat with him in a cafe.

He took a great interest in a young girl at the next door table. Eventually she exclaimed in surprise that she knew the dog and what`s more she knew the owner. She had last seen the dog as a small puppy. He had grown due to the food and water that we and others were giving him, over some months.

The owner, a Catalan youngster who worked in a bar, duly arrived and the dog rushed up to him as a long-lost owner. The Catalan`s first words were " I suppose that you want to keep the dog." He claimed that he had lost the dog several miles away. But clearly he had driven it to our complex and simply abandoned it. A Spanish woman, who had moved away had left the dog with him to look after.

He asked us to keep the dog for one night and promised that he would collect it. Of course, he never did. He continued to lie to his friends that he had lost it again or perhaps that the Ingles had adopted it.

Now named Fritzi, he is happily living in London with a Swill lady.


kim said:
Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 11:14 AM

I am trying to donate but the page isnt working, thank you, Kim


Janice ..blog writer said:
Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 11:21 AM

Hi Kim, just checking that for you, will get back.


Janice ..blog writer said:
Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 11:29 AM

Hi Rachel

As you say not ALL perreras are bad & it's great to hear the one you know of is a good one but sadly MANY are NOT! ACTIN are highlighting the need for perreras to be checked & regulated.

Dogs who go into ANY perrera need a bed, somewhere out of the elements, food, water, care, vet attention & a chance to be seen by the public who want to adopt.



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