Sunday 23 December 2018

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


We wish you and your animals 
a Merry Christmas and 
a good, peaceful and healthy 2019!



Tuesday 18 December 2018

Newsletter 7


Here is our 7th newsletter!

Have fun reading the overview of our activities in 2018!

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Monday 26 November 2018

We need your help

We try not to beg for money but raise as much money as we can ourselves with events, plus the donations you kindly give us.
BUT NOW WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP!

Recently 3 dogs were just dumped again in our HalfWayHouse. This means even more expenses (3x castration, 3x vaccinations, 3x worm and flea treatment, not to mention food), where we are already struggling with money.

This year we received almost 50% less donations than the year before and spent much more on food because we had more mouths to feed. Also we were facing more than € 1000 extra costs for expanding the enclosure, although the municipality promised to provide us the materials, which never happened.

For the first time in our history it looks like we will not have enough money to feed the dogs during the winter. Therefor we ask you to help us.

1351 persons have liked our Facebook page. If everyone would donate only € 1 it would pay for 4 months food!
PLEASE HELP US WITH A (SMALL) DONATION!

Of course you can also order some of the beautiful cards Jackie makes, you support us and get something in return.

PayPal: act.thassos@gmail.com
Bank account: Piraeus Bank Limenaria - Thassos
GR06 0171 0620 0060 6213 6774 937 (BIC: PIRBGRAA).
The ascription is: DRASI GIA TA ZOA THASOU

THANK YOU!



Monday 24 September 2018

Get your unique (Christmas) cards now!

Did you know we sell beautiful cards, all made by Jackie?
They are made of different fabrics on good quality paper.

The cards with envelope cost € 3,00 each.
Postage: € 1,00 per card / 2 cards € 1,50 / 5 cards € 2,00 / 9 cards € 3,00.

You can order them by sending an email to act.thassos@gmail.com. Don't forget to mention your name, full address, number and kind of card(s).

Of course all profits go to the animals.























Thursday 26 July 2018

Yoshi RIP 24-7-2018

Today we had to say goodbye to Yoshi…

Yoshi who was found with a large tumor on his leg, that turned out to be malicious cancer. Vet Nikos thought he might have only 6 more months to live. We decided not to treat him with chemo or whatever and Joop and me took him in foster to keep an eye on him. And that was almost 4 years ago!

I am convinced that at the end he didn’t suffer of cancer (he never showed any sign of that anymore) but of old age. He was getting old and weak and we took the difficult decision to give him a worthy ending.

I am glad that he had so many happy years with us, still I am very sad to let him go.
Yoshi who was always quiet and gentle, who loved his little walks, who welcomed every new dog or puppy with a wagging tail, and most of all the best “kitten-sitter” on the island.
And that is how I will always remember him, Yoshi with a bunch of kittens all over him.

Tanja




Friday 13 July 2018

Sterilisation of the street cats on Thassos.

One of our most important jobs is sterilising the street cats on Thassos.
Since we are just a small group of volunteers it is impossible to do this all alone. Therefor we are very happy that more and more people on the island are helping us. They catch the cats, bring them to the vet, keep them overnight and release them again at the place they were found. If possible they even contribute some money towards the costs.

A good example is Marialina. She told us that a lady in Theologos is feeding street cats but  didn’t want to sterilise them. So the number of cats got more and more. Could ACT help? So we arranged that Marialina would catch the cats, we gave her 2 cat boxes and she started catching them. Later we talked again and she told us that she paid the vet herself for a couple of cats and also convinced some neighbours to pay some money as well. This meant that we only had to pay for half of the number of cats that were sterilised. A very good result and a good example of how working together really helps. And also more people learned about our work for the animals on the island.

Marialina is just an example, there are more people who are helping us like this and although we don’t mention all their names, we are each and every one very grateful for that!



Monday 18 June 2018

Here you can find our donation boxes on Thassos!

Kalivia:
Supermarket Charbi
Shell Tankstation

Limenaria:
Supermarket Saltaris
Supermarket Kordelis
Molly’s
Potos Carrental
Hotel Agali
Hotel Garden
Patiras Deluxe B&B
Agro Traditional Products
Taverna Stelios
Photocreations Nikos Kaïdis
Recycle Shop
Speedy Rentacar
Vet Giannis Alachouzos
Garden centre
Bakery Oganezov
Moto Zagos

Potos
Hairdresser sti tricha
Hair spa Mary
Taverna Hakuna Matata
Supermarket Gagos
Souvenir shop Aldebaran

Theologos
Shoe shop

Kastro
Taverna Kostas

Limenas
Smile supermarket
Bea leather
Shop So Greek

Wednesday 2 May 2018

Annual General Meeting

On April 15th the members of ACT had the annual general meeting in Stelios' tavern in Limenaria. We would like to thank Stelios very much for his kind hospitality and the free use of his tavern.

The finances of 2017 were approved by the audit committee.
We would like to share the totals with you:

IN:
€   1.238,21  Balance 2016                                               
€ 12.865,10  Donations                                                 
€   1.585,42  Collecting boxes                                         
€   5.255,00  Adoption money                                           
€   3.918,55  Car boot sales/bazaars/selling goods/events 


OUT:
€ 2.794,25  Tickets + transport dogs / boxes           
€ 5.290,00  Castrations/sterilisations                           
€ 6.771,13  Vaccinations/medical treatments/chip/pass 
€ 2.748,90  Dog/cat food etc.                                         
€    533,29  Costs sales/making products                   
€    596,42  Other costs                                           
€  2.640,00 Rent/caretaker                                         
€    187,00  Bank costs                                           

In 201 we managed to castrate a lot of cats again, again a few more than last year: 108!
Also 15 dogs were neutered and 27 dogs found a new home in Germany, England, Finland and on Thassos.

As always at this time of the year our finances are very low and we hope we can count on your support again this year so we can go on with our work.


Thursday 5 April 2018

Easter bunnies? No, loads of puppies and other dogs

The year is just 3months old and we have already taken in 15 dogs!

It all started in January with 4 little puppies that a man found when they were just a week old. Unexperiensed as he was he did a great job raising them with the bottle, until he couldn’t have them anymore. Jackie was so kind to foster them. Unfortunately one of them died the next day, but all others are doing very fine. Two boys and a girl, Amos, Arthur and Arwen. They were born around 10 December.


Then in February a lady in Theologos asked for help. She took care of 2 puppies that she found. For one she found a home, but since the other one was growing older she couldn’t take care of it anymore.
Now Sibylle is fostering her and her name is Binja, she is now 6 months old.


A week later Petra found a hunting dog in the Astris area. Although we put her on Facebook, nobody reported her missing. She is a medium sized dog and very friendly, a typical family dog.
We think she is still very young and this week we had her sterilised.
We call her Camille and she is staying in our HalfWayHouse.


Half March we were contacted by the owner of Maliatos supermarket in Limenaria. He found a hunting dog running around. He asked some people but nobody knew her. Also our call on Facebook had no result.
Also this medium sized lady is quite young and very friendly.
Donna, as we named her, stays in the HalfWayHouse and is sterilised this week.


End of March a big black dog was found near Paradise Beach by Janna and Nikos. Animal lovers as they are they couldn’t have him, because they already took in so many dogs (not to mention the cats). They contacted us for help and offered to pay all the expenses for the dog. As expected nobody reported this gentle giant missing, so next week he will be castrated and then he can move to the HalfWayHouse.
We call him Emil and we think he is not even 2 years old.


A day later 7 young puppies were found in a cardboard box in the riverbed in Limenaria. They were only 7 weeks old. The girl Eva, who found them was so kind to foster them until we find them a home. She managed to home 2 of them and… wants to keep one of them herself. It is difficult to resist those little cuties. That still leaves us 4 puppies that need to be vaccinated and homed. Since they stay with Eva we haven’t named them yet, but their names should start with an F.


Today we took in 2 little puppies that were found last week on the road to the airport. We want to emphasize that it is NOT our policy to take dogs from the main land. However much we would like to help all animals, we also realise that that is just impossible. If you see an animal in need on the mainland we can provide you contact details of charities over there.
Of course we didn’t send these babies back and they are now in foster with Tanja and Joop.
We thank Chris and Martin for having them treated for parasites and their first vaccination. They named them Minnie and Max, but since we already had a Max, we will follow the alphabet and call them Gina and George. They are 7 weeks old and probably will be medium size.


As you understand this tsunami of dogs costs a lot of money: vaccinations, parasite treatments, microchips, sterilisations and not to mention food.
Also we need to enlarge our HalfWayHouse to make more separate enclosures because of the simple fact that, like humans, not all dogs match.

SO ONCE AGAIN WE ASK FOR YOUR HELP. 
Please help us with a donation, small or big, to give all these dogs the care they need and deserve.
You can do so on our PayPal account: act.thassos@gmail.com or on our bank account:
Piraeus Bank Limenaria - Thassos
GR06 0171 0620 0060 6213 6774 937 (BIC: PIRBGRAA).
The ascription is: DRASI GIA TA ZOA THASOU 

THANK YOU!!

Thursday 1 March 2018

Goodbye Nikos

It has been a few years since we met our vet Nikos Efthimiopoulos on Thassos, Limenaria. In the course of time he became not only our helper in need, but also a friend and member of ACT Animal Care Thassos. Castrations, vaccinations, operations, medication, home visits, good advice, reviews ... we do not even know what else we should enumerate to describe Nikos help. Nikos is a veterinarian in heart and soul and has helped many animals on Thassos. Moreover, he is a very friendly person. He has the heart in the right place.

Nikos goes with his family to Germany to start a new life there. For us this is a bitter loss, we are very sad, as always, when special people go.

But because we care so much for Nikos, we wish him and his family only the best, happiness and health. It is a courageous step, so brave that it can only go well, because courage is always rewarded.

Dear Nikos, we will miss you very much, even more the animals of Thassos will miss you. We thank you for the many hours that you have been there for us. Not only during office hours, but also around the clock. We thank you for your expertise. And we thank you for the way you helped the animals.

Good luck in your new life!


Wednesday 31 January 2018

Newsletter 6

December was a very busy month, as every month in 2017 was.

Therefor our newsletter is a bit delayed, but not less interesting.

Have fun reading the overview of our activities in 2017!

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