In the last 4 years ACT has slowly grown bigger and better known. More and more people on the island know about us, which results of course in more cries for help.
With the few foster families we have on Thassos and the restricted space in our enclosure we sometimes had difficulties to offer a dog in need help. Until now we could manage but we were afraid that in the future we would have to turn a dog down.
So after long discussions we decided to build a bigger enclosure. We found a great plot we could use, but it needed good fencing.
Again we asked the Dutch organization Stichting Wereldasielen for financial help and again they gave us a huge donation towards the building materials.
And we may not have enough foster homes but we do have a lot of friends to help us with other works. So with many volunteers we cleared out rubbish, cleaned the place, fixed doors, put up secure fencing and doors and managed to almost finish the work in three (very warm) days. And this is the result:
We want to emphasize that it is not our intention to have a permanent shelter for any unwanted dog. We believe that people need to take responsibility for their pet and if they cannot keep it anymore it is their responsibility to find it another home. Of course we are willing to help them with that, but our enclosure is not meant for those dogs.
Our help goes to dogs that are left on the streets not able to survive there because of sickness or other problems. And we will try to rehome each one of them after they are recovered.
First of all we want to thank Stichting Wereldasielen. Without their financial help this would not have been possible.
But the same applies to our volunteers. Peter, Hannelore, Grant, Arno, Gitty, Sascha, Lutz, Dirk, Karem, Jürgen, Gisela, Tanja, Sabine, Marcus thank you all for your tremendous commitment!
With the few foster families we have on Thassos and the restricted space in our enclosure we sometimes had difficulties to offer a dog in need help. Until now we could manage but we were afraid that in the future we would have to turn a dog down.
So after long discussions we decided to build a bigger enclosure. We found a great plot we could use, but it needed good fencing.
Again we asked the Dutch organization Stichting Wereldasielen for financial help and again they gave us a huge donation towards the building materials.
And we may not have enough foster homes but we do have a lot of friends to help us with other works. So with many volunteers we cleared out rubbish, cleaned the place, fixed doors, put up secure fencing and doors and managed to almost finish the work in three (very warm) days. And this is the result:
We want to emphasize that it is not our intention to have a permanent shelter for any unwanted dog. We believe that people need to take responsibility for their pet and if they cannot keep it anymore it is their responsibility to find it another home. Of course we are willing to help them with that, but our enclosure is not meant for those dogs.
Our help goes to dogs that are left on the streets not able to survive there because of sickness or other problems. And we will try to rehome each one of them after they are recovered.
First of all we want to thank Stichting Wereldasielen. Without their financial help this would not have been possible.
But the same applies to our volunteers. Peter, Hannelore, Grant, Arno, Gitty, Sascha, Lutz, Dirk, Karem, Jürgen, Gisela, Tanja, Sabine, Marcus thank you all for your tremendous commitment!
