Looking for foster families in North Rhine-Westphalia or Dutch border

We are urgently looking for new foster families in the area of Cologne/Düsseldorf who are willing to foster our dogs, brought to Germany by flight partners, until they have found a new home. Our preference is a family or couple with dog experience that sees no problem in fostering different types, ages and characters of dogs. The dogs have to be picked up from Airport Cologne or Düsseldorf. Obviously the family has to have sufficient space.
Mr. Klaus Franke and his family, who has been fostering the dogs of Thassos for many years, will be happy to assist some time with his rich experience. Unfortunately he cannot take all the animals for us and we would like to relieve him somewhat.

Please contact us if you, like us, care about the dogs of Thassos and know someone who would like to help as a foster family, or if you might want to do so yourself.
We are always willing to answer your questions about, for example veterinary costs, which of course are paid by ACT as long as the dog is in a foster home. You'll never be on your own, but work closely with us and Mr. Klaus Franke. We are looking forward to you :-)

We try of course to find the dogs a new home on Thassos or save them an intermediate care again, but unfortunately that is a rarity and it is therefore all the more important to have more loving and experienced foster families.

This dog is what you call a lucky girl!

She roamed the streets around the market in Prinos, when English tourists saw her and had a 2nd look because her coat was so special. As it turned out, the poor thing was totally matted and could hardly walk. She wore a collar, so they asked around who the owner was. When that was not to find out, they decided to take her home and contacted ACT. Since we had no place to foster the dog at that moment, the English took her for a while and started to cut off the lumps of matted hair. It was a bag full of more than a kilo! After a wash she looked a lot better and Layla, as she was called, turned out to be a nice, sweet and even house trained dog.
Not much later there was a possibility on a flight to Amsterdam and today she is leaving already to her foster family in the Netherlands.
Layla is estimated to be 3-4 years old, has not been spayed yet and is looking for a loving family.

Zina and puppies

In July we were contacted by a retired shoemaker here on Thassos. He had a mother dog (called Zina) and one of her puppies, both of which he wanted to keep. He had already sent her 3 other puppies to a lady in Kalivia in the hopes that she could care for them and find them new homes. However, it didn't work out quite like that.

In the end, the shoemaker could not cope with Zina and her baby, and the lady in Kalivia had financial problems in looking after so many unwanted dogs. So, ACT stepped in and we now have available for adoption Zina (whom the shoemaker had sterilised!), her four puppies, and another puppy from the lady in Kalivia.

Zina and 1 of her puppies are the first guests in the new kennel, 3 other puppies are being fostered in Theologos and one in Kalivia.

Zina is about 18 months old, quite a big girl, and can be rather nervous until she gets to know you. Then she is gentle and co-operative. With love and patience she will become a marvelous family dog.

The puppies are about 4 months old and are happy, uncomplicated little souls. Their hobbies are eating, sleeping and playing! They are already learning their names, and the magic word "Come"!

Zina

Kelly

Kyra

Kiwi

Katie

Kalivia

The enclosure is finished

We want to say a big Thank You to Alex and Grant who have worked a couple of days to build a beautiful kennel for the enclosure.

Thanks to a generous donation of Wereldasielen (World shelters) in The Netherlands towards the building costs, we have been able to do so. Now we could make a proper all weather dog house that will last for years. It has two compartments with its own entrance and the sides can be taken off for easy access to a sick dog or cleaning.

We are very happy with the result and so are the dogs that are already living there -  but… that is another story that will follow soon ;-)

Speedy

It is always good to hear how the animals get on in their new homes, but actually to see it with your own eyes is absolutely marvelous!

Speedy was found as a puppy by tourists in Limenaria. Before he found a new owner in Germany, he spent a year with a foster family on Thassos. Now, he's back, but this time as a tourist! He has come to Thassos with his new family, on holiday.
Naturally he visited his old dog buddies and it was a lovely reunion; it was as though he had never been away. However, his attention was always focussed on his new owners and it is clear that he loves them very much, which is as it should be, of course.

On the return trip Speedy will have company, as his owner has kindly offered to escort one of our dogs.  Not only that, she will also pay for the ticket! For Jasper, this is the chance of a lifetime - to go to Klaus and hopefully find his new forever home.

As if all that weren't enough, Speedy's owner brought us ten T shirts with our ACT logo on them, which she had printed in her own copy service shop in Monchengladbach!

We can't thank you enough, Antje and we wish you many, many happy years together with Speedy!