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.

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

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!

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

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.