News and plans

Our Winter  newsletter is now available and will be sent on receipt of  a 9" x 6" sae (second class stamp).  In the meantime here is a report of two recent rescues.

MARITSA  A friend of John Laden's in Veroia who runs an animal welfare group in the town, called to say that a foal had accidentally become impaled on a steel bar sticking out of a concrete block.                                     (The picture left shows injury to  her shoulder and right, after careful treatment ready to go to her new (vetted) home in Aegion) .  On arrival John found that the steel bar had entered the animal’s left shoulder and had come out half way up her neck. She was literally suspended on the bar and her feet were off the ground! Her gypsy owner who seemed  to care about her since he had reported the accident, helped John to free her from the bar and signed her over to him. MARITSA  as she was then called, was given antibiotics on arrival and after regular treatment by the vet. has made a good recovery - a small miracle since it was three days before John learned of the accident and the wounds were already badly infected and gangene had set in!  Given devoted care, the wounds have completely healed and MARITSA has now been adopted by the Hellenic Society for Equine Welfare, who have found a good home for her in Aegion where she will be lovingly cared for for the rest of her days.  

Below are three puppies we sent to caring homes in Germany last year.  How well and happy they now are! They were dumped in a cardboard box in a park when only a few days old with their eyes still closed. Our contact Greece, John Laden, was alerted to their plight. He took them in and cared for them until they were ready to  travel to new vetted, homes in Germany.  They were lucky to have been found in time.  Thousands are not, or they survive  - as strays - only to be poisoned or die on the streets in traffic accidents.