I am away with work for the next few days, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, the blog can go on! Beccasine left as planned, with the French SPA workers and volunteers dusting off their schoolboy English to help out. “My tailor is rich” seems to be a favourite expression, but none too helpful when you are in a dog-adoption situation.
The BIG news is that we have been in discussions with the lovely Eline at Animal Trust in Belgium, and in April she will be taking delivery of five SPA dogs. Four of them are ex-chasse dogs (hard to home here, but a novelty in Belgium) and the fifth is Carbon, a black labrador who is starting to give up hope.
We do not wish to burden Eline financially, as she is doing us a huge favour (she homed 4 chasse dogs for us last year, too), so we are putting out an appeal to reimburse the SPA as much as possible. All five dogs will leave fully vaccinated (including rabies) and passported. In addition they will be micro-chipped, and (by far the largest expense), either castrated or sterilised.
If you can help with a small donation we would be very grateful. Or if you fancy organising a fund-raising for our “Second Chance” dogs, please get in touch!
Oh, and by the way, if you had your eye on one of these dogs, they are all still available for adoption. Eline has says she will just choose another one instead!