This time it has been a collaboration with animal protection Fiel Amigo (FA) from Zamora, and in two different fronts. As you already know we had quite a close relation with FA, but lately it has become even closer. At the end of last year we heard that Zamora’s town council was considering to privatize the pound, and we got in touch with FA. The idea was to avoid that the pound would fall into the hands of people who had profit as only interest, and not the animals. Even when they were reluctant at first, we convinced them that having Scooby behind administering it, there would be no problems. Sometimes I’m very innocent, but the idea was to help more dogs, that is why I didn’t give it a second thought and it was done.

With some reluctance from a government employee who would make a problem of everything, and thanks to the interest of a town councillor who was always on our side, FA got the franchise of the pound and Scooby contributes with all the means, materialistic and humane for its management. We’ve hired a girl to work there, and an animal extermination centre as can be a pound, has become a place of hope for all those animals who, unfortunately, end up there.

We’ve been working there for three weeks now, and even while there are always things to improve, the result, for now, is satisfactory. Yesterday, after loading a transport with 28 dogs who were leaving to the north of Europe, I went there with Mabel and the vet to vaccinate the new dogs. As I was on my way to Zamora I found a Galgo who had been knocked down. After vaccinating the dogs, as we were coming out, there was another abandoned dog there, in Zamora, near the pound. Very aloof, we couldn’t pick him up after trying for a long while.

When we arrived to have a calm coffee, we saw a small dog, right in front of us, who tried to cross the road all the time, so once more, the Scooby team went to rescue him. We went after him and in one of those times a car hit him, just in front of me. In fact they were two cars, for the dog left running after the first car knocked him and then another car knocked him too, and he kept on running. We could finally get him and thanks to the fact that he had a microchip and that I had the reader in the car, we found the owner who lived not far from there. The dog seemed to have nothing, only a bit hurt, but the worst thing was that the owner couldn’t care less about the dog, and would only ask if the car was damaged. Sometimes I have the feeling that I’m not from the same species as these individuals, but according to genetics it seems that I am.

The second intervention of Scooby in Zamora was due to the fact that FA was in rented facilities, and the owner of the place didn’t renew the contract, for which they had to leave the place. We started a frantic search for an estate to buy and install the shelter, but due to the fact that they had no more time, and there was no estate, we decided, by common consent, to bring the dogs to Scooby. They’ve been with us for 15 days now, and very happy. In principle it’s temporary, but because you never know, we have started putting on files on them and microchips so that in short they can be added in the adoption pages. So now Scooby has 40 new tenants, even if temporarily.

Hasta pronto.

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