Post by peet on Mar 28, 2006 15:19:50 GMT -5
Hello my dear friends:
It is a while ago since I spoke to you, not because nothing happened, too many things happened. In my country we usually say that ignorance is daring, and I believe it is true, especially dedicated to some ignorant persons who read our website every now and then.
For example I will tell you that Scooby is built on our own piece of land of 90.000 square meters. Around 50.000 square meters, are built for the animals distributed in the following way: some 35.000 square meters for the dogs. We have 43 paddocks which can house a minimum of two dogs and a maximum of 8 if they get along well among them. There are also 40 different paddocks for the dogs, all of them with a sleeping area, special places for food and water, we are putting shades. We are improving every day, depending on the available money. The minimum size of a paddock is of around 700-800 square meters and in them we have stable groups of dogs which get along with each other and which won’t create problems. We have a bathroom for dogs, a room to cure them and two operating rooms, plus our office and warehouses. Our cats have their own place which is in perfect condition and a quarantine room for the new arrivals and operated cats.
Nowadays we have a special place for ducks and geese, protected from wild birds, to prevent bird flu, and a hen run. By the way, we have lost some of our hens. Two nights ago we received the visit of a fox that killed 6 hens and two thingys, so now we lock them every night, and I’m trying to get a trap to get him alive, and let him free 200kms from here, and hope he won’t know his way back. Obviously I won’t kill him, but I won’t allow him to keep on killing our hens. We have also two other paddocks, one for the donkey and for the two sheep, and one for our last acquisition, of whom I’ll talk to you soon.
As I was telling you before we have received three inspections this week, two of them related with the Greyhounds from Barcelona and the other one related to Carlota. We were inspected by the SEPRONA and the Castilla y León board. Everything went out well as we expected, and the third inspection was from the Director of Animal Welfare of The Donkey Sanctuary and the president of the El Burrito Association, related to a possible cooperation to establish a donkey shelter in Scooby. By the way, they were thrilled with the facilities and the work we do here. Truth is this is usually what happens when we have visitors.
On Saturday we received the visit of a hysterical woman demanding two females and a male from Barcelona. We obviously said they weren’t available and the lady started screaming as she was possessed, accusing us of dealers and worse, of sending the dogs to laboratories and stupidities of that kind, and I must confess one thing, we are dealers, but dealers of love. Love towards those poor animals which are innocent. I love caressing them, letting them play with my hand when I walk in the paddocks (by the way some of them press a bit too much and I must get angry at them). I love to see the Greys, which are very nice, once they ate, and being their turn to run, we put them the muzzles on to avoid bites. They put themselves in a line for me to put them the muzzle, and if I forget one of them, she will remind me with her snout, and later on, when they have to rest and we must take the muzzles off, they put themselves once more in a line to get in the cages and rest. I’m a dealer, I admit it. I loved it yesterday when Camila got at the patio door. When she saw us, she had something in her mouth, and at first we didn’t realize about it. As we didn’t take it out from her, she started groaning so we would realize about it and when we did, I saw it was a screw, she gave it to us and left very happy, as if she knew that it could be dangerous for them and she wanted to remove it so that none of her partners would hurt themselves. Anyway, I love to deal, dealing love towards the animals, I deal and give love, they deal too, because they give it back to me, and later on we send them to you so that you will deal love with them too. Anyway my friends, I declare myself a dealer, and I love being it and I ask you never to get tired of being it with our animals.
Coming back to the practical things, we have done some tests to 7 greys and all of them have something, babesia, filaria or erlichia, or all at once. I tell you this as an information and ask all the other organizations to test their dogs. We will now test 15 more and we’ll publish the results. By the way, I send you some pictures of our Greys so that people won’t say that they are not doing well here, in return I ask you to send me some pictures of your dogs for some ignorant to learn to what kind of laboratories we send our dogs. As Jesus Christ said, we must teach those who don’t know, and being a teacher, I follow instructions precisely, so my friends let’s teach some.
Un saludo
Fermín
for more pictures, check www.scoobymedina.com , under news
It is a while ago since I spoke to you, not because nothing happened, too many things happened. In my country we usually say that ignorance is daring, and I believe it is true, especially dedicated to some ignorant persons who read our website every now and then.
For example I will tell you that Scooby is built on our own piece of land of 90.000 square meters. Around 50.000 square meters, are built for the animals distributed in the following way: some 35.000 square meters for the dogs. We have 43 paddocks which can house a minimum of two dogs and a maximum of 8 if they get along well among them. There are also 40 different paddocks for the dogs, all of them with a sleeping area, special places for food and water, we are putting shades. We are improving every day, depending on the available money. The minimum size of a paddock is of around 700-800 square meters and in them we have stable groups of dogs which get along with each other and which won’t create problems. We have a bathroom for dogs, a room to cure them and two operating rooms, plus our office and warehouses. Our cats have their own place which is in perfect condition and a quarantine room for the new arrivals and operated cats.
Nowadays we have a special place for ducks and geese, protected from wild birds, to prevent bird flu, and a hen run. By the way, we have lost some of our hens. Two nights ago we received the visit of a fox that killed 6 hens and two thingys, so now we lock them every night, and I’m trying to get a trap to get him alive, and let him free 200kms from here, and hope he won’t know his way back. Obviously I won’t kill him, but I won’t allow him to keep on killing our hens. We have also two other paddocks, one for the donkey and for the two sheep, and one for our last acquisition, of whom I’ll talk to you soon.
As I was telling you before we have received three inspections this week, two of them related with the Greyhounds from Barcelona and the other one related to Carlota. We were inspected by the SEPRONA and the Castilla y León board. Everything went out well as we expected, and the third inspection was from the Director of Animal Welfare of The Donkey Sanctuary and the president of the El Burrito Association, related to a possible cooperation to establish a donkey shelter in Scooby. By the way, they were thrilled with the facilities and the work we do here. Truth is this is usually what happens when we have visitors.
On Saturday we received the visit of a hysterical woman demanding two females and a male from Barcelona. We obviously said they weren’t available and the lady started screaming as she was possessed, accusing us of dealers and worse, of sending the dogs to laboratories and stupidities of that kind, and I must confess one thing, we are dealers, but dealers of love. Love towards those poor animals which are innocent. I love caressing them, letting them play with my hand when I walk in the paddocks (by the way some of them press a bit too much and I must get angry at them). I love to see the Greys, which are very nice, once they ate, and being their turn to run, we put them the muzzles on to avoid bites. They put themselves in a line for me to put them the muzzle, and if I forget one of them, she will remind me with her snout, and later on, when they have to rest and we must take the muzzles off, they put themselves once more in a line to get in the cages and rest. I’m a dealer, I admit it. I loved it yesterday when Camila got at the patio door. When she saw us, she had something in her mouth, and at first we didn’t realize about it. As we didn’t take it out from her, she started groaning so we would realize about it and when we did, I saw it was a screw, she gave it to us and left very happy, as if she knew that it could be dangerous for them and she wanted to remove it so that none of her partners would hurt themselves. Anyway, I love to deal, dealing love towards the animals, I deal and give love, they deal too, because they give it back to me, and later on we send them to you so that you will deal love with them too. Anyway my friends, I declare myself a dealer, and I love being it and I ask you never to get tired of being it with our animals.
Coming back to the practical things, we have done some tests to 7 greys and all of them have something, babesia, filaria or erlichia, or all at once. I tell you this as an information and ask all the other organizations to test their dogs. We will now test 15 more and we’ll publish the results. By the way, I send you some pictures of our Greys so that people won’t say that they are not doing well here, in return I ask you to send me some pictures of your dogs for some ignorant to learn to what kind of laboratories we send our dogs. As Jesus Christ said, we must teach those who don’t know, and being a teacher, I follow instructions precisely, so my friends let’s teach some.
Un saludo
Fermín
for more pictures, check www.scoobymedina.com , under news
