Wild and sick, Cassio is suffering from a persistent cat flu!
2,880 kg
Dry food offered
2,880 kg
Dry food necessary
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Animal Webaction visited the site 11 April 2019 and confirms the situation described below.
We just came back from Laura's shelter, she doesn't have any dog food left, she begs us to help her feed her dogs!
Made aware of Laura's situation by her repeated SOS to get dog food, we went to the shelter on April 11th.
On the spot, we only found 6kg of kibble and a few cans left.
We promised Laura to help her by launching this food collection.
All her calls for help have failed so far, which is why she relies on us, we are her last hope.
We will bring the collected food at the shelter ourselves.
Following Laura's calls for help, reporting that she was almost out of kibble, we went to the shelter on April 11th.
On the spot, we found 6kg of kibble, along with a few cans, a very small amount for the 30 dogs hosted at the shelter...
For weeks, Laura has been calling for help on social networks: the economic difficulties are such that she is not sure she will be able to continue her actions at the shelter!
However, after weeks at this rate, Laura received only a few marginal donations... Every day, she buys small amounts of food to cover the dogs' needs, wondering how she will do the next day...
To date, Laura uses her salary to pay most of the shelter's costs: food, water (the shelter does not have running water), de-worming, and mileage charges are constant and incompressible charges.
But Laura also pays foster families for 15 other dogs: too weak, they cannot live safely in the shelter. All in all, that makes very significant costs, which she can no longer afford alone....
Isolated in the mountains, and only accessible by small dirt roads, the shelter suffers greatly from this location. Laura has no volunteers to help her and has to take care of everything at the shelter.
With a sloping ground, and no running water, the daily actions are a real marathon for her, which must bring up to 1 ton of water per week in the summer months!
Between her work, her family and this harassing workload, Laura doesn't have a minute to solicit sponsors or collect food outside of social networks...
We can come into action, we have already booked a truck and pallets, but we have to pay it before April 15th.
If the collection fails, we will not be able to pay, the departure of the truck will be cancelled and none of the collected kibbles will be delivered...
If the collection fails, we will refund all donors.
A recent study from the Spanish Nature Protection Service (Seprona) reported 10,920 offences related to injuries to domestic animals in 2018 alone.... An alarming figure which, however, is far from representing all animal abuse in the country, which most of the time goes unpunished.
Commonly used for hunting, dogs are at the centre of these abuses: beaten and barely fed, hunting dogs are thrown into the street at the slightest sign of weakness. Exhausted and abused, dogs are often too weak to survive alone in the wild.
Across Spain, several shelters exist and are struggling to offer a second chance to these dogs rejected by others...
Laura has devoted a large part of her life to the protection of abandoned animals for many years. If she fully accepts this choice, she is now confronted with the difficulty of combining everything, and is having difficulty living the current situation:
"For me, taking care of the shelter is a wonderful thing, I have been spending a lot of time there for a long time... For food, I live from day to day.... I don't want to leave them without food, because I know there would be fights.... It's overwhelming to live like this, with the stress that they may not have anything to eat one day."
If the collection succeeds, the 2880 kg of dog food will be used to feed Laura's dogs at the shelter.
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