Friends of Animals / Filozoikos NF

Trying out a new home this week.

When I first met Xena she had stitches all down her one side and was incredibly terrified. She had come into the shelter injured and in the night the other dogs in her cage chewed out the stitches and were trying to eat her! She went back to the vet and had a second procedure and when she returned we put her by herself until she healed.

She has been a strange guest at the Shelter going many months without leaving her cage for walks and then for long periods of time frantically running in circles when she does get out. We never thought anyone would adopt her because admittedly she is not the most attractive of dogs and her behaviour is really erratic.

Luckily, one of the Shelter Ladies daughters is familiar with Xena’s story and is willing to have her come and visit to see if it will work out. They have an adopted dog from the Shelter from years ago and if they are friendly, Xena will have a new home.

Returned to His Neighbourhood

Aris came to us after a motor vehicle encounter, with a broken leg and broken off tail. We were called by one of the family’s that feeds and loves him that he was injured. While he was at the shelter wearing his cast and cone, Emma chewed the stitches off his tail surgery! So back to the surgery for repairs.

Now he is all recovered and returned to where he is happy and to the families that all came out to meet him when we drove up!

Sophie and her New Parents!

Sophie, a very lovable young stray was picked up for sterilizing a few weeks ago. We had planned to return her to her friends and neighbourhood but today she was adopted!

Elvis has left the building!

Crazy coincidence! Early on the morning of our Summer Street Fair this wonderful family came and chose little Elvis to join their family. Look at new daddy’s t-shirt - Its ELVIS! The King of Rock is watching over our shelter - who knew!?

An impromptu Dinner Party for our closest 100 friends (we are wishing!) to cover our devotion to the poisoned dogs in our neighbourhood.

Wednesday July 1st, TSIPOURADIKO TAVERNA. Located in the Nea Filadelphia Park next to Alsos Cinema and opposite to Dekeleias 139 at 21:00. 25e per person includes dinner, dessert, music & dancing.

Η δεύτερη εκδήλωση είναι ένα Φιλανθρωπικό δείπνο στην ταβέρνα ΤΣΙΠΟΥΡΑΔΙΚΟ, την Τετάρτη 1η Ιουλίου στις 21:00. Η ταβέρνα βρίσκεται δίπλα από το Σινεμά Άλσος και απέναντι από τον αριθμό Δεκελείας 139. Με 25€ μπορείτε να απολαύσετε γεύμα με επιδόρπιο, με ευχάριστη μουσική και -γιατί όχι- χορό!

For tickets, please call Kiki at 6944949741 and reserve your seats so we know how much catering to order.

Before, During, After!

June 26 - Today we groomed Tzitzifrigos. He is a little stray that anyone who lives in NF will recognize as the scruffy Benji looking dog that is always running through the park. He actually lives in the yard of the little church in from the parking lot.

June 27 - Three cats poisoned. Two are dead.

June 27 - An unsupervised person attempted to walk Mais, the large male pitbull, outside the shelter without his leash and subsequently lost him for many hours in the park. This person then went home without returning Mais to his cage because he had lost him. When Vol T arrived to supervise the evening dogwalking, she found Mais at the gate of the shelter waiting to come back in. Mais came in and quickly ran, not to his water/food, but to Apostoli and began fighting. Apostoli is injured on his head and leg. Another unexpected expense and pain/suffering due to lack of forethought of this particular person.

June 27 - The Metamorphosi Silent Protest only attended by 8 people (6 rep’s from FZ NF and 2 from the 4 groups that invited us) so it evolved into a door-to-door addressing of the problem with the neighbours. We discussed the situation with the people involved and although they were not convinced, in the end things were much smoother than in the beginning. The neighbours also understood that animal organizations are concerned about the 2 strays of the neighbourhood .

June 28 - Our Street Bazaar - Not the best turn out but those that did come made excellent donations and we sold many poison kits for both dogs and cats. Thanks to Elisavet and her team from ΕΝΩΣΗ ΕΝΕΡΓΩΝ ΦΙΛΟΖΩΩΝ, ACTIVE ANIMAL LOVER’S UNION (www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=30287077142&ref=mf) for joining us in the fundraising. Their group operates city-wide with volunteers and without a shelter and could use donations also for their kennel costs.
Also in this picture is Fidel, a NF old-timer, who hung out with us for the day.

Van Needs a Foster Home for the Summer

This is Van, a 10 years old griffon caniche who is owned by a young lady who lives in Nea Filadelphia who is sick. Because of the medical treatment required for her illness, she will live with her family and stay in the hospital for the next 2 months. She is unable to afford a kennel to keep Van in and wishes that someone can foster him for the the summer.

Next week we will groom him - he is looking quite shaggy! - and update his vaccinations.

Right now he is living at the shelter, chained to a tree, as he is very scared and depressed at being around so many barking dogs.

If you have the room for a couple of months for this old guy to hang out at, please call Kiki immediately and we will bring him over with lots of food, a leash and collar set as soon as he has his grooming.

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Poison…
Poisoned animals on the streets…
Daily phenomenon in Greece GUILTY
No penalties.. No change …
The law is clear …

The poisoning of animals is illegal in Greece…

According to Law 1197/1981: “Anyone who criminally kills or abandons an animal will be punished with imprisonment for up to 6 months and / or a fine of 300 € to 1,500 €”

Every year dogs and cats are poisoned and die in terrible pain. The poisoning of animals is inhumane and illegal. Nevertheless, this practice continues on a daily basis across the Greece. The poisoners ignore the law, public safety and the animals themselves. But owners who abandon their animals or those indifferent to this brutal act are to blame.

The Animal Welfare Association - Himaira, promotes the ceasing of these criminal activities by addressing the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Interior (the municipalities) and the Ministry of Public Order (the police), through letters to BAN THE SALE OF DANGEROUS PESTICIDES THROUGHOUT GREECE.

HIMAIRA PROMOTES THE FOLLOWING: Shops that sell pesticides must demand the buyers to sign a solemn declaration as to the use of these pesticides and in so doing, declare the purpose, and location of their proposed use. If shop owners are required to collect this information, and buyers understand the consequences if they do not use these pesticides as they are intended to be used, we believe we can reduce the incidence of poisoning in animals.

To be able to change the mindset of the world about the abuses and the poisoning of animals we must make the lives of deliberate poisoners a harder by exposing those people who have no hesitation in using poisons against innocent animals.

ALL Sign to ban the widespread sale of poisons.
ALL Sign to make life difficult for the animal killers.
ALL Sign on the right of life to animals.

We must be advocates for the daily suffering of thousands of animals who suffer and die from poisons???.

SAY NO TO CRIME

Hello Friends of Animals!

As you may have heard our neighbourhood was recently targeted by poisoners. In the past month 8 strays that were known to us and loved by those who looked after them, were poisoned. We lost many and the remainder are very ill. We are having two events to assist in the cost of caring for those still alive and to pay the medical bills for those that died.

In the next week we have the following events planned:

Summer Street Bazaar: Sunday, June 28th at Nea Filadelphia Park along walkway parallel to Dekeleias Street. Cross streets are Dekeleias and Troados. 9:00 to 15:00. Kiosks of clothes, gifts, household items, baking, information about animal welfare and how you can get involved in your neighbourhood. Also, we have 20 extra tables that may be rented by sellers, organizations and charitable groups, to promote their items and causes. 25e/table and every penny of this fee goes to helping our dogs. Also performers such as clowns, magicians, mimes, etc. are welcome to come and with a 20e donation may entertain and collect from our visitors small fee for entertaining.

Fundraising Dinner: Wednesday July 1st TSIPOURADIKO TAVERNA. Located in the Nea Filadelphia Park next to Alsos Cinema and opposite to Dekeleias 139 at 21:00. 25e per person includes dinner, dessert, music & dancing.

Please help us in this time of need by attending one or both of these events!

Best wishes,

Kits Kitty

Written by Kiki K.

There are two families in Metamorfosi that take care of 2 strays living in the neighbourhood. Some neighbours don’t like it and they threaten them. They lied and accused them of feeding 25 strays and one of them (the husband in one of the families) was condemned in the past.

Now, those neighbours have spoken to the Vice Mayor who came in the neighbourhood and said that they are going to put accusations in court against the animal lovers for feeding the strays.

I spoke to Eugenia (GAWF) when I learned about it and she spoke to the Ministry of Agriculture. The director in charge, confirmed that there is no law against feeding the strays.

Tomorrow we take part in a quiet demonstration in Metamorfosi. The point is to make clear that those people who take care of strays are neither helpless or alone in their mission.

Please watch here or our Facebook page for the Meeting Location and the time but it will be around 9pm in the evening.

We have an advertisement on www.bigmarket.gr in the Pets Section to find homes for our dogs:

Received via email this morning:

Your ad title: Puppies & Dogs - FREE - Good Homes Wanted!
The message: i was wandering if you are still interested to get one of the chihuahua puppies you wanted or that you still have for sale because i have two chihuahua puppies male and female ready for sale so please if you are still interested then get back to us or you can still call us using the bunber 00237-76-53-28-31
Sender: valery, valeryakong@yahoo.com

Valery is obviously very confused! Here is her reply:

Hello Valery,

If you had read our advertisement carefully you would see that our group is 100% against breeding of any dogs for profit. In fact, we are one of the fore-runners of the ADOPT! DONT SHOP! movement in Greece.

With over 300,000 stray dogs running around this country breeding because Greeks don’t believe in sterilization, how can anyone justify breeding more? Especially in this country of dog abandoners.

You probably do not know how many ‘breed’ dogs we get at our Shelter and the other Shelters around the country. Have you ever seen a Maltese so matted and flea infested that it could not open its eyes wandering blindly around a plateia? We see stuff like that every week in the summer.

People buy from breeders and keep them until vacation or until they are not cute anymore and then dump them. The hundreds of dog rescue group in this country continuously fundraise to pay for the medical treatment, care and housing these dogs need until a ‘real owner’ comes to adopt them for free. The government gives us nothing. So our day to day pain and burden is at least half caused by breeders.

So please reconsider how you make your rent payments - off the continuous forced pregnancy of small animals. Kind of sick when you think about it.

Regards,

Helen, Volunteer
Friends of Animals NF
www.friendsofanimals-nf.com/blog