Larry's hoping you remember him, its been almost 6 months since left you and travelled to the UK to his forever home ❤Still not quiet grown into those ears yet 🤣 and is the size of a horse 🐎 xx
Thank you for letting us join your group. This is our 2nd grey his name is Hugo 🐾🐾💕
🐾 WHEN I WOKE UP TODAY, I HAD TO PINCH MYSELF!! 🐾As you all know, we had a fantastic year for rehoming dogs in 2020, largely due to our friendship with Pam McLeod and our partnership with her rescue organisation, Podencos in Need Scotland - PINS. Well, yesterday, Pam did a lovely thing by introducing me to Kerry Lawrence who founded and runs two amazing rescue groups, Greyhound Protection Uk (Formally Birmingham Greyhound Protection) and the trail blazing group, Candy Cane Rescue. Kerry has taken on, not only the racing industry but has been rescuing dogs from the Chinese meat trade, Chinese underground racing and from countries with poor animal welfare. I’ve “followed” Kerry for a long time and her energy is staggering. She’s been responsible for finding homes for so many dogs in countries all over the world.
So now, Kerry has joined us too and along with Linn Elizabeth Ørnulfsdatter and Marianne Anita of Scandinavian Dog Rescue in Spain our dogs now have a future.
Thank you all for joining the Paradise family and giving our dogs hope. In the next month between our partners and us, a massive SIXTEEN DOGS will be leaving us for their new homes!
🐾WHAT A WHIRLWIND OF A DAY IT’S BEEN!🐾Up in the dark, with the crate in the car, layers of thermals on and away we go! Denise Roe and I were off on a mission. This was the same journey I’d planned for last week but of course, we were stopped by the snow. We were off to collect a precious cargo of two scared little Podencos whose owner had died. As a hunter he’d kept these little dogs on chains and luckily they’d been taken in by Miryam Tomas in Albacete.
We arranged to meet our contacts up on the Albacete border as our complication of course was the fact that we’re not allowed to drive out of the region of Valencia. There was a nice calm transfer into my car and little Diana and Pinto were safely on their way back to Paradise and ultimately a better life in the safe hands of our partners, PINS.
Thank you for letting me join your group and I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you do. This is my 3rd greyhound and his name is Stevie.
🐾 THERE ARE SOME VERY PRIVILEGED DOGS AT PARADISE!🐾They’re the ones that for one reason or other start off their Paradise life in Colleen’s kitchen. They’ll have had some sort of problem that needs close attention, Epilepsy, Leish, amputees, you name it and some become fit enough to go into the kennels, others graduate to the living room along with some that are there just because Colleen and Peter love them. 17 dogs, all gorgeous who have the run of the gardens once cleaning is over.
Meet Smokey. He’s a complete scoundrel, totally untrustworthy, a thief but adorable with it. Colleen’s hoping that this weeks castration might have some effect. We’ll see! 😆 He likes to know what’s going on, hence the hole he’s made next to the dangerous dog sign on our gate. He’s not very convincing 😂 Thanks Jill Martin-Blake for today’s photo of him resting his “operation site” on the new sofa. One of a kind is our Smokey 😍
🆘🆘 🆄🆁🅶🅴🅽🆃 🅄🅁🄶🄴🄽🅃 🆄🆁🅶🅴🅽🆃 🅄🅁🄶🄴🄽🅃 🆄🆁🅶🅴🅽🆃 🆘🆘LAST NIGHT, THE TEMPERATURE AT THE KENNELS DROPPED TO MINUS 2 DEGREES!!!!
This morning, Colleen had to break the ice in the water bowls, windows are iced over and our beautiful dogs are huddled together trying to keep warm.
WE’RE DESPERATE FOR BLANKETS, RUGS, CARPETS AND DOG COATS. We’re apparently going through the coldest spell in 50 years!
We have Julie Hills in UK with a shed load of British Airways blankets for us but just can’t find any transport to bring them over, we’ve got some lovely coats in Norway which can’t get to us till February as they’re in a Covid area so this is now a desperate plea. We have sheets which are great in the summer but freeze in the winter, so these we don’t need but blankets, big towels and rugs for the floor will all be a help.
If you have anything that can help us, I’m in Benijófar if you can get things to me, other collection points are Siesta Group, Cabo Roig, Oasis, Benijófar The Post Room, Benijófar and our Charity Shop in La Murada on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Please help us 🙏 x
🐾EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND🐾Safely back to the kennels with the two little Podencos, my next job was also a pleasure. I took little Raymond to his new home with Carol and Laurie Redford. What a complete sweetheart he is and it was love at first sight, all round 😍
Please contact me ASAP! I have a car boot full of towels, blankets and quilts now!!!
I have some towels to donate, and I am collecting some more this morning. I live in San Luís, Torrevieja. Where is the nearest point for me to deliver these, please.
Hi all of you. I hope my post doesn’t bore the pants off you all, but if you’re dog people, then it applies to you and you’ll see where I’m coming from.I came home from working today in our Charity Shop in La Murada. It was 2.30 and as I always do, went on to Facebook to check out any emergencies there might be! It’s my quiet time with a cuppa before I start work again in the Puppy House and Isolation Area.
The first thing I see on my page is a Hunter with a big smiley face, holding two Galgos joined to produce yet more Galgos!!! OMG! This really angered me as the breeding of these dogs by the hunters SHOULD BE STOPPED! They have litter after litter of babies, to pick maybe one or two of the puppies that might make the grade and any that don’t get discarded like rubbish or passed on to other hunters or people, not as pets I might add!
This goes on with all the hunting breeds. Podencos, Pointers, any dog classed as a hunting breed. It’s terrible and it needs stopping.
I am told and it is shown on Social media that new animal laws are coming out. Well let me tell you, they are a TOTAL waste of time.
As you sit with your own house dogs. Poodles, Pugs, Chihuahuas etc, these new laws might apply to you. But for the hunting dogs here in Spain, they aren’t classed as pets or house dogs, they are tools to be used and abused. Who else could keep 30, 40, 50 or even 60 dogs on chains, starving with broken limbs and living in appalling conditions? These hunters seem to be above the law and to me this is NOT acceptable.
So to make my point, this week I have been brought 6 Galgos in a trailer that could hardly carry two, but I could not say no even if I’d wanted to. I had to get them in as soon as possible. Unwanted tools.
It was shocking, just shocking. In two months I have had so many uncared for Galgos in. Not forgetting Starving Twiggy the Podenco and this week a Christmas puppy, left at the church in the next village. Not a Galgo but a pretty little fluffy thing, an unwanted 3 Kings Night present.
While everyone’s complaining about the rain and the cold and it’s been bitter here for days, my heart goes out to all the dogs over here, living on chains, with little or no care. It saddens me so very much. We can all go to our homes, have a shower, put on our jimjams and cuddle our dogs and forget about all the suffering going on. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can’t forget.
We have rehomed a good number of Galgos to a very lovely group in Scotland but I am now getting more in than are going out. This isn’t a plea for money or anything but I just feel I need to tell you what goes on here.
I just pray for all the shelters here in Spain going through the same thing. Something really has to be done to stop this happening.
🐾THIS IS A REALLY BIG THANK YOU!🐾Our Coffee Club members are so fantastic because we can rely on them. To be a member, we ask them to pledge the cost of a coffee or more if they want and as a result we can budget knowing we’ll be getting a set amount. The membership is gradually creeping up but if we could persuade another 100 people to give us a euro a month, that would pay for one of the, now two pallets of food that we buy each month. If you’d like to join this elite club, why not add it to your list of New Year Resolutions and sign up to help us. The link is below and once more, Happy New Year to our members and a million thank yous xxx
paradiserescuekennels.com/monthly-donation/
3years since Ellie's gotcha day. Where has the time gone? This is her when she got home.
𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗢𝗚𝗦, 𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗢𝗚𝗦 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗡'𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 Our two Facebook pages, Paradise Rescue Kennels and Purely Paradise Rehoming Page are not general rehoming platforms for dogs that aren’t in our Kennels. There are lots of other pages, both locally and nationally that are specifically for this. We have a hundred dogs of our own so they have to come first. However you’re very welcome to post a link directly into the comments of this post “Friends Helping Friends”.
This post can be found in announcements. I’m afraid we get so many shares to the page of dogs needing homes, it’s become unmanageable but if you copy your link on to this post, you can post as many as you want. Thank you.
🐾JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS!.......CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? THE MAGIC OF PARADISE.🐾Our beautiful Twiggy arrived a couple of weeks ago as a bundle of bones. Just look at the photo of her on Day 1 and then look at her today! What a transformation! Thank you Karina Sanz and the group C.E.S Enguera for taking her in and bringing her to us x
🚙 I WAS GOING ON ONE OF MY MISSIONS TODAY, BUT.........🚙I was up early in readiness to drive up to the closed border between Alicante and Albacete for 9am but you can see why it was called off. Hopefully the snow will clear soon so I can get there to pick up a precious cargo. You’ll see them when they’re safely with us but I thought you might like to see the garden of my contact and the reason the roads are chaos.
🐾GREAT EXCITEMENT AT PARADISE TODAY!🐾Our friends at Scandinavian Dog Rescue in Spain, Linn Elizabeth Ørnulfsdatter and Marianne Anita have started the maiden journey with their super new van and two of our dogs on board. Heading for Sweden are lovely Morena the Galgo and cheeky little Zorro.
We have to congratulate the ladies for becoming the first Norwegian publicly approved carriers of dogs (type 2 longer distances over 8 hours) approved by the Food Safety Authority. They are allowed to transport dogs in the EU with approval in TRACES. It’s been a tough journey for them to reach their goal and we wish them all the best. Safe travels both of you and happy new lives, Morena and Zorro.
Our other transporters are currently getting new permissions and registrations as Brexit has impacted on how they can operate so loads of luck from Paradise goes to them too. We hope to see you at our gate very soon 🦮🐕🦮🐕🦮🐕
⚠️CHOCCI IS RESERVED⚠️🐾LET’S START SHOWING YOU SOME OF OUR BEAUTIFUL GALGOS🐾
Meet Chocci a 3 year old brindle male, quiet and calm and kindly sponsored by members of The Scandinavian Dog Rescue in Spain but available for adoption.
🐾LET’S START SHOWING YOU SOME OF OUR BEAUTIFUL GALGOS🐾Meet Raton. A quiet male with white chest markings and a grey muzzle. Born in 2011. Kindly sponsored by members of The Scandinavian Dog Rescue in Spain but available for adoption.
🐾LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME MORE OF OUR GALGOS🐾Meet Angel. Lovely big brindle boy, nice temperament. Date of birth 01/07/14. Available for adoption.
🐾LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME MORE OF OUR GALGOS🐾Meet Nesta . Calm girl, nice temperament. Black with white chest and feet tips and grey face. Approximately 6 years old.. Available for adoption.