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Two who have made it – Paddy and Oliver are in happiness
Paddy was found before the gates of the PAWS shelter. He was simply tied there, with a garbage and a piece of bread. He was hurt, so he was immediately taken to the vet. He limped, had a bump on his head and his eye was injured. A X-ray image shows that somebody had shot him in the body. He had several pellets in the body and also behind his eye. Also his front leg was broken by a bullet. Oliver was rescued from a municipality pound. His brother died there. Oliver was lucky that one of our foster homes could take him home. He had recovered there very well from the strains. Both were allowed to make the trip in their happiness to Germany in 2012. Oliver has been renamed and is now called Krümel. The two were adopted by two generations. Both are very happy together. The two play, romp and share the dog baskets and cuddle places. All family members are very happy with Paddy and Krümel We wish all of them a lot of fun together. Related...
Read MoreTales to Tails Therapy Dogs Visit Silverline School
On Friday 14th February 4 Tales to Tails volunteer trainers and their therapy dogs visited Silverline School, Limassol, to extend the dogs’ training as therapy dogs and, at the same time, re-capping on the Be a Tree Program (safety around dogs) delivered to the school last year. The children were excellent, they behaved beautifully towards us and treated the dogs with respect and most of them remembered how to greet the dogs and how to be quiet and calm around them. The Be a Tree program had not been forgotten by these young people! They also asked some very sensible and interesting questions and we could have stayed longer to talk to them but we had disrupted their classes enough. We were only supposed to be with a couple of classes but word travelled fast and the other classes all wanted to come and see the dogs! The Tales to Tails partnerships were: Sara and Noah, Julie and Marley, Carole and Sally, and our newest recruits Teadora and Oscar. Oscar is a baby at only a year old and has some more work ahead of him, however he behaved like a true gentleman and everyone loved him. Noar, who was the oldest dog there, and Oscar left just before the last group of children turned up because we did not want them to be overwhelmed by so many children. Marley and Sally then held court themselves. They did this very well and a bonus for us all was that a couple of children who had never stroked a dog before stroked some of the Therapy dogs. This was a huge step for the children and the dogs enjoyed themselves being centre of attention. I would like to point out that Silverline School are very supportive of Tales to Tails Therapy Dogs and we are about to begin our Animal Antics Pet Club at the school in April. We are looking forward to this and hope to increase Animal Antics Pet Club at other schools on the Island in the future. Our thanks go to Kevin Mace, Principal, and Nicola Mace, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, for their support and encouragement of CyDRA’s (Cyprus Dogs Re-homing Association) education program. Thanks also must go to the students – what brilliant dog trainers they all turned out to be! Carole Husein Related...
Read MoreNews of Kim´s brother Luke from his foster home in Germany
Look at our beautiful boy Luke. He arrived on 13 February to his foster home in Germany and allowed to prepare himself for his forever home. In his foster home he is doing very well, he has acclimated very well. To his final happiness now missing is a forever home. But we are sure that people will find him soon and he will be adopted quickly. Good luck beauty! Related...
Read MoreNews of Kim from his foster home in Germany
Kim was lucky to get a foster home in Germany. There he is arrived on 13th February. Now he can prepare himself for his forever home. He is so beautiful, inside and outside, that he will certainly quickly adopted. We have the first photo’s of Kim from his foster home. The other dog Kim plays with is Kuno, also from Cyprus. Kuno’s mom is the foster mom of Kim. Kuno was found in a wretched state of health. His fur was so matted we had to shave it. Kuno’s owner could even be traced in Cyprus, but he didn´t want him back. He was adopted by Kim’s foster mom and he is now very happy there. Related...
Read MoreA big Thank You!
Dear Members and Friends, as you will know we are holding our Annual General Meeting on Sunday 23rd February. It is the ideal opportunity for me, on behalf of the Committee, to give a huge thank you to all the people who have supported us during the last year. Our thanks go to all the volunteers who help us; at shelters, with fundraising, fostering, training, education and all the other aspects of our work. We have a great team who work over in Paphos to re-home dogs and are tireless in their efforts to help give better lives to as many dogs as possible. Our Tales to Tails team have been busy spreading the word about our Education and Training Programmes within schools and other organisations and we are also very grateful to those schools and organisations, who have welcomed us and supported us. We are very pleased to welcome our new Web site administrator too and thank her for her hard work in improving the site and keeping it up to date on a daily basis. A big thank you too to our partner organisation in Germany, Zypernhunde, because without their continuous support and hard work we would not be rehoming so many dogs to safe, secure and loving new homes. I hope I haven’t missed any one out! We are so lucky to have ‘grown’ our group of volunteers during the last year and without all this help we would not have been able to re-home over 320 dogs and move forward with our Education and Training programmes. I look forward to working with you all – and anyone else who would like to join us – throughout the coming year. Barbara Bahlburg / CYDRA Chair Related...
Read MoreArrival Saturday 15th February 2014 in Dusseldorf/Germany
Today the beautiful Abby and little Tina are allowed to leave the island and start a better life. Both dogs move into a foster home and are allowed to prepare himself for her forever home. We wish them a smooth flight and a good start in their new life. Related...
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