Thursday, August 30, 2012

Accion-Del-Sol

If you are interested in adopting this handsome pooch please call accion-del-sol on 922778630

Accion-del-sol - Centro de protección animal y medioambiental de Tenerife Poligono 
Industrial de Granadilla, Parque Eólico de ITER 38611 San Isidro 
Tenerife Tel.0034/ 922778630  teneriffa@aktiontier.org 

The shelter is open from 3pm - 6pm five days a week Mon - Friday - 
Ring if you would like to visit outside of these hours

How to get to Accion-del-sol

On the TF1 going north from the airport towards Santa Cruz take the turning off for the Granadilla Industrial Port, exit A. Head towards the sea and windmills go straight across one roundabout when you reach the next roundabout veer right up towards the Ecological centre. You will stop and see a hut ( you can't go any further as their will be barrier and somebody outside the hut) Aktiontier is up a track on your right about a 100 metres...
Website

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Do you have a few hours to spare..?

Do you have a few hours to spare..?

Refugio Fasnia need volunteers at the stalls in El Medano and Guaza markets. it's a good way of meeting people and of course a cool way of helping the refuge dogs.

Table tops and paste boards are also needed, please phone if you would like to volunteer or donate contact -

Ana - 628 673 517

Thursday, August 23, 2012

List of Dog Refuges in Tenerife

ACCION-DEL-SOL  REFUGIO DE PERROS


Accion-del-sol Tenerife was open in July 2006 and is run by Marion Gonzalez and a small team of part -time staff. Accion is on the site of the 'Institute for renewable energy', Granadilla. The shelter has up to date kennels, a large area for the dogs to run around in with agility equipment and a modern surgery.

Marion believes in educating the public about animals and particularly children. School groups are regularly invited to the centre so they can learn about the dogs and how the rescue centre works. The Director also organises events.

Many of the dogs in the centre are transported to Germany to loving homes, but since animals can't travel alone, Aktiontier needs people to travel with the dogs and are continually looking for willing helpers.

If you would like to volunteer at the shelter or accompany a dog to Germany, please ring or email.

Accion-del-sol - Centro de protección animal y medioambiental de Tenerife Poligono 
Industrial de Granadilla, Parque Eólico de ITER 38611 San Isidro 
Tenerife Tel.0034/ 922778630  teneriffa@aktiontier.org 

The shelter is open from 3pm - 6pm five days a week Mon - Friday - 
Ring if you would like to visit outside of these hours

How to get to Accion-del-sol

On the TF1 going north from the airport towards Santa Cruz take the turning off for the Granadilla Industrial Port, exit A. Head towards the sea and windmills go straight across one roundabout when you reach the next roundabout veer right up towards the Ecological centre. You will stop and see a hut ( you can't go any further as their will be barrier and somebody outside the hut) Aktiontier is up a track on your right about a 100 metres...
Website

Albergue Valle Colino
 
Somos un centro para la acogida de perros y gatos abandonados en el área metropolitana de la isla de Tenerife, donde los recuperamos y preparamos para su posterior adopción.

Hemos creado este portal como punto de encuentro entre el animal que necesita ser adoptado y la persona que busca un compañero fiel para toda la vida.

Apostamos también por la educación, creando campañas de concienciación 

y divulgación que influyan en la sociedad fomentando el desarrollo de actitudes más respetuosas hacia los animales.

Recuerda, antes de comprar un animal, visítanos y si no puedes adoptar, ayúdanos 

a darnos a conocer para que otros lo hagan.

Nuestro horario de atención al público es de 11:00 a 13:00 y de 16:00 a 18:00 todos 

los días.


Tel:673895015
Website
Map


APANOT Refugio de Animales

APANOT
Humane Association of Northwest Tenerife
NIF: G38609103

Calle Pino No. 27 Llanito Valois Perera
CP.38430. Icod de los Vinos.
Tenerife Spain

Website
apanotenerife@hotmail.com
Facebook


APRAM TENERIFFA -
Tel: 607 612 111
E-Mail:  info@apram-hunde-teneriffa.de

Website

Facebook page


Refugio Fasnia


Refugio Fasnia opened in August 2012. Here is the Refugio Fasnia facebook page

Here is the link on facebook to Fecapap the association who are looking after the dogs -

Fecapap have said that if you would like to make a cash donation to Fasnia Refuge here is the bank account..

ACCOUNT CAJACANARIAS-CAIXABANK: 2065 0107 62 1400050373

BANK CODE FOR PAYMENTS FROM ABROAD:

CÓDIGO INTERNACIONAL
...DE CUENTA BANCARIA (I.B.A.N.)
------------------------------
ES80 2065 0107 6214 0005 0373

IDENTF.ENTIDAD FINANCIERA(BIC/SWIFT)
------------------------------CECAESMM065

If you would like to donate any items like towels, doghouses, crates, leashes, collars, construction material, tools, bleach, detergent, supona, betadine and anything that may be useful in a dog shelter, that would be most welcome -  Please call Sol on 664 28 70 75

Please call Heidi 682.517.045 or Solange 664.287.075 if you would like to see the dogs for adoption.



K9 REFUGE TENERIFE


K9 Tenerife
Is a Spanish Registered Charity run by volunteers in the South of Tenerife. The purpose of the organisation is to protect, animals from cruelty, starvation and neglect, and to neuter and spay where possible to avoid over population. At the moment there is no official government funding and K9 rely solely on the public for donations and sponsorships.

K9 was formed in 1993 ( official title is Refugio de Los Animales - K9) by three lady residents in the South of Tenerife, who were moved by the plight of the poor and neglected abandoned animals on the island.

At first the rescued animals (dogs and cats) were keptin kennels that had been constructed by friends and volunteers on some land belonging to one of the founder members. K9 Tenerife raised funds for the upkeep of the animals by organising Car Boot Sales, Dinner dances, the placing of Collection Boxes in Bars and the collection of funds at the local markets.

K9 Tenerife is now affiliated to the RSPCA in the UK .

If you would like to volunteer at k9, take a few dogs for a walk or help with fund-raising phone or see website for further info.
K9 - Kennels Tel: 608 121 081 kennels open 11pm - 2pm

How to get to K9 - K9 is at Las Chafiras on the San Miguel side of the motorway. Follow the San Miguel road for 400 metres, you will see the First Impressions Building on your right hand side. After a further 300 metres you will see a road off to the right. Continue on this road for approx a mile. The kennels are on the right on a bend. Car parking opposite the entrance.

La Esperanza


Marisa started the refuge approx 8 years ago, It developed from opening up a boarding kennel 'Petsworld Dog Hotel' and finding, unfortunately some people started to leave abandoned dogs on her doorstep. So then La Esperanza was born. Marisa  has established connections with many other rescue centres in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and France, with whom she has established close and ongoing contact. 

To find out more about volunteering and making a donation phone Marisa on 679 161 682

MANOS AMIGAS DE LOS ANIMALES DE TENERIFE
 
A small animal centre whose goal it is to help the abandoned dogs and cats here on the island. True, as yet we do not have the capacity of a big animal shelter, but we can offer to take in approximately 50 cats and about 20 dogs.

Ideally we like to offer shelter to those animals who for one reason or another cannot remain

in a normal refuge.  

Regina - 648 137 071

info@madattenerife.com
Find us on Facebook at:

website


Refugio International Para Animales
           

Refugio Internacional para Animales.
Camino San Bartolomé n 4, Los Perales, La Orotava.
Teléfonos de contacto: 922 372 431 ó 676 445 547.
Horario: De Lunes a Viernes de 10:30 a 13:00, y de 16:00 a 19:00 Los sábados y domingos

de 10:30 a 13:00.
Facebook page


San Francisco de Los Animales
Asociación San Francisco de los Animales was formed in 
February 1999 by a small group of animal loving people distressed by the plight of 
abandoned animals in the South of Tenerife. Due to the ever increasing number of 
abandoned animals and call outs in the west of Tenerife it was decided to start a Santiago
del Teide Branch of the association. San Francisco main aims are to provide a neutering 
programme and veterinary attention, to educate the public in animal husbandry and, where 
possible, find permanent homes.
 

Permanent caring homes are difficult to find! Unfortunately we do not have funding for a 
refuge kennel, most of the dogs being fostered by members of the association until homes 
can be found, whether it be in Tenerife, Holland, Germany, Luxembourg and occasionally 
the U.K.


President of Main Association - Jill 616747284
President of Tiede Branch - Judith (0034) 922 864102 -

website

The Little Dogs Home -
 











The refuge is run by Barbara and Chris and as the name suggests is a small refuge. Chris and Barbara
only take a maximum of thirty dogs at a time, as this way each dog can get the proper care
he/she deserves. Go to this  LINK to read more.
facebook

Please phone Barbara or Chris on - +34 672917193 if you would like to visit the refuge.


SIRIUS CANARIAS - ASOCIATION PROTECTORA DE ANIMALES -

 website






Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Collection Days For Refugio Fasnia

Collection days for donations for the Refuge Fasnia dogs are Sat 25th and Sun 26th of August
8am-6pm

Items wanted:  Dry Food, Bleach, Detergent, Collars, leads, Blankets, Dog Beds, Transport boxes, Black rubbish bags

Donations can be dropped off at.......

Calle Barbuzano 16
Las Rosas
Close to Guargacho/El Fraile/Las Galletas/Silenco and just a short drive from Los Cristianos/Las Americas and Golf del Sur
Contact 671783117

El Medano Market and Guaza Market

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Lakya needs a home

Introducing layka a eight year old German shepherd . She has a wonderful temperament and is very affectionate, would be good with a family with children. Can you give this doggie a home she may not be a young pup but still has many more years of love and companionship to give.

For more information 682.517.045 between 15.00 and 21.00 h

Lakya is staying at Refugio Fasnia

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Tierra Blanca

I spoke with one of the wooftastic volunteers Solange at Refugio Fasnia. Solange told me that the items the refuge needs the most is food for the dogs and bleach for cleaning.

Of course if you have any other items you can donate like towels, doghouses, crates, leashes, collars, construction material, tools, bleach, detergent, supona, betadine and anything that may be useful in a dog shelter, that would be most welcome -  Please call Sol on 664 28 70 75

Donations can be made also at Restaurant Maria in Golf Del Sur after 5.30pm.

For Cash donations Refugio Fasnia . Here is the information from Fecapap.

Fecapap have said that this is the only bank account that collects for the dogs at Fasnia Refugio.

ACCOUNT CAJACANARIAS-CAIXABANK: 2065 0107 62 1400050373

BANK CODE FOR PAYMENTS FROM ABROAD:

CÓDIGO INTERNACIONAL
...DE CUENTA BANCARIA (I.B.A.N.)
------------------------------
---------------------
ES80 2065 0107 6214 0005 0373

IDENTF.ENTIDAD FINANCIERA(BIC/SWIFT)
------------------------------------
CECAESMM065

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Cruelty To Dogs

TenerifeDogs.com have recently received some emails equiring about videos showing cruelty to, and abuse of dogs which has allegedly been happening in a refuge for stray dogs in Tenerife.

Perhaps because TenerifeDogs is a website that is very easily found on the internet, people from all over the world have been getting in touch for more information, and even asking if the website might be linked to these videos in some way. I just would like to say that TenerifeDogs.com is neither a refuge, nor an animal rights campaigning group, but a website that aims to help ALL the local refuges to find new homes for as many dogs as possible.

We have seen these videos and they do show some horrendous scenes of cruelty and dogs being kept in appallingly overcrowded conditions. Because of this, there have been some comments that suggest that it is typical of the way that Spanish people treat their dogs.

This is a dangerous generalisation, and a bit like saying that because there is evidence * of cruelty in some care homes in the UK, then British people must be child abusers  (* eg the recent video broadcast on BBC news of abuse in a children's home near Bristol). Unfortunately cruelty, abuse, and appallingly bad management can and do happen anywhere and everywhere in the world (or to put it another way; "sheet happens !").

I gather that the UK care home has now closed and will only re-open with a change of name and new staff. The people involved in the abuse are no longer there, and will probably be prosecuted, which is clearly the only way that the home could start afresh.

A solution has also recently been found for the Live Arico dog refuge, involving a change of management and re-location to a new site.

There have been problems at LA for quite a few years. In 2010 after a visit, we posted on this website (LINK) that the dogs were in a bit of a sad state. The reason we wrote about this was not to take sides, but to pose some questions for all those involved to think about carefully:

1. Is it better for dogs to live in overcrowded (and potentially worse) conditions in rescue kennels, or are they better off on the street fending for themselves ?

2. If LA were to be closed down, then where would the dogs go ? Presumably a lot of them would have too be put down, so is this a viable option ? nb of course some dogs from LA do indeed find homes eventually.

3. Then there's the difficult and controversial issue of Euthanasia. Is it better to keep alive say an elderly dog with a terminal illness ? or a dog which is aggressive / potentially vicious and is very unlikely to find a home ? Keeping it alive might well be detrimental to the other dogs in the kennels. Is it more cruel to keep a dog alive when it can have no real quality of life, than it is to 'put it to sleep' ?

So, these were the questions that we posed in 2010, and if you go to the link, you'll see that it started a very full and open debate.

Unfortunately the problems weren't solved, and in fact, as the videos allegedly show, only got worse. But at least this is now out in the open, and as mentioned, a solution has been found. The LA dogs are now being looked after by Fedcapap LINK at a new refuge in Fasnia. TenerifeDogs wishes them well, and hopes that this situation never happens again !

We will continue to do our bit to help find good homes for as many dogs as possible, and also to try and get people to be responsible dog owners.


.....I will not put any comments up that have bad language  or are not worded in a reasoned way....

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Extract from Book "I Woof Therefore I am" (working Title)

.........The next few days passed without incident until Monday arrived. Customs were due to deliver all the rest of our stuff, including my bowl, in the morning (yeah right, don't hold your breath !). We waited all morning for the lorry to arrive, had lunch, and then waited some more. It finally arrived at 5pm. Trev tried to ask the delivery man what had happened ? Why hadn't they turned up when they said they would ? Why hadn't they phoned ? But he just shrugged and kept saying "que ?" as if it was entirely normal to be at least five hours late ... which for him it was.

We were beginning to realise that things worked differently here. If something arrived some time on the day it was supposed to, then that was actually an efficient delivery service, never mind how many hours you've had to stay in waiting - that's irrelevant. Some people call this the 'manana culture' (wadever ...), but in fact it goes much deeper than that. It's actually more like a whole alternative universe: the 'Manana Universe' with it's own unique laws and principles.

For instance, built in to the way things worked in this universe was the (relative) certainty that everybody would be late for an appointment. The game was guessing by just how much (the so-called 'Manana Uncertainty Principle' - or 'MUPpet's Law'). If someone were actually to turn up on time, the delicate balance which is the 'Manana Space-Time-Continuum' would be thrown into complete mayhem, nothing would work, and the universe might even be sucked into a black hole created by an on-time delivery man.

I think I've already mentioned that I'm a highly intelligent super-sophisto dog, and understand these kind of things. So I knew there was actually a whole branch of quantum physics devoted to studying how things work in the 'Manana Universe'.

A good example of this was the washing machine in our new home. It was a kind of 'manana washing machine'. You switched it on, and it made helpful noises for while, but then it would sort of shrug and go for a siesta, and you'd be left wondering if perhaps it would decide to finish the rest of the spin cycle some time in the indefinite future - perhaps when the sun had gone down and all the other washing machines had sprung into life for a bit of 'electrodomesticos socialising'. The manana washing machine always knew if it was a fiesta day. There seemed to be one of those most weeks, and no-one / nothing worked. Again the game was predicting when they'd occur. MUPpet's Law seemed to have something to do with it, because there was certainly a lot of uncertainty involved in guessing when a fiesta (or the washing machine) would spring into life.

We'd been here barely a week, and we were already finding out that things were hardly every quite as they at first seemed in this new universe. For one thing, some things could be both true and untrue at the same time, without much of a contradiction or anyone actually being accused of telling untruths. The locals had a phrase that you'd hear quite often: "mas o menos" and there were others: "temporary problem" meant "could take an unlimited number of mananas", and "no problem" equalled "time to get really worried".

Another source of uncertainty in the Manana Universe was that most of the time, things that could go wrong did inevitably go wrong, but sometimes they'd surprise you by working - if not perfectly, then at least a hell of a lot better than you'd ever thought they would. English-speaking humans have expressions that express the first part of this: Sod's Law, Murphy's Law ... the French say stuff like "c'est la vie", and as we dogs say: "Life's a Bitch". But the dogs around here say: "Manana's a Bitch ... preferable a hot poodle with a cute little butt !"


Illustrations by Annie Chapman

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Live Arico Refuge has Closed down

Live Arico Refuge has closed down and the dogs are now being re-located to a refuge in Fasnia. The dogs are now under the care of FECAPAP - Federation Canaria de Asociaciones Protectoras de Animales y Plantas, here's their facebook page .

If anyone would like to make a donation to the upkeep of the dogs , and if anyone who wishes to organise a fund-raiser event for the doggies at Fasnia please do! as the doggies still need your help here is the bank account number.


Caja Canarias

2065 0107 6214 00050373.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Wooftastic Fundraising Events to Help the Doggies !

Tenerifedogs2UK and Poochie Pet Hotel - Saturday 4th August Coral Mar Square Silenco 4pm- 8pm

Alice Shaw and Mark who run Poochie Pet Hotel have been fostering two dogs vodka and Xura as part of the tenerife dogs2 The UK campaign. They now have 2 more doggies Nai and Pompom, there are 6 pooches in total and Alice and Mark are trying to raise money to get them to there forever homes in the UK ( all have homes ready and waiting) .
This Saturday Alice, Mark and Sharon Edens are holding a fundraiser at Coral Mar Square Silencio 4 pm till 8 pm called 'Movie, Musical Madness' there will be constant entertainment , bbq, stalls , tombola and raffle . Please try and come along and support this Wooftastic cause !
Any donations however small will be very much appreciated , cash, raffle prizes or tombola. Let Alice Shaw at Poochie Pet Hotel know if anything needs to be collected
TEL 661099365

K9 Tenerife and Live Arico - Tuesday 7th August and 9th August - Gilian Banks Theatre School to perform two events for K9 and Live Arico.

Tuesday 7th August at The Palms, Golf Del Sur. Tickets €15 to include 2 course meal and show.

Thursday 9th August at The Harbour Club, Los Gigantes. Tickets €20 to include 5 star buffet and show.

Both events showcase the Gillian Banks Theatre School and you are guaranteed to be blown away by their performance. K9 website  or contact Sue Havenhand on 629 388 102  for tickets.