8/31/2008

Mateus is getting better....




Mateus,
the mutilated dog that I have been writing about previously, had his operation too and it seems successful. He came to our shelter to recover. He is incredibly thin. When you touch him, it is just skin and bones.


Surprisingly, after all he has been through, he is so friendly. With other animals and with people. He waives his tail whenever someone approaches and wants to be petted. People have been so cruel to him and he stayed their friend. This is a difference between a human and a dog.


Mateus will stay with us for a while, he needs to recover. He needs to eat special food and medications. We need people to foster him! And in the future, we need a good home for him, someone that would appreciate all this love that Mateus has to give.

Monty has had his eyes operation




Monty had his eyes operated too. It also seems that it went well. He has stiches around eyes, they will be taken out soon. But he is scared as always.... What kind of an owner has he had if he is so scared of people!

Pirucas after his leg operation (Finally adopted!)


Pirucas had his operation last week. It seems that it went well. He is now jumping around with a cast, happy as always. Nothing can spoil the happy mood of this lovely dog, even if he suffered so much. In a few days the stiches will be taken off.

8/22/2008

Unexplainable, unacceptable and utterly cruel







Mateus was abandoned at early morning near the Bianca shelter, Wednesday the 20th of August. When we found him we noticed that his penis was strangely out. We took him to the vet. To our dismay, it was not just a penis out. Some beast had made a whole in his skin where the testicles are and made the penis go through there. Then someone had actually SOWN the place where the penis should go normally.!!!!!



Were they playing with a poor indefensive animal or was it someone completely crazy - it was obviously someone who should not be in the world of living! A person who would do it to a defenceless animal, would do it to a defenseless human, no doubt.


Unexplainable, unacceptable and utterly cruel

Poor Mateus also has leshmaniosis.

We need financial help to meet the veterinary expenses.

We need FOOD for our Animals

Bianca has no food for the animals ! We have food for only 2 more days. We ask for help with animal food URGENTLY! We spend 420 Kg of food a week. Every little bag of food is important.

Contacts 964423018 / 969174268 / 968132815
Carrasqueira - Sesimbra

Thank you!

8/20/2008

The first tree planted!




On the 16th of August the first tree was planted in the shelter of Bianca. In reply to our appeal, Marta brought us a young olive tree, 1.80 m tall, already with little olives!


It is protected against our dogs and we hope it will manage to grow! Like that we have given a start to our mission to plant trees in Bianca.
We are asking for more: we still need trees, anything that is resistant to processionary caterpillars and that can give shade to our animals.


Thank you!




Three more puppies abandoned on the road



















Again: three puppies abandoned. Those were left near our shelter, among the garbage trucks. Fortunately they were not run over!


They are around 3 months old (two girls: Rute and Raquel and one boy: Riki). They will be big. They weigh 10 kgs each alreday!


Yes, they will be big. But their ex-owners must be very little. Insignificant. Not worth to call humans. Waht kind of people abandon dogs like this, abandon animals that love them and trust them? What kind of mentality or brain do they have? One day it will be their turn, someone will pay them back.






Updates on cases presented recently in this blog

Nik (12/8): our 3-legged friend is doing a bit better. He arrived very scared but he is slowly gaining confidence. He is in a big cage in our pharmacy. he moved from the back corner to the front and is observing people. He accepts an occasional touch through the bars. He is still scared a bit, he needs more time but he will be fine with us.
Nik got already a "foster family": a nice English family that offered a donation for him. They know it is unlikely a 3-legged dog get adopted so they want to help us with his expenses in the shelter. And we will also get a bed for him send as a present from someone in Norway.

Tomi (12/8): the husky we found on our door. No chip. Noone has claimed him. We called all the ads about lost huskies, it is not him. Seems like he has been abandoned. He is so sweet, wants to play, wants to be petted. It is a a beautiful animal. Anyone would like to give him a home? Dogs adopted from the shleter are so grateful....

Out of our three kittens (10/8 and 31/7)), one got adopted. Oscar, the kitty with one eye, now called Felix. Victoria, another kitten with one eye and Jeremias, the kitten that was sick, are both fine now but they are in the vet clinic and we have nowhere to put them..... Anyone would like a kitten?

Marta and her four puppies (4/8), rescued from the side of the road: two males, Marcio and Marcelo have been adopted. Two females, Marcia and Marcela, are reserved. The mum, Marta, has been sterilised and she will leave the vet soon to come to the kennel. She is a young friendly lovely dog, anyone would like to give hera home she has probably never had?

Pirucas (3/8 and 11/6): a podendo bitten by a pitbull and kicked by a man. He had another operation and ... success! He will be walking normally, he will not be limping! He came back to the shelter today. Anyone would like to adopt him? He is really sweet and he has gone through enough, he really deserves a home. Anyone would like to foster him, to help us pay the vet bills?

Dalmy..... (3/8 and 17/7)) This is a sad story. We did not manage to save him. The shot touched the spine and the nervous signals were nto transmitted to back legs. After initial slight recovery, he was getting worse: he was losing the feeling in back legs, muscles were disapearing, he was losing weight. We have tried a few options, a few vets and nothing helped. He had to be put to sleep..... Goodbye Dalmy.

Eugenia (30/7), the scared female caught on the roundabout.... She was not wild, she must have had a home but have been abandoned and badly treated, she is very scared of people. She has been sterilised and she is staying the shelter but if she does not gain confidence with people, she is not adoptable. She will stay with us. We have more of them like this. Scared dogs that feel only safe in the shelter, thsi is their home, they get along very well with other animals and they accept the presence of people they know. In that case - anyone would like to foster her to help us with the expenses?

Three white and black puppies (24/7) abandoned at the door of our shelter at night - they were very weak when they arrived, they were still drinking milk and not eating solid food. What a beast could have separated them so early from the mother. One of them did not survive. Two others, Serenela and Sofia fortunately yes. They have been first taken to a temporary family and now each of them has been adopted.

Four puppies found on N10 (24/7) that look like little wolves: A male has been adopted. Three females are still with us: Celeste, Carmita and Cacilda. We hope they will be adopted on the coming Adoption fair! Spread the message.

Samanta: samoiedo found with 5 babies and Zaza, another samoiedo female found with her (23/7): Four babies have been adopted, one black stayed and we hope he'll get adopted the coming Adopting fair. Samanta has been reserved. Zaza is still for adoption.

Las Palmas (14/7) is still with us.... Noone claimed him, noone adopted him. He is sad. We need to keep him on the chain. He only gets one or two walks per day. Anyone would like at least to come from time to time and give him a walk? He is big, he may look scary but he is so gentle.

8 puppies found by a friend of the Association in the garbage of Quinta do Conde (13/7) have been all adopted.

Monty (28/6) abandoned by his own owner with the police and SEPNA not caring at all, is still with us. He is still scared of people, slowly gaining confidence but for a dog that had a home and an owner it is amazing that he is so scared. We still have to have his eye operated, we just did not have money with Pirucas, Dalmy and Nino at the vet and a few urgent sterilisations. Anyone would like to foster him and help us with the costs of his operation?

Jeli, found on our door and Pituxa, found on the street (22/6) are still with us. Jeli is so much asking for human attention. He really needs a home. We cannot have a male adult arrive like this to the kennel, other dogs won't accept him. So he is on a chain. Anyone would like to come and play with him and take him for a walk? And Pituxa is really sweet. She is playful. Anyone would like to adopt her? Such a little thing hardly bothers.
Felipe (22/6) has been adopted by a nice family from the surroundings on the last adoption fair!

We still ask to foster our dogs to contribute to their castration or sterilisation. From the entry of 17/6 Beto and Vilsa have been adopted and Princesa has been sterilised but others are still waiting. And we have many others. We made the same request on 20/12, noone appeared. We had a number of males castrated on the cost of Bianca, it was very important. Our vet debts increased.

Three Mosqueteers (11/6): Atos, Portos and Aramis. Portos has been adopted at the last fair. Atos and Aramis are still there. They are so nice, friendly with people and other dogs and playful!

Maria Papoila (1/6) is still with us. She is beautiful. She put on weight. You can find new pictures on her on the webpage, in "urgent cases". Her tick fever and anemia has been treated. Her leshmaniose is being medicated and controlled. She will be sterilised soon. She is lovely, so friendly with everyone, so asking for human contact. She was on the TV with famous Portuguese singers! You can see on the webpage: "Bianca on TV".

Princesa and her babies (29/5): all three babies have been adopted: Condessa, Marquesa and Principe. Princessa is still with us, she has been sterilised, she is waiting for a new home. She is so playful, any time you enter the shelter, she will bring you a toy to play with her. Noone wants to adopt adult dogs.....

Pantufas and a litter of 5 puppies (26/5): Pantufas is still with us, he has been castrated but he is nto happy in the kennel. He is used to having a home. He knows to sit on a command, walks well on the leash and is sued to be driven in a car. He will get a bath and haircut at the end of this week.
Out of five puppies found on that day, 4 has been adopted. One is still with, Malhada, a girl of 4 months. She is absolutely beautiful! Adopt her.

Nero (22/5): a beautiful blak labrador, 3 years old. He is still with us. He is good with people, he likes children. But he is not happy in the shelter. He only eats when someone is next to him. And in the shelter there are 3 people for over 200 dogs.... So he lots on weight. Adopt him! Spread the word.

Madalena's puppies (14/5): we never found Madalena. She must be dead.... All five puppies survived. But only one got adopted. Other four are with us, they are really sweet, 4 months old, not very big. See on our webpage: 2 males: Guido and Gaspar and two females: Gama and Goia. Adopt them!

Laranja, Donaldo and Mascote (14/5). Donaldo died. His tick gever was too advanced. Laranja has been operated: her tumours removed and sterilised. Then she started losing weight, she had lots of parasites. She got an atibiotic and she is better now. She is sweet, very friendly and she likes playing with Princesa. She is healthy, she could easily be adopted! Mascote is fine. He has a little house, he sleeps most of the day. he is old. We want to give him calm and safe last days.

Nini and the kittens (27/4). They kittens are in two houses of families friends to Bianca. Some were adopted, some are still there. We will bring them to the next Adoption fair. You can see the kittens on Bianca webpage.

Vasco (27/4): we renamed him Balu. His hernia has been operated. He is old and calm. He would need a home... Now he is in a box with a few other dogs. now he has a tumor in the ear that we are having treated in the vet. He needs to go to the vet 3 times a week. We need help taking our animals to the vet during the day. Anyone can offer help?

Fofinha, a croos German or Belgian shepherd and her three girl puppies (27/4): the puppies alreday found homes (Margarida, Margareta and Agustina) but Fofinha is still with us. She is beautiful, she put on weight, got a bath. She is very gentle. Very playful too, like a puppy although she is probably around 5 years old. People abandon dogs that have spent years with them! She is obedient. Will be sterilised soon. Can anyone give her a home? New pictures on the webpage.

Valentina, a German shepherd and her 9 puppies (23/4): all puppies have been adopted and Valentina is living in a temporary family, not in the shelter.

Bianca and her four puppies (2/2): all puppies have been adopted. Bianca and one of her girl puppies has been adopted by the woman that found her, even if she had other dogs in the house already.

Noah (2/2): the skinny boxer that we found. You can see her actual photo on the website. She was so skinny but now she has put on weight. She is friendly, nice with people and dogs and perfectly healthy. She had an owner but when we informed him how he should get in touch with us to pick her up, he never called back. He was not interested. So she stayed in the shelter. People like this guy should be punished. But in Portugal nothing happens to you if you abandon your animal.

Nina and her 6 puppies (3/1) : puppies have all been adopted by different families and Nina by the family that found her.

Aline (30/12). Aline is still with us. She is very friendly with people and dogs. She had gone thorugh a lot but she has forgiven everything. Her anemia has been cured, she put on weight and her leshmaniose has been controlled and medicated. She still has ear infection (otitis) that is not easy to cure but we are proceeding according to the vet's indications. Recently she had an infection on the pillow of her front paw, she did not want to walk, thet required a paste every day and bandage but the paw is better now. People don't want to adopt dogs with leshmaniose although if controlled and medicated, the dog can live long and healthy. A good family could adopt Aline. She would have lots of love to give back. But if not, a fostering would help us with her medical expenses. Anyone would like to foster her?

Salomao (30/12): Salomao is still with us. He has put on weight, he looks great (new pictures on the webpage). He has leshamaniose but controlled and medicated. Same thing as for Aline. Maybe someone would want to adopt him.... He has already two "fostering parents": one lady in Portugal and one lady in Norway. Lucky him!

Puppies (20/12 and 9/12 - they are the same puppies): all adopted!

Jackeline (14/12): dropped into the fenced area of the shelter. She is still with us. Little. Sweet. Calm. Shy and a bit afraid of new people. But a good family could give her a home.

Rescue of Madalena's puppies (6/12): That's the same Madalena that left us five new puppies half a year later. She never allowed herself to be caught. The puppies found on that day were nto so lucky with adoptions. Out of: Andre, Andreia, Miguel, Silvia, Rosa, Ana, Sunny, Team, Bamboo e TMN, six still stay with us: Miguel, Silvia, Sunny, Team, Bamboo e TMN. They are now 10 months old and absolutely lovely: friendly, playful. New photos on the webpage. But people want to adopt puppies, they don't want to adopt them anymore!

Adoption Fair, 30/08 (Saturday)

We are doing another Adoption Fair: saturday, 30/8, between 10 and 18, usual place: passing the Carrasqueria-Sesimbra roundabout with Pingo Doce and SuperSol, on N378.

Last adoption fair went very well. We had 16 dogs adopted! Imagine that. It was unusual. Normally it is between 2 and 5. We have high hopes that this coming Fair is going to be equally successful (especially that since then 7 new animals entered the shelter). We want to take more dogs with us, we want to take adult dogs on the leash....

Please pass the information about the fait to people that may adopt animals. If you don't want to adopt, you can help us with other things: fostering an animal (the concept is explained on our webpage), buying us food for puppies, giving us medications (list of medications we use is on the webpage). And most important - you can come on the day of the Fair and help us. We want to take more dogs so we need people to have them on leashes, walk with them...

We will also have cats and kittens.

We count on your help!

8/18/2008

Cleaning of the shelter - thanks to those that helped!

Last Saturday we had a cleaning of our shelter. We would like to thank to 14 people that came and helped. The shelter is sparkling now! We hope it lasts ;)
Many "new" people came, we hope they will stay with us.
One lady spent the whole day in our little pharmacy organising it, that was lots of work! And even if she spent the whole day, she was not able to finish - if anyone would like to help continuing this work, we need another person for a few hours more.

And I would also like to thank all those that could not help, even if they wanted but they passed on the message. It is also very important.

8/12/2008

The summer of animals is like that....







Yesterday, 11th of August, two animals were abandoned at Bianca. The summer is certainly the worst period for animals. The holidays that Portuguese people enjoy are a hell for their pets.

Words are lacking to describe the abandonment of animals by people.

Tomi is a husky, young, gentle and sweet. He is probably wondering himself how he ended up here.... From a couch to a chain and wooden dog house.... He looks disappointed whenever someone passes without stopping and petting him.
Nick has only 3 legs, he misses his front right one. He is small, sweet but scared.

We have faith that one day people that abandon animal will also know the bitter taste of loneliness and abandonment.



8/10/2008

Kittens with limited vision











Bianca has two kittens, one multicolored kitten aged 1.5 month and another European common grey cat aged 2 months, both with only one eye. One misses the right one and the other misses the left one. They make a pair ;)


They are sweet, happy, playful. They like human contact.


We don't have a cattery where we could put them. For that reason we need your help, it is urgent to find home for those kittens! Don't be indifferent, please.


One more, Jeremias was found at Largo de Camões in Sesimbra. At the beginning he was half-savage, noone managed to catch him. Until Friday afternoon, when Andreia did. Great. Now the kitten welcomes human touch. He will leave the vet on Monday so we have this weekend to deal with his possible adoption. We count on you.....




8/08/2008

We need trees to plant!

Bianca needs to plant trees in its shelter. A big part of the shelter does not have a shade. With the summer heat the presence of trees is fundamental. Moreover, around the shelter there are pine trees and a few more pine trees inside. They are dangerous. They harbour processionary caterpillars which are a plague of pine trees in Portugal.
In February last year three dogs were smelling and biting the caterpillars which are poisonous and they neraly died. One of them, Jeli, lost a part of his tongue.
We need to have the pine trees cut and new trees planted. Little by little, we need to start replacing pines with new trees. Even if they will take time to grow, the sooner we start the better.
So hereby we make an appeal if anyone would like to offer big or small trees that we could plant.
Thank you.

8/05/2008

Adoption fair Saturday August, 9

We are organising another adoption fair. We have never had so many puppies, now even talking about adult dogs that noone wants to adopt.
The fair will take place this Saturday, August 9, between 10.30 and 17.30 and at the roundabout of Carrasqueria in Sesimbra (the roundabout of Pingo Doce and SuperSol) on N378 at the entrance to Sesimbra. As usual.
Please come. You can adopt an animal, you can foster it, you can donate us food for puppies, you can buy something from our little shop.

8/04/2008

They lived in danger on the side of the road




Marta, a black medium sized female, lived on the side of a national road. She was having puppies regularly, then some of them were dying killed by cars and others, those that survived, were being sold by an alcoholic woman that lives in a nearby ruined house.


Marta has had puppies again recently. One of our voluntaries went there very early morning of July, 31 to rescue them from the side of the road and bring them to the kennel. They were 5 of them in the evening, but only 4 in the morning, one had already been killed by a car. Portuguese drivers don't have a tendency of slowing down when they see an animal on the road.




Our voluntary took the puppies but he also wanted to take the female so we could have her sterilised but she was not there. He left with the pups and came back to teh palce shortly after, the female was back. But the woman that was profiting from selling the puppies was also there, already drunk and did not let him take Marta. Our volunteer contacted the police and as Bianca took responsibility for Marta, a police officer accompanied our volunteer and helped him take her from there.




Case closed - it has been going on for too long already causing anxiety of many people with good hearts.

UPDATE: Puppies all adiopted, Martinha is still with us.

8/03/2008

Pirucas is not doing well either




You remember I was writing about Pirucas.

Here:



The young podengo that was living on the streets and was bitten by a pitbull and kicked by a frustrated construction worker who broke his leg. He was brought here to the kennel. The biting wounds healed but there is a problem with the leg. The cast was put too late, the wound was not fresh, the bone dislocated itself and now, that we had the cast taken off, we see he is limping. He does not mind, he jumps around happily as usual but we don't want him like this....

We found a vet in Lisbon (45 min. drive from our place) who specialises in orthopedy. He will operate on Thursday. He is he cannot promise as the thing is alreday two months old but he wants to try. If the operation is not a sucess, Pirucas will be always limping.....

We are looking for someone to foster him and help us with the costs, pls do. The account of Bianca is:


Bank Account 0771016360530
NIB 0035 0771 00016360530 29
For international transfers: IBAN PT50003507710001636053029
BIC: CGDIPTPL


but the most important, after the operation - would someone like to adopt him? Regardless if he is limping or not? He has suffered enough, he needs a good home! Please write to us:


Dalmy DIED.....




Remember the Dalmatian that we found shot three weeks ago? He is not doing well. He is able to walk now, he regained consciousness in his back paws but he is not doing well. He lost weight. He needs to take anti-inflamatory drugs, without them he immediatelt worsens. Our vet just does not know what to do any more. We were told to tell him back to the shelter, continue with inflamatories and observe. We don't even have conditions in the shelter to isolate him....


We found a vet in Lisbon who specialises in orthopedy. He invited us to bring Dalmy to his clinic for a while and he will see what he can do. We'll taking him tomorrow. Poor boy, he has suffered so much. We hope that this vet we'll be able to help him.


At the same time, it is another expense for an organisation with limited financial resources. If anyone would like to help us towards Dalmy's costs or if anyone would like to "foster" him, please let us know.


Bianca's acount is the following:


Bank Account 0771016360530


NIB 0035 0771 00016360530 29


For international transfers: IBAN PT50003507710001636053029


BIC: CGDIPTPL