By now my followers have realised that I'm
an animal lover, I've inherited this from both my parents, mostly my father
though. He will never let a stray animal
without food & if possible shelter.
He has over the
past years converted his large garage space (two garages previously used as his
vehicle spray paint workshop) into living quarters for around 25 cats and two
dogs.
In the past years
a small colony of dogs appeared close to where my parents reside. The dogs were not welcomed by the rest of the
neighbours I'm afraid, since they were trashing the road when stealing garbage
bags, barking during the night and marking their territory and scarring off passersby
not because they are vicious dogs but they are large breeds and tend to scare
people who are not accustomed to dogs.
My parents have
been feeding this small colony which over the years has grown larger and
larger. They are very fearful dogs and
although mum and dad feed them and dad tries to interact with them, they never
come close enough to let him pet them. We arranged to have the Animal Welfare Officers come on different
occasions to try to catch the dogs and possibly re home them since they were
risking being poisoned by one of the nasty neighbours. The officers spent hours on end trying to
catch the dogs which would simply dart off into the wooded area and could not
be caught.
The dogs are not neutered resulting
in seasonal puppies being born. Dad was
successful in catching a few puppies over the years, and some were adopted by
German agencies who in turn found homes for them in Germany, whilst others
where homed by dad through his friends and friends of friends.
In the past few
weeks, dad noticed there where two puppies in the colony and after several days
of struggling to catch them - a gentle neighbour managed to catch one and take it to my parents.
The pup spent a
night with mum and dad and this morning was collected by Animal Welfare Officers, he will be taken to a vet for checkups and placed on an adoption
list.
I really hope they
can find a loving home for the little one - he deserves a good family to share
the rest of his life with.
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| Such a cute little pup .... |
24-Jan-2012 1300
Update - received a call from the AWD, Pup has passed his medical visit and was certified With a clean bill of health he is currently at their offices eagerly waiting to be adopted.
24-Jan-2012 1400
Update - HAPPY ENDINGS - AWD contacted me to inform me that the Pup has been adopted, hours after it was delivered to them from the hospital ... he has been adopted by a lovely lady from Birzebbugia, AWD personally described her as an angel. She recently lost her son therefore she has a lot of love to give and I'm sure our pup will be reciprocating all that love back to her.
Links: Malta Animal Welfare Department Adoption List
