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Updated 09th March 2013

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For those of you who missed the result in the December Newsletter the winners of the Lucky Calendar Date were:

1 st Prize went to Anne Goodwin 500 Euros

2nd Prize went to Mike James 100 Euros

Joint 3rd prize to Margaret Ramdewor and Helen Whitehead who both won 50 Euros.

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WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We are asking you to give us just a few hours of your time - from 10.00a.m. until 5.00.p.m. just one morning a week to help find good homes for abandoned dogs. Because every day we are receiving more and more calls about abandoned, starving and often cruelly treated dogs, we need to expand our Homing Team.

 

Just a few hours of your time – for this very rewarding work – is all that we ask!

Another area where we need your help is for you to become a P.E.P.A. Foster Carer. To create a temporary, warm, loving haven of safety for some terrified dog who has been endeavouring to live off its wits for weeks in a never ending battle to survive, can be very rewarding.

Have you always had a pet in the past, or lost a favourite friend? Do you now hesitate about permanently having your own dog? Fostering an abandoned dog for a few weeks, could help fill this gap.

If you are able to help us, please call 650 304 746 (10.00a.m. - 5.00p.m.)

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Another way we desperately need YOUR HELP

Is in raising money! In this, we need all the help we can get to help us pay for our feral cat programme which is expanding all the time and to pay for our dogs whilst they are in foster care. To pay for their vaccinations, medications etc. etc. All these expenses are continuous and so we continually need to raise money!

Thoughts how you could help is by organising just one event, for example ....

Would you like to organise a coffee morning on behalf of P.E.P.A.?

Would you like to organise a market sale?

Would you like to organise a Fun Run (perhaps with dogs and/or fancy dress)?

Would you like to organise a car rally, or a lunch with a guest speaker?

Perhaps a line dancing or other type of competition?

Or how about a picnic, or a barbecue, or even a marathon?

These are just some of the ways in which you could help. If you don't want to do the actual organising can you help in other ways?

If you can, please telephone Jaine on 647 368 322 or Email jaineinspain@msn.com

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OUR FERAL CAT PROGRAMME

We are looking to expand our feral cat programme and need your help!

Being a cat lover, you will know just how heartbreaking it is to have kittens dumped on your doorstep, or to find them tied in plastic bags having been callously thrown into a basura bin. Or finding them writhing in agony from a dose of poison. In this part of Spain, all along the eastern coast, it is almost a daily occurrence to find abandoned kittens, alive and dead, during the months of April/May and September/October. In other words, breeding time for the feral cat population!

By sterilizing both males and females we are able to save some of that terrible suffering.

To learn how to trap feral cats is neither difficult, nor time consuming. We will give you full instructions and supply you with the traps. All you will need is a bit of patience along with the satisfaction that you are really doing something to help. I assure you it can be very rewarding because you are allowing the adults to live quietly in their own environment. The females not being constantly attacked by randy males and the males themselves not having to prove their 'manhood' by fighting with other males. And helping to put an end to the suffering of all those kittens.

This non-lethal method of controlling the feral cat population is the recommended procedure by all leading countries who are concerned with animal welfare. It is a procedure known as TNR (Trapping, Neutering and Returning).

Please have a think about it and if you are interested,
please telephone 96 280 8332

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Volunteers

We are hoping to increase our Help Team by recruiting volunteers to ‘staff’ a telephone for seven hours a week on a Sunday (from 10.00 until 5.00). By sharing the task between seven people means nobody is overburdened.

So, again, we appeal to your good nature – just 7 hours on a Sunday would mean so much to us and could be really rewarding for you knowing that you could be saving some poor creature! Please call 650 304 746 if you can help!

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WHENEVER YOU SEE A P.E.P.A. COLLECTING BOX DON'T FORGET TO DROP IN A COIN, HOWEVER SMALL.     EVERY CENT YOU CONTRIBUTE GOES TOWARDS GIVING SOME WRETCHED ANIMAL A BETTER LIFE.   

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PLACE A COLLECTING BOX IN YOUR AREA PLEASE CONTACT 96 285 2869

P.E.P.A. ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP???

WE URGENTLY REQUIRE FOSTER CARERS FOR DOGS.

We have foster carers in many areas from Valencia down to Torrevieja, but we always need more in order to cope with the increasing number of abandoned dogs.

If you are interested in participating in this very rewarding work, please call the following number: 650 304 746

Click on the FOSTERING button at the top and bottom of each page for more information.

Click here to email us

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PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP US IN OTHER WAYS?

We are looking for someone who is bright, intelligent and wanting to have something to do other than sit in the sun! Why? Because we urgently need someone who is able to look after P.E.P.A. fund-raising. Preferably someone who lives in the Gandia area and someone who has a computer. Ideally, that someone would be able to recruit volunteers to help with the organizing of fund-raising events, such as Fun Day, Petanca competitions, Lunches with talks, Concerts, etc. Car Rallies, Treasure Hunts etc.

It is hard work, but it is also very rewarding and a lot of fun and all the time you are meeting lots of people with the similar interests.

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We are also looking for volunteers who can help with our Feral Cat programme, with a view to actually running the programme after a suitable training period. If you are a cat lover this may really interest you.

The work is not hard, or difficult, mainly taking and making telephone calls, keeping updated sheets and organizing the placements of traps up and down the coast. At the moment we have traps in several areas from Gandia down to Murcia, so there would not be too much running around.

This, like all our work, is very rewarding and you would benefit from the knowledge that you would be doing a really good service to the community.

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Would you like to have a P.E.P.A. stall at any of the large weekend markets in your area? P.E.P.A. will give you full back-up.

Would you like to take part in setting up our education programme? There is so much to be done and this could be a particularly rewarding pastime, especially if you have experience with children and can speak Spanish.

Do you have experience in journalism and would like to write short articles about animals for our website?

In order to expand our activities we need volunteers in all these areas. Please telephone 650 304 746 to find out more. Click here to email us

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