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Its not a secret that the shelter is struggling right now and we cant deny that hard times are leading us to a dead end. Many people are arguing the fact we have many dogs. What they dont understand is that we didnt take those dogs because others offered to save them. The dogs we took in our shelter are dogs nobody wanted to save and they were due to be put to sleep. We took those dogs cause people where begging us to help them so they dont die. We didnt ask to have almost 300 dogs under our care we took them to give them a chance to live. We thought that people will embrace the idea of another shelter in Limassol that will serve the stray animals. WE WERE WRONG! We beleived that people will appreciate that we started a shelter with only a donation of less than €3000 from a few supporters. We spent hundreds of thousands of euros from our own money to build that shelter. We funded for over a year almost all vet bills for the dogs, spaying dogs, vaccinating them, treating them for leishmaniasis, erlichia paying for vet bills for dogs who had 0 chances to live, but we still gave them the chance to live with us for a few more months rather than die in the streats in agony. We funded operations from our own pockets for dogs that were hit by cars. We funded from our own pockets for those dogs never to sleep one night without food. Why did we do that? Because we dont care for animals? We ve seen dogs come to our shelter heavily pregnant or with puppies, we didnt abort the puppies like others do we gave them a chance to find their forever homes. We were accused that we are here for the money, but the truth is what you see in that shelter came out from our pockets nobody funded us like they do with other rescues. We were blessed with an inheritance that we used it for the animals instead. The money run out. We dont regret it one minute. What we regret is that we beleived that people will see that we started this shelter to help the animals and give us support. We dont regret that we will never go on vacations but we regret that our shelter was pushed from some people to the limit that we are like invisible. We were accused that we dont promote our dogs for homes, while we post dogs for homes everday and ask for people to share them. We are now accused that we dont have enough staff to look after the dogs but we cant afford to pay the people that are already working for us and we are going to lose them. We had our doors open to anyone from day one as we never had anything to hide. The shelter was always open to visitors our location was never secret and never will be. Our fundraisings are always backed up with receipts, we dont use your money on us we use them for the dogs. So before you have an opinion about us get your facts straight. My husband and I had every reason so far to walk away from rescuing as rescuing never been our source of income and we didnt, not only we didnt walk away we spent our money to help the dogs. This shelter has one week to raise the money for the wages, rent, electricity and water bills. If we dont have the money by next Friday we are losing the shelter. Losing the shelter is not what worries us, lets say we invested and we lost, fine, what is the big worry is what is gonna happen to those dogs. Those senior dogs who nobody wants to adopt. The dogs with leishmaniasis or many health issues. Who will take them? If the veterinary services come to take them they will put them to sleep. If you beleive in what we do as a rescue and if you know me and Damien and how much we give for the dogs, i ask you to help us so we dont lose our shelter. Please even if its €5 donation. If 1000 people donate €5 each every month we will be able to cover so many bills. Right now the amount we need is for 2 months salaries, rent, water bill and electricity bill. We need to sort them by Friday its our last day.
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