Help Save Spanish Strays – CHANCE animal rescue fund

Last year I started this page to help raise money for Spanish strays by getting sponsorship for doing a wolfrun, this year I'm hoping to raise even more!

So this year myself and three friends are running not one, not two, not three but four 10K Wolfruns. These 10K mud infested, killer, obstacle courses are spaced throughout the year and are often freezing cold and pure madness!

But this is to raise money for something we believe in - the rescue and rehoming of helpless starving dogs and cats from the streets in Spain. These poor little mites have been cruelly abandoned, usually at a tender young age (often a litter in a bag in a bin!), or when they've gotten too costly to keep (case and point - a dog named Bob who was an estimated 16 years old when found - blind, deaf, starving, with no teeth and almost completely bald!).

We have paid the registration fees ourselves, so every penny will be going towards helping save these poor waifs and strays!

Christina Catlin-Groves and Chris Hardman rehomed the below dogs (Belle and Tink), and Hannah Lewis and David Paramore rehomed another rescue (Marmalade now Bomber) (Left to right in top picture). We frequently look into the eyes of our new family members and remember where they came from and the hardship they had to endure before they came to us. Every time it's heart wrenching, and every time we're reminded about all the animals that are still on the streets, suffering, desperately needing another chance.

An example of why we're raising money

The rescue:

These poor pups are actually pretty 'easy' rescues, but it's still no less heart rending to see them so desperate on the streets at such a tender age. By easy, I of course mean they had no additional medical concerns and hadn't yet become injured or ill. Belle, we found out after the rescue, had been sighted with two litter sisters/brothers who had since vanished (we can safely assume that they were either predated, died of illness/starvation or were run over nearby) so it was only a matter of time before Belle went the same way. These are just two of the many many dogs who have been rescued. Belle is on the left, having just been found and offered water - you can see the terror & distrust in her eyes. Romeo (now Tinker) is on the right, a very young male dog covered in ticks and starving.

After Rescue!

Both Belle and Romeo were rescued, treated, neutered and cared for and are now much happier dogs in their forever home!

Belle and Romeo have both been rescued from the streets. Covered in ticks, untrusting of humans, starving and terrified, they have been taken in, treated, vaccinated and neutered and now have a home. Both were a tender young age of only about 4 months old (best guess) and had been on the streets for some time. It's only because of the massive hearts and generosity of people like yourselves that they could be rescued and rehomed! Otherwise, there would be no option but to keep on walking by... :(

Every penny raised helps rescue dogs and cats like these, and contributes to their ongoing welfare, medication and husbandry costs to get them ready for re-homing into what we hope will be their forever homes!