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aLL available for adoption stature Georgio is big on personality and gets along well with other dogs
but probably not cats. He walks well on a lead around town and would love
nothing more than to sit on his new owner’s lap in a café. Sadly, Arturo’s
trial adoption did not work out because his innate hunting instincts made it
impossible to live with the cats in his new home. The adoptive couple were
torn because they fell in love with Arturo’s playful nature but despite their
best efforts to discourage and retrain the dog he would not stop chasing
their cats, which was a shame because Arturo got along very well with their
other two dogs. Arturo is a wonderful example of a Podenco Andaluz and
he will become kennel mates with Georgio.
CatS COrner!
The Costa Animal Society is also trying to find homes for four cats whose
owner died before Christmas and his former employee has been feeding
them and taking care of them at his home ever since. However, the home
has now been sold and it is urgent to find the four new homes. They are a
mum, Squeak aged six and her son Dai and daughter Bronwen both aged
Benji and Betty are from a litter of pups dumped with CAS in March 2018, five and another 5 year-old boy Tirrion who was brought up with them from
Hector was brought to the charity six months earlier. All three dogs are a kitten. If you would like to meet any of these, or are looking to adopt
medium size that come below knee height and weigh between 16-20 kilos. and dog or cat or perhaps willing to foster a pet please contact Kurt and
These lovely dogs are happy and playful and usually get along well with Laura at 95 252 1426 or Fiona through the
other dogs but would not be good with cats. Marilyn is a lovely German CAS website www.casnerja.webs.com, or
Sheppard cross who is about two years old, found lost in between Torrox our facebook page: /casnerja. To find out
and Competa. She has a very sweet personality and gets along well with more about
everyone including cats and children. Marilyn is medium-sized female who helping CAS
is about knee height and weighs about 20 kilos. Toby is the remaining contact Vera
boy from a litter of pups that were brought to CAS earlier this year. CAS at 95 252
was able to place the litter with a foster family where they lived in a home 9670.
with another dog, cats and a young boy, Toby is still looking for his forever
family, he is about seven months old and is a big lad, we think he is a
cross between a Wire Haired Pointer and a Spanish Mastin-type dog so
he will be a large dog when full grown. But he will be a gentle giant really
as he has a sweet disposition and gets along with everyone. Georgio is a
three-to-four year-old Podenco Maneto, which is the rarer dwarf version
of the local hunting breed, and weighs about nine kilos. Despite his short

Earlier this summer we received a request to trace a dog that had passed
through our hands. This came from the lady who had adopted the puppy
in England. On deciding to have a dog to complete her family – good on
her – she had chosen to take in a rescue dog – even better on her – and
had by elimination chosen a charity called Chimney Farms, who are one
of Tail’s group of associated charities across Europe. She had chosen
her puppy and was looking to find out about her history. This started us
thinking about the numbers of dogs that Tail manages to rehome. When
this is directly from our own refuge then we do have a complete history,
for we undertake a home check and also require a detailed contract
completing prior to the change of name to the new owner. Tail mostly
rehomes through a group of likeminded charities throughout the continent,
the principals of which have all visited us in Torrox, some multiple times,
and this has enabled us at Tail to have complete confidence in the manner
those charities undertake their homechecks etc. We are on the same
page. Tail dogs can be found in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland,
Belgium, Holland, Ireland and Great Britain. This month’s pictures show
Nori Rehomed to Finland; Pavi from our refuge then rehomed to Belgium
by friends of supporters Bettina and Johnny; Derek who arrived at the
refuge at 5 weeks and was hand reared by Kayleigh. THANK YOU
to ALL! Please help us to continue this positive work. Any support is
welcome, your time, some funds, a visit to our shop in Torrox Costa,
fostering or adopting. If you would like to help in
the shops please telephone Jean on 629 469 445,
and for walking or
the refuge telephone
Kayleigh on 622 139
623. Facebook TAIL
TORROX. You can
Email us Direct at:
Tailtorrox@gmail.com

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