The animals living
now in our Family Sanctuary have been abandoned and/or ill-treated.
90% are really old (in general, they use to be old and ill when
arrive to us), and it means a daily direct and continuous care
for a variety of health problems.
Donations
Club
500 membership
Membership
fee for Fundación Altarriba:
Minimum
fee:
- Spain 7 €/month or 84 €/year
- Europe 10 €/month or 120 €/year
- Other - Europe 12€/month or 144€/year
Membership can be tax deducted in Spain: individuals
25% and legal entities 35%. Please
check tax deductions if you do not live in Spain.
Sponsoring
Sponsoring
an animal of the Family Sanctuary:
Means 12
€/month Sponsoring
can be tax deducted in Spain: individuals
25% and legal entities 35%. Please
check tax deductions if you do not live in Spain.
Do
you want to sponsor an animal of the Family Sanctuary?
Since 2004 we have
really original guests in our Fami9ly Sanctuary: afamily of wild boars.
They are that kind of visitors
that you know when arrive, but never when they are planning to
leave. These have discovered that every evening a lunch is ready
for them and never fail, no matter the TV night show.
Finally, in February 2005 and after
many nights lying in wait for we could get a picture. Here is
mom with children in our gate. Dad comes later, and no picture
is avalible by now... but we seize the opportunity.
The snapshot is not a great one,
but in these circumstances ...
In a fenced 6 hectares real-estate,
located near the "Massís de Cadiretes", in
Girona, Fundación Altarriba keeps a single
exemple of family co-existence between dogs and cats, all
of them coming from abandon and ill-treatment, who are here
at home forever.
There are about 70
animals. Nothing reminds the image of a shelter.
There are
no cages, no kennels: just a house, and the country to run
across and play, with two small lakes where the animals
use to take a bath.
None of them
can be adopted. Their lives before arriving here were so
terrible, even tragic some times, that we shelter them forever
to compensate, if possible, for so much pain in the past.
"Metro".
In July 2001, his owner kicked him in a platform and
threw to the railway in a subway station (Barcelona).
To rescue him, two lines had to stop for three hours,
as the dog was running through the tunnels. Some people
protested ungrily to have stopped the subway service
just to save a dog.
After
that, he came to live to the Family Sanctuary. In
this picture, enjoing his favourite sport in our pond.
Life
is family lifestyle, at home.
The kitchen is a never ending line of feeders, placed
in order of arrival. Everybody knows his place.
A
COMMON DOGS DAY
The most delicated
dogs use to sleep in the kitchen: the olders (about 15 years
old), the blind ones, ... The day begins at 9 am. At that
time the rooms are already in tumult, and those sleeping
in the kitchen begin to knock the feeders to remind its
time for breakfast: they are the "alarm-clock dogs".
Breakfast
"is served" at about 11 am, and it is always cooked
food for everybody. They eat toghether in the morning.
As we said before, the kitchen is a never ending line of
several sizes feeders. The dogs place by the line: every
muzzle into the own feeder, but every eye into the neighbour's.
FELINE
GUESTS
There are also cats.
They live upstairs, but some of them get the way to go down by
the roof and go for wile with the dogs (for instance, to sleep
or to argue about the property of a titbit).
Sunday is the "Cat's
Day" and they go toghether for a long walk in the forest
with Gloria Casas. It seems they know, because every Sunday at
10 am the hall of the house holds a spontaneous demonstration
of cats, their eyes alternating the door and the grandfather clock.
MORE PEOPLE
But there are more animals living
in the Family Sanctuary. We have hens, and it is so curious
to obserb them: they have their own groups of friends, and give
the new ones the cold shoulder. We also keep an ample family
of wild ducks; a male and a fedmale stopped here during their
last migration and discovered a really confortable place, and
a kind woman feeding them, so they are still here will their
little ones. The wild boars family has grown too, and now we
can speak in fact of three families, including parents, sons
and daughters, brothers-in-law and nephews; we can even feed
the little ones with our hands.
And the
racoons, both rescued from minuscule cages. "Panchito"
arrived first, he was in a pet-shop into a cage similar
to a fish tank. "Campanilla" arrived later, from
a cage where she lived alone; once a day the door was opened
ans she received an injection. They now live in a special
facility in the forest, including trees, small houses and
several game areas.
"Panchito"
is a kind, sociable and loving racoon. He loves eating,
specially cookies if you give him with your hands.
He became a close friend of D'Artagnan (a dog), and
use to caress the dog's face gently.
This wholeworld is under the responsability
and direct care of Gloria Casas, founder of
Fundación Altarriba and president of the Board. She prepares
the breakfast and the "afternoon snack", gives medicines,
keeps watch over, take them to the vet's and yells out to keep
a basic order and good sense into this little mess of barks
and meows. Fortunately, she can yell extremelly loudly, and
they are really obedient (but "Tinaja", she lives
in her own independent republic).
Gloria
Casas with "Baldufa" and
"Sushi" in her arms, and
"Tomasita" showing the
scruff of her neck in the picture while looks for
a hole to climb too.
"Palomita"
(in CAAD Mataró her name was Paya) is about 16
years old. She was abandoned in a forest, ill, with
mange, no hair and down to skin and bones.
NO ANIMAL CAN
BE ADOPTED FROM THE FAMILY SANCTUARY. THE PLACE, A HIGH
QUALITY OF LIFE HERE AFTER ILL-TREATMEN, AND THE INDIVIDUAL
CARE THEY RECEIVE, ARE SOME OF THE REASONS FOR WHICH
WE CANNOT ACCEPT SHELTERING MORE ANIMALS.
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