Elena’s verdict on PAWS dogs after two weeks as a shelter volunteer  Elena Gittenberger is a 19-year-old Austrian school leaver who came to PAWS as a caravan volunteer before starting university in Vienna.  A passionate animal lover with an ambition to become an animal trainer, she had first hoped to go to South America, […]

  For Sonja, two weeks in a PAWS caravan wasn't just about her love of animals - it was a personal journey of discovery about herself.  Sonja Lintunen from Finland was 26 and had worked as a sales woman in Scandinavia's biggest electronics company for eight years. It was a good job, well-paid - but […]

[:en][cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width="1/1"][cmsms_text] One morning, Sam (who runs the PAWS Cattery) arrived at the shelter and found a box outside the gates with no lid and nothing in it.   There was no animal in sight, so nothing could be done.  Two days later, however, one of the international volunteers spotted a black and white cat in […]

[:en]PAWS-PATAS cats, kittens, dogs and puppies wag a HUGE THANK YOU to all those wonderful people who kindly donated pet food at the publicity event held on Wednesday 10 August at RE/MAX Paraíso Estate Agents in the Parque Comercial, Mojacar. 140 kilos of dog and puppy food and 62 kilos of cat and kitten food […]

[:en][cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width="1/1"][cmsms_text] SPENCER came to the PAWS shelter in spring 2010, having been found wandering the streets of Antas. At that time he was already 7 years old.   Denise from Dogwatch in the UK, an organisation working closely with PAWS, was determined that Spencer should have his 'golden basket': after 5 long years, along came […]

[:en] UPDATE: Rachel and Mark, the holidaymakers, whose story is told below, have been raising money back in England, and now have enough to cover the neutering of four of the abandoned cats. Jacqueline, their friend here in Spain, has managed to capture two of the four and is letting them settle for a few […]

[:en] The PAWS cat team is chronically short of both volunteers to help at the shelter, and foster carers because space in the cattery is very limited. They have produced a leaflet explaining the cat section's work - which is much less well-known than PAWS work with dogs. [:]

[:en] (shelter photos by Lina Forslund Löfgren) FINAL CHAPTER: Just occasionally - amidst all the difficulties, the dumpings of unwanted animals, the deaths of puppies too young to be away from their mothers, the cruelty and neglect that PAWS volunteers have to deal with - something wonderful happens at the Shelter which really makes it […]

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