Sunday, August 25, 2013

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER 2013

2 kittens adopted in Tobago and are happy in their forever home. 
Please visit out Adoptions page - Click Here

IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Report of the Chairperson 2012-2013
2. Dr. Paul Crooks
3. Fundraising
4. Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference
5. Education Programme

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1. REPORT OF THE CHAIRPERSON 
- Mary Soodeen:  For the period April 2012 to May 2013

1. Management Commitee.
Regular monthly meetings have been held throughout the year.   The business of the Society continued, with Minutes agreed on a monthly basis.    Action items were agreed and Financial Statements reviewed, to ensure that we are in full control of our expenditure in relation to our income.  The Committee members work on a volunteer basis and are to be commended for their hard work and dedication.

2. Projects
(i) Extending and Upgrading our Clinic:   Thanks to Luise Kimme’s assistance this was accomplished.  We were sad at Luise Kimme’s passing .   Her support of the Tobago Shelter will always be remembered.   Even now her book “Tobago’s Kimme, her dogs and art” is being sold with all proceeds going to our Shelter.

(ii) Boarding Kennels: The Boarding kennels are almost complete.   We hope to increase our revenue by having these additional 10 kennels to offer Pet owners.

3.  Fundraising:
- We continue to rely heavily on fundraising projects and private donations.
- Book  sales are ongoing projects together with the collections from our dog boxes,  which are placed in shops and hotels.  The last Saturday of each month outside “Stumpys”  you will find Mrs. Pamela Phillips and her volunteer assistants with a  wonderful collection of books for sale.   We are indebted to Pamela Phillips for her continued assistance and Peter Brimacombe for emptying the dog boxes.
- Through our fundraising Committee, we held events which were well attended and proved successful,  particularly our parties at Sandy Point Village.
- We participated at a Christmas Fair at Bucco Community Centre and took part in the Night Market at the Cinergy Film Festival.
- We benefited from part proceeds of a  Musical Dance Concert put on by Mary Lou Beddow.
- We benefited from the sales of subway tickets and the Animal Welfare Calendars. (which we sold in Tobago)

4.  Members:
Fourteen new members were approved.   An annual subscription of $100 paid to the Society within any financial year shall constitute the subscriber an Ordinary Member for that year.   Overseas membership will be granted on the payment of a one time subscription of $500.00.

5.  The Shelter and Staff:
Throughout the year the staff have been sprucing up the Shelter by cleaning and painting the buildings, repairing doors on kennels , maintaining the grounds, etc.  Bonuses were awarded at Christmas in appreciation.  We continue to work with the Staff to update them on their job descriptions and any staff issues they may have .
           
At the end of May  the number of animals at the Shelter: 22 dogs,  8 Boarders, 22 puppies, 5 cats and 5 kittens
During the year we sent 2 dogs to Germany and 2 dogs and 1 kitten to the UK, all adopted by Visitors to our Island.   Many of  our animals have been adopted from the Shelter and at our Adoption Drives held at the Gulf City Mall.

- Dr. Paul Crooks, our resident vet,  hosts a regular programme called “Ask the Vet” on Tobago Channel 5 on the “Rise & Shine” morning show once a month.This  is an interactive show and deals with both pets and farm animals.
- Dr. Miguella Carew, from the USA paid us a visit and did some free heart worm testing while in Tobago.
              
6.  Clinic:
Dr. Paul Crooks renewed his tenancy of our Shelter Clinic.
The Clinic is open to the public from 4 – 6 pm daily and 8.30 am – 12.30 pm on Saturday.
The Clinic offers the general public affordable safe veterinary care and medications.                                                  
Dr. Crooks does pro-bono work on our Shelter animals and we are very grateful.   It is reflected in the general health of the animals in our care.

7.   Education:
  - The Animal Welfare Network in Trinidad have initiated  a programme for primary schools in Trinidad.   Ms. Mitra De Souza, from AWN paid a visit to our Tobago Shelter to familiarize us with this programme. We hope to  introduce the programme  into our Primary  Schools  in Tobago.  

  - We  are looking for Volunteers for this programme. We must empower  students to realize they can apply the concepts of respect and kindness towards animals in their own lives.

8.  Visitors:
Many other visitors came, viewed the Shelter and left a donation.   We are indeed grateful to one and all.
- Philippe Le Farge, from Ireland, dropped off a donation from the golf tournament he organised in Tobago.
- Alexandra Rothlisberge, Programme Director for the Humane Society visited us while on her way to Trinidad to choose a location for the Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference which was held in Trinidad in April.     Dr. Crooks, Mrs. Soodeen and Ms. Clare Joseph attended this conference.  
Members of the Shelter also attended the Caribbean Veterinarian Conference which was held in Trinidad.

9.    Spay & Neuter Clinics:
In August we held our free Spay/neuter clinics with assistance from the Humane Society, TTSPCA Council and the Tobago House of Assembly.    We held two clinics, under the direction of Dr. Paul Crooks and Dr. Adana Mahase,  one at  the Shelter and an outreach Clinic at Charlotteville.   We spayed/neutered 100 animals and the Charlotteville clinic also attended to 68 animals for various ailments.
We  have worked very hard  on getting funding, advertising and holding the SPOTT clinics each year since  2008 and in total have spayed and neutered 525 dogs and cats so preventing many unwanted litters.
We hope to continue these SPOTT clinics as we believe this is the way forward in making Tobago a stray free Island.

Dr. Crooks also participated in a spay week organized by Animal Welfare Network.
              
10.     Volunteers
We depend heavily on the services of Volunteers to help with walking our dogs, socializing with our puppies and kittens and helping at our fund raising events.  To those volunteers who do spend time at the Shelter we are indeed grateful.    If you have time to spare please come and walk a dog.  We also need foster homes for dogs.  


- During the Year our Vice Chairman Mrs. Patricia Faraday relocated to Trinidad.   We do appreciate the time she spent on our Committee.
- I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Manager, Ms. Clare Joseph and her staff for their support during the past year.
- I would like to thank Mrs. Beverly Smith for assisting in preparing  our books for auditing.
- I wish to thank Mr. Robert Rivers and Mr. Nigel Pawan for drafting the plans for the Kennels and communicating with the building contractor while they were in Tobago.
- I also wish to thank our Committee for their support.   We have achieved some of our goals and are making progress on others.
- SPeCiAl   T-Shirts are on sale at the Shelter as part of our fundraising

- Our photos are taken by Inken Janning…..   www.tobagophoto.com

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2. Dr. PAUL CROOKS ...
was voted in as the Chairman for the coming year



3. FUNDRAISING
i) Dance show gives donation to TTSPCA
The dance Shows that was put on in aid of the TTSPCA by Mary Lou Beddow and a team of Tobago Dancers… great!

The Tobago Dance Team performed an incredible journey around the world to see dances and hear music from several countries. Held at the Gulf City Lowlands Mall on April 14th. Proceeds for the show will benefit the TSPCA and the Nicare Home for the Aged. 


Photo of Mary Lou giving donation to TTSPCA 

ii) TTSPCA had a stall at the Cinergy Film Festival



iii) Carnival Fete
TTSPCA had our Carnival Fete


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4.  THE CARIBBEAN ANIMAL WELFARE CONFERENCE 
TTSPCA Tobago was represented at the Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference which was held in Trinidad in April this year.



5. EDUCATION PROGRAMME
We are still working on getting our education Programme into the School in Tobago



Friday, January 4, 2013

JANUARY NEWSLETTER 2013


Wishing all our Members 
Peace and Abundance for 2013

Our Mission 
To prevent cruelty to Animals.   
To one day have a stray free Tobago

Our Motto   
We speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.


We are an NGO with little funding from Government and we organize  jumble sales, book sales, adoption drives, collection boxes etc. to raise money to keep the Shelter afloat.   We continually rely on the goodwill of individuals, both local and our foreign visitors to help us continue to service the needs of the stray animals in our community.

IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Projects
2. Events
3. Education
4. Staff
5. Volunteers & Helpers
6. Adoptions
7. Our projects for 2013
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1. PROJECTS
Extend and upgrade our Clinic    
Thanks to Luise Kimme for Her assistance in accomplishing this and Dr. Paul Crooks, our resident Veterinarian,  is now comfortable in his ‘new clinic’ which is opened daily and offers affordable veterinary care.   


- Ask the Vet
Dr. Crooks also continued his TV Programme “Ask the Vet”  which raises awareness on the treatment of all animals.

Dr. Paul Crooks, our resident Vet, with Linda, a Committee member
and John who always fosters a dog when in
Tobago.

- New Kitchen
We completed our new kitchen which we had to relocate when extending the Clinic.

Boarding Kennels
Our other Project for 2012 was the building of 10 Boarding Kennels which we hope will generate funds for the Shelter.  We did not achieve this goal in 2012 but I am pleased to announce that we have now Collected the funding and will start this project In January 2013.  


2. EVENTS



- Successful Fund raising fetes
We started 2012 by organizing a Carnival Party at Stonehaven, the first of our fund raising Events for the year.  We continued on to throw other fund raising fetes throughout the year.



We ended the year with another fund raising event at SandyPoint and again raised some funding for our Kennel Project.  


Crissy, one of our Volunteers who
helped us at our fund raiser fete

- Christmas fair Dec 2012






- Calendar sale 2013
TobagoSPCA was given calendars to sell from TTSPCA Trinidad and AWN with half of the money going to them.


- Collaborating with others
We helped with the launch of the book “Tobago Exposed” at Stonehaven in exchange for a free advertisement.



- Adoption Drive   
Held at the Gulf City Mall, LowlandsWe sold subway tickets and got a percentage from the sales which went towards the Kennel Project.

SPOTT
In August we had our free SPAY/NEUTER Clinics with assistance from the Humane Society of the USA,  TTSPCA Council and the Tobago House of Assembly, Agricultural Division helped with medications.




We had one clinic at our Shelter at Bacolet and an outreach Clinic in Charlotteville.

Dr. Adana Mahase at our outreach clinic in Charlotteville

We spayed/neutered 100 animals.   We would like to have more of these clinics as we believe that this is the way forward to prevent unwanted puppies and kittens in Tobago.  
Dr. Crooks participated in a spay week organized by Animal Welfare Network in Trinidad.

Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference
Alexandra Rothlisberger Program Manager from Humane Society International, USA  paid us a visit in March, on her agenda was to choose a location for the next Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference.   This conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Trinidad from 14-17th April 2013.  She is seen in the photo with Dr. Crooks, Clare Joseph, Shelter Manager, Mary Soodeen, Chairperson and Lois Helmark, Committee Member.
We look forward to attending this Conference.

Dr. Crooks (Vet), Clare Joseph (Shelter Manager), Alexandra Rothlisberger, Mary Soodeen, (Chairperson) and Lois Helmark (Committee Member)

- Testing for Heart worm
Dr. Miguella Mark Carew from the USA did some testing for heart worm and tick fever while she was on the Island


On June 23rd are you interested in
FREE testing for your dog? 

Call TSPCA at 639-2567 for details.


3. EDUCATION
The TTSPCA and AWN in Trinidad have initiated a programme for Primary Schools and we will participate In this programme in 2013.    Again we are looking for Volunteers to help with the programme.  If you have an email address  please forward it to support@ttspca.com

education programme AWN

one of the activity books for the education programme 
the TobagoSPCA will participate in

We take this opportunity to thank our staff - Clare, Denise, Kishon and Leston!


Clare Joseph, Shelter Manager


5. VOLUNTEERS & HELPERS
We thank the volunteers who give comfort and socialize our animals to make them adoptable.   We NEED more volunteers so please call the Shelter if you can help.   Or if you would like to foster a dog.

2 young volunteers - Assam sisters

- Phillipe Le Farge from Ireland, who comes every year and has a golf tournament, some of the proceeds go towards the Shelter.   Taken outside the Shelter with Mary Soodeen, the Chairperson.



6. ADOPTIONS
Our Tobago Terriers continue to be loved and adopted by our foreign visitors and we sent Badger, Dexter and Billy to the UK and Sparkles and Chocolate to Germany.   We also had a good number of our dogs and cats adopted by Tobagonians.




Check out some of  the lovely dogs that have been adopted at :-
http://tobagospca-adoption.blogspot.com.es/

* Please note that from January 2012 new rules apply in sending dogs to any country within the EC.   They are now micro chipped, receive a rabies shot and they can depart 21 days later to their destination.    No more quarantine!


7. OUR PROJECTS FOR 2013
- We would like to make the Shelter self sufficient and by completing the Boarding Kennels we will make a start.    
- We also want to upgrade the cattery and kitten area. 

We appeal for your help

(l)  Donating a monetary gift to any Republic Bank to our Tobago Account #020408593701

(2) Setting up a standing order with your Bank to make monthly donations to the Tobago SPCA

Our Wish for 2013 remains the same  - that there will be no stray dogs, on the streets, beaches, airport, port, schools and everyone who has a dog will know how to care for it humanely.   We hope when the Dangerous Dog Act is proclaimed this may become a reality with the onus being on responsible ownership.

We thank you all for supporting us



Wishing you all peace and abundance in the New Year 2013.
Yours sincerely,
Mary Soodeen,
Chairman
TSPCA Tobago Shelter

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

JUNE NEWSLETTER 2012

the Shelter Staff and dog Walkers
and Dr. Innis, one of the Vets at the Shelter Clinic

IN THIS ISSUE:
***We had our AGM on April 4th
1. management committee:
2. fundraising:
3. members:
4. the shelter and staff:
5. education:
6. visitors:
7. spay & neuter clinics
8. clinic:
9. projects for the year:
10. pound:
11. volunteers:
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1. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE:
Regular monthly meetings have been held throughout the year.  Action items were agreed and Financial Statements reviewed, to ensure that we are in full control of our expenditure in relation to our income.  The Committee members work on a volunteer basis and are to be commended for their hard work and dedication.

2. FUNDRAISING:
- We continue to rely heavily on fundraising projects and private donations.
- Book and jumble sales are ongoing projects together with the collections from our dog boxes,  placed in shops and hotels.  The last Saturday of each month a white tent is erected outside “Stumpys” and there you will find Mrs. Pamela Phillips and her volunteer assistants and a wonderful collection of books for sale.   We are indebted to Pamela Phillips for her continued assistance.
- Through our fundraising Committee, we held events which were well attended and proved successful particularly our pre Carnival Party at Stonehaven.  Thanks go to Duane Kenny and his crew for their support. 

3. MEMBERS:
New members were approved.   We continue to welcome new members.   $100 for life membership

4. THE SHELTER AND STAFF:
- Check out our new Sign at the Entrance given by an anonymous donor.  
- The Shelter has a new laptop, printer, washing machine and freezer all donated.   We are so grateful.
- We have maintained the same staff throughout the year and their loyalty is commendable. Bonuses were awarded at Christmas in appreciation. Throughout the year the staff have been sprucing up the Shelter by cleaning and painting the buildings, repairing doors on kennels, retiling the dogs’ bathtub area etc. We purchased a Weed Whacker so the grounds are now maintained by the Staff.
We continue to work with the Staff to update them on their job discriptions and any staff issues they may have  and  their role in helping the TSPCA follow their mission and vision.                                 
“A stray free country, where animals are treated with love and respect”
At the end of March the number of animals at the Shelter: 27 dogs, 5 Boarders, 11 puppies, 5 cats and 6 kittens.
- During the year we sent 7 dogs to Germany and the UK, all adopted by Visitors to our Island.  
The rules for sending dogs to the UK or any EU country has changed and instead of having to spend 6 months in quarantine,  the dog can be micro chipped, given a rabies vaccine and travel to any EU country 21 days later.                                             
- Many of  our animals have been adopted from the Shelter and at our Adoption Drives held at the Gulf City Mall.
- Dr. Paul Crooks hosts a regular programme called “Ask the Vet” on Tobago Channel 5 on the “Rise & Shine” morning show, on the second Monday each month.   This  is an interactive show and deals with both pets and farm animals.

5. EDUCATION:
The Animal Welfare Network in Trinidad are working on a programme on Education with regards to the welfare of animals and will be testing the pilot programme in two schools.   On completion they will forward us the programme together with activity books and we will introduce it into our Primary  Schools  in Tobago.  
We  are looking for Volunteers for this programme.    We  must empower  students to realize they can apply the concepts of respect and kindness towards animals in their own lives.

6. VISITORS:
- We said goodbye to Miguella-Carew a fulbright Scholar from Cornell University USA who had paid us several visits during her stay in Trinidad & Tobago.   She continues to keep in touch and promise s to assist us with our next SPOTT programme.
- Alexandra Rothlisberger, Program Manager for the Caribbean from the Humane Society International paid us a visit early March.    She has promised to assist us in our next SPOTT programme.
- Phillipe LeFarge, from Ireland, organised a golf tournament, while he was in Tobago and came to visit us with a donation, proceeds from the tournament.
- Dr.Charlotte Balcombe from UK  spent the month of September in Tobago and  assisted Dr. Crooks by spaying and neutering all our animals at the clinic.
- Many other visitors came, viewed the Shelter and left us a donation.   We are indeed grateful to one and all.

7. SPAY & NEUTER CLINICS
- Since our last SPOTT (Spaying prevents overpopulation in Trinidad  & Tobago) in January 2011 we have received no funding from Humane Society International due to the recession in USA. We have  worked very hard since 2008 on advertising and holding the SPOTT programmes and in total have spayed and neutered 425 dogs and cats so preventing many unwanted litters.   In March we got a comittment from the Humane Society International for some funding and we are making arrangements to hold SPOTT clinics in July 2012.   We are hoping to get some assistance from the Tobago House of Assembly.

8. CLINIC:
- Dr. Paul Crooks renewed his tenancy of our Shelter Clinic. Dr. Crooks does pro-bono work on our Shelter animals and we are very grateful. It is reflected in the general health of the animals in our care.
- The Clinic is being extended with the generous help of Ms. Luise Kimme.   
- The Clinic is open to the public from 4 – 6 pm daily and 8.30 am – 12.30 pm on Saturday.
- The Clinic offers the general public affordable safe veterinary care and medications.

9. PROJECTS FOR THE YEAR:
- New Kitchen:   This was finally completed, when Mrs. Beverly Smith, one of our Committee Members took over as Project Manager and was ably assisted by two of our staff, Keishon and Leston.
- Boarding Kennels:  We have been unable to obtain the required funding for our new Boarding Kennels which we planned to build to generate funds for the Shelter.   We have collected some funds and with a promise from an overseas member, living in the UK,  who will match us dollar for dollar we are going to build the foundation and as we collect further funds we will  add each kennel.   (10 in total)
- Extension of Clinic: Almost completed

10. POUND:
-This is the responsibility of the Tobago House of Assembly but we have offered to let them set it up at the back of the Shelter and as in Trinidad, the TSPCA would run the day to day operations.   We had a promising meeting with representatives of the Public Health division in September and a recent promise from Mr. Melville, secretary for Agriculture to set up a meeting with the Secretary for Health with a view to setting up a POUND to alleviate the problems of the stray and roaming dogs on the Island.   We await the outcome.

11. VOLUNTEERS:
We depend heavily on the services of Volunteers to help with walking our dogs, socializing with our puppies and kittens and helping at our fund raising events.   Those volunteers who do spend time at the Shelter we are indeed grateful.    If you have time to spare please come and walk a dog.
We need foster Homes for dogs to help socialize them before adoption.


As Chairman, I would like to thank our Manager, Ms. Clare Joseph and her staff for their support during the past year.
I would like to thank Mr. Alan Porter for auditing our books for 2011.
I also wish to thank our Committee for their support .   We have been able to achieve some of our goals and we are making progress on others.

Mary Soodeen (Chairman TSPCA Tobago Branch)

Sunday, January 1, 2012

DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2011

A wag of the tail, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone!
 
Chelsea - first Christmas in the UK 
after leaving Tobago.

IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Letter to Members - December 2011
2. TobagoSPCA branch fund raiser 
3. Goal Reached!
4. Nina
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1. LETTER TO MEMBERS - DECEMBER 2011
Season’s greetings and very best wishes for 2012 to all Members of the TTSPCA.

Our Mission remains the same:   To prevent Cruelty to animals.   We rescue stray and unwanted animals, try and rehome them and raise awareness of the positive treatment and care of animals.
Our Motto:   We speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

We started 2011 by having our FREE spay/neuter Clinics with the assistance of the  Humane Society of the USA.   SPOTT (Spaying prevents overpopulation in T & T)  We believe that this is the way forward to prevent unwanted puppies and kittens in Tobago.

A Committee Member attended  the 2011 Caribbean Animal Welfare Conference in Puerto Rico.   A lot of knowledge was gleaned from interacting with other organizations and attending seminars/workshops.

We are a charitable organization and do not receive any Government  assistance.    Our fund raising committee has been busy with organizing events to raise funds towards the expense of running the Shelter. We have adoption drives, jumble sales, book sales and social events i.e Brunch, Cocktail Parties, Back in time dances etc.   We rely on the goodwill of individuals, both local and our foreign visitors, to continue to service the needs of the unwanted animals in our community.

Our Clinic is open daily and staffed by Veterinarians so we are able to offer the general public affordable safe veterinary care.   We have on sale medication for the care of your Pets including herbal medications.
Dr. Paul Crooks, our resident Vet, has a programme called “Ask the Vet” once a month on Channel 5, our local TV station.   This is a ‘call in’ programme and is another way to raise awareness on the treatment of our animals.

In July we said goodbye to Miguella Mark-Carew, a Phd student from Cornell University who spent 10 months in T & T assisting our Shelters in many ways including making a donation of collars/leashes from a project by the students of T. Herber Middle School in New York.   She also brought 4 students from Cornell University to assist with our SPOTT programme.

In September we welcomed Dr. Charlotte Balcombe from the UK who worked with Dr. Crooks for a month and helped spay/neuter our shelter animals.

OUR STAFF:  We take this opportunity to thank our STAFF.   They are faced every day with the caring of unwanted animals but they will greet you with a smile and take time to pat a dog or give a cat a stroke or two.

OUR VOLUNTEERS:  They deserve a big Thanks,  without them how would we manage, they exercise and give comfort and socialize our dogs to make them adoptable.   Volunteers are always needed  so if you have an hour or two to spare ,come along to the Shelter and bring joy to a cat, dog, puppy or kitten.   Or if you would like to foster a dog to help socialize please contact the Shelter.

Our VISION is to make the Shelter self sufficient.

OUR PROJECTS:   for 2012 continue from 2011:      
1) Building 10 Boarding Kennels
We have the plans and the budget actuals to build 10 (ten) boarding kennels at the cost of $200,000.   We initiated requests for funding assistance in 2011 but to date we have only received $20,500.   We are appealing this year for your help by:-
(1)  Setting up a Standing Order with your  Bank to make monthly donations to the Tobago  SPCA
(2)   Donating a monetary gift at any Republic Bank to our Tobago Account at Main Street,     Scarborough, Tobago
                                               a/c No: 020408593701

2) Complete the relocation of our kitchen
Our other project for 2012 is to complete the relocation of our kitchen and we are assessing the best use of the old kitchen space as it relates to the Clinic expansion.  

OUR WISH for 2012:    
That there will be no stray dogs, on the streets, beaches, airport, port, schools and everyone who has a dog will know how to care for it humanely.

Our Shelter is full of  “Tobago Terriers” who give unconditional love.   Come and see for yourself why the foreigners visiting Tobago fall in love with our Tobago Terriers.  We have exported dogs to the UK, Germany, Sweden and the USA,   Adopt one of these treasures here in Tobago.
NOTE:   From January 1, 2012 new rules apply in sending dogs to any country within the EC:  Microchip, rabies shot and 21 days later the dog can travel.   No more 6 months quarantine wait.

If you have an email address please forward it to:   support@ttspca.com
Check out our facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/TobagoSPCA                                 
Our next FUND RAISER:  Pre Carnival Fete on 27th January at Stone Haven Resort.

Wishing you a peaceful New Year from the Committee of the Tobago SPCA.

Yours Sincerely,
Mary Soodeen
Chairman: 
TTSPCA Tobago Branch

Committee Members:
Chairman:    M. Soodeen,  Vice Chairman:  P. Faraday,   Treasurer:  A. Phillips,   Dr. Crooks,
Dr. Mahase, J. Helmark, J. Westbury, L. Urbanowicz, N. Deane-Crooks, D. Samuel, B. Smith

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2. TobagoSPCA BRANCH FUND RAISER
  





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3. GOAL REACHED! All Shelter animals neutered and spayed
 
Dr. Balcombe with Dr. Crooks.
The TTSPCA TOBAGO BRANCH would like to thank Dr. Charlotte Balcombe (graduate of The University of Bristol, England) for her one month of volunteer services assisting Dr. Paul Crooks and the animal shelter. Dr. Balcombe has adjusted too the many challanges of Tobago, such as tropical diseases, limited facilities (compared to the U.K.) and pet owners knowledge on pet care. She praises the Tobago TTSPCA for their hard work in educating the public on animal care and reducing the number of stray animals on the Island. Dr. Balcombe has accomplished the task of neutering and speying all the shelter animals, which are now ready for adoption. Dr. Balcombe plans on returning to Tobago for the SPOTT program (free neuter & spey) and also to see the developments of both the clinic and shelter.
We look forward to seeing her again.

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4. NINA 


     
 
Nina, picked up in Charlotteville, adopted by Seffi from Germany.   Nina had a deformed leg.   A vet operated on her a few months later and she now walks perfectly.   Her story appeared in the Germany Newspaper - another happy ending.
Although it's printed in German maybe some of our German members will check it out.
Nina is already on the adoption page click here .