News
Noble – A Husky was allowed to leave the island
Noble spent almost his entire life in a shelter in Cyprus. Meanwhile, he is 5 years old. Last year he had the luck to get a place in our Huksy – foster home in Germany.
Now his happiness is complete, because he was allowed to move into his forever home. There he has a dog buddy and people who love him and will take good care of him.
We wish you all the best for your future and a great species-appropriate Husky life.
News of Angel from her foster home in Germany
Look at our beautiful Angel. Here are photos from her foster home in Germany. She is wonderful and beautiful. We hope she will finds her forever home soon. Good luck beauty.
The story of Princess – What have they done to you?
When we look at Princess we are ashamed. Why do people such evil things?
Princess was found as she was seriously injured and she was pregnant. This was in 2011 in Coral Bay. Someone has tried to kill Princess, and probably struck with a heavy object to her.
Her head was seriously injured and it was not clearly if she survived. Her puppies were born dead because of the beatings.
The scars have healed, but the tracks are still visible on her body. Also her psychological wounds are healed, today she trusts people again.
Flight 21th March 2014 from Paphos to Hamburg/Germany
Tomorrow on Friday 21th March 2014 there are two arrivals in Hamburg.
What an event for all parties in Germany. But even in Cyprus the organizations work at full speed, because it land with the two airplanes a total of 14 dogs.
It had to be made many preparations. All dogs had to check again at the vet and to be prepared for the flight. All parties in Cyprus have been going days before the flight many miles for their dogs. Tomorrow a few hours before the flight, the trip goes on, because the dogs need to check in at the two different airports.
Flight 21th March 2014 from Larnaca to Hamburg
Tomorrow on Friday 21th March 2014 the following dogs fly off to Hamburg to their new homes: Aaron, Marco and Luca.
All three dogs have found a foster home in Germany. We hope Aaron, Marco and Luca will find quickly a home in Germany.
Please think twice before you buy a Husky in Cyprus
Hello Cypriots!
Imagine the following situation:
You are forced now to live in Alaska. Without your family, because your familiy remains in Cyprus. Without your car. Now you must travel on foot any distance in the freezing cold, and the distances in Alaska are huge! Your beloved Souvla or Meze there will be no more. If you’re hungry, then you need to eat what you find on your way. Of course, you will not be able to console himself with Zivania, it´s still snow everywhere which you can ”drink”.
Would you feel under these circumstances still like a real Cypriot ? Or would this life worth living for you? No? (more…)
Flight 16th March 2014 from Larnaca to Frankfurt & Arrival
On Sunday 16th March 2014 the following dogs fly off to Frankfurt to their new homes: Aimy, Mark and Noel.
Aimy and Mark have already found a home. Noel has found a foster home in Germany and searches from there for a forever home.
We wish a smooth flight and landing and wonderful new dog lifes. Good luck beauties!
News of Blacky from her foster home
We have new photos of Blacky from her foster home in Germany. She lives there since 31th January. Hopefully not for longer, because Blacky is reserved. We keep our fingers crossed for Blacky the treasure. Good luck sweetie.
Flight 17th March 2014 from Larnaca to Dusseldorf
On Monday 17th March 2014 Tilda flies off to her new forever home and Tristan flies off to his foster home in Germany. The landing is in Dusseldorf.
After a long search Tilda has finally found her people and may live a species-appropriate dog life. Tristan has found a foster home in Germany and is allowed to prepare for his forever home.
We wish a smooth flight and landing. Enjoy your future life.
Zebedee – is now called Oskar
Hi everybody,
I am Oskar. Formerly called Zebedee.
I am now living with my family in Beckedorf/Germany and I have now already captured the hearts of my people.
But that is not difficult, because I am a very nice guy. I knew it always been, but now it’s official.
My family is ok too. Especially with the food, it works fine. I have all wrapped around “my” little finger and I am very eager to do everything right.
Pongo’s story – Halfway to a Happy Ending!
This story is full of ‘halfway’s’ so let’s hope we get the whole way to a happy ending.
Julie was driving back from Larnaca airport on Wednesday 5th March, half way home in fact. There wasn’t a lot of traffic about and Julie was planning what to do with the second half of the evening. Looking ahead up the highway her heart jumped into her mouth. Half way across the highway, standing still and looking terrified was a dog. Her first thought was “how on earth can Bambi (her own black pointer) have got here?” She really though it was her.
Her second thought was that she had to stop. Luckily, at this moment, there were no cars behind her so she was able to pull over safely and stop on the side. When she was half way out of the car, two other cars came speeding down behind her, only just breaking in time to avoid hitting the dog.
!News of Lea! – She shall get a second chance to a normal life
Recently we have reported about Lea´s story. You can read it here: Lea is looking for a sponsor.
Now, we have news about our poor Lea.
We have shown the X-Ray of Lea´s leg vets in Germany and asked for a chance to heal Lea’s leg. In Germany there are techniques to make Lea healthy again.Now we are in need of help. The surgery costs around 750 euros, which we can not afford.
We ask all people out there to help Lea. Even if you can donate a few euros, it would be a very great help.
Please help Lea, to start a normal dog life. She is too young to go stale at the shelter.
A donation for Lea’s health and freedom.
Poor Lea is still looking for a sponsor
Lea is born approx in October 2013 and her high to shoulder is 46cm. She was thrown over the fence of a shelter. She was very thin, anxiously and she hobbled. The investigation at the vet found that her leg was broken. Lea was immediately operated, in the hope to heal the leg. But unfortunately it´s a very old fracture and that is not easy to fix.
The opportunities for Lea to find a forever home are bad and because of their chances to find a home, we would like to find a sponsor for Lea. Someone who opens his heart, supports her and thinks of her.
For 10 euros a month you can become a sponsor of Lea. You are doing a contribute for her food and medical care and supports therefore her future at the shelter.
New photos of some Cyprus dogs which were under our care
Rusty, Flower, Bluebell and Branston live already in their new homes. Only Valentino is still looking for a forever home. He lives in a foster home in Germany.
Saturday 22nd February – Sausage Supper in aid of CyDRA and CYPNS
Three members of the committee headed off to Limassol for Lesley’s fundraising Sausage Supper evening. Two members got somewhat lost on the way, but eventually arrived at the right place at the right time!
There were nearly 60 people present to show their support and we all enjoyed a very pleasant evening. The sausage supper was very well enjoyed by all and the dessert of jelly and ice cream was an additional treat.
After supper we adjourned to the music room where we were entertained by Shades of Grey and at the break there was also a music quiz. We are still trying to work out how the winning team scored 2 points more than were available in total!? It was probably the quickest quiz ever as there was barely time to write down all the answers, but we were pleased we knew so many.
First photos of Thomas from his home in Germany
Thomas is arrived safely on 5th March in his new forever home in Germany. He has already acclimated and has a lot of fun with his family and the other dogs.
Sunday 23rd February – CYDRA’s 3rd Annual General Meeting
The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting. All reports have been circulated either before the meeting or immediately afterwards to members and the full set of audited accounts is available for inspection.
Barbara highlighted the difficult year it has been throughout Cyprus and how that has affected everyone. Shelters had to fight hard to survive and CyDRA has continued to provide what financial support they can, but with everyone suffering financially the knock on effect to charities is obvious.
Barbara thanked Lesley Hey for her amazing fundraising efforts throughout the year, gave details of the dogs re-homed and emphasised that the biggest positive step forward by CyDRA last year was the introduction of the training and education programmes, lead by Carole Husein.
Arrival Wednesday 5th March 2014 of Thomas in Frankfurt
Yesterday Thomas is arrived in Frankfurt. He has already found his forever home. He was eagerly awaited at the airport.
His story makes us speechless. Thomas was found as he was tied to a tree.
Uschi and Marie – have found together a forever home
Uschi and Marie have found together a home in Germany.
First the family has fallen in love with Uschi (formerly Ursula) and then they have adopted Marie 3 weeks ago.
They say that it´s very interesting how different the dogs are.
Uschi was on the first night very quiet, Marie went right over the table and benches and is a real whirlwind. If the two don´t sleep they actually play most of the time with each other.
There are nothing more exciting than watching dogs, just when they form a new pack and treat each other!
Force Free and Fun – Clicker training workshop 2nd March 2014
Presented by CyDRA Education Team in conjunction with the PPG Virtual Event for Force free training and pet care.
Venue: The Fatsa Cafe and Museum, Skarinou, Cyprus
The morning started well – plenty of cloud and no sun! Every participant was given a sheet to make a shade between cars but they were not needed and it only started to warm up shortly before we finished the workshop.
12 dogs and their owners, many observers and most of Julia’s training team were there. We started with some theory and then conditioned the dogs to the clicker. We had many short breaks throughout the morning and also worked the dog for very short sessions and in turn to avoid saturation or over kill!
Poppy – she hit the jackpot
Poppy has found her forver home. She arrived this morning in England.
She hit the jackpot with a wonderful family. Two children, a german pointer and a cat. We were so worried Poppy will be completely scared and hide in a corner somewhere. She did fantastic.
By now she is sleeping on the sofa, and sniffing around the English country side. Lucky little girl. I wish all dogs from here could have the same fortune.
At the airport, she was the calmest one. All the other dogs were crying and howling, she just sat in her crate and then finally laid down and just relaxed. It was amazing to see.
Marco – four paws in search of his great happiness
Today we would like to entrust Marco to your heart.
It is incomprehensible to us that Marco hasn´t been adopted yet. He is only 6 months old of which he lives now already 4 months in the shelter.
Nobody interested in the pretty Marco?
He’s a great guy. He loves people and cuddles. He is willing to learn, attentive and gets along well with other dogs.
Please open your heart for our Marco and give him the chance to start a better life without bars.
Marco would thank you with infinite love.
Dennis has arrived in Germany
Look at our beautiful Dennis. Here are the first photos from his foster home in Germany.
Arrival Friday 28th February 2014 – Flight from Paphos to Hamburg
On Friday 28th February 2014 the following dogs fly off to Hamburg to their new homes: Sam, Sushi, Pumpkin, Narnia, Vicky, Zebedee, Bailey, Delboy, Dennis, Angel and Bonnie.
Some of them have already found a home and the others have found a foster home.
But one thing all have in common: all of them may begin their big journey into happiness.
We wish all dogs a smooth flight and landing. We wish the new families a beautiful Acquaintance time.
YAT´s = Young Animal Trainer
We also have YAT´s (young animal trainer) in our trainer team. This is CyDRA’s Young Animal Trainers Group. We set this up to encourage kids and dogs working together as past experience has taught me that they are a great combination.
There are three members at the moment and as they are only 11 years old that is enough to start with. They are Natalia, Sandra and Abigail. They are all friends and all very sensible children. This is good for us because of the socialisation aspect and good for them as they learn to clicker train and also to look at health, diet and general welfare. They are given a project – they all have a journal to complete. In their journals they can write about anything they do with animals. They can inset photos or drawings they have done themselves. It´s their journal they can plan it any way they like.
The first donation container 2014 is arrived in Cyprus
On the 22nd of February the first donation container of 2014 arrived from Germany.
This time it was a 40′ft container with 21 pallets packed with food, blankets, towels, dog toys and treats, transport boxes etc.
These donation containers get packed and arranged by our sister organization Zypernhunde e.V. in Germany. Many members, volunteers, friends of Zypernhunde e.V. are running non stop all over Germany, to find and collect all these wonderful donations for our Cyprus dogs.
The content of the donation container gets shared between CYDRA’s partner organizations.
Update 25.02.14: Force-free & Fun Dog Training Workshop on Sunday the 2nd March 2014
Are you interested in the Workshop Force-free & Fun Dog Training?
Then you are welcome to read more.
There you can lern, how smart your dog really is at the introduction to Clicker Training.
We would be very happy if many people are interested.
Please come and learn more about the relationship with you and your dog.
Update 25.02.2013:
Are you coming to the Training Event on Sunday? If so please do be there by 9.45 so that we can start promptly at 10. All ‘dog’ places are full now, but if you wish to come along as an observer you are welcome to do so. Parking will be organised as you arrive, so if you are just an observer please let the person on the gate know so that we can direct you to the right parking space. Hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available for sale in the Fatsa Cafe. Don’t forget your dog treats, dog blanket, water and your chair. It promises to be a great event and we look forward to seeing you all there.
Hercules – Finds an unlucky fellow his happiness?
Recently we received a message from a desperate woman.
She found a dog in Analyontas Village 6 months ago. He was in a bad condition and it was him miserable. He was emaciated, very skinny and boned. She found him just as he ran around to searching for food.
After threats that he will be shot by village people bothered only by his presence, the woman had removed him immediately and put him in a private kennel. There he found a place at the moment.
Her financial resources were always scarce and so she accept an offer from a Russian warehouse owner. Hercules should guard his warehouse. But when she came to visit him, she removed him again, because he was in a worse state, both physical and emotional, as he was first found. He was very frightened and skinny. And he was depressed, because he need his freedom.
Two who have made it – Paddy and Oliver are in happiness
Paddy was found before the gates of the PAWS shelter. He was simply tied there, with a garbage and a piece of bread. He was hurt, so he was immediately taken to the vet.
He limped, had a bump on his head and his eye was injured. A X-ray image shows that somebody had shot him in the body. He had several pellets in the body and also behind his eye. Also his front leg was broken by a bullet.
Oliver was rescued from a municipality pound. His brother died there. Oliver was lucky that one of our foster homes could take him home. He had recovered there very well from the strains.
Tales to Tails Therapy Dogs Visit Silverline School
On Friday 14th February 4 Tales to Tails volunteer trainers and their therapy dogs visited Silverline School, Limassol, to extend the dogs’ training as therapy dogs and, at the same time, re-capping on the Be a Tree Program (safety around dogs) delivered to the school last year.
The children were excellent, they behaved beautifully towards us and treated the dogs with respect and most of them remembered how to greet the dogs and how to be quiet and calm around them. The Be a Tree program had not been forgotten by these young people! They also asked some very sensible and interesting questions and we could have stayed longer to talk to them but we had disrupted their classes enough. We were only supposed to be with a couple of classes but word travelled fast and the other classes all wanted to come and see the dogs!
News of Kim´s brother Luke from his foster home in Germany
Look at our beautiful boy Luke.
He arrived on 13 February to his foster home in Germany and allowed to prepare himself for his forever home.
In his foster home he is doing very well, he has acclimated very well.
To his final happiness now missing is a forever home. But we are sure that people will find him soon and he will be adopted quickly. Good luck beauty!
News of Kim from his foster home in Germany
Kim was lucky to get a foster home in Germany. There he is arrived on 13th February. Now he can prepare himself for his forever home. He is so beautiful, inside and outside, that he will certainly quickly adopted.
We have the first photo’s of Kim from his foster home. The other dog Kim plays with is Kuno, also from Cyprus. Kuno’s mom is the foster mom of Kim.
Kuno was found in a wretched state of health. His fur was so matted we had to shave it. Kuno’s owner could even be traced in Cyprus, but he didn´t want him back. He was adopted by Kim’s foster mom and he is now very happy there.
A big Thank You!
Dear Members and Friends,
as you will know we are holding our Annual General Meeting on Sunday 23rd February. It is the ideal opportunity for me, on behalf of the Committee, to give a huge thank you to all the people who have supported us during the last year.
Our thanks go to all the volunteers who help us; at shelters, with fundraising, fostering, training, education and all the other aspects of our work.
We have a great team who work over in Paphos to re-home dogs and are tireless in their efforts to help give better lives to as many dogs as possible.
Our Tales to Tails team have been busy spreading the word about our Education and Training Programmes within schools and other organisations and we are also very grateful to those schools and organisations, who have welcomed us and supported us.
Arrival Saturday 15th February 2014 in Dusseldorf/Germany
Today the beautiful Abby and little Tina are allowed to leave the island and start a better life.
Both dogs move into a foster home and are allowed to prepare himself for her forever home.
We wish them a smooth flight and a good start in their new life.
Arrival Thursday 13th February in Hamburg/Germany
On Thursday 13th February 2014 the following dogs fly off to Hamburg to their new homes: Linus, Marie, Lola, Valentino, Kim und Luke.
Marie and her brother Linus was found early morning on the forecourt of a veterinarian. At night somebody had thrown both over the fence. Both are open-minded little puppies, very playful and typically are good with the other puppies in the kennel.
Marie and Linus are very happy. They didn´t have to wait long for their people. Now, both starts a better life with their own families in Germany. Good luck with them!
Time change Annual General Meeting!
! Due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to change the time of the Annual General Meeting to the afternoon on 23rd at 2.00 p.m. Here is the calling notice for all members: CALLING NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
Thanks for your understanding !
News from our Mommy Tasha
Can you remember the story “Found one dog, came home with ten – a true story“?
Today there is a small update from the Mommy with her puppies.
The mommy has get a name and is now called Tasha. She has born 5 boys and 4 girls.
All of them are so far very well and healthy.
Tasha is a wonderful mom and takes a care about her babies.
It’s a really hart job for her, since the little ones started to get there teeth.
Luckily they also started to eat puppy food now and the don’t depend fully on the milk of the their mom anymore.
Also we give her several hours a day a brake of her pups and she can stay outside with the helpers.
A busy week for some of the Education and Training Team!
Carole, Eamonn, Julie and Ace had a busy few days this week.
We were very pleased to be invited to The Grammar School, Junior, on Wednesday and Friday to join each year group’s assembly.
Wednesday and Friday saw us delivering our Be A Tree presentation where we Spoke to the children about staying safe around their own dogs, friends and relatives’ dogs and also dogs they don’t know. It was amazing how many of the children have at least one dog of their own and so we were able to relate our presentation to the children’s own experiences. We explained how they can assess how a dog is feeling, by recognising signs a dog may perform which shows his discomfort at being approached or interacted with, how to approach a dog and to know when to walk away.
Lea – is looking for a sponsor
Lea is born approx in October 2013 and her high to shoulder is 46cm.
Lea was thrown over the fence of a shelter. She was very thin, anxiously and she hobbled.
The investigation at the vet found that her leg was broken. Lea was immediately operated, in the hope to heal the leg. But unfortunately it is a very old fracture and that is not easy to fix.
Lea has no pain, she only hobbles and doesn´t tread on the leg.
Soon, Lea will be relocating to the shelter. We hope that she will not be bullied by the other dogs there.
Novice Trick Dog certificates for two shelter dogs
Two shelter dogs have received their Novice Trick Dog certificate in January.
Congratulation Dennis and Tilda. They have received their Novice Trick Dog certificate! They are such clever dogs.
In the near future we want to test three other dogs. In the shelters many intelligent dogs are waiting for a new home.