Title: K9 Kennels Open Day
Location: San Miguel road up from TF1
Link out: Click here
Description: Come and see how your generous donations go to help the abandoned and injured animals at the kennels. There will be a BBQ and raffles and lots of fun.
Date: 2010-10-17

Title: K9 Calendar Launch
Location: O Jangles, Mirador complex, Los Cristianos
Description: First chance to see and buy the 2011 calendar for K9 animal charity,plus lots of fun and games.
Date: 2010-11-07

Have you ever seen a skateboarding dog ? Or a pooch making music on a laptop ? Or a pup driving a truck ?

No … ? Well you might be about to make their acquaintance when K9 launch their wooftastic 2011 calendar, featuring puppies from the rescue shelter in a variety of cute, fun and unusual settings.

These images will brighten up anybody´s wall throughout 2011, and the calendar is certain to appeal to a wide market. Everyone loves puppies – especially when they’re as cute as these cheeky chappies !

But K9 need your help to bring these wonderful woofers to a wall near you. K9 receives no funding from any official body, and relies solely on the generosity of the general public, so they really need sponsors to help finance the project.

For a small donation, your business (or even a private individual) can sponsor a month in the calendar with their logo, advertising copy, and a message of support. For an even smaller donation you can share a page.

All profits from the calendar will go towards the ongoing costs of feeding and caring for the 80+ dogs and cats in the K9 kennels at San Miguel.

The photographer is Nikki Attree, who was one of the photographers for the highly acclaimed 2009 K9 calendar of Tenerife entertainers with their pets. Nikki also runs the very popular website: TenerifeDogs.com which is regularly featured in ´Island Connections`, ´Canarian Weekly`, and ´Tenerife News` and the calendar will be sure to get plenty of media attention and on-line publicity.

It’s planned to have 500 calendars printed and to have a Launch Party in the Los Cristianos area in October.

If you’d like to support this wooftastic calendar then please contact Nikki by e-mail or  telephone Neal Paterson or Mikey Braithwaite on 619 678 384 or email Mikey.

But don’t delay – the sponsorship spaces are already being filled up and the K9 pups are going to be Big in 2011 !

According to the news website Canarias24.com, there has been a sharp increase in the number of animals abandoned by their owners in 2009. As the recession has become ‘El Crisis’ more people are finding it difficult to keep looking after their dogs, but with less donations coming in, the hard working rescue shelters are struggling to cope.

In Tenerife there is no government funded RSPCA, so the animal rescue centres are largely run by volunteers and are totally dependent on goodwill and charity.

There are several ways you can help. Firstly by donating money, but perhaps if you can also spare some of your free time, the doggies at K9 and Live Arico love to be taken for a walk and get out of their kennels for a bit. Walking is of course a very good way of keeping fit, so rather than spending lots of money at a gym, why not go for it – Walk a Dog and both you and the dogs get some healthy exercise!

Live Arico (649 001 907) also need volunteers to help with cleaning the kennels and help out in their charity shop in Costa Silenco. They are currently hoping to find a more permanent site for the rescue centre and you can help them achieve this by donating enough to buy a square metre of land for the shelter.

If you have any spare stuff suitable for car boot sales (good quality items only please), K9 (667 638 468) would appreciate them for their regular market stall held every Sunday at Happy Days Bowls & Tennis Club, Garanana, Costa del Silencio from 8am until midday and on the second Saturday of each month outside Shimmers Bar in Callao Salvaje from 10.30 am until 1pm.

Of course if you’re thinking of getting a dog, please consider adopting from one of the rescue shelters on the Island before buying from a pet shop or a breeder. But do also think carefully before taking on a dog. That old cliché “A Dog is For Life …” means that you should be thinking about vet bills, whether you have the time and the dog’s quality of life in general.

If you feel you can’t adopt a dog full time ‘for life’, then perhaps consider fostering. Both K9 and Live Arico are always looking for people to temporarily look after a doggie and give them some TLC for a while until they can be found a permanent home.

Here are some puppies who need a home … They are all aged 9 weeks and will grow to be small-to-medium-sized dogs. The pups are currently being looked after by Pete and Kate who run Poochies Pet  Hotel. They help out Live Arico by fostering some of their abandoned dogs. If you can give one of these cuties a home, ring Pete on 661099365.

According to their website, K9 Animal Refuge currently has 75 animals looking for a home. Knowing that the volunteers there are always stretched to the limit, with probably very little time to keep the website updated,  it is more than possible that this number is sadly out of date.

Even if the number is correct, the monthly cost of keeping that many animals in puppy chow, as well as veterinary bills and sheltering, is eye-watering.

Come along and support this worthy animal charity at a fun Charity Race Night hosted at The Globe,  Costa Del Silencio.

Details are:

Event: Charity Race Night in aid of K9 Animal Refuge

Date: November 26th

Time: 20.00 hrs

In Aid of: K9 Animal Refuge

Where: The Globe Bar, Costa Del Silencio

Tel: Chris or Adam on: 637569770 or 617963814.