Syros Shelter Greece...
The Syros Stray Animal Shelter on the Beutiful Island of Syros Greece...
K9AID FIRST VISITED THE SYROS STRAY ANIMAL SHELTER IN 2014.
When we first discovered this shelter on a visit to the island, it was one of the worst we’d ever seen. The shelter consisted of a ramshackle structure of bits of wood, tin & concrete, most runs had no roof and when the rain & icy winds arrived, life was a misery for these poor dogs.
As we all know, Greece has been in a desperate situation financially and animals are not top of the government’s priority list. They probably never will be anywhere near the top, so that’s why we had to help this small, struggling shelter.
No-one else was going to help the dogs here. We were their only hope to get through the coming winters & scorching summers without being exposed to the elements day after day. When it rained the ground just became a mud lake & the dogs are cold, wet & miserable. Some of the runs only had canvas tarpaulins, others had nothing.
Donation Details
YOUR DONATIONS helped re-build this shelter. In 2017 the old shelter was demolished and a new one built which houses around 30 to 40 dogs. They dogs now have a shelter above the flooding grounds. They have tiled floors beneath their feet, insulated roofing above their heads and much cleaner & more sanitary surroundings.
The faces of the dogs say it all. No longer are they exposed to the weather & all the misery, they are now safe, dry, cool & warm.
Improvements to this shelter are ongoing by K9Aid. In the Autumn of 2108 eight volunteers from Australia & the UK spent a week at the shelter installing shade & rain blinds to all the runs. A new “container” is now also installed on site to store food and efforts are underway to bring more visitors and volunteers to the shelter.
Many of the k9 residents have been here up to 10 years and a concerted effort is being made to rehome them both within Greece and overseas. Some of the long term residents were recently funded by K9Aid to travel to the UK and Canada & Switzerland to find forever homes.
