To Learn more and find out how you can help check out www.potcakeplace.com/
On a recent trip to Turks and Caicos I had the opportunity to learn more about the potcakes on the island. Specifically my team and I met Jane Parker-Rauw the incredible woman behind Potcake Place K9 Rescue. Jane has been working tirelessly to help control and care for the potcake population on the island and this is a snip-it of her story and how you can help!
POTCAKE PUPPY WALKS
Another way to help our Adoption Center in Providenciales is to take a puppy for a walk!
Our socialization walks are a great way to enable each puppy to have that crucial socialization time, to experience new sights, smells and meet lots of people.
The puppies are all at different stages of their development and you can give them some special time to help them along their way. It might be a cuddle than a walk!
The process is first-come, first-served, and the number of dogs available varies depending on the day.
Walkies only take place in the mornings as it gets hot out there. Afterwards, it is lunch and nap time.
Socialization Walks allow our puppies to become accustomed to being handled by new people and bumping into new situations along the way. Like most people, the puppies get bored staying inside all day and appreciate when lovely people take them out for some exercise.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Daily walks with a puppy are available from 10 am - 12:45, except Sunday
Remember first come, first serve - the queue sometimes starts as early as 9am!
We provide a beach bag with all the essentials for walking a puppy
You will be asked to complete a form and will be assigned a puppy
You have to be over 18 years old to walk a puppy
It is an ideal opportunity to get to know a puppy you might adopt
It is one puppy per group
Once a puppy has had two sets of vaccinations it can be walked by the public
The number of puppies available for walking varies each day
The Adoption Center closes for puppy lunch and nap time from 1pm to 2pm daily
WHAT POTCAKE PLACE K9 RESCUE DOES
Potcake Place K9 Rescue is a registered not for profit charity in the Turks & Caicos Islands, staffed solely by unpaid Volunteers and funded solely by donations.
Potcake Place was started by Jane Parker-Rauw with the mission of reducing the number of homeless potcakes on the island. We still hope that we can work with the government and local community to do so, but it is a continuing challenge. Until we achieve this goal, Potcake Place will continue to rescue and home potcake pups found on the island.
There is no animal shelter in the Turks and Caicos. We look after these pups in our own homes until a permanent home can be found. Our policy is to house them for as long as it takes to find the best home.
This is the only alternative we can see to them starving in the bush, being run over, intentionally poisoned, dying of heartworm, Ehrlicia, parvo or being euthanized. (From their website about page)
RUN BY VOLUNTEERS
Potcake Place is staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers. The volunteers and downright insane helpers, all do this for no pay, sometimes money out of their own pocket, long hours, sadness, heartbreak and utter joy.
Our hardworking team tirelessly cleans the rescue centre, feeds and medicates the puppies, liaises with the public, runs the shop, transport animals to the airport and hotels and everything else to improve the lives of these animals.
WORKING WITH VETS
We work with Vets to ensure that pups get their vaccinations, wormers and other treatments, and arrange health certificates for travel.
If an adoption goes ahead, we help book the pup on the plane, and meet the families at the airport with their new pup. We also spend time finding volunteers to transport the pup if the family are not visiting the island.
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12 авг 2024
