Scooby Projects

We are always working on improvements of the facilities in our shelter. It always depends on the available money we have. Normally this is not much, so we mainly depend on sponsors. We have a long list with target projects, and our new idea is to offer this to you, our supporter.

On this page, we will offer you the projects we have in mind, an explanation and an estimate of the expected costs for this project. Of course it is almost impossible to know in advantage how much money we exactly need, but based on our experience with recent projects, we can offer quite an adequate estimate.

The excitement for you: if you make a donation to one of our bank accounts, a piece of you will be part of this project, and you can see exactly where your money is spent on! You will find more information in the project files.

The first project at Scooby:
An old dog’s home in the garden paddock

Estimated costs: 9,500 Euros
Interim score: 6,850 Euros

During the years we lost quite a lot of old dogs, dogs that spent nearly their entire life at Scooby without ever getting to know how it feels to live in a homely surrounding and atmosphere. Though knowing we did our best to make their lives as good as possible it saddens us every time. Since we can’t force the people to adopt certain dogs, we decided, the change has to happen on site. And this is our first project: a retirement home in the garden paddock.

Not a wooden one, but a solid brick-built one, app. size 5 x 7 meters , so about 35 square meters which also provides better protection against the bitter cold in winter for it’s not the best for old dog’s bones. One big room with sofas, pictures on the wall, curtains at the windows and old carpets on the floor, so it will look like a real living-room. And our idea is to also make it a meeting point for the volunteers where they can have coffee and talk. With a table and chairs, a coffeemaker, a sink for getting water for coffee, doing the dishes and for cleaning the floor.

This is a nice alternative to the kitchen and will ensure the dogs get a lot of attention and human companionship. In the picture below you can see the house we have now in the garden and you can see that we urgently need a new one anyway. Because in the other one you see how it always looks after the wind has been blowing hard. It needs to get fixed every time and the quality of the material gets worse and worse.

It would be great if we don’t need to employ too many paid workers so we have to pay mainly for the material. So, you men, most of our volunteers are women but we need you, too!! If you want to discover this wonderful feeling of satisfied tiredness which results from hard work for something that is really worth it, please get in touch and so that we can use your skills! The dogs will be very grateful, we can assure you that, and we also would appreciate your helping hands very much. We have known for a long time that this project would be an enormous gain to our shelter, because it increases the quality of life for many dogs that really deserve it.

But of course we need money to buy the material, like concrete, insulating bricks, tiles, windows, a door, a roof, cables for the electricity and pipes. Our goal is to get the whole furnishing for free and we think we will succeed in that. So you can support the very worthwhile project by a donation for the material or by coming over to Scooby and giving us a hand. It would be wonderful if we could get it ready within the next six months because the next cold winter is for sure to come!!! So if you want to support this project, please make a donation on the account that’s most convenient to you or via PayPal, with reference “Old Dogs Home”, so we can count them together easily and can keep you posted about the progress.

And… we don’t start at zero because, with the great support of her dear friend, Daniela Dienst, Christiane could already hand over 1000,-€ to us for this project!

The Scooby Team

If you decide to make a donation:

• Please use one of our bank accounts, mentioned below.
• Narrative of the payment: your name + old dogs.
• Please notify us by sending an e-mail to de@scoobymedina.com and mention your name, amount, the name of the project and the bank account you donated to.
• This will help us to thank you, and to add your name to the list, that will be attached to the project you donated for, to show our visitors that you helped us realizing another dream.
• For further information about your help at Scooby especially for this project, please send an e-mail to de@scoobymedina.com.

Our bank account information is:

SPAIN
Scooby
Bankinter
Valladolid
Nr. 0103853927
IBAN: ES29 0128 3467 71 0103853927
BIC: BKBKESMM

BELGIUM
Scooby
Baarle Hertog
Nr: 733-0462538-72
IBAN: BE38 7330 4625 3872
BIC: KREDBEBB

NETHERLANDS
Scooby
Oosterhout
Nr. 11.52.46.274
IBAN: NL52 RABO 0115 2462 74
BIC: RABONL2U

For U.K. citizens, cheques can be made payable
to Greyhound Compassion and sent to:

Greyhound Compassion
PO Box 959
St. Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 9HP

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Future Projects:

• New animal hospital
• New quarantine facilities for the cats
• Brick houses for in the paddock