In order to avoid pictures like the one below, we created the Subsidised Neutering Project and Responsible Pet Ownership!

Έχουμε ήδη βοηθήσει να στειρωθούν και να τσιπαριστούν 586 σκυλιά! Σκοπός μας δεν είναι να περάσουν όλα τα σκυλιά από το πρόγραμμα μας αλλά να αναπτυχθεί αίσθημα ευθύνης και να υπάρξει κατανόηση της θετικότητας της στείρωσης!

We have already helped neuter and microchip 586 dogs!

Our goal is not for all dogs to go through our project but for a sense of responsibility to evolve and understanding of the benefits of neutering!

Ας βοηθήσουμε να έρθει η μέρα εκείνη που δεν θα υπάρχουν αβοήθητα πλασματάκια στους δρόμους…

Let’s help to bring that day when there are no helpless animals on the roads…

Ανθρωπιστική Διαπαιδαγώγηση είναι η διδαχή της δικαιοσύνης, του σεβασμού και της συμπόνοιας προς κάθε είδος ζωής, ανθρώπων, ζώων και του περιβάλλοντος.

Humane Education is the teaching of justice, respect and compassion for all life, including humans, animals and the environment. (ENG below)

Τον τελευταίο καιρό υπάρχει ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον για την ανθρωπιστική διαπαιδαγώγηση και λαμβάνουμε email από την Ελλάδα αλλά και το εξωτερικό για παροχή πληροφοριών και συμβουλών, κάτι το οποίο δείχνει μια κοινωνική αλλαγή που απ’ότι φαίνεται, θα επισπευθεί! Πολύ θετικά νέα θα έλεγα!

Εάν χρειάζεστε οποιεσδήποτε πληροφορίες για την ανθρωπιστική διαπαιδαγώγηση, επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο info@FilozoikiKritis.gr και θα χρησιμοποιήσω τις σπουδές μου πάνω στο θέμα αυτό αλλά και την πολύχρονη εμπειρία μου για να σας βοηθήσω!

Κορέντζα Βλαστού

Πρόεδρος και Διπλωματούχος ειδικός Ανθρωπιστικής Διαπαιδαγώγησης (CHES)

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar – το να μάθεις σε ένα παιδί να μην πατήσει μια κάμπια είναι τόσο σημαντικό για το παιδί όσο και για την κάμπια

There has recently been increased interest in humane education and we have been receiving emails from Greece and abroad requesting information and advice. This shows social change and it seems that it will be achieved even faster soon! Quite positive news I would say!

If you need any information on humane education, please contact us info@CretanAnimalWelfare.org and I will use my studies on this topic and experience to help you!

Kerenza Vlastou

President and Certified Humane Education Specialist (CHES)

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Emergency Veterinarians are available

Weekends/bank holidays:

9.00 – 14.00 and 17.30 – 21.00

Tel. for emergencies 6945518212

Η μεγαλύτερη γάτα που καταγράφηκε επίσημα είχε βάρος 21,2 κιλά και η μικρότερη 1,36 κιλά!

Και εγώ φωνάζω την δικία μου «χοντρούλα» και είναι μόλις 4,2 κιλά….

Τώρα καταλαβαίνω πόσο άδικη είμαι μαζί της…..

Municipality of  Hersonisos soon starting CNR of stray dogs as part of a long term plan to run humane education, raise awareness of dog owners, actively engage in law enforcement and create a temporary shelter!

Είμαστε στην ευχάριστη θέση να σας ανακοινώσουμε  ότι σύντομα ο Δήμος Χερσονήσου θα υπογράψει σύμβαση με κτηνίατρο της περιοχής για την περισυλλογή, στείρωση και επανατοποθέτηση των αδέσποτων σκύλων!

Η κίνηση αυτή είναι μόνο η αρχή ενός προγράμματος που σκοπό έχει να επεκταθεί σε ενημερώσεις ιδιοκτητών, εφαρμογή του νόμου, σχολικές παρουσιάσεις και δημιουργία κυνοκομείου.

Θα θέλαμε να ευχαριστήσουμε όσους βοήθησαν ώστε να γίνει εφικτό το πρόγραμμα αυτό και να ζητήσουμε από όλους τους ιδιοκτήτες ζώων την απαιτούμενη υπευθυνότητα (περίπατος μόνο με λουρί, στείρωση και μικροτσιπ, καθαρισμός περιττωμάτων κτλ).

Ο σκύλος μπορεί να μάθει να αντιλαμβάνεται απο 60 έως 100 λέξεις!!!

Εγώ όταν προσπάθησα να μάθω ρώσικα, κατάφερα να μάθω λιγότερες…..

Volunteers had fun, guests were pleasantly surprised and valuable fundraising will help our work!

Thank you once again to the Cretan Malia Park Hotel and here’s to a good summer season!

In the run up to the Olympics of Athens in 2004, most media, foreign and Greek, were portraying the Greek officials as monsters who were preparing to exterminate all the stray animals…

This of course did not happen, otherwise, chubby old Sasa would no longer be with us. I befriended her in 2003 in Heraklion center. A tall, lanky and playful girl full of joy! She disappeared from the streets before the Games came to town but soon after, reappeared happy, healthy and with no signs of having been poisoned!

This is Sasa now, so many years later, sitting outside the Municipal Building where I attend meetings regarding the shelter so that even more dogs can be neutered, vaccinated and if not adopted, released again.

She is overweight because she gets fed by everyone and there is also a lady in town who cares for her and her other furry friend (as well as cats) and invites them into the building to sleep on cold winter nights!

So if you see Sasa wobbling around town, be assured that they have been, and still are, doing the best they can for the strays!

Today, now-fixed Little Kitten rules the all-male colony at the hotel. She is very lucky to have lush hunting grounds, hardly any car traffic and a hotel that cares.  And the owner of the hotel has a great mouser living on his property.  It sounds trite, but this is another TNR “win-win:”: a cat who has a potentially healthy and safe future and fewer future, suffering cats for the neighborhood.

And now for that female calico kit further down the street….

Without any training or experience, we had a few TNR successes during our first year, including a female cat that wasn’t (female, that is!) and the wildest cat of them all, Maman, not long after she had gotten pregnant again. We also rescued a tiny, dying puppy from the side of a road near our house and after way too many dead ends contacted a local group that ultimately found him to a forever home in Germany.

And we had some heart-breakers:  two of “our” cats were killed by hunting dogs, two died from distemper and another two disappeared over last winter when were back inToronto.

Returning home to Crete earlier this spring, we decided to keep our TNR activities going, and Little Kitten became our first “candidate” of the season.  We slowly gained her trust and she started to come when called. As the days went by, we got to know some of the workers at the hotel and learned that one of the cleaning ladies tries to keep the cats fed.  The hotel’s owner gave us free rein to do whatever we wanted with the cats on the property.