Friday, February 17, 2012

The Save A Sato Walkers!

Are you ready to volunteer and help our Satos? come by to our shelter of miracles in San Juan, every saturday from 1 pm to 5 pm, and help us by walking our Satos for a couple of minutes around the park! The Save A Sato shelter right now have over 150 dogs waiting for your help, 90% percent of the dogs on our shelter, have suffered traumatic experience on the streets and this is really helping them to socialize and exercise at the same time! So gather your family, and also some friends, and visit us! email penelopesaveasato@gmail.com for confirmation and also for more info!
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Don Quixote and Dulcinea friends for ever!


The month of February, is known around the world as the month of love and friendship, and what better way to start this month, by presenting to you, the story of Don Quixote and Dulcinea!

These inseparable friends, were rescued on January 19th 2011 by Gloria Marti, president of Save A
Sato Foundation.
Gloria, received a distress call, from a school in the area of San Juan, Puerto Rico, about a dog that was injured and was found on the patio of the school. Upon reaching the area, she found a seriously injured white dog with one of her leg completely shattered, apparently, she was hit by a car and left alone to her fate, although she was not so alone, by her side was a courageous canine friend, which was helping her to heal her wounds, licking them so they wont get infected and barking non stop, so that no one will approach her! Gloria quickly took her and this brave protector to the clinic of Dr. Dominguez in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, where they were cared for, her wound was so severe, that she had to be operated and sadly lost her leg, but this helped her not lose her life, his friend, passed all his tests on the vets and was declared as a healthy dog.


This action of loyalty and protection that provided this dog to her friend, was what led us to name him, Don Quixote, which with courage, remained all the time next to his Dulcinea, protecting her, until she was rescued!

Dulcinea, every day is improving, and is living now in the Shelter of Miracles of Save A Sato Foundation, her
brave friend Don Quixote, is still on her side, they play together every time they have an opportunity, volunteers from Save A Sato, also continue looking for donations, to afford the expenses of Dulcinea's operation and every day that passes, they dream, that this story of love and friendship, have the most happy ending that could be!, finding a "Forever Home" where these good friends live together, forever!
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Dulcinea y Quijote, amigos para siempre!

Ya comenzo el mes de febrero, conocido alrededor del mundo como el mes del amor y la amistad, y que mejor manera de comenzar este mes, que presentandoles a Dulcinea y Quijote!

Estos amigos inseparables, fueron rescatados el pasado 19 de enero del 2011 por Gloria Marti, presidenta de Save A Sato. Gloria, acudio a una llamada de auxilio, en una escuela del area de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por una perrita que se encontraba herida alli. Al llegar al area, encontraron gravemente herida a una perrita blanca con una de sus patitas completamente destrozada, al parecer, esta fue atropellada y dejada sola a su suerte, aunque no estaba tan sola, por que a su lado se encontraba un valiente amigo canino, el cual le ayudaba a curar su herida, lamiendola para que no se infectara y hasta la protegia con ladridos para que nadie se le acercara! Gloria rapidamente llevo a la perrita y a su valiente protector a la clinica del Dr. Dominguez en Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, donde fueron atendidos, la herida que tenia en su patita fue tan grave, que ella tuvo que ser operada y sufrir una amputacion, pero esto la ayudo a no perder la vida, su amigo, paso todas sus pruebas y fue declarado como un perro saludable.

Esta accion de lealtad y proteccion que le brindo este perrito a su amiga, fue lo que lo llevo a nombrarse Quijote, el cual con su valentia, se mantuvo todo el tiempo al lado de su Dulcinea, protegiendola hasta que esta fue rescatada!

Dulcinea, cada dia va mejorando, y se encuentra en el albergue de los milagros de Save A Sato Foundation, su valiente amigo Quijote, se encuentra con ella y juegan juntos cada vez que tienen la oportunidad, los voluntarios de Save A Sato, continuan buscando donaciones, para poder costear los gastos de su operacion y cada dia que pasa, esperan con ilusion, que esta historia de amor y amistad, tenga el mas feliz de los finales, encontrando un "Forever Home" donde estos buenos amigos, vivan juntos, para siempre!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Dear Save A Sato Fan!
Would you like to help the satos from our shelter in a fun, easy and a free way! vote for us everyday on the animal rescue site, shelter challenge! we've been participating on this challenge for the last 3 years without having the opportunity to win the 1st place :(....but we never give up and keep on dreaming of winning, please vote for us everyday from your computer, your smartphone, laptop and tablet. The money from the prize is to continue on the recovery of our 400 and more dogs and cats on the Save A Sato Foundation, shelters! 

Visit the Animal Rescue Site shelter challenge web page by clicking here ***search for Save A Sato country Puerto Rico*** and vote everyday untill the challenge ends march 18 at midnight!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A Girl and her sata, Nivea's happy ending! A rescue from S.A.S

  Hi all at Save a Sato.
This is Nivea and my daughter on Christmas night.  I think Santa was too much for both of them.

 This picture was taken Christmas night, 2011 (Niveas first Christmas). I think Santa was too much for both of them. Nivea was adopted from the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem, MA in August of 2011.   She is the best dog we could have ever imagined to have.  She is so loving.  She loves each of her family members equally.  There are no favorites.  She loves to go on long walks along the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in the warmer months.  She is just getting used to the cold weather here in the northeast.   She has only seen snow once and had noidea what it was.   She ended up eating it.  

Nivea is very proud of her toys especially her bone.  She shows it to everyone that comes in the house and is always willing to share.  Thank you and all of the wonderful people at Save a Sato for saving Nivea so now we can love and enjoy her for the rest of her life.

Gerry

Monday, January 9, 2012

"NEW LEASH ON LIFE" DOG COLLAR AND LEASH DRIVE!


 "NEW LEASH ON LIFE"
SAVE A SATO DOG COLLAR AND LEASH DRIVE!

  If you happen to have any gently used dog collars or leashes, please
  consider donating them to the "New Leash on Life - Save a Sato Dog Collar &
  Leash Drive!" These donated collars and leashes will be used on dogs living
  at Save a Sato as they await their forever home! Don't have any old
  leashes or collars - buy some new ones! Go to your local pet supply store
  and rummage through the clearance or sale bins and buy new ones!! If
  you're an online shopper you can buy sale and clearance
  collars/leashes and have them sent directly to us - address below.
  Don't forget you can also check out second-hand and thrift stores!

  A collar and leash is imperative when they get taken on walks by the
  volunteers - often times the collar and leash is removed from one dog to be
  used on the next. There is always a shortage!

  Consider this one of the first steps on their "New Leash on Life."

  Collars: All sizes, all colors, buckle or snap, please make sure they
  aren't broken - it would be tragic to lose a sato on a walk.
  Leashes: all sizes, all colors - make sure the clasp works and isn't
  broken. Please, no leashes that have been chewed or ripped.

Mail leashes directly to Save a Sato at: Save a Sato Foundation
c/o Save A Sato
P.O box 37694
San Juan P.R
00937-0694

 or mail them to Yvette Pina http://www.facebook.com/enzothesato
 Enzo the Sato's mom), she will deliver them when she visits Save a Sato
  in May 2012:
Yvette Pina
PO BOX 0737
 Chicago, IL 60690
If you are in the Chicago area, send an email and we can arrange a drop-off, Visit http://enzothesato.wordpress.com/ for direct email info

Monday, December 19, 2011

Volunteers, making our satos happy this holidays!

Colegio La Merced
      The week has been a happy one for our Satos at the shelter of Miracles from Save A Sato Foundation! We have received the visit to the shelter of two groups, La iglesia adventista de Guaynabo and also a nice group from Colegio la Mereced, these two groups helped us to get our satos' cages clean, get some of them bathed, clean around and also they brought food, newspapers and supplies for the Satos.
Iglesia Adventista de Guaynabo

 Thanks for your help and your time, thanks for making our satos be happy this holidays!
Visit our Facebook page to watch more pics! www.facebook.com/saveasato

Happy Holidays!!
Donations for the satos!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Enzo the sato challenges you to guess his breed!

Our friend Enzo the Sato, recently had a visit to the the vet, and wanted to know a little bit about his past! he took a DNA test, but the vet is a little bit busy this week, so he is taking a little bit too long with the results! Enzo is so anxious to know about his sato past, that he is challenging you to guess his breed, and at the same time donate $5 to his brothers and sisters at Save A Sato, if you guess his breed, Enzo will personally send you a little appreciation gift to you! Visit  http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/enzo/guessmybreedenzothesato/  to get more details about this wonderful gesture to help Save A Sato, from Enzo and the Pina family!

Enzo the Sato

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A dream slowly coming true!!



During the past couples of years, The Shelter of Miracles from Save A Sato, has become the  main shelter of the foundation, receiving and helping more than 500 hundred dogs per year, and flying them to partner shelters outside the island, so these dogs can find their "forever home" in the States. This shelter survives only by the charity of the good people from the United States and Puerto Rico who take the time and will, to donate money and to send by mail, supplies for the care of the dogs.

During all this years the Shelter of Miracles has suffered the consequences of living under a tropical weather, the sun, the wind, the high humidity and sometimes the worst! Hurricanes! All the damages suffered during all this years has been fixed by "patching up" parts of the shelter with materials donated by the people or some companies that from time to time give a little something to the shelter to help.

All this years has been rough for the shelter, a decrease of donations has been occurring because of the bad economy around the world, also a big increase of homeless pets has been ocurring during the last couple of years in Puerto Rico. The goverment doesn't care about organizations like us on our island, although we have been erraditacating a big problem, they dont even take time to visit, recognize or help.

Thanks to different groups like Vision 68 of Puerto Rico and some anonymous volunteers that takes the time to get help and donations for the shelter like our friend "La Lola" (www.lolavibe.com) our dream of renewing the shelter is becoming true!



The motivational group vision 68 has been working hard in getting donations for the shelter, and also getting construction materials, they started to renew our shelter last month, and they are planning to rebuild the entire shelter over the next year, because of this, the Save A Sato foundation, has been sending dogs to our partners shelters in the U.S.A every week, to protect them from the noises, dust and any harm that they could suffer while the shelter is being renewed. We have spent all our donation money on this flights! over $1,500 dollars weekly, although is difficult to feed 150 dogs everyday with a low income on donations, we are trying our best by selling shirts, stickers on our webpage and asking mayor companies of dog and cat food for donations, thank God they are helping us.




The satos are happy, new cages has been constructed with lots of space for them and even beds has been added, these beds has been donated over the years by the good people like you. A lot more has to be done, we hope to  keep receiving this helps, to keep working on the care of our dogs, and cats.

We still count with you and your good heart, if you wish to keep helping the Save A Sato foundation, you can donate by clicking on the Paypal box on the left of this blog, also by visiting our main page www.saveasato.org, in there you can donate via Paypal or buy for the satos in our Sato Shop, also you can send any kind of contribution either check, or dog and cats supplies by mail to The Save A Sato Foundation, P.O box 37694 San Juan, P.R 00937-0694

Thursday, November 17, 2011

A letter from the heart and a happy ending for Maria!

Maria, now Mama Mia June 2011

Dear Gloria:


Above is a picture of Maria who came from your shelter, her new name became Mama Mia when we adopted her on June 16, 2011 from Worcester MA Animal Rescue League. I found the letter in her packet that explained to us where she came from, and what her life in Puerto Rico was like prior to your wonderful shelter saving her.

I can’t imagine what would have become of Maria had your support team not found her and brought her here? Our family is truly blessed by her presence.

In February of this year we had to put our beloved pointer Lucky down due cancer, he was 11 years old, and was a pointer mix that we saved from a local shelter when he was just 10 weeks old. We loved Lucky and never thought we would ever find another pet so kind and gentle…..until now, Mia selected our son when he walked into the kennel that was keeping her. My son told me that when he entered all of the dogs were barking except Mia, Mia came to him wagging her tail and making my son know this was the dog for us.

I was pleasantly surprised when my husband sent me a picture of this beautiful dog, and it reminded me so much of our precious love…. What where the chances of us of finding another pointer mix when we went looking? We believe in our hearts God had something to do with this miracle, and now knowing she came from the Miracle Shelter, well that’s just makes her more special.

She found out how to swim pretty quickly the other day, when she decided to jump off the boat! We of course jumped in to save her not really knowing if she would sink or swim. It was pretty funny thankfully she swam! She has a lot of new toys, a wonderful bed to sleep and she is learning new tricks daily. She’s very smart, we are training her to tell us with bells when she wants to go out, she’s almost house broken already, but still has a few accidents, and I’ve seen her wag her tail a few times while dreaming… We are hoping Mia loves her new home, and new family.

Although she has only spent a few days with her, we already feel she is a huge part of our family. We promise to love, and care for her all of her life. We can’t be more than happy with how she adapted to our humble home.

Please let everyone know who cared for Maria that she is in a loving home and we will raise her to be the best dog we can. She will want for nothing, and we will spoil her each and every second she is awake.

We have a history saving pets, one at a time, and we will do our best to keep Mia happy and healthy all the days of her life.

Please know we appreciate all you and your staff do for animals like Mia… God bless each and every one of you.



Thank you and God Bless

The Monahans

Linda, Stephen & Ryan Monahan

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A happy ending for Maia!!

Maia in her halloween costume, 2nd place winner!

This was an email sent to one of the volunteers of Save A Sato "La Lola" from Nancy Leray, a proud mom of a Puertorican Sato!

Hi Lola, it's been very exciting to watch the shelter changes taking place on facebook! How I wish we could be there to help out!! Here is a picture of Maia dressed up for Halloween. I'm not big into dressing her up, but the
winners got gift certificates to the pet store so we gave it a try. She won 2nd place and we won $25!! Of course we are using the money to buy her new toys and treats! She is a very sweet, happy dog and we love her so much!


Hope all is well with you. Please say hello to everyone from us and give Gloria a big hug!
Nancy

Thank you Nancy for writing us! we love to receive this kind of emails!! If anyone out there would like to share stories about your Sato, from Save A Sato, Puerto Rico, or any other organization, please write us to info@saveasato.org or Webmaster@saveasato.org