Thank You! Migdalia Negron, Scotiabank and the World's Best 10k Race!

Migdalia Negron, Gerente de Distrito de Ventas y Servicios del
Scotiabank en San Juan, represento a la Fundacion Save a Sato durante
la carrera de 10 Kilometros, en el Puente Moscoso, en Puerto Rico. 

Con la cooperacion de los empleados, suplidores y clientes de las
sucursales bajo su supervison, Migdalia en corto tiempo lograron
recaudar $8,000 para la organizacion. Un cheque conmemorativo fue
presentado a la organizacion a voluntarios de la organizacion el dia
de la carrera.

Troy Wright, el CEO del Scotia Bank y Rafael Acosta Presidente del
Comite Organizador de la Carrera Internacional. durante una breve
ceremonia en las oficinas del Scotia Bank en San Juan, presentaron a
todos los gerentes y supervisores que "corrieron" o caminaron por 10
organizaciones sin fines de lucro.  El Sr. Wright indico que el Scotiabank llevaba 100 anos en Puerto Rico y como parte de la comunidad
puertorriqueña, el banco decidió coordinar una campana pro fondos para
ayudar a unas 10 organizaciones sin fines de lucro.


Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro fueron escogidas por los
representantes del banco entre varias que fueron nominadas por los
empleados de cada sucursal.  Cada  supervisor escogio la organizacion
por la cual correria para levantar fondos, asi como representar
durante la carrera.  Las organizaciones sin fines de lucro que fueron
agraciadas por los esfuerzos de los empleados del Scotia Bank fueron:
La Cruz Roja Americana de Puerto Rico, La Asociación de Diabética de
Puerto Rico, La Asociación del Corazón, SER de Puerto Rico,
Cuidadanos del Karso, Asociación del Althzeimer de Puerto Rico, Fondita
de Jesus,  Asociacion Pequeño Josua, La Asociación del Cancer de
Puerto Rico y la Fundacion Save a Sato.  Cada una de estas
organizaciones recibieron entre $7,000 a $12,000.

Scotia Bank Raises $8,000 for Save a Sato


Migdalia Negron, District Sales and Service Manager for Scotia Bank
represented the Save a Sato Foundation during the 10 Kilometer
International Race on the Moscoso Bridge in Puerto Rico.  With the
cooperation of employees, suppliers and clients of the bank branches
under her supervision, Migdala in a very short time raised $8,000 for
the Foundation.

A check representing the donation raised was presented to SAS
volunteers the day of the race.


Troy Wright, Scotia Bank CEO and Rafael Acosta, President of the 10K
International Organizing Committee for the bank, during a brief
ceremony at the bank offices in Hato Rey, presented all the managers
and bank supervisors that either walked or ran for one of 10 non
profit organizations selected.  Wright indicated that the Scotia Bank
has been part of the Puertorican community for the last 100 years, and
as such they decided to coordinate a fund raising event to help 10
non-profit organizations.

The non profit organizations that were chosen by the bank
representatives were selected from various organizations that were
nominated by employees of the different bank branches.  Each bank
supervisor chose the organization for which they would be working to
raise funds and actively represent during the 10 Kilometer race.  The
10 non profit organizations selected were: The American Red Cross of
Puerto Rico,  The PR Diabetic Association, The PR Heart Association,
SER of Puerto Rico, Citizens for the Protection of the Karst
Mountains, the Altheimer Association of PR, Fondita de Jesus, Small
Joshuah Association, PR Cancer Association and the Save a Sato
Foundation.  Each organization received between $7,000 and $12,000.

Save A Sato today! Save Pablo's Life! Sentenced to Death Row

Click to save Pablo's life

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/help-save-pablo/ Click and sign this petition to save Pablo's life sentenced to death row in Connecticut.

This is a petition to save the life of Pablo, our very special 25 lb. black and tan Sato... not just any dog, but truly a part of our family. We rescued Pablo from the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2005 where he was born and lived as a stray for at least a year before my daughter Samantha found him. For the past five years, Pablo has been a wonderful asset to our household. When at home, he is well behaved, playful, loyal, and full of personality. His presence in our life is a huge source of joy and comfort for us- we adopted him a year after my 19 year old son Robert died due to a congenital heart condition. Raising and spending time with Pablo has been one of the most important parts of my and Samantha's grieving process. For us, he is what is referred to by professionals as an "emotional support dog." Due to Pablo living as a stray in an area where wild dogs are often abused, he has had temperament issues in certain situations. Now Pablo is on Death Row and unless we can convince the powers that be that he deserves to live, he will be gone to doggy heaven in a week ( April 1, 2011 :( Pablo is 6 years old now and has led a pretty interesting and meaningful life so far and we just aren't ready to let it be over yet.
  There is an ongoing overpopulation problem in Puerto Rico with dogs living on the streets (http://www.saveasato.org/ ) but Pablo seemed just like any ordinary affectionate pet from the moment we first met him. We took him to the veterinarian in Puerto Rico for his shots and got him his own plane ticket on another airline back to Connecticut because the plane we were on wouldn't allow pets. 

Click to save Pablo

  In June 2004, we suffered the tragic, unexpected sudden loss of my 19 year old son and my daughter's only brother Robert due to a congenital heart condition (http://www.DinotoFuneral.com , obituaries, Urbani). If he had had an operation in time he would have lived but sadly things didn't work out that way.

   Samantha and I  were too sad to stay in Connecticut and try to have a "normal" Christmas holiday the following year, so took a vacation to Puerto Rico instead of having Christmas at all. Finding Pablo and bringing him home to become part of our family was perhaps the first time either of us had felt any sort of happiness or comfort during that very difficult time, and also why we have become extraordinarily attached to him.

  Within the first month after Pablo came to live in Connecticut with us he nearly died from a life-threatening heartworm infestation, common among Puerto Rican rescues, but our friends and family managed to raise over $5,000 for the major heart surgery and 3 subsequent procedures performed by Tufts Veterinary Hospital for Small Animals in Mass. which saved his life (again). He had been given only a 30% chance of survival but we were not about to give up hope. We were not given this chance to save my son, and while many people would say  "Pablo's just a dog" it didn't feel that way to us, under the circumstances, and it doesn't now either.

 Pablo did well with the treatments and has been in very good  health since his surgery at Tufts, although in the beginning he had some minor aggression issues with being territorial about his food, etc. The veterinarians that cared for him never muzzled him and told us he was a great dog and that with time he would outgrow the minor "fearful" or "protective" behaviors that had been ingrained in him on the streets. With loving supervision he has become a very good family pet with a happy, playful disposition. He gets along well with people and other dogs that visit (we also have another small rescue dog that lives with us who misses him very much! ), although he has shown some signs of being "territorial" on occasion when people walk by our home, or when he feels threatened in some way by a stranger within our home.

 After escaping a few times and scaring the neighbors with his barking we built a large pen in our yard which, ever since, he has only gotten out on one or two occasions, without incident.

 During the past several months there were a couple situations where Pablo felt threatened by a person he did not know (which I was told by a trainer is normal in certain situations) and he did end up biting one of our friends that was visiting in our home. This raised serious cause for concern and we began researching types of dog aggression and started working on different solutions including  looking for a good animal behaviorist as well as keeping him inside a locked room when we had a lot of company, just to be on the safe side.

 Unfortunately late on the night  of Dec 4th, 2010, Pablo managed to get out of the house when some company was leaving, without knowing until the next morning that he had been out for a few hours in the cold and had bitten two of our neighbors, a man that delivers papers and a woman who is an avid walker in our neighborhood, apparently unprovoked except for his own basic instinct to protect our home.

   I feel extremely sorry that Pablo bit these two innocent people, and understand that it was my responsibility as his owner to keep him away from people in the event that this might happen, and was not their fault at all. I regret not having had a better system in place by then to have prevented him from getting loose that night. My neighbors were not seriously injured but a dog bite is not something anyone should have to suffer, regardless, and anyone that owns a dog that has even mild aggressive tendencies needs to have a secured environment to protect people from getting attacked whether the dog is provoked or not ; sadly hind sight is 20/20- BUT- I don't believe that killing Pablo is the solution to the problem! My neighbors do not agree, however, and Pablo has been incarcerated ever since at the Groton Animal Control Facility , awaiting a hearing for the purpose of an appeal on a  "Disposal Order"  in Hartford with the Commissioner of Agriculture and a panel of other professionals, standard procedure with reported dog bites.

  We are devastated by the thought of Pablo being sentenced to death. He has the personality of a child and with some work with a trainer he will overcome his unwanted behavior.   We love him as if he were an actual member of our family.

 There will be a panel of people at the hearing including my neighbors and their attorneys that do not know or love Pablo that only see him as a "vicious" or "dangerous" dog and want to see him euthanized. They want me to prove that I can prevent him from ever biting anyone again, which I believe is possible, by either allowing him to come back to live with us under new circumstances, or as a last resort by sending him to a dog farm in Texas that takes animals in situations such as this to let them live out their lives that has agreed to let Pablo come live there.

 If he is allowed to come back to our home we will agree to completely fence in our yard, as well as build a second door and entryway in front of our existing doors which would prevent any future escapes into the neighborhood. If this is not enough we will install an electric fence as well. We would also agree to keep Pablo contained in his own room whenever we have guests, and or keep him muzzled. Whatever is recommended we will do.

 We were told Pablo would be "in jail" until next Christmas (2011) before we could get a hearing. Recently somehow they managed to speed up the process and now the hearing is scheduled for April 1, 2011, just one week from today! We are currently working on getting a support team together to attend the hearing  including a veterinarian, an animal behaviorist, and an attorney. We would like to have a petition with as many signatures as possible to bring with us to the hearing.

By signing this petition you agree that putting our best friend and companion Pablo to death is not the solution to this problem, and that his life should be spared. If you have any friends that work with animals such as veterinarians, animals trainers, PETA, etc. that will sign it please share the link.
Thank you!!

Robin, Samantha and Pablo

Date La Vuelta y ayuda a Save A Sato

Date la vuelta este proximo domingo 27 de marzo del 2011, por nuestro centro de acopio "La Respuesta" localizado en el 1600 de la Avenida Fernandez Juncos en Santurce de 11 am a 4 pm y ayuda a los cientos de perritos y gatitos de Save A Sato, donando articulos de primera necesidad para estos, voluntarios estaran listos, para que te des la vuelta y recojer los articulos, sin que tengas que bajarte del auto, ni pasar trabajo alguno. Cualquier ayuda es grandemente agradecida

University of Central Florida visits Save A Sato

University of Central Florida students

For the second consecutive year a group of students from the University of Central Florida visited Save a Sato's  "Shelter of Miracles" during their spring break vacation to help out Gloria Marti (the shelter manager and president of Save A Sato) and give some love and affection to our much-deserving satos.  


These students travel annually to different countries to give a helping hand to different organizations which in some way provide a service to their communities.  This year a group of ten students, lead by Marlon Gutierrez, decided to help Save A Sato once again.  While most university students use their springbreak to visit family or just have a good time and get away from the stress of their studies; this group of students came to Puerto Rico and worked for four consecutive days at the shelter, and they got their hands dirty and did some HARD work.  

During their time here the UCF group cleaned cages, put labels on each cage to identify the dogs, bathed, feed, and played with the satos.  

One of the UCF students, Cristina Resto, who grew up and lived in Puerto Rico until the age of 11, commented to us of how proud she was to be able to come to Puerto Rico after 8 years and volunteer for an organization that takes in hundreds of abandoned dogs and gives them a chance to be adopted into loving homes.  She seemed surprised by the amount of dogs that Save A Sato has and how people donate their time and even the very houses they live in to help take in satos off of the streets.  Cristina also mentioned that all of the pets that her family has are spayed or neutered, including her own Chihuahua, Nany.  

Rachel and Shane, two other volunteers from UCF, commented to us that they were surprised by the number of dogs that wander the streets here and that this is not something that they see living in Florida.  The students were able to rescue a stray dog that was found on the way to the shelter, which they named Princesa. 

Princess was rescued during their visit, she was found near Teodoro Moscoso Bridge

Unfortunately she has heartworm, which will need to be treated so that she can get healthy and have a chance to be adopted by a family that will give her all of the love she deserves.  Thanks to all of the volunteers from the University of Central Florida, Marlon, Cristina, Rachel, Shane, Juan, Yselande, Rachel K., Stephanie, Reema, and Madison, for volunteering your time at our shelter and for "saving a sato".

Puppy abandoned in a box on February

Por segunda vez consecutiva un grupo de 10 alumnos de la Universidad Central de Florida, visita a el Albergue De Los Milagros de la Fundacion Save A Sato, en sus vacaciones de springbreak, para darle una mano a Gloria Marti (presidenta de la fundacion) en las arduas tareas que se tienen que hacer diariamente en este albergue. Estos estudiantes anualmente, viajan a diferentes paises, para dar una mano amiga, voluntariamente a diferentes organizaciones, que de alguna manera u otra ayudan civilmente a una comunidad. 

Gloria applying vaccines

Este año, este grupo de estudiantes, bajo el liderazgo de Marlon Gutierrez, decidio ayudar nuevamente a Save A Sato, en arduas tareas, durante toda una semana, al contrario de otros universitarios que utilizan sus vacaciones de springbreak para visitar a sus familiares o distraerse en actividadesas mas divertidas para liberarse unos dias del gran esfuerzo que conlleva estudiar a nivel universitario.
 
Una de las estudiantes del CFU, Cristina Resto, la cual crecio y vivio en Puerto Rico hasta la edad de los 11 años, nos comento del orgullo que sentia de poder viajar a Puerto Rico luego de 8 años y poder donar su tiempo en ayudar a una organizacion el cual le provee un bien social a la comunidad, dandole albergue y ayudando a cientos de perros desamparados; Se mostro sorprendida al ver la cantidad de perros que alberga Save A Sato, y como personas donan su tiempo y hasta sus casas, para brindarle ayuda a todos estos animales, Cristina tambien nos comento que todas las mascotas que tiene en su casa, estan esterilizadas incluyendo a Nany, su chihuahua.

Rachel y Shane, estudiantes tambien de la UCF, nos comentaron que han quedado sorprendidos de ver la cantidad de animales que merodean por la calles de la isla, y que en la Florida es poco comun ver que esto suceda. Durante la visita de estos estudiantes al albergue ayudaron a limpiar las jaulas de los perros, a identificarlos con letreros con cada uno de sus nombres, bañarlos, alimentarlos y jugar con ellos y hasta ayudaron a hacerles pruebas del corazon y otras enfermedades. Los estudiantes ademas lograron rescatar a un perro desamparado al cual le llamaron, Princesa, triztemente esta perrita rescatada sufre de "heartworms", condicion la cual con mucho esfuerzo la Fundacion Save A Sato, estara supliendo las ayudas y medicamentos necesarios para poder salvarle la vida y asi hacer que esta perrita luego tenga la oportunidad de ser adoptada por una familia, el cual le provea amor y mas cuidado que la familia anterior que quizas tuvo y la abandono en las calles de Puerto Rico.

Gracias a los estudiantes de la Universidad Central de Florida, Marlon, Cristina, Rachel, Shane, Juan, Yselande, Rachel K., Stephanie, Reema, y Madison, por su tiempo e interes y por Salvar a un Sato.

The UCF students donated their shoes for the next volunteers that comes to clean the shelter!

and one pair for the puppies to play! :)

Its time to vote for Save A Sato!

The Animal Rescue Site Shelter Challenge Site

Save A Sato is on 2nd place, and we have only 16 days left! Will you vote everyday for Save A Sato and help hundreds of dogs in the shelter? Will you share this with your friends and tell them to vote? Will you be the superhero that helps Save a Sato to win this contest?

We know you will!!

click the picture, search for Save A Sato, country: USA state PR and vote!!

Thanks to all the people that has been voting and has kept us in 2nd place for the last 2 months!!

Save A Sato Fans!! Chaaarge!

Gloria Marti & The Save A Sato Foundation on Primera Hora 2/26/2011

Compromise of love that last forever:

when you adopt a dog on a shelter, you save two lives, his and the next dogs that takes his place.

Teresa Canino

Primera Hora

Nobody pays her for the job that she does. Only a few knows of her hard daily routine. Gloria Marti, barely rest. Although, she works happy, believing that the work that she do everyday is a big compromise with the hundreds of dogs that she rescue.

They have come from every part of the island, in the hands of strangers, from rescue partners, others has even been tied up and left in front of the shelter. Some others has been picked up from the streets by herself and with the help of a few volunteers from The Save A Sato Foundation, they has been cured, feed and offered a secure shelter till they get adopted.

Marti, dreams with the day that finally the goverment stablish a law, that force puertorricans to sterilize their dogs, so finally the problem of overpopulation of animals in Puerto Rico can be controlled.

Puerto Rico, what is happening to us? Que nos pasa Puerto Rico?

Que nos pasa Puerto Rico?

"La grandeza de una nacion y su progreso moral pueden ser juzgados por la forma en que sus animales son tratatos" -Mahatma Gandhi

En menos de un mes han sido rescatados tres grupos diferentes de puppies abandonados a su suerte sin importar como podrian sobrevivir. Personas inescrupolosas, insensibles abandonan estos inofensivos animales, que por su corta edad se le hace imposible sobrevivir ya que no pueden defenderse ni buscar comida. Que piensan estas personas al hacer tan horrendo acto? Tendran conciencia de que lo que hacen? es lo mas horrible que puede hacer un ser pensante.

Estos puppies fueron encontrados dentro de una caja en el Colegio Tecnologico de Puerto Rico, en el area de recreo de Prescolar. Los maestros y estudiantes llamaron a Gloria, presidenta de Save A Sato, por auxilio, eran siete pero dos estudiantes se llevaron dos y Gloria busco los otros cinco. Estan un poco desnutridos ya que al parecer fueron abandonados durante el fin de semana y no habian comido por varios dias.

Necesitamos seguir fomentando la Esterilizacion!! Esteriliza a tu mascota! No permitas que estas barbaridades continuen!
Si estas interasad@ en ser un "foster home" para alguno de estos puppies, porfavor escribe a info@saveasato.org

"¿Por qué un animal es maltratado? Creo que es porque el que lo maltrata cree que no siente, ni padece, ni sufre... respetemos a los animales como ellos nos respetan a nosotros."

Puerto Rico what is happening to us?

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged because of the way its animals are treated"-Mahatma Gandhi

In less than a month Save a Sato has rescued three different groups of puppies abandoned to their fate regardless how they could survive. Unscrupulous, insensitive people has abandoned these harmless animals that because of their young age its impossible for them to survive, these puppies can not defend for themselves or find food. What are these people thinking when they commit such a horrendous act?  Are they aware of what they are doing? this is the most horrible thing, that a thinking being can do!
These puppies were found inside a box in the Colegio Tecnologico de Puerto Rico, in the preschool recreational area. Teachers and students called Gloria Marti president of S.A.S for help, they were seven but some students took two to their homes and Gloria took the other five to the Shelter of Miracles from Save A Sato.  These puppies are malnourished and and they look like apparently they were abandoned during the weekend and had not eaten for several days.
We need to continue to encourage sterilization! Spay your pet! Do not let these atrocities to continue!
If tyou are interested to be a "foster home" for one of these puppies, please write to info@saveasato.org

"Why an animal is abused? I think it's because these people believe that  they do not feel, or  do not suffer... we should respect the animals like they respect us."

Scotiabank y RG de Puerto Rico te invitan a Donar por Save a Sato

 Migdalia Negron, estara representando a Save A Sato este proximo domingo en el World's Best 10k Race en el puente Teodoro Moscoso, haz donativo a cualquiera de estas cuentas en Scotiabank o Rg Bank y estos bancos ademas de tu donacion aportaran .25c adicional por cada dolar que recojan 100% para Save A Sato, mira la foto para detalles!


cuenta de Scotiabank: 0716088830
cuenta de Rg: 08480083

si olvidas los numeros de cuenta, cualquier empleado te lo puede dar en el mismo banco, solo menciona que quieres ayudar a Save A Sato, en la carrera de los 10k


No importa cuan grande o pequena sea tu donacion, lo importante es que estaras ayudando a salvar cientos de animales en Puerto Rico.

Walgreens Employees give a gift of love to Save A Sato!

 This last february 5, 2011,  the employees of Walgreens gave a visit to "El Albergue de los Milagros" (The Shelter of Miracles) one of the shelters of Save A Sato in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to give a helping hand, to Gloria Marti (S.A.S president) to clean, feed and bathe the Satos!

Everyday, all the cages of the satos, are cleaned, the satos taken out to play, fresh water and food its given, its not an easy task, for Gloria, she do this 365 days, sometimes with help from some volunteers, and sometimes just by herself!

 Its a blessing, everytime, that we receive help from volunteers like this great guys and gals from Walgreens, who donated their time to help the satos!

You can adopt this Walgreen's employee through our petfinder page! :)

Its not an easy task, but with a couple of friends and some effort, you'll end up, having fun and feeling the satisfaction, that you are helping this beautiful satos, to live in a healthy and happy shelter, till they find their "Forever homes"

Thank you guys, people like you keep Save A Sato saving the lives of the homeless dogs of Puerto Rico

Follow up on Samantha!!

Chica  (formerly "Samantha") is WONDERFUL!

She LOVES us, we LOVE her!  

 

She LOVES the snow, it's hard to get her to come inside.  Who knew a tropical doggy would love winter so much?  

She has LOTS of doggy friends who she loves...  Abby (also a Sato from Puerto Rico!), Raven, Sophie, Bruce, Henry, Jonesy, Shanti, Tessa, etc etc.

She goes on a big walk in the morning on the beach every day, then a big walk in the woods every afternoon.

 

thank you again!

Lois and Doug