The sudden exit of Let’s Adopt! Spain
Let’s Adopt! Global operates by helping volunteer teams in different countries with fundraising and adoptions.
You may or may not be aware that a few months ago our Spanish network stopped working with Let’s Adopt! Global.
Our Spanish partners abandoned a large group of animals they had rescued and placed in boarding, and founded a new charity with a “clean slate”.
They retained control of local resources in Spain such as volunteers, supporters, veterinary clinics and the Spanish Facebook page. They also took over Let’s Adopt! Deutschland’s Facebook page and volunteers, with all cases currently displayed there being ones rescued in Spain.
The hidden truth of Spain
For a while before the split our Spanish partners had been employing a questionable rescue method. Animals not adopted after a couple of Facebook pleas went to paid boarding, and were not mentioned again. Slowly the number of animals in these boarding facilities grew. By the time they entered boarding the money raised for their care had long been spent on medical bills. The boarding costs of those animals were being covered by taking on new cases – after expenses for a new case were settled, any remaining balance was being allocated to those boarding fees.
The reason for this approach was the fact that our Spanish partners did not want it publicly known just how many unadoptable animals had been collected.
The problem with this approach was that it was a vicious circle – using funds from new cases to cover old bills is an unsustainable approach. Inevitably some new cases would turn into hard to adopt animals and would contribute to the problem by also ending up at paid boarding. So the more new cases, the more unadopted animals and the higher the monthly bills.
This situation was a major point of disagreement between us, the volunteer-rescuers performing the duties of Let’s Adopt! Global board members and our partners in Let’s Adopt! Spain. We, the board members urged that the intake of new rescues be paused, and that efforts be temporarily refocused on methodically adopting the already collected animals. An agreement was never reached.
The big problem
So in March 2015, when our Spanish network exited, founded a new rescue and left behind the animals they had accumulated the Let’s Adopt! Global board members inherited a huge problem.
Many of the animals had chronic diseases, some suffered from behavioral issues, others were just forgotten. Let’s Adopt! Global was left responsible for approximately forty animals, which our community buy levitra online cheap knew nothing about. The bill for all animals stockpiled in Spain was about EUR 20,000 per month.
Solving the big problem
For a while Let’s Adopt! Global was able to continue servicing the bills. A photographer was hired and photo shoots of all animals organised, so their stories could be shared with the community in search for adoptive families. A solution was found for two dogs and a move was attempted. Unfortunately the owners of the boarding facilities recognized our ex-partners as true owners of the animals, and our efforts were obstructed.
Realizing we had no control over the situation or animals and in order to protect donor funds, Let’s Adopt! Global temporarily suspended the payment of all boarding bills. We were not certain exactly how many animals there were in each boarding facility. The information we were receiving from different sources was conflicting and our ex-partners did not cooperate.
Legal counsel
We secured legal councel in Spain to enable the process of transferring ownership of all animals from our Spanish ex-partners to Let’s Adopt! Global. This was critical in order to ensure that there would be no further issues with us trying to relocate animals to another facility or country.
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Unfortunately our Spanish ex-partners presented unreasonable requirements and demands such as requesting us to pay all bills upfront and to provide a Spanish national, who would agree to become the owner of all animals. We do not have the ability to pay those bills as we have not fundraised for them. All money collected for those animals has long been spent on their initial rescue and treatment. Before we fundraise for their boarding bills we must have control of the animals as anything different would be misappropriating donor funds. We are also unable to find a Spaniard, who would be prepared to accept responsibility and ownership of so many animals.
We are continuing our efforts to resolve the situation in Spain and will be sharing updates as soon as we have new information.
Not just names
Here are some of the animals stranded in Spain. They are not just names, we are very aware of their problematic circumstances and are doing everything in our power to help them.
Fozzie
Claudia
Axel
Zeta
Nelson
Hope
Bruce
Scarlett
Romeo
Iron
Champion
Mika
Coco
Amor
Charlotte
Simba
Monty
Nube (podenco)
Adrian
Ajoo
Tito
Brandon
Jack
Dartagnan
Negrita/Blackie
Tone
Birdy
Esperanza
Linda
Eagle
Petit/Chiqui
Rudolph
Garfield
Gala
Cat FIV 1
Cat FIV 2
Cat blind 1
Cat blind 2
Cat blind 3
Cat shy 1
Cat shy 2
Cat shy 3
Spotty
Carol
Denzel
Nube (bretona)
Please stay with us for the development of this story, when we hope we can start moving them from their current lodgings.