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ANIMALS RETURNING TO THE UK UNDER THE NEW REGULATIONS

As from 1^st January 2012 the regulations for animals travelling into the UK changed bringing to an end the 6 months quarantine period that pets had previously had to comply with. (background info on KAR website – animals to uk). This is very good news for all pet owners in North Cyprus and for KAR who have been campaigning for changes in the regulations for many years.

On Friday 20^th January a dog from the KAR rescue centre named Dexter travelled under the new regulations from Ercan to Paris, was met by his new owners Amanda and Darren Faragher who then transported him in their car through the Channel Tunnel to the UK and onwards to his new forever home in Shropshire. (photos with Susie)

Dexter is the first KAR dog to travel under these new regulations which do not now require a Pet Passport but as North Cyprus is a listed ‘Third Country’ a Microchip, Rabies Vaccination, Rabies Serological Test, Export Certificate a Third Country Health Certificate and a wait of three months following the date of the successful Rabies Serological Test fulfils all the regulations required. Unfortunately there are no approved carriers or direct routes from the TRNC into the UK as yet and so the animals have to travel via another country.

KAR have arranged for a UK based animal courier company to transport fifteen animals from the TRNC to the UK early in February and this will be followed by similar trips over the next few months.  http://animalcouriers.wordpress.com/

Molly n Polly

Hi Margaret,
As promised some photos of the babes, today we are celebrating their third year with us.
Molly is the tom boy of the two, Polly is just a lady. They love the beach not too keen on the
sea, our other dogs love the water.

Here's wishing you all a Happy New  Year, and we wish you all well for 2012 lets hope
it's good for all of us.
Will keep in touch, and hopefully see you sometime in June.
 
Regards  Yvonne and Jeremy

Following the change in the rules/regs for dogs going to UK (Jan 2012) - an overland animal transporter will be arriving in Kyrenia on/about 02/02/12 to take 12 dogs back to UK.

8 of those dogs are KAR street dogs who are going to "forever" homes in UK. They will depart TRNC, for their 6 day journey, to their "forever" homes on/about 04/02/12.

There is space available for dogs/cats to travel UK (depart 24 -26 Jan) to TRNC on the overlander. The overlander (and company) are fully registered in the UK and are DEFRA approved. The vehicle is purpose built with individual units/heating/a.c and the animals have regular meal and comfort breaks. They are not left unattended at all during the trip.

The cost of the trip will be shared amongst all the animals using the service (to/from TRNC). This may work out cheaper than flying them (especially with large/heavy dogs). For more info please contact the KAR office on 0533 8694098.

It is hoped that this will be the first of many such trips.

We are always delighted when one of our dogs or cats finds a new home, and we love to receive letters and emails telling us how they are getting on.  If you have a Kyrenia Animal Rescue animal and you'd like to tell us about their new life, please post or email us your letters and pictures, or drop them in at our office, shop or rescue centre. We will endeavour to put them on our website. FOXY We found Foxy on a trip to North Cyprus in May 2011.  She was running in the road and looked in a very poor state - we thought she was a fox at first and weren't sure if she'd been hit by a car so managed to coax her into our car and took her back to our place to check her over.  We couldn't find anything of note, but she was extremely thin, looked like she'd had pups at some point, was absolutely smothered in ticks and sores and was very frightened and weak.  We decided to take her up to KAR to be checked over more thoroughly and looked after - we were flying back to the UK the next day.  However, when we got home we kept thinking about poor Foxy and decided that we would try and bring her over to the UK to live with us. This proved quite difficult through with the current flight situation in transporting animals.  Eventually we did find a way over with an airline called Corendon who flew to Brussels (via Antalya) - they agreed to take Foxy for 30 Euros!  KAR sorted the paperwork from the North Cyprus end and had all her vaccinations done and had her spayed too.  I flew over in August to pick her up and accompany her to Brussels where we were met by UK quarantine vehicle and transported back to the UK via Eurotunnel.  Everything ran really smoothly and Foxy is now happily settled in her huge kennel with her own large bedroom kitted out with duvet, pillows and toys (spoilt I know!) - this will hopefully be a good transition period for her before she comes to live with us in our house on 1st Jan 2012 when the UK quarantine laws are finally relaxed. We would definitely 'rescue' a dog from North Cyprus again - the strays seem to have such wonderful personalities and it was actually quite simple to do - and also not much different in price to buying a pedigree puppy in the UK (in fact a lot cheaper than some breeds)!  Foxy has turned out to be an absolute sweetheart and extremely loving - she seems to appreciate every second of being here and certainly shows her affection openly!  I do feel guilty though about leaving behind the hundreds of others who are desperately in need of a loving home.  Thanks so much to everyone at KAR for looking after Foxy for those few months and helping us to bring her back to her new home! Just to let you know all ran smoothly at Ercan, Brussels and Calais and arrived safely back in the UK this morning - Foxy now settling in and enjoying her new temporary home in quarantine!  She is loving the space, but hasn't quite got the hang of the bedroom and duvet yet!!!  She is so friendly and docile and loving the kids and all the attention.  The vet is coming this afternoon to do the arrival health check and 1st of the Rabies jabs again (silly I know, but unfortunately is UK law to re-do the jabs regardless or not of whether they have already been done)!  Ministry (DEFRA) coming on a 'spot check' visit tomorrow morning! Am attaching photos of her taken 1) at my apartment, 2) during transit at Ercan & 3) Brussels and 4) in quarantine with 5) Foxy on her bed with her duvet and pillows - she loves her bed now!  She is getting really spoilt and has toys and bones too. She is the only dog I've ever owned who will actually fetch a ball - hooray!  We weighed her 2 days ago and was a bit shocked that she now weighs 17 kilos!! Oops!  Have had to ask the girls to cut down her food a bit now!  She looks good right now, but don't really want her getting any bigger! Erica Jones Pixie a Yorkshire terrier was in a truly awful state when he first arrived at the KAR Rescue Centre. He had virtually no hair - his eyelashes had gone - his eyes and nose were weeping blood and his ears were just one big scab. He was with a foster carer for 6 weeks of treatment and lots of TLC. He is now a healthy happy silky coated Yorkshire terrier living with his new human family and has another yorkie to keep him company. To go with his new life he has a new name - Kojak. Miss Piggy had been with KAR for over 3 years when she was picked to go to a new home with an English lady. Unfortunately her owner had to return to the UK and so Miss Piggy was returned to the Centre. She was so sad to be back at the Centre, but, after a short while, her owner returned to the TRNC and assured the Centre staff that she really wanted Miss Piggy back. Off Miss Piggy went - delighted to be going home again. It was not to last though - staff arrived at the Centre one day to find Miss Piggy tied to the fence. Poor Miss Piggy - she could not settle and just pined and whined unable to eat. She paced back and forth all day and lost weight. The staff were convinced that she was ill but all the vet tests proved negative. She was simply desperately unhappy at the Centre, though the staff tried everything they could to make her a little happier.  Then one day a visitor stopped to speak to Miss Piggy and a bond between them was obvious. Several meetings later and off went Miss Piggy to her new home. She has been back to visit the staff at the Centre and everyone is amazed at the difference - she is a bubbly happy beautiful dog who is at last putting on weight. Hopefully any future visits to KAR will only be to say: “Hello!” I have been meaning to write to let you know how Bingo is.  He is.... REALLY, REALLY WELL & HAPPY!  In fact, he is a different dog to when he arrived - when I think back to the first 3 weeks or so, he was obvioulsy pretty traumatised (by the whole overland journey across Europe, I expect), and I suppose he didn't know how long he was going to be staying at our home after all.  For all he knew, it could have been another temporary stop, I suppose.  So it took him a while to realise that it really is his house and (especially) his garden.  Now he keeps a permanent watch out for squirrels and foxes, and he barks when someone comes to the door (even tho he is really friendly when he finds out they aren't intruders!)  Also, he did us a really good deed about 2 months ago by scaring off 2 burglars who climbed over our back fence!!!!  That day he definitely earned his keep!  He is very relaxed now and he is not so bothered by the traffic when we are walking along the pavement of busy roads. Everybody loves him, even those friends of mine who don't aren't usually even keen on dogs!    Thank you again for all your help with getting him here. Hope all goes well with you in sunny Cyprus. Best regards, Tessa Abraham

Hi Margaret Snow today so took the opportunity to take some pictures of Vouni. As you can see he is very well and has actually filled out quite considerably at his back end, he almost looks normal! if it wasn't for his bad leg. He doesn't see to be hampered in any way and runs about like a wild thing at the part with all the other dogs. Initially we had to keep a very close eye on him with other dogs as he could turn on them but now he is friends with 99% of them. He is also pals with 100% of humans and is so laid back he is a great favoutie with all our friends and family but still remains a good guard dog. Have a Very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Love Barry & Susan

----- Original Message ----- From: MARK BUNNEY To: Kyrenia Animal Rescue Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:55 PM Subject: una photos hi everyone, hope you all had a good christmas at kyrenia animal rescue. please find the attatched photos of una when she was in windermere in the lake district back in september.  shes doing absolutly fine, and couldnt of wished for a better dog !!! see you all soon nicky and mark.

Dear everyone at KAR, My name is Marijke and I’m following a college course in Animal Care in the Netherlands and I went to Kyrenia to do a work experience at Kyrenia Animal Rescue in October and November 2008.I stayed for 7 weeks in which I worked at the centre and spent few days in the other area’s of KAR. During my stay I was a guest at Suzanne’s house and we became good friends.

I really enjoyed my work experience and learnt a lot of things. Although it was hard work and heartbreaking. I think it would have been more heartbreaking to sit along to sideline and not do anything for the animals. All the staff members were very patient and kind and they welcomed me into the centre. During my first week at the centre me and Boxy fell in love!! Boxy was brought to the centre with her Mum when she was only 6 weeks old and she is now 2,5 years old. After some persuading my boyfriend, I was allowed to have Boxy. Only thing was, she had to get her rabies vaccines and had to have a blood test done before she could travel. So I went home, continued my college course. And after waiting 6 months ….. I got on a plane to pick up my darling Boxy!!! I stayed with Suzanne for the week, and I had a lovely time. We went to the centre nearly every day. When I saw Boxy again after 6 months, she recognized me after 5 seconds. I was really moved, after not seeing her for so long and after waiting all that time, she still remembered me! After that she didn’t lose me out of her sight. On June the 18th, we embarked on the adventure. I was really scared about the flight and the transfer at Istanbul, but all went well and at 10.45 hrs we landed at Schiphol Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has now been more than a month that she is with us, and she is settled. She loves to go to the beach and run around, she also likes the sea, although she’s not too keen on swimming yet. She likes to lay on the couch and she loves her cuddles and kisses. She gets on really well with the dog of my parents and the dog of my friend. She loves to play with other dogs as well and she sometimes watches Animal planet :P Well we’ll keep you updated!!!! Lots of love to all, Keep up the good work and hopefully I can come over again and do some more work :P XXX Marijke, Dennis and Boxy

Dear Margaret and KAR team, It has been a long time since I have been in touch - I can only apologise! Not sure if you remember me but I think of you all often and the amazing work you are all carrying out.  I volunteered with you having just qualified as a vet in 2007 and the time I spent (as a guest of Margaret's son) was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding times in my career to date!I have been following your progress on your website - the ER block looks like a wonderful and welcome addition to the centre! I keep reading all the letters from people who have visited and am glad to see you seem to be going from strength to strength.Since returning from working with you I joined a small animal practice near London and have worked there fro almost 2 years.  In September, however, I am heading off to Melbourne Australia for 6 months or more and hoping to work with an animal rescue centre there.  However, i believe they are lucky enough to have government support.... Please send my best wishes to Firdez if she is still working in Girne, and to the rest of the team. Who knows, perhaps on my way back from Australia I will pop by the Besparmak Mountains!! Yours, Rachel Kirchheimer