SOLCIR Passion Portrait of Monika Philp

What inspired you to do this?

I love animals, all of them, also snakes, and for me the sense of life is that you should help the weak ones if you are strong, and I think I am a strong person, I was lucky in life and it is time to pass on some luck to the forgotten souls. I wanted to live in Spain on the countryside to have animals but it soon turned out that I didn't need to adopt them, I just found them on the street. this was a big shock for me, I wanted to help and I decided to make a formation beside my work and learned to be a veterinary assistant with a 40 hours practice in a clinic. During this stage I met many volunteers from Asoka who came to chip adopted dogs or bring animals for operations and treatments. Thus I found my destination and decided to become a volunteer too, as I could not bear it anymore to give so many poor dogs back to their owners, hunters or their breeders, who mistreated them or didn't care for them at all, sometimes they asked the Vet to euthanize the animal only because they got divorced, because the dogs were ill or because they had no time any more and other terrible things. I find the work in a shelter much more useful and more satisfying. You know that they are save now and loved, a volunteer not only cleans the kennels, a volunteer gives them some kind of happiness. I started to look for German, Belgian, French and Austrian associations who would take over animals from us and actually it is working very well and there are hundreds of dogs and cats going to these countries every year. I am organizing the transports or bring them to the airport and get all the necessary papers, passports etc. The associations are working with foster homes, where the animals stay until they get adopted, the adoptions will be controlled and should the new owner be unsuitable, the dog comes back to the foster home. It is a lot of work but it makes me happy. I receive photos and news from their new homes and that's when I know that I made it possible that they have a life and this is worth all my efforts. It became a passion!!!!!

Explanation of the NGO you work with and a link for more information and donations.

Asoka El Grande www.asokaelgrande.org is an independent and non-profit association legally constituted, financially supported by members-ship and donations. The aims are: denounce the abandon and mistreatment of the animals, promote the defense of the same ones and to manage a Center of Adoption. Asoka El Grande considers fundamental the problem of the abandoned animals. Every year thousands of animals are left in the streets. The majority of the abandons take place in vacations time, when families go on holiday and they do not know that to do with the pets. Regrettable, they choose to abandon them to their luck. The number of abandoned pets increases year after year. Although, the legislation for the protection of pets exist . unfortunately the punishment for this crime is so scarce that it doesn’t prevent the people who mistreat an animal to relapse into the same conduct. The functioning of Asoka El Grande is based to extend indefinitely the minimal period of stay fixed by the law for the abanonded animals. The pets will stay in the shelter up to the appearance of their owners or up to an adoption by responsible people, who will be an object of a follow-up from the members of the Association. The pets that come to Asoka El Grande receive treatment, exercise, hygienic and sanitary necessary. No pet is sacrificed, except for humanitarian reasons, like the ones who suffer terminal illnesses, congenital malformations that prevent them to have a normal development and life or, those that they have suffered serious accidents and do not have possibility of healing.

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