We are registered!

Just when the holiday started here in Italy we got the very good news that we got the registration as an Onlus association.

So now I will open the bank account.

Big dog-kisses to all of you and please help us keep the ball rolling :-)

Woff woff!!

One step at a time....

Hi there!

We finally got some positive news regarding the Onlus registration (which means that we will soon be registered as a charity organization) The registration will soon be done which means that we can soon start to collect money for our Streetdog SPA. This make us and Max (on the right) very happy, because as soon as we have enough money we will open up. We already have a promise from the big shipping company here in Messina that they will give us a good contribution so lets cross our fingers and paws so that we will find enough money to open this autumn.

The Mayor of Messina will not have time to see us before the holidays, but we will be barking up his door as soon as he gets back again :-)

Woff woff = Dogkisses to all our friends out there!

An appointment with the mayor of Messina...

At the moment we are trying to get an appointment with the Mayor of Messina to ask for some land for our dog refuge.

Wish us good luck!

Greetings from the President

We are still waiting for our organization to obtain the Onlus status, which means that we are waiting to obtain the official charity organization number. Things here take a long time, but with a little bit of patience everything will come together.

I'm very proud of the group of people involved in starting up Streetdog SPA and I thank them for their support and patience. We all come from different personal and professional backgrounds including; a lawyer, financial controllers, top managers, a secretary, an engineer, a photographer and an Italian actor, with at least one thing in common: We all love dogs and want to help stray dogs to have a chance for a better life.

Please cheer us on our quest!

//Helena - President of Streetdog SPA

Paper work....

The meeting on Friday went very well, and now we are organizing a meeting with a "notaio". The english translation is "public notary", which is a lawyer with a specialization in notary. This public official certifies legal documents and with this certification all of our papers for Streetdog SPA will be in order.

We don't expect to run into any problems as our controller, Dr. Cutugno is a highly respected man that has due to his professional skills also been elected to be the president of the Controller Order here in Messina, Sicily (Ordine dei Commercialisti di Messina)

It is very important for us and me as the president that our organization is professional and legal. I don't want any single detail to be left out and the same will be true for the dog refuge once we open it.

Photo: My very own streetdog Max that I found with a broken foot on the streets of Messina 2 years ago.

Start meeting for members of Streetdog Onlus

We welcome all the associates of Associazione Streetdog Onlus to

our start up meeting on the 23rd of April 2010 at 12.00.

The meeting will be held at Viale della Libertà is. 515, 98121 Messina.

For further information please contact info@streetdogspa.com

Photo: "Lo Statuto" will be put online as soon as all the associates

have signed

Building up Associazione Streetdog Onlus

We are currently working hard to build up our organization here in Italy. We aim to apply for a Onlus association, which means that we will be a non-profit organization. We have to have at least 10 associates, but it doesn't look like it will be a problem and we have a lot of people contacting us being willing to help - Thanks! Alone we cannot reach the stars, but together we can do anything :-)

At the moment our organization's controller is going through the paperwork we prepared, and then we have to register Streetdog SPA. The next step after this is to get the permission from the city of Messina to use a piece of land for our dog refuge. It all looks really promising and with your support we will be up and running soon :-)

Pet Therapy Course

This morning I went to the University of Veterinary Medicine here in Messina to drop of the application for the Pet Therapy course. I still find it a bit strange that you have to do everything in person here, but I am happy I went because I got to meet the professor that is in charge of the Pet Therapy Center and he was very friendly, which is a good sign.

Now the only concern is to have enough applicants for the course, because if they don't reach the minimum number of 35 they will not be able to do it.

So please all readers out there wish me good luck!

Good heart certificate

Dear readers,

It is very important that we get known out in the big world, so please if you have a good heart copy our logo with the link to our website www.streetdogspa.com on your blog.

If you have done this you officially have a good heart and can copy and post on your blog the good heart certificate below :-)

Big hug from us!

Looking for funds

My superhero brother ;) has been to the library back home in Sweden (where he lives) to help us look for funding possibilities and he found us some interesting options. Let's see what we can get.

Million thanks again :-))

In italiano :)

Now the website Streetdog SPA is up and running in italian.

Ora il nostro sito web Streetdog SPA funziona anche in italiano :-)

The website...

We have noticed that the Streetdog SPA website wasn't working very well (strange colours and slow to download), but we hope that we have managed to fix those little obstacles now.

The problem was due to the fact that the site was made on Helena's Mac (Sorry!) and while everything worked perfectly on the Mac so wasn't the case for the PC.

Please tell us if you find any other problems.

Big hug from us!

Welcome to the Streetdog SPA blog!

Dear All,

A BIG welcome to the Streetdog SPA blog. Here you will be able to follow our struggle to build up the Streetdog SPA rescue centre.

We hope to meet many more friends out there that will support our cause and build up this centre together with us.