# K9 NOT IN CRISIS - Type: wall - Canonical path: /es/wall/14315-k9-not-in-crisis - Canonical URL: https://aspanishlife.com/es/wall/14315-k9-not-in-crisis After the write up in The Leader (Monday 21st May) stating that K9 Animal Charity was at crisis point we all felt very strongly to set the record straight. This first article was published without any confirmation or proof of accuracy and without any contact between The Leader the President and the Treasurer or indeed any other committee member of K9. Basically the Leader felt the need to publish unsubstantiated gossip provided by people who would like to see K9 fail for reasons which they only know. These same people have continually spread gossip and allegations against K9 indeed some have even presented themselves in the K9 shop to stir things up. Well K9 have had enough and hopefully after reading the truth ( which has been well substantiated) in this weeks Leader (28th May) the public will make their own minds up. K9 has achieved a great deal since January We have a strong committee who all have their own skills to offer K9. We also have our Foster Carer Co ordinator which was something we became aware of we needed when we first took over. Our fantastic fund raising team have many events planned so please support your local , fully legal Animal Charity. The Committee of K9 would like to thank all those people who supported them through this time especially the shop staff lead by Jean and our customers , without these funds our animals would not be able to be cared for. Article in this weeks The Leader 28.5.2012 K9 Not In Crisis In response to last week's headline article claiming a crisis within the K9 animal charity, the President, Treasurer and Website Manager met with the Leader this week, armed with their evidence and proof that disputes the claims made by former volunteers and committee members. The story involved the case of two dogs in the care of K9 – Colin and Ronnie, but straight away the trio were quick to dismiss that one of the animals even belonged to K9. “Ronnie is NOT a K9 dog,” explained the President. Despite paying for Ronnie's first course of veterinary treatment last November, a generous offer of help to another animal charity, Ronnie was not rescued by K9 or placed in to their care, “Pets In Spain rescued her and on their website there is a direct link to a feature on You Tube about the rescue and were looking for her to be fostered. However, we did put Ronnie on our website also under the 'other' dogs for adoption as we do advertise other dogs and cats that need new homes as well as the ones under our care.” K9 try to help animal owners or other charity's whenever they can but with large vets bills themselves, funding is not always available to do this. As a result, the case of Ronnie was bought up at a meeting with the new committee who inherited the history of Ronnie and it was agreed by a majority that K9 would, as a very last resort, help the foster carer with euthanasia costs should it be decided that treatment was no longer an option. “The treatment requires Ronnie being kept very calm and still for the majority of time,” explains the President, “we could not have done this and could not have afforded the costs of keeping her in kennels for the duration of the treatment.” In response to the story of Colin, who bit the Treasurer who was looking after him with a view to him being re-homed, the Treasurer completely refutes all allegations made by Lesley Langston. “Colin would never have bitten them and they knew what Colin was like” is what Lesley told the Leader last week.” “The evidence speaks for itself,” replied the Treasurer showing the wound to her right leg, still clearly visibly over 3 weeks since the attack. “To say we fabricated this story and called the police ourselves to get the dog taken away is complete lies. I had no choice but to seek medical attention after the bite and as soon as they knew it was a dog bite they informed the authorities, it was taken out of our hands,” she explains showing her medical notes received following the incident. As a result of the medical staff calling the police, Colin was taken away where he was to be in quarantine for 40 days as K9 say is standard practice in such a case but Lesley managed to get him out sooner. The President said, “It was decided to take Colin out of kennels to socialise him and ready for re-homing and our Treasurer was very experienced to deal with him. Yes we didn't book the castration in on that day as originally planned as she thought it would be too stressful for Colin to take him out of the kennels, to the vets and back to a new environment so we wanted to let him settle in first, but I told Lesley this.” Brian Anderson who contacted the Leader last week with his concerns, says he resigned from his position as assistant treasurer as a result. However, the K9 trio provided documented evidence from the minutes of their committee meeting that Brian had in fact resigned in March, before any of these events. These notes were hand written in a journal, and could not have been altered. This was also the second time he had resigned having sent a letter of resignation to the previous committee back in November. Since then, the President showed a letter received by Brian asking to come back to K9 saying he should replace the Treasurer to get K9 back 'to where it should be.' Brian and others did show up to a scheduled meeting on Monday 14th May but the committee allowed Brian to speak before asking him to leave. They only threatened police action when he became abusive and refused to leave. There were other issues the President, Treasurer and Website Manager wanted to comment on but without documented evidence politely held their silence refusing to get in to any further arguments or partake in mudslinging stating that it seemed clearly to be the bad will of a few who wished to try and bring down K9 and personally attack and discredit some members. “Everything we have said is to be the truth and can be proved. As stated in last week's Leader our priority remains as it always has, with the welfare of animals and we just hope that this detrimental piece does not affect them. Prior to this K9 was doing very well, we have reduced our vets from around 2500€ to around 200€ and our last fundraising race night raised 709€ and we are close to getting a vehicle to help us function better and continually need fosterers.” Anyone able to help can call 633 936 501 or the charity shop on 965 077 208. The Leader regrets that we were unable to speak with the President and Treasurer last week due to holidays and the wrong phone number being given, but we are happy to give their side of the story this week and set the record straight.