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This weekend we are at the Guernsey Round Table Christmas Fayre which will be held at Beau Sejour Leisure Centre from 10am to 4pm on Sunday 22nd November 2015.
Entry to the Christmas Fayre is free and the GSPCA will join many local charities with a variety of gifts and festive games.
On our stall we will have GSPCA goods like hoodies to teddies, tombola games, pet supplies, pet stockings and much more.
We look forward seeing you there and thank the Round Table for organising this fantastic annual event.
We would like to say a huge thank you to the kind an caring supporters who have donated a number of items recently which will help in the care of the many animals at the GSPCA.
Over the last few weeks we received a number of packages at the Shelter and when we opened them they contained a number of brushes, buckets, cleaners, litter trays and many other goodies.
We recently moved into our new Multi Purpose Animal Welfare Building and many of these items are helping equip it and also around site.
Today family, friends and the GSPCA team attended a celebration for the life of Richard Courtenay Chandler who passed peacefully on Thursday 1st October 2015 aged 68 and took place at Le Foulon Chapel.
In an emotional service led by Nikki Attwoll for a wonderful and caring man the following loving words were spoken in his memory by the GSPCA Manager -
"Today we remember a much loved family member, a friend and someone that was very dear to the team at the GSPCA
Every year the GSPCA are called out to and help between 200 and 300 cats that are injured or killed on the road every year.
During the darker winter months the numbers are at their highest and in just one evening recently 4 cats were brought in to the Shelter between the hours of 10pm and 4am that were killed on our roads.
Over many years the worries for cats on busy roads has always been a real concern. However the GSPCA as have many other rescues noticed that the smaller roads and lanes are often a greater risk and cause of cats being hit by moving vehicles.
Over the past few months the GSPCA team have been preparing and getting use to the new multi purpose animal welfare building.
It has already had a baptism of extraordinary use after 25 Slovakian puppies were isolated in its facilities when they were detained in August.
Over the past few weeks the GSPCA team especially Yvonne Chauvel, Helen Sharman, Anna Paint and Kim Marsh have been preparing sections for the BIG MOVE.
During 2014 the GSPCA and KGV ran a firework poster competition with many of the local schools.
Chloe Butt (8), a pupil at St. Andrews Primary School had a surprise last year when she was told that she had won a party for her year on the 3G Pitch at the KGV. Chloe was the winner of the GSPCA design a firework and bonfire poster competition.
Here are just some of the many entries all of which have great advice and messages -
Last week we highlighted the challenges we and other rescues face trying to rehome black cats.
Yesterday 'Sooty' a 5 year old male black cat managed to find a wonderful forever home and staff waved him off with his wonderful new owner.
We have a waiting list for new owners looking for kittens, but often struggle finding the older cats a new home especially if they are black with over half the cats either black or black and white at the GSPCA.
Helen Holems GSPCA staff member said "It was lovely to see Sooty off to his forever home yesterday."
On the first day of November the GSPCA received a very unusual rescue bird who had been found in the road in the south west of Guernsey.
An injured young short-eared owl was found in the road and brought into the care of the GSPCA.
Thankfully the bird had only minor injuries and after a few days of cage rest and a check over from the vet she was rung for identification purposes and released today.
Short-eared owls can only be found in certain parts of the UK and there are sightings of a few birds here in Guernsey.
This week many will mark the 5th November with firework parties.
Last year the GSPCA launched a calendar and asks those having public and private displays to let us know so we can have a central location for those around Guernsey know where and when these events take place. The calendar is linked to the GSPCA Twitter and Facebook pages so that reminders are sent out earlier in the day during these events.