For those of you looking for something else this year, we have quite a collection of children's carnival costumes available at the shop in Santa Venera/Hamrun. 

We all remember the Star tragedy last year. A group of good Samaritans, the Star Reward Team consisting of Ms. Moira Delia, Mr. Roberto Calleia , Mr. Hermann Bonaci and Dr. Stefan Camilleri organised a reward fund for information leading to solve this animal abuse crime. Since the case was cleared up by the police, the team decided to donate the fund to 9 local animal NGO's. We were very happy to be one of them and were presented with €900.50 from this fund yesterday. Our thanks go out particularly to the general public who gave so generously. We will put this donation to good use for our stray animal friends.

We have created our own clinic "Star Fund", where this money will be used for treatment of strays with special needs. So Far with this fund we have already done extensive skin Grafts on a stray dog that is now recovering well at Island Sanctuary. 

Well done Star Reward Team and we would like to endorse your motto: “Together we have made a difference.”

Happy Paws joined the "On D Road" dog walk and bike ride last weekend. Huge crowds again with this very successful yearly happening. Louise seen here flying the flag with animal lover Mr. Austin Borg at the walk.

The next day at the Bike-Ride even more people turned up and Victoria and Lino   (seen here pictured with organisers Pierre and Nevise Caligari) were taken for a chilly ride half way round the Island.      

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For the past 5 years, the popular TV show On D Road, organised a charity ride in aid of abandoned animals.  These events were always of a very huge success with the participation of over 957 bikers during last year’s ride.

In 2007, 2,300 Euros were collected in aid of AAA and a voucher refundable for food was given after the first ride! In 2008, over 7,000 Euros were collected in aid of SOS Animals Malta.  In 2009, the sum went up to 13,500 Euros.  Last year, the sum was even bigger, €23,000 all spread amongst Animal Sanctuaries and over 50 feeders in Malta. 

This year, the producer of On D Road, Pierre Borg and Nevise Borg Caligari, producer of Pink Panther, are planning 2 other big events, the 5^th Charity Ride + the 2^nd Dog Walk in aid of all abandoned animals!

The money collected from these events, will be given out as vouchers of food & medicine to those sanctuaries and gold hearted people who are in most need.  These people collect injured and helpless animals from the street.   And thanks to them, these animals are then cured and taken care of.  Obviously for this to happen, a lot of money is required and most of the time, they pay these expenses out of their pocket.

The Dog Walk is planned for Saturday 7^th January 2012, at 1pm, meeting at Animal Welfare Department. The aim of this event is to collect funds for the abandoned animals, promote adoption of dogs from AAA and the Animal Welfare Department and a silent protest against animal abuse.  We hear of daily abuse that happen in Malta, and this has to be stopped.  All dog owners are encouraged to join us, and those who don’t own a dog, can book by phoning on 2590 4132 between 14^th – 23^rd Dec’11 from 9am – 12pm and book a dog from the sanctuary.  For more details, join us on Facebook Page Pink Panther or our website www.pinkpanther.com.mt.

The Charity Ride will be held on Sunday 8^th January 2012, meeting at Splash n Fun Car Park at 9.00am.  Final Destination will be at Incognito Bar & Restaurant, Qawra were there will be a bike show, music performed by Cash & Band and I’m not Johnny Cash, food & raffle.  All bikers and biker clubs are encouraged to join us towards this important cause. 

For those who wish to help toward this charity event, donations are very welcome by sending an SMS on:

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  Saturday the 8th , we joined the the walk " World Event To End Animal Cruelty", from Pieta to the Palace in Valletta. Not a big crowd this time, maybe the threatening weather put some people off. Nevertheless it was a good happening with lots of people taking their dogs along. We still believe the more attention, the brighter the future of our animal friends.

We welcome Jennifer from Louisiana, a 4th year veterinary student at the University of Glasgow and Richard "Chip" from Pennsylvania, a final year Vet student also at the Glasgow University. They will be volunteering with us for 2 weeks. We wish them a good time!!

With the substantial help of one of our dedicated sponsors we managed to acquire a new Autoclave Sterilizing Machine. Although it is called Nova it works like a dream. The old one was about to become obsolete and we would not be able to operate a proper clinic without this equipment. Thanks to everyone involved in this upgrade.

This Saturday we held a summer party to thank our Volunteers, our Sponsors, our Friends and their respective families for all their support. We were about 100! in total at the Marsa Sports Club Palm Grove. A well organised Bar-be-que, soothing?? sixties music by DJ's Dominique and Lino....(which led to some sing-alongs) and a dazzling fireworks display helped us through the evening !! Of course, the always popular raffle was also on the menu.

See Pam, Vivien and Lorena make their choice.

Our thanks go to The Marsa Sports Club for the use of the beautiful garden, to Albert, Angelo, Keith and his staff for the splendid catering, to Dominique for the music, to the community of Santa Venera for the fireworks and to all our guests for having a most enjoyable evening.

Meet Yasmine from Zabbar. Her Dad found this little puppy a couple of days ago hiding under a car desperately in need of food and TLC. Although the family already has another dog, they decided to give this little one a loving home. Yasmine has decided to call her Misty. The family brought Misty in for a general check up and fortunately she seems to be in good health after being properly fed by Yasmine. We wish her and Misty a long lasting friendship. 

Our latest voluntourist, a graduate Vet student from Glasgow University, helping us out for a few weeks, seen here assisting Louise with an operation. If some of you were wondering....., the metal thing on her back is a GPS transmitter, so we can follow her every move....

Due to other engagements, Rita Buhagiar had to close down her Birkirkara Happy Paws Shop.

We thank Rita for all the work she has done for us and wish her a Happy future.

We joined the silent walk for Star today and we were not alone, hundreds of people, many with their pets attended this event. It was quite impressive to see so many with a big heart for our animal friends.

With great pleasure we received a visit from Maria Jourdan and Vanessa McDonald who visited the clinic as representatives of one of our sponsors GO. Both ladies had encouraging words for our patients, who were awaiting their surgery. We thank them for their interest and enjoyable visit.

We have welcomed the first of the summer tourist-volunteers. A great way of combining a holiday with volunteering work. Lindsey and Valerie from California, who are both Veterinary students at the University of Glasgow, are now spending a week with us. Before coming to Malta they were in Corfu in Greece, volunteering at a donkey sanctuary. We hope they will enjoy the hands-on clinic-work and get to know a little bit about life in Malta. 

In our recent drive to attract new personnel we welcome Barbie Matthews, an Award winning fully qualified Vet Nurse. In 2007 she was announced the Petplan Vet Nurse of the year in the U.K. We are proud to have her at the clinic and wish her Happy times with us. In the coming weeks our new Veterinary Surgeon, Dr. Louise Forrest will join the ranks. Over the summer we will host a number of "Voluntourists", mainly Vet-students from abroad, for shorter and longer periods.  

Today it was coffee and cake in the shops and the clinic. Another decimal milestone on the Happy Paws tree. We celebrated our 10.000th patient, the neutering of a small stray cat.  All thanks to our marvelous group of Volunteers, Members, Supporters and of course the General Public for frequenting our shops in Marsaskala and Sta Venera/Hamrun, bringing in goods to sell or buying them.

Over the weekend we joined both the Dog Walk and the Bike Ride. As you can see, we were not the only ones. Maike and Lino were flying the flag for Happy Paws. We would like to congratulate our friends from PinkPanther and OnDERoad with organising these fantastic venues so well and all for the sake of abandoned animals.  Prosit...

Last Saturday we held the annual Christmas party for our volunteers and their families at the clinic.

A good chance to get together, swap stories and renew friendships. Robert gave a review of the financial state of the union and Maike supervised our youngest volunteers Isabella and Frank with the customary raffle.

We planned to present the Falzon family, who recently adopted the 100th dog "Timon", through our adoption scheme with a hamper filled with goodies from Tat-targa Kennels, Happy Dog foods and a grooming voucher from Loredana, but unfortunately their baby was ill so we will have to do that at another occasion.