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Yesterday a team of 7 HSBC Private Bank staff spent the day helping out at the GSPCA.
The group arrived just after 9am where they were greeted by Tim Pellett GSPCA Community and Training Officer who after a quick safety briefing got them off to work around the site helping clean, tidy, garden and care for the many animals at the Animal Shelter in St Andrews.
All of the HSBC Private Bank staff were an amazing help and from all of the GSPCA a huge thank you to them for all they did.
Last week Andrew the Jersey Grey Seal Pup was rescued and transported to the GSPCA.
At only 17kgs and less than a week old this very pretty young seal pup should have still been with his mum and not in the emaciated condition as he was found.
Andrew has a very bad chest infection and desperately underweight and has been receiving care around the clock day and night.
Bingo Night at La Nouvelle Maraitaine Sunday 11th November 7pm in aid of GSPCA and Clic Sargent
Sunday night Bingo - 10 games of bingo, 2 flyers, bonus ball and a strip of raffle tickets, 6’s £16, 3’s £11.
Plus last man standing bingo and football cards during the interval, pop down and join us.
Next Tuesday the Guernsey Community Foundation Community Awards 2018 take place and the GSPCA will be there in numbers as an amazing number of categories have GSPCA volunteers or projects as finalists.
In 2016 the GSPCA were award with the Guernsey Community Foundation Community Awards 2016 Charity of the Year and next weeks key speaker will be GSPCA Steve Byrne talking about the work of charities and some of the challenges we all face.
This lunch time the youngest grey seal pup to arrive at the GSPCA in many years arrived from Jersey.
Andrew as the pup has been named still has his white fluffy coat which is lost at 14 days of age, making him around 7-12 days old and at only 17kg he is painfully thin.
New marine mammal medic Martine Venton-Heys who helped with the rescue in Jersey yesterday accompanied Andrew who is being shown around the GSPCA while she waits for her flight back to Jersey thanks to Blue Island who helped provide the transport needed.
On the 19th October 3 staff from Man Fund Management (Guernsey) Limited attended the GSPCA to give up a day in the office to help with the work around the Shelter.
The day was started with a quick induction followed by a picture at the front of the GSPCA.
They were then put to work helping paint a container next to our Memorial Garden which was in desperate need of a spruce up.
The Leo Club of Guernsey are once again doing a 12-hour bake-a-thon all through the night!
Please support them by sponsoring them via link https://giving.gg/donate/Event/0/Donate-to-Guernsey-Charitable-Event , donating ingredients or buying our baked goods in the Market Square on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th November
Last night we held our 12th volunteer induction and greeted 23 new helpful faces eager to help the animals and work of the GSPCA.
This year alone we have now inducted 170 new volunteers, placements and work through these inductions and are graced with an average 120 volunteers each week but with over 500 animals in our care there is always plenty to do.
Many may think the fireworks are over but there are additional displays planned for tonight.
Steve Byrne GSPCA Manager said “Last night we had a number of stray dogs and injured wild animals we helped.”
“We have also had a number of calls and messages from those concerned about their animals distressed from the loud bangs, flashes and vibrations from the fireworks and with more planned this evening the GSPCA wanted to pre-warn all pet owners ahead of these displays.”
On Monday the 12th November we hold our next dog first aid course at the GSPCA with a focus on helping save your dogs life.
Taking the course will be GSPCA Manager Steve Byrne who has over 20 years working in the field of animal rescue and with over 3000 animals through the doors every year at the GSPCA the team see cases of animal first aid on a daily basis here in Guernsey.
Steve Byrne GSPCA Manager said “We have been running dog and cat first aid courses for over four years and have trained over 200 participants to help save animals lives.”