25/03/2026
SQUATTERS - OKUPAS.
Safe to say the human race disappoints once more….
The home that was the home of Henry and that of Purely for Dogs over the last 10 years has been taken over by squatters. Yes we left the house for sale … but you should be able to leave a house for more than a week … we say a week because we know it is in this last week as friends were there a week after we left … everything was secure and as normal .. then yesterday when the estate agent went to the property he was met with a heavily tattooed man living there - the locks had been changed. We could have been away on holiday, could have put the dogs in kennels for a while and then come back to this …. To me someone in the area must know - someone local must know who this person/s are … The reason we left, the reason we left so quickly was a window in time of Henry’s health, it was time to be close to family and to be able to get health, friend and family support we so desperately needed …. for someone to do this when someone is so poorly and already down … it’s disgusting … it’s another kick to an already broken heart.
It’s been said to us we should not have left, we should have waited until someone bought the house, we should have done this, we should have done that … well … I have said to those people to sit, put themselves in our position and then tell me what we should and shouldn’t have done…. We have battled for a long time with this awful health situation, we have battled long before we made public anything … and it’s been very hard, it’s been breaking to try to keep everything together and keep being able to function with a ‘man down’. Henry’s worries have been that I would be permanently alone up there … a justified worry I now think …
This is now potentially hugely expensive - yes we know the law etc etc - our estate agent and solicitor will be co ordinating as much as possible to try to handle things and limit costs that will be adding up literally in the hundreds and thousands of euros. It feels very much now like now there is no house to sell, there is nothing for Henry ….
So a few important points because these people are nothing short of scum bags … I don’t think there is anything to link us personally or Purely For Dogs at the house left behind but you never know … a scrap of paper, an old collection tin … so I will state clearly if anyone sees anything relating to Purely .. and fund raising etc the only tin we didn’t collect is at Dr Raj the dentist in Alhaurin el Grande as we didn’t have time to go and collect it. There are NO OTHERS. Purely for dogs had been legally dissolved as we said we would do leaving Spain. The Association (Charity) was legally dissolved at the Junta de Andalucia and the NIF (tax number) has been dissolved likewise at the Hacidena (tax office) we do NOT exist.
The name Purely For Dogs we have kept to use just on Facebook and Instagram so people who have adopted from us, who have followed us and the dogs stories all these years can see lives and new adventures continuing.
For us it’s heartbreaking in many ways - financially of course - that’s a colossal concern that we honestly can only see a a major disaster - we have seen such scum take houses and they never leave or they wreck it not just inside but structurally too so it can never ever be sold and the owner is still paying the price in bills and responsibilities … but you know the emotional side … is just as breaking. The little ones who have come, who have gone to new homes, those that didn’t and who stayed with us and those who lived and passed under the rainbow there … it feels like their memories have been dirtied … and yes irrational I know - memories come with you but I know many of you will understand what we are feeling. The memories we made together ..
Other people seem to be able to leave their houses for months on end … yet us … nah … let’s kick these folk while they are down .. it shows how much people you thought cared a little really don’t care at all … As I say … we could have just gone on holiday - folks do that sometimes and we would have returned to some tattooed, rough, aggressive living in our home and what could we have done about it … sounds like pretty little - law and new law changes taken into account. We have to hope the police will act … the Guardian Civil who should act … well they close at lunch times so nothing could be done yesterday … let’s hope care and justice turn up today …
In summary - scum bags have beaten a man when he is down by taking his house … Purely does NOT exist as a Charity don’t engage in any local fundraising. The world and some of its people have gone to cr@p.
