29/07/2026
Dear friends,
There is so much we want to share with you, but the truth is... we simply don't have the time.
Our emergency phone never stops ringing.
Sometimes we don't answer anymore.
Not because we don't care.
But because we already know what we are going to hear, and we know that we have reached our limit. We cannot take in any more animals, no matter how much it breaks our hearts.
During the last month alone, we said goodbye to four members of our family.
Our beloved Barba Stathis passed away peacefully on his favorite old rug, the place where he always felt safe.
Then our sweet Flora suddenly collapsed at the shelter. The diagnosis was stomach cancer. We had to make the hardest decision a rescuer can ever make—to let her leave this world without pain. Only one month earlier, we had lost her sister to the very same disease.
Today we said our final goodbye to Mr. Markos.
He had been with us since May 2025.
For months we knew this day was coming. We hoped he would leave peacefully on his own, so we would never have to make that decision.
We managed his pain for as long as we could, but his old body, destroyed by severe arthritis, could no longer carry him. His skin began to break down, and we knew it was time.
Because loving an animal also means knowing when to let them go.
He left this world in our shelter, surrounded by love, lying at Daphne's feet, with a veterinarian who loved him gently holding him until his last breath.
A final breath that sounded more like relief than goodbye.
But this is not how we will remember him.
We will remember his little tennis balls.
Because even when he could barely walk anymore, he still "chased" them with his eyes... and with his heart.
Dear friends,
There are days when we feel we simply cannot carry on.
And yet, every single morning we get up again.
Because the animals who are still here are waiting for us.
They don't understand unpaid bills or financial struggles.
They only know that someone will bring them food, give them their medication, clean their beds and love them.
That someone is us.
And the only reason we can continue... is because of you.
This month has been especially difficult.
At the end of the month we must pay veterinary bills, medication, special diets, canned food for our sick and elderly animals, and the salaries of the people who care for them every single day.
If you have ever believed in our work, today we ask you to stand beside us once again.
Even a small PayPal
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donation can make a real difference.
It can become medication.
A special meal.
A life-saving treatment.
Or simply one more comfortable day for an old dog who deserves to spend the rest of his life surrounded by love instead of pain.
Please don't leave us alone.
As long as people like you continue to believe in us, we will continue holding their paws until their very last breath.
That is our promise.
From the bottom of our hearts...
Thank you for standing with Angels' Garden.
