How FFL Rescue was born

FFL RESCUE was born in 2016, crowning a promise made to my little Maggie, a victim of human exploitation and the puppy trade from the East.

After so many years spent in the world of volunteering to which I have been dedicated since I was a child, I surrounded myself with good volunteers to begin this journey with my association, a journey that has brought us this far, growing over time and perfecting our work more and more. The love that binds us to this wonderful breed, has allowed us to increase our knowledge in order to be able to offer a different service to all our adopters, services and ways of operating that distinguish us from all the other associations that nonetheless do splendid work. In fact, FFL, after carefully selecting families, and after choosing the one to which to entrust the dog, does not turn away to devote itself to the next adoption, but follows the family and the new member of it, throughout its life, with constant contacts and visits to the adopters, to whom we offer support, including financial support in case of need, either through the many agreements we have and are entering into with the best health facilities, or by contributing to specific health needs.

Knowing thoroughly the peculiarities of the breed and the consequent weaknesses, at the adoption stage, the foster family signs a private writing in which they commit to provide us with constant updates on the dog's life and to send us for viewing periodically, the medical reports drawn up by specialists, related to the cardiac checkups that the breed requires periodically already from the first year of life. In addition to this, the constant contact with families, allows us to also provide psychological support to adopters who sometimes find themselves in difficulty in managing the animal. In addition to these activities, we organize frequent food collections to support other associations and/or people in financial difficulty in order to prevent the abandonment of dogs and cats and/or other pets.

The association operates throughout the country and in some cases abroad. One of our imperatives is to treat each of the cavaliers who are looking for a family, as if they were our own cavalier, so we have decided not to have a facility with boxes in which to keep the dogs looking for homes, but to keep them in the homes of us volunteers, so that they feel part of the family, dealing most of the time directly with transfers, without resorting to relays or different transports that could stress the animal already in an emotionally precarious situation.

This is in a nutshell what we do and the way we try to do it. As of this year, we are also promoting our long-distance adoptions, which, for a contribution of 9 euros per month, payable in installments or in one lump sum for the duration of one year, allow us to purchase medications, medical food and to conduct checkups for cavaliers within the rescue who are not adoptable because they are unfit to go to a family. Once the cavalier is adopted from a distance, the volunteer who cares for the cavalier periodically sends photos and updates to his mom/daddy from a distance.

We would be extremely pleased to be able to have an interview to allow us to further promote the association and consequently reach more people who may become adopters.

Founder and vice president Monica Bertozzi