Dear all who responded to my plea for help, I am very amused to see that my communication seems to have turned into a discussion about estrangeiros living in Portugal, speaking the language ! I wrote my message in English but that is also a foriegn language to me as I am a Holandesa and so normally ...

For all those people who replied, thank you very much. Yes I am an estrangeira and I do speak Portuguese, but it is a difficult language to write ! I am so happy to have found this site. It proves that there are some people in Portugal who do care about animals. Out here in the "campo" I am afraid t...

I have two wonderful Serra Estrela dogs. Unfortunately the bitch was badly attacked by a neighbour's dog when she 2 months old. Also she was in quarantine in England for 6 months from the age of 5 months. The problem is that she was not socialised properly and is frightened of all other dogs. She re...