When it comes to picking destinations for your next vacation, it can sometimes be difficult to make a decision - there are so many awesome places out there. But if you're a dog lover, then I might just have the ideal place for you to jet off to this summer. That's right, it's a beautiful tropical island with its own rescue center for dogs.
Potcake Place is a rescue center on the island of Providenciales, Turks, and Caicos, where they look after adorable dogs called 'Potcakes'. Potcakes are a type of mixed-breed dog that lives in the Bahamas, and there are plenty of homeless dogs out there who need a family to adopt them. Until they find one, they stay at the Potcake Place.
All of the puppies are fostered in volunteers' homes, but visitors to the island are encouraged to see the dogs and even take them out for walkies! Around 500 puppies are adopted through Potcake Place each year, and they're very popular with the tourists.
Commenting on the initiative in a 2018 interview with CNN, founder Jane Parker-Rauw stated: "They're named after what the locals used to feed them. So what's left in the pot at the end of cooking. The peas and rice that's burnt on the bottom of the pot is scraped off and formed into a crab cake shape and thrown to the dogs."
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She added: "We want to point out it is not an excursion. It's not a day trip like a pony trekking trip ... I want them to start getting used to having a little collar on, a little harness, used to different people. So one day I want them out with a family with little kids. The next day, I want them out with a big guy."
The organization has also been working to bring in volunteer vets to spay and neuter older dogs, to stop their population from growing too much. Parker-Rauw continued: "There's no need to put these little puppies down. Let's adopt them out and let's stop them being born in the first place, and it all comes down to education, and that's what we're trying to do every day."
If you'd like to visit, and maybe even adopt a dog of your own, then please don't hesitate to visit Potcake Place's official website for more information.
