Rescued from Ukraine, but abandoned in Romania.

We only work with volunteers. We do not deduct salaries, offices,
expensive cars or unnecessary frills. Every penny goes to the animals.

Volunteers from solid organisations then, risking their lives, drove straight through the war zone and rescued thousands of animals from the danger zone.

We know a few of those heroes and admire them for their courage and love of animals. Many compatriots also sympathised and were willing to adopt a Ukrainian dog or cat.

Unfortunately, this also gave others an idea. People who were perhaps a little less heroic, who set out with the best of intentions, but found out that driving into occupied territory is really very dangerous. So they drove in vans and private cars just across the border from Ukraine, took dogs and cats from the first shelter they came across, picked animals off the street and brought them back.

Mind you: the shelters they visited were usually not in the war zone. The stray animals were not in immediate danger there, either. And so more and more animals were transported to the west. The NVWA (Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority) was shocked by the large numbers and subsequently stated that only animals with a refugee owner were welcome in the Netherlands. The other stray and shelter animals were not allowed to cross our border, no matter how harrowing their situation was. The NVWA even threatened that the animals would be confiscated and quarantined by them. All costs would then be borne by the new owner or the foundation that had cooperated. The amounts could amount to no less than 3000 euros per animal! Great panic all around. What was to be done with all those animals?

The only thing they could think of was to house the animals in large numbers in the countries around Ukraine. Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova. And yes, all shelters were already full there. Sometimes the dogs were 10x worse off than in the shelters in safe areas they were taken from. And at the moment all dogs and cats are still there… a hopeless situation.

An unmitigated disaster was the closing of the border for ALL dogs from the Eastern Bloc countries by England. That ban is still in effect. For that reason, no animals can travel to England at all. Not even the Romanian dogs that had already been adopted or whose travel had already been booked to go to a shelter.

We now tell the whole long story in a nutshell.

The fact is that an awful lot of animals now have to survive in cramped shelters where they have no money or time for them. Incidentally, tribute to all those real animal helpers who selflessly took in the animals. While they already have so much trouble caring for their own dogs or cats.

One of those true animal lovers is Mirela Soare. We have also known her for a long time. She doesn't whine, she doesn't complain, but for her the costs and prices of feed have also increased. And her own donors fail. Many now prefer to send a donation directly to Ukraine. While her sheltered Ukrainians do not benefit from it.

Therefore, for her, Mirela, the proceeds of this project.

Mirela Soare lives in Bucharest, Romania. The German organisation that left 55 dogs with her promised a lot, but delivered little. Mirela trusted that the organisation would pay the vet bill for these dogs, but none of that. Vaccinations, sterilisations, treatments, the food, everything fell on her shoulders. Including the – still unpaid – vet bill. She also had 60 cats thrown into her lap. Most can find their way to Germany or England IF the borders open. But some cats have an infectious disease, for which they first have to undergo expensive treatment for 3 months. Which no one wants to pay…

Her own 200 animals also come from a Romanian death shelter, have been dumped or found in dire circumstances. It is normally no sinecure to feed and care for all the animals. But with the extra dogs and cats AND the empty promises that it would work out financially, it is nothing short of a drama for Mirela.

Can we all keep our fingers crossed that the borders will open soon and that the NVWA will become a little milder?

And in the meantime contribute a penny to all the extra Ukrainians at Mirela?

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We only work with volunteers. We do not deduct salaries, offices,
expensive cars or unnecessary frills. Every penny goes to the animals.