Bulgarije | Bulgaria
BSAPP Burgas Dai Lapa Marietta Stankova Palamartsa Animal Sanctuary Rudozem Street Dog Rescue BSAPP
Local situation:
Bulgaria has a problem with stray dog and cat overpopulation. For the capital (Sofia) alone estimates range between 8,000 to 10,000 stray dogs. The result is countless stray animals struggling to survive on the street that we see every day. The BSAPP shelter: Dr. Stoyan Stoyanov, DVM, PhD founded BSAPP in 1998, in response to the rising cat and dog population in Sofia's streets. With the help of colleagues and community members Dr. Stoyanov established an Animal Centre (shelter) where he has since conducted over 700 spay/neuter surgeries and healed many sick and injured animals. Many of these lucky animals have been rehomed due to the efforts of volunteers and professionals like Dr. Stoyanov. Our work: Spaying and neutering programme – We offer free sterilisation of stray dogs and cats from the Gevgeliiski neighbourhood as well as sterilisation at a reduced price for strays from other areas and pets of owners who lack the financial means to afford the operation. Re-homing - We strive to re-home as many rescued dogs and cats as we can and particularly those who are vulnerable and would not survive on the street. Public education and community action - We reach out to the public via events, posters, brochures and media with the aim to educate people about the importance of sterilisation and adoption. www.bsapp.org http://bulgariadogs.webs.com Update medio 2011: de BSAPP is gestopt met hun werk.
Burgas
We are an Bulgarian organization for protection of the animal’s rights – “Animal’s Friends-Burgas”. We are very concerned about the animals in the regional shelter and the ones on the streets. We are volunteers and receive no salary for our work!Some of them we save from their owners. It is not easy to be a homeless animal in Bulgaria! Most of them are frightened to death because somewhere in the past they we’re chased or abused. Those in the shelter often starve to death. It is not a secret that some of them have been killed for fur .We can’t describe the fear we see in their eyes!
Unfortunately, most of the gifts that we bring to the shelter disappear, they steal even from the poor creatures .The shelter is away from the town but we go there every day just to be sure that we’ll find the stuff we brought. Animals also disappear, and the answer is always that they have been homed, but we never see them again .We are taking care for the treatment of the animals, because no one else will do it .Thankfully we have two vets that volunteer in our organization. They are doing great work. There are 70-80 dogs in the shelter. Our hope is to the children, to change their point of view. The idea is to make an educational program to stimulate children’s positive thinking to take responsibility and care for the animals. We want them to visit the animals in the shelter, to communicate with all this animals. Our point is to cure, castrate the animals and to find a new home for them. Our latest new friend is a female dog with only 2 front legs, that needs an operation .And the question is what we’ll do with it next? What is her future? We are trying to find companies for donations, especially food but the results are horrible. There are not many people that help us. Some of the dogs are born in the shelter and live their whole life there .Without love, walks, knowing what the world looks like. Help us make their life much more easier , much more better, while we are doing our best finding them home and love www.koi-me-iska.com Dai Lapa
Three months ago one association named ‘Dai lapa’ (that means in English ‘Give a paw’) succeeded in winning the competition that the municipality of Pernik has announced for managing the isolator (deathstation) ‘Pernik’. This is the first and one case in Bulgaria when people who really love animals have a possibility of managing a place like that. They are five or six people – volunteers that work without receiving salary. Their most important activity is sterilizing the homeless dogs but they try to help distressed animals. The municipality should give the association some money every month. But for these 3 months it has given money only once. All needs are defrayed with personal funds or donations and they are at the end of their resources. Here in Bulgaria people who would make donations for homeless animals are not many and that is why the situation is so difficult. Now ‘Give a paw’ has a need of help to be able to continue its great work. The conditions in the isolator are not good but the team is perfect and this place is one of the few ‘life-saving’ islets where unfortunately only a small part of the homeless dogs that have had unhappiness to taste of the human cruelty, can find care, love, calmness and chance of better life. Everybody is welcome to visit and see, and of course to help.
Dai lapa’ has a contract with the local municipality for one year. They should sterilized homeless dogs in Pernik city. The municipality grants about 20 euros per dog. This price includes catching, transportation, sterilizing and needed drugs. This price is unreal and insufficient. There is a clause according to which if any organization (including a foreign organization) managed the isolator for a fixed period, the place becomes organization’s property. Also the organization can build a new building or make various changes it wants. The conditions here are awful. There are about 10 little rooms where the sterilised dogs stay after the operation. The other dogs – these which can not be returned at the street - live in the yard. There isn’t any shelter or dog’s kennels. This problem is one of the important things which have to be solved before winter. Update september 2011: onze contactpersoon bij Dai Lapa is gestopt en helaas kunnen we hen niet meer helpen. Website http://dailapa.hit.bg/za%20nas.htm Marietta Stankova
Marietta Stankova is a Bulgarian veterinarian. Owing to circumstances beyond her control, in November 2009, she had to leave Sofia, the capitol of Bulgaria, with some 30 homeless dogs in her personal care. As a temporary measure over the following months, Marietta lived with her boyfriend's parents in their home in the country. In the meantime, Marietta and her boyfriend have been able to buy a house with a large garden where they and their many foster dogs will enjoy a far better quality of life. Unfortunately, their new home is quite far away from Sofia and, for this reason, we will no longer be able to call upon her veterinary skills. It is a sad fact that people living in rural areas in Bulgaria are not emotionally involved with their animals, nor do they take their animals to a vet for medical attention. If a sick animal is lucky, it will survive disease and injury on its own - if not, the animal will die, and no one will care. All this makes it very difficult for Marietta to find work. Her dream is to open a private shelter where homeless dogs will be
lovingly and professionally cared for until they are adopted. Without the support of other animal lovers, however, Marietta's dream will never become reality. The need of the countless, homeless dogs of Bulgaria is great. Marietta's dedication to them is equally great, and she desperately needs your help. 
   Palamartsa Animal Sanctuary
Palamartsa Animal Sanctuary was set up by Patricia Corderoy and her partner Jimi Nicoll in December 2008. It all started with a chance encounter whilst out shopping when they spotted what looked like a dirty mop. It turned out to be a small very dirty and very matted white dog that was named Pipi. She was pregnant and had a fractured leg. Tricia and Jimi took her home, looked after Pipi and her new pups and that was the shape of things to come. Since then, using our family home and garden as a makeshift shelter, we have taken in 86 dogs and 12 cats, focusing on the most needy as it is impossible to save them all. We re-home as many as possible within Bulgaria despite the hostile environment towards mixed breeds in Bulgaria, and also look to Western Europe to re-home some of our dogs that due to size or breed are overlooked here. Our modest home however was never designed to be a shelter as it is located within a residential area of the village and we have simply outgrown it. We are now therefore looking to build a purpose built shelter to make managing our increased numbers easier and also provide much needed space. We have been offered land and barns on the edge of the village and are aiming to move there in the very near future with a view to converting a barn into kennels, with dog runs, and a clinic on site. Please see our May newsletter for more information.
This month we aim to get 5 more dogs sterilized . Number of dogs rescued to date is: 86 Re-homed to date is: 34 Sterilised via PAS: 28, Total number of dogs on site looking for homes: 27, Dogs adopted this month: 4, Dogs in foster care: 6. Unfortunately 24 of our rescued puppies died (over a 3 year period), as they already had parvo when rescued and despite treatment did not survive. 1 dog died from bad heart. We hope to commence fencing the new premises very soon. 4 cats rehomed. 1 cat sterilised this month. We managed to get 3 dogs to the vets in Targovishte this month. We are awaiting blood test results. Bulgaria is still not an animal friendly country and the situation is quite distressing. Despite recent changes in animal cruelty legislation there is not an authoritative organisation to ensure that these laws are adhered to. www.palamartsaanimalsanctuary.yolasite.com Rudozem Street Dog Rescue
Conditions for street dogs are hard in Bulgaria. Apart from deliberate abuse, they face starvation and freezing in the Winter and dehydration in the Summer. Apart from our own four dogs, we now have 24 rescue dogs at our home. We feed and care for many more dogs on the streets and in the forest. We built little shelters for the dogs in the forest. Because we have no shelter, most of the rooms in our house have dogs in them, including our bedroom. We recently built a run in the garden for puppies and we are about to build another run and kennel. We recently took in two old dogs. One was blind and wouldn't survive very long on the streets, the other had the worst matted coat I have ever seen. Both dogs will stay with us. Last week we brought home one of the dogs from the forest after we found her with a serious injury to her tail, then within 24 hours we took in 5 puppies. One was thrown from a car, 2 were dumped with the town rubbish and another 2 were found in the town centre. |    Click on the photos to go to the photo album of the shelter.
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