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 No End to Suffering
The sound of rustling around the garbage containers. Dark shadows of stray dog packs scurrying past like rats. Some hopeful with wagging tails, others depressed and bitter like the rotten food scraps they gnaw. Their well-being depending mostly on the welfare of the neighborhood they belong to.This isn't a scene from a horror move. This represents a typical picture of contemporary Sofia, where such images are part of the daily life of stray dogs and passersby.
Why is the number of stray dogs still going up when the Sofia municipality swears to have solved the problem? What is the reason then? People, dog owners or animal repellents? Do these advertisements sound familiar?
"Cute puppies: mom-Husky, dad-unknown. Born on 3.10.2008. Urgent!!!!"
"The cutest puppies on Earth: father-German shepherd, mom-street mutt. The puppies are 2 months old."
"My dog ran away two months ago and returned pregnant. She has given birth to 6 lovely puppies which deserve to have a good home. Open your heart up to them."
The list is long and will remain so until people start being more responsible and have their dogs sterilized and thus show compassion for those wretched and neglected creatures abandoned in the streets of Sofia. Sterilization is not an interference with nature, throwing away newborn puppies in the streets is interference.
I want to urge you all to be more responsible to the generations to come and sterilize your dog or cat. Tell a friend that sterilization is the answer to animal homelessness.
Article by Aglika Ivanova
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Have you ever thought about the impact that foster care can make on a homeless animal shelter like BSAPP's Sofia rescue center? If you haven't, you might be surprised to know that for every animal that is adopted or taken into foster care, BSAPP can turn around and help another animal in need. In addition, exposure increases interest in the animal thus increasing its chances of being adopted. Fostering can also save a life, as we have seen in the case of Kyra.We have several animals currently in foster care including Sunny (pictured above), Cloe and Mildred. 
