War Paws

From War Paws:

“Current Fundraisers”

 

LUNA WANTS TO COME HOME, CAN YOU HELP?

The lovely, cute Luna arrived with us in June and is currently staying in the lovely boarding facility we use for the dogs who have owners.  Her dad desperately wants to bring her home and has already paid a chunk of her ticket home but we need your help to get her to full target.  Luna has the most beautiful eyes and she is a typical happy puppy full of love and waggy tail and she really does deserve to come home and be reunited with her dad and new doggy siblings, can you help? Her dad tells her story below: have been working in Iraq since 2015 and always had a site companion any looked after them. My current site has a few dogs and we have had numerous litters over the last 2 years and they always get removed from site after becoming a nuisance to some of the residents on site with barking through the night and mess. I have taken a particular shine to Luna as she turned up and sat at my office. She has the most beautiful eyes. As soon as I saw her I took her in and have been feeding and training her. My family all love her and I am desperate to get her home to the UK to be with my family

HAWKEYE (BREAGHA) NEEDS YOUR HELP

This is Hawkeye, she arrived at the shelter in Iraq a few months ago, a pitiful sight, skin and bone.  She quickly learned that life could be good after all,  with lots of love, attention and food and now she has a golden opportunity to come and live in Scotland with one of our amazing War Paws supporters. Her new mom has written about why she wants to bring Hawkeye (soon to be known as Breagha) home to Scotland “Breagha (pronounced Bree-aah – Scottish Gaelic for beautiful) At our 5 acre Highland Croft in Scotland we have lost three of our beloved dog pack to old age in recent weeks. We believe the greatest tribute you can pay to a much loved departed soul, is to give their space to one that really needs it and Hawkeye deserves a life of freedom, love and care after a rotten start in life with her chain embedded in her neck as a mere puppy. Thanks to War Paws her fortune can completely change now. To help her “come home” we need your help. Once she is here she will have the best life – friends, good food, companionship and everything a beautiful girl could ask for, but first we need to secure her travel. Will you help our wee beauty travel to Scotland?   We will be extremely grateful, and so will Breagha

PLEASE HELP LOKIE TO COME HOME

Lokie was born on a gas facility in Basrah about 18 months ago.  She never really fitted in with the rest of the pack dogs and as a result was attacked many times.  Thankfully for Lokie a kind contractor on the facility took her in and offered her safe shelter and the time has now come for him to take her home. Lokie arrived with us in Erbil early June, she had been spayed by a local vet in Basrah and was suffering from an infection at the incision site but we were able to get that sorted out quickly and she is now settled into the boarding facility where she will be looked after until she is ready to be reunited with her dad. Lokie’s dad has already covered approx half of her costs and we are now hoping that you can help us to spread the word and raise the remainder.  We only need to raise £2500 and just as soon as she has passed the FAVN blood testing and completed the 3 month waiting time we can get her on a freedom flight home. Please share Lokie’s fundraiser, lets help this lovely girl to come home and see that there is a wonderful life ahead of her after such a rough start.

AID FOR UKRAINE ANIMALS

17 July 2022 Update: We are sorry….we have been not so great at keeping this fundraiser updated so here we are with a long awaited update! In June we suffered the unexpected loss of our rescue partner Dogbus, when the founder of the org, Kris, passed away unexpectedly.  Kris had been instrumental in making this project happen and she is missed beyond belief but we will continue the project that she poured blood sweat and tears into, we will not fail her or the many dogs she helped to rescue. It has been crazy busy at the shelter in Romania that is currently home to 97 dogs most of whom were rescued from Ukraine.  Louise did a very quick 3 days trip to Romania a few weeks ago to start the process of titre testing with the lovely Romanian vet who is taking care of the medical needs of our dogs.  In 3 days we managed to get the bloods drawn for 77 of the 97 dogs and those samples are now at the lab in the UK and we hope to start seeing the results in about a week.  Some of the dogs at the shelter are actually Romanian so as soon as we have the titre tests back we will be working with European Rescues to find them fosters and placements as the British government extended the ban until September, on animals from Ukraine, Romania, Poland and Belarus a few days ago and we simply do not expect the ban to just go away.  The dogs who came from Ukraine who have had their titres done will remain at the shelter in Romania until the 3 month wait time has passed and the can be moved legally. There has been some major renovations going on at the shelter on Romania, a new kennel block is being built, a quarantine section for new arrivals is being built and in time an onsite clinic will be built.  As well as all this we have been ensuring weekly vet visits to the shelter, making sure every dog is vaccinated, chipped, treated for internal and external parasites and blood tests for all the usual illnesses we see from the EU and Ukraine regions. As well as this we have funded another food transport run to Poland and we have also provided life saving funding for Odessa Cat Crew to help them keep going with the many cats and dogs in their care in Ukraine. Your donations have been hard at work and we are more grateful than you can imagine but as expected we have seen a steep decline in donations for the animals of Ukraine, we understand, the cost of living crisis is kicking butt all over the world but we want you to know we will not give up, your support is making a difference and we will ensure these dogs are cared for and we would ask that you continue to share our fundraiser even if you cannot donate.

GIVE A QUID, SAVE A LIFE CAMPAIGN

Can you spare just £1 a month to help an animal in a war torn country? You may not think that just £1 makes a difference but it really DOES make the world of difference to an animal in need, especially when lots of people give just £1 each month. Most of us will treat ourselves to a bar of chocolate, snack, a takeout coffee etc at least once a month and often this comes in at more than £1. Imagine the difference it would make if we could get 10,000 people to give £1 a month just by giving up 1 cup of coffee or 1 bar of chocolate or other snack each month and donating that money to War Paws instead.

£1 will feed 2 dogs for a day

£1 will pay for 5 Needles and Syringes needed to administer life saving vaccines

£1 will pay for 1 dog or cat to be treated for worms

£1 will pay for a 1 week course of Amoxicillin for a sick dog or cat

£1 will pay for a bandage for an injured dog or cat

The list of things that £1 will pay for or help to pay for is endless so YES your £1 does make a difference to an animal in need. Each month we are aiming to get at least 1000 new donors who will give £1 a month, will you be one of those amazing people who helps us to make the difference for the forgotten animals of war? It only takes a minute to sign up, your donations are 100% secure and we never sell your details to third parties. Please sign up now and save the life of a forgotten animal of war.

^ War Paws helps animals and pets that have been abandoned as well as animals and pets that have Owners and need to eb reunited with them. These are their current Fundraisers. Please click on the link below to share, donate (in US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Australian Dollars, Euros and British Pounds) or both. Thank you. ^

https://warpaws.org/fundraising/