War Paws: International Charity Day
LET’s GET LUCKY Home
Lucky is another pup who has been
fortunate enough to win the heart of a Brit working in Iraq. Her dad tells her
story below, Lucky only needs to raise £2500 so we would ask you to dig deep
and share far and wide and help us to reunite her with her dad. ”I met this
puppy whilst working nights at a checkpoint on the oilfield in South Rumaila,
Basrah, Iraq. I went back to the checkpoint 5 nights in a row where i was
continuously greeted with the happy, waggy tailed pup who’d instantly roll onto
her back submissively, then at the first opportunity, playfully dive at my shoes
trying to pull at my shoelaces and trouser leg. Over the period of time i was
there i accumulated a strong bond with her.
Already knowing the fates of the majority of the dogs on the oilfield i
knew i needed to rescue her for a much better life, where she would be away
from the many dangers and guaranteed short life due to dying either from
neglect, passing vehicles, or being poisoned, which is a common practice to
cull dogs in Iraq.”
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.
https://warpaws.org/donations/please-help-lokie-to-come-home/
AID FOR UKRAINE ANIMALS
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.
https://warpaws.org/donations/aid-for-ukraine-animals/
^ Today is International Charity
Day:
War Paws helps abandoned, sick
and abused animals in War Zones (from Iraq to Ukraine.)
Please check out the links to see
the different animals and fundraisers. You can donate in: US Dollars, Canadian
Dollars, Australian Dollars, British Pounds and Euros. ^
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