This black pitbull had been abandoned at the Seslavci municipal dogs pound by his idiot owners. He had been used for fighting, but still cared so much for people – his only idea was to squeeze in thorugh the bars to get some volunteer attention.

Whilst at the municipal pound his face became very infected and began to swell up.  As the problems grew the volunteers realized this dog will not live very long if untreated. As the municipal shelter offers no medical help for the dogs outside of neutering, they brought him to the Bogrov clinic for treatment.

The boy was treated and showed improvement quite quickly – he is a strong dog who  obviously has seen much hardship in his life. Pitbulls usually find homes very hard. At this very moment we have 4 pits at the shelter waiting for love and not much hopes of finding the right people for them.

But – this boy has a stroke of luck thanks to the volunteers at the Dara animal help. He was found a caring owner and went home to him straight from the clinic. As you can see – the boy couldn’t be more satisfied!

We have received photos from the happy homes of two favorite boys – Kosta, the 3-legged sweetheart who became “Lucky dog of the year 2011” and our little dwarf boy, Willow – a little dog that had to fight a serious illness.

Today the two of them are healthy, happy and very much loved by two wonderful families in Austria. The great news is that they have been adopted by relatives and actually meet up and play like true friends quite often. Life works itself in misterious ways, doesn’t it? Two unwanted little crippled dogs who have found so much happiness and love…

Kosta, sweet little boy, how lucky and loved you are!

“…being close to you”

“I wish for this moment to last forever!”

Our kindest regards to Venelin Iliev for the series of beautiful photos he made for our doggie-adds!

500 wonderful dogs wait for love and friendship to find them at the Bogrov shelter.

Laura Laarhoven and Robert van Goor are veterinary students from the University of Utrecht. Tehey are two of the many young Dutch vets who will come to help voluntarely with the Spay/Neuter program at the Bogrov clinic thanks to Mr Hano Berger of Dieren Stages.

Our vets d-r Stankova and d-r Stoyanova work hard to prevent the birth of thousands of unwanted animals – they work every day, including weekends. At our clinic we neuter over 200 animals every month – it is absolutely free for owned and homeless animals, both dogs and cats.

Laura and Robert didn’t come to Bogrov empty-handed – they borught precious Spay/Neuter materials. It’s great to be getting such help as quality sutures are very expensive and we do neuter hundreds of animals every month.

Having the Duch vets over for help is a breath of fresh air for us – we are always in need of enthusiasm to be able to continue to work at full-speed at all times. It is great to be working with such wondeful young people. The dogs are loving them too. But the luckiest one must be young lady Dobre.

“Dobre” means “good” or “OK” in Bulgarian language. It is always one of the first things the Dutch vets learn when they come to volunteer with us. Dobre is the name Karen van de Rakt chose for the puppy she adopted from us:

Karen’s family has an elderly labrador dog – Dobre has gone to make him young again. Just the way the young Dutch vets bring a new energy to our team.

Now, Raffaelo was born with a lucky dragon on his side, that’s for sure!  Here he is, the little rascall, from Hell to Heaven in just a short month – happily rehomed with Danny Vassileva and her sweet daughter Alissa.

Raffi is small, but already has a long story – he was hit by a car, rescued and operated on an emergency. His leg was saved in the last moment, the surgery was complicated and the recovery – long. He had a metal plate installed in his bone and an outside device holding it. He needed a foster home and found it – even before he came to the shelter. There was a sweet family who wanted Amely – they invited him in and took a great care of him.

With the great photos we got from his foster mom Bogdana Raffi happened to be seen by Danny. Danny is a volunteer of Animal Rescue Sofia – she is the person organizing the fabulous children parties and Usmivka kid centre. But that is not all that makes her a wonderful person. She is always smilng, full of ideas and always ready to do goos things – we can only wish for more people like her! By the way – you can’t see him on these photos, but the family also has a rescue cat – a black boy named Martinik who was dumped newborn and nursed by Danny.

All in all we can just say that this is the happiest little bandit in the Universe: