Every day the 500 doggies at the Bogrov shelter eat between 270 and 350 kilograms of food. Thanks to your great support they are never hungry!
In the passed week we have received two great food donations:

Kind regards to the donor who wished to remain anonimous for bringing us 70 kilograms of food!

And a big WOW! and THANK YOU! to the staff of HEWLETT PACKARD – HP, for the generous donation of 700 kilograms of food!!!

By the way, our website is made and kept alive by a now 5-year old HP notebook that is still a great performer! Well, with all this writing one of the “Shift” keys has passed, the mouseboard looks quite antient, but – the performance is still tops! Yeap, viva HP!

Our kindest regards to George Doynov for making special boards with the rules for dog-walking at the Bogrov shelter!

Thanks to George we also have very convenient numbers on the cage doors.

THANK YOU, Joro for making and installing the boards! Thank you Vicky for organizing everything!

The rules are only available in Bulgarian at the moment:

Dear friends,

as you know we work 365 days in a year. So there will be only small changes to our working hours this and the following weekend.

Bogrov Winter Holiday working hours

24.12 – standard working hours 08-17
25.12 – open at 08, closing early afternoon 14-15

31.12 – standard working hours 08-17
01.01 – open at 12, closing after 17

Last week was 10-th weekend in a row when all the dogs were walked for at least 10 minutes by the volunteers. The magic had to end some time, but it was a miraclie achieved, trully! This is how happy the dogs are to get some fresh air and private space:

Last Saturday was also great with the open dog-training lesson by Ivan Paskov. We will do it again in January.

Thank you, Ivan!

So, if for some reason you are not increadibly busy with your holliday life these days – you are very welcome to come help our dogs feel loved and appreciated. This year Santa will not be bringing them anything much, only more hope for adoption.

Here come the greatest news for 3 dosens of lucky animals! Thanks to the hard work of our partners in Austia, Germany and Holland – 38 lucky dogs and cats will never be lonely, sad nor hungry ever again! The following extraordinary lives were changed on this long trip:

These sweet little girls and one boy all come from an abandoned litter. There were 10 of them, but only one little lady rameins with us – Amely who needs a foster home to grow healthy and strong. All these little ges will be having a home for Christmas. We wander if they have an idea just how lucky they are? From being dumped by the garbage to being loved in their own homes… yes, this is the hand of destiny!

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Lady Bonita! A girl we have had for almost 2 years now. She was one of the first dumped puppies we admitted to the shelter – just a handful of life. Bonita is a gentle, sweet dog with allot of love to give. Knowing she will be warm and loved fills us with great satisfaction!

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Hero and Hera were found in a sealed box, dumped along with their mother as tiny suckling puppies.  Our friends at Colonel Angels helped us rehome the mother and the puppies stayed untli they were vaccinated and grown. We thought it will be very easy to rehome them here, but instead they found happiness and love in Austria.

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Tashunko and Nikita were both fostered by our CEO Nadia Stancheva and her partner Svetlio Petrov. While Nikita was just a small dumped puppy who grew to be a huge dumped puppy, Tashunko was shot with an air-riffle in his bottocks. He had to spend many long months recovering from hardship and illnes, but is finally ready to go to his happy new life!

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Beatrice and Isobel are both cases of our youngest volunteer – little Betty. 13-year old Betty rescued Beatrice from a garbage bin and kept her till she had all her vaccines and was ready for the shelter. Isobel perhaps you remember as “The drunk” – a puppy we told you about a month ago. Isobel was rescued from drunk vagabonds by Betty. They were giving the dog rakia – the local alcoholic bevarage. When Betty brought the puppy over it was severely intoxicated and the vets were worried it won’t survive. But it did! And now Isobel has gone home!

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Buddy is an abandoned dog. He and his best friend Milow were taken care of by gentle people who found them after they were thrown out on the street.  Unfortunately the neigbours were threatening to poison the dogs, so Buddy came to stay in Bogrov. Shy and gentle Buddy couldn’t fit in and had the hardest of times at the shelter. We are very, very happy he will have a home where he can enjoy the happines of human companionship he craves so badly.
Special thanks to the volunteers who put many hours of hard work into helping him cope with the shelter environment.

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Charlese, Peter Pan and Romul have all been with us since they were tini-tiny babies. Sweet, funny, easy-going and very loving they will be great pets to the people who gave them a chance. Poor Charlese waited over a year to be seen, it is great to know she will never be alone again. And Romul – you know him from our calendar – this good guy comes from Kremikovtzi.

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Finally, the journey is over for Missy and Mecho! The two of them have found peace and safety in a wonderful home in Germany, with a kind, devoted new owner who will look after them and make sure they are loved. Missy and Mecho have went to live in the perfect environment for them. Hats off to Mrs.Makedonska who did miracles with them here. We are very happy to know these poor abused animals will be safe and loved till their last breath.

Mecho and Missy are two dogs that a monster had tried to kill by pouring acid into their ears. Twice.
Thanks to the care of Milena they were brought back to safety and prepaired for their journey home.

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ALL 10 of these jewels are what we call “boxers”. Because they were all dumped in a cardboard box somewhere. As you can see – they are all wonderful, sweet little ones, but it is very easy to imagine them living near garbage bins somewhere…

All these babies were born in someones yard from a mother that wasn’t neutered and then dumped heartlessly to find their own chances in life… These 10 were lucky… but how many more thousands don’t have their luck?

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The wolf mice – that is what Ice and North were called at their fosters. Regards to Zhasmina for taking such a good care of them!
These sweet babies are obvously the unwanted offspring of a pet, they were born from a stray mother who wasn’t neutered. The third brother is now chained as a “guard” somewhere. These two had the luck of leaving Bulgaria.

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Young lady Kara is another lucky fostered dog to leave for a happy new life! Her foster Srebrina took care of her many months and Kara became an easy-going, happy young lady. It is great she will finaly go on her own way with people who will love her much.

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And last, but not least – the lucky cats of the day!

Persian boy Garry is 5 years old. He was dumped by his owners and not quite sure how to handle all the change in his life. All this is now behind him, he will be very happy in his new home. Garry’s friend Panny was something different! Panny is a cat full of life and love, funny, energetic, very lively and sweet. She waited over  months to be found a loving home here in Bulgaria, but somehow people couldn’t recognize her qualities. She will be making an Austrian family very happy!

Black ladies Mimi and Ashley also got a stroke of luck! Mimi was the last one of the Black Pearls without a home. Ashley is a 5-year-old family cat who had to be quickly rehomed due to change in the family circuimstances. The great news is that both will be spending happy hollidays in their family environment.

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OUR THANKS TO:

• the colleagues abroad who help our animals fins the right people;
• teh foster parents and volunteers who make all the effort so the dogs are happy and prepaired;
• Peter, Valko and d-r Rossi for their great professionalism on this long and hard journey;
• our donors who make it all possible by supporting our work!

A generous donation was received at Bogrov, but unfortunately the keepers didn’t write down the name of the donor. Our kind regards to the people who brought 200kg of food and feeding bowls for our dogs!

We also thank our friends at Pfizer for donating 20 boxes of STRONGHOLD to the Bogrov doggies. Flea treatments are always greatly needed at the shelter, thank you!

And our HUGE thanks to our friends of LIDL once more! These are 500 kilograms of canned dog food they gave to the dogs of Bogrov! The help of Lidl is aboslutely priceless to the shelter.