The municipal dog pound of Seslavci (a village near Sofia) is functioning as a castration centre for the city of Sofia. The pound collects street dogs. While some of them are castrated and released, others must stay there forever. Puppies and dogs taken in by citizen complaints are the ones whose life’s journey stops at the centre.

The conditions are difficult to comprehend for a 21-st century EU citizen. Volunteers of Animal Rescue Sofia go to Seslavci 2 times a week. In 2 years time Animal Rescue Sofia has provided foster homes and loving permanent homes to hundreds of dogs from Seslavci. It is hard work and the agony can sometimes be overwhelming. But the most painful thing about Seslavci are the kind, loving eyes of the dogs that parish there. With a small effort you could become part of the lifesaving change for many of the dogs there.

There is now also Saturday volunteering in Seslavci – a group of people who go there every weekend has been gathering through the Facebook group – Let’s help shelter animals. People from the group walk, wash, feed and help the dogs as much as they can. Some of them also volunteer in Bogrov. The management of Seslavci has made an effort to let them in during weekends as there are too few people who can go to Seslavci during the week.

It is only through your donations and generocity that we can work with the municipality to make Seslavci a place where dogs’ stories start, not end.

Please, help us help them.