See the latest from our work in Kremikovtzi:

Kremikovtzi was the pride and joy of Bulgarian socialist industry – it used to be Bulgaria’s largest plant for the processing of black metals on the outskirts of Sofia city. For 20 years the plant deteriorated and became one of Bulgaria’s national tragedies, leaving 10 000 workers jobless, severely damaging the whole of Bulgaria’s struggling economy. Today Kremikovtzi is a scary, empty zone, less than 7 000 people have remained at work at the enormous plant. The people have gone, but the dogs stayed behind…

It’s a scary thing to see – over 200 severely amaciated dogs roam the deserted plant in search of something to eat. Starved and nearly gone wild, the dogs have nowhere to go, they ramain in their “home” and cannibalize each other. The friendlier ones hang arround the plant’s entry hoping the workers (who’ve not received their paychecks in months) to show some compassion and throw them a bit of food. The others hide in the many dark corners and obandoned halls, coming out at night in hope of finding some food. Not one of them is neutered, all are full of intestinal and skin parasites, most are in a dreadfull state.

A few dogs meet us at the entry (01 October, 2010) – they are the more social ones who get most of the food:

The condition of the dogs in Kremikovtzi (12 October 2010)

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You can help the dogs of Kremikovtzi by donating to Animal Rescue Sofia

PLEASE, HELP US! We need your finantial support to be able to feed, de-worm, de-flea, spay&neuter the dogs of Kremikovtzi. We will do our best to find homes for as many as we can. But before we start to look for  homes we need to bring the animals back into a normal phisical and mental condition. That will take allot of time, effort and resources. We are already at the brink of exhaustion with the money we’re able to collect …

Kremikovtzi inside…

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Animal Rescue Sofia has taken some of the most severe cases to the Bogrov shelter. Group 1 in the first week of October – 17 dogs.  Group 2 in the last week of October – 11 dogs, 3 of them will stay at our colleagues – BSAPP, Group 3 – 4 dogs, middle of December.

Group 1 – above.

This girl only has 2 legs – both her back legs were cut off during an incident at the plant, she is one of many injured dogs in Kremikovtzi. She is the first Kremikovtzi dog to be adopted:

Group 2 from Kremikovtzi – below. 6 unspayed females, one of them with a litter of 4 sucklings, 1 older pup from a litter that died fallen from 2-nd level:

Group 3 – below – is small, but very dramatic. A severely amaciated mother with her newbort pups:

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Feeding the Kremikovtzi dogs  (December 2010) – most have put on some weight and will be ready for neutering:

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With so many pregnant females we’ve decided to arrange an urgent neutering spot (December) in order to avoid the birth and death of many new unwanted puppies. We’ve neutered 20 animals, of which 17 females, 16 of them pregnant. We hope to be back for neutering in February when the dogs should be healthy enough.