Teddy Kosturska is a woman who… No, wait. Teddy Kosturska is a WOMAN. A woman with a huge heart, immense patience and an everlasting capacity for goodness. She is a baby-animal foster parent.
For the few years since Teddy has been actively involved with rescuing abandoned kittens and puppies she has saved tens, hundreds of innocent lives. The lives of creatures that would have died of cold and hunger out on the streets. Unwanted babies that kind “people” have dumped as trash – in the river, in the garbage bin or simply on the street. Humanely…
Teddy has raised tens, hundreds of babies. But the battle for each one is huge. You are probably aware that raising a blind baby takes 24/7 efforts – they need to eat every 3 hours, they are born blind and deaf, they can’t even poop and pee by themselves. Tearing a newborn from its mom only means one thing – a cold, lonely, horrible death.
Yet another three babies. Three kittens tied up in a plastic bag, dumped in the trash. With their umbilical cord still hanging. The man who’s found them is calling us wanting to leave them in the shelter – we try to explain to him that it’s impossible to raise such small babies at the shelter – he is getting angry… just a shelter classic. There is a minor detail though – this conversation is being held in front of Teddy Kosturska, sister of keeper Vessy Kosturska, who has come to help at the shelter with her sisters. She hears the sad conversation and… you know what happens, right?
10 hours later the guy that found the babies finally gets them to Teddy’s house. One of the babies is gone. The other two – hanging by the thread. Teddy grabs their lives and holds them to her heart, as strong as she can. And they survived. They got special names as well – Indira and Perun. For luck. They obviously have it. Hope it’s forever.