Dear friends,
Last week, when we invited you for a last moment spring-cleaning, we didn’t think we’ll be able to get done with the pending work just for one weekend. We thought we either won’t have enough people, or enough tools, or the weather would’ve been against us, or the walks would’ve remained in the background. I am pleased to inform you, however, that we were not at all close to the truth.
On Saturday we had a large crowd of volunteers, who came especially to help is clean. They brought cleaning tools, buckets, spuds and heaps of other first necessity items for the aim. They’ve split on team A – cleaning and team B – walking dogs and performed true wonders in the shelter. Not only they walked 10 cages, but they also repaired fences, picked rocks and rubbish from the ground, marked the protruding and dangerous pieces of iron, helped and cleaned in the upper building, etc.
On Sunday we tried to finish what the Saturday-fellows have started – we walked the rest of the cages, outside enclosures and the oldie dogs, we socialized the dogs from the Kremikovtsi factory, we piled up the larger rocks, a couple of guys stretched the fence of one of the enclosures and overall – there was work for everyone.
It is an important detail that we managed to walk all dogs in the shelter, to get them tired from running and to spoil them with biscuits. Lately the crowds of volunteers in Bogrov are huge! We sometimes have more people than dogs in a single cage. Therefore, we’d like to ask you, when you are coming, to bring with you plenty of water, comfortable clothes as well as patience. In order to avoid unpleasant accidents, that can harm dogs as well, we would NOT walk 2 cages simultaneously (except in rare cases when large groups are being organized). Each cage in the shelter is like a separate “gang”, which not always is friendly to the other “gangs” and it is recommended that they don’t meet. Which means, instead of walking around freely and untroubled in the shelter area, rather look after the dog next to you. Not to mention that some people always forget which cage their dog is from so we end up returning unknown dogs in unknown cages. This, you understand, is a problem. We know that you dedicate your time to our furry friends, and it is not enjoyable to sit aside and wait for the next cage so there is a dog for you as well, but this is only because of the safety of the dogs. We don’t do it just because it is easier for us.
We thank you for your understanding, patience and invaluable presence in Bogrov!
Unfortunately, we don’t have a list of our hard working and dedicated volunteers who transformed the shelter last weekend, in order to thank them one by one, but be assured that we, as well as the dogs appreciate infinitely you help! You are the people who make our work possible and lighter, and the doggies’ lives – happier and reasonable. Thank you from our hearts, that you don’t forget us!
P.S. We expect you this weekend, and we promise all the time in the world to be only for you and the dogs. No more cleaning J Help yourself to sweet chattering and happy walks in Bogrov!
