Posted on July 5, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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Is there any organsiation/person out there in Loznica that can help Sina Fingerhut at the shelter or with communications with the City Mayor.
We knwo corruption is a problem – everwhere. But someone present in Loznica or near would be a great help, as Sina is running a large company and can only come once a month.
Pls advise.
Thanks and regards
Lisa
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Here are the details of her association :
Sina Fingerhut / Lunja – Streunerhilfe grenzenlos e.V. Deutschland – Biburg 1, D-83410 Laufen – +49 157 32116261 – VR: 201516 / Vereinsregister / Amtsgericht Traunstein –
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Details on : SINA FINGERHUT – HUMANITARIAN VET CLINIC – IN LOZNICA
Sina is a young German entrepreneur who wants to help stray animals in Serbia especially as this country is not yet in the EU. She opened a humanitarian vet clinic in Loznica – see her website www.lunj.net – to get pets castrated for free or a very low rate to reduce increase of of unwanted animals.
She has been trying to enter into an Agreement with the local animal shelter in Loznica.
She is feeding the shelter animals, taking care of some medically as far as this is allowed by the Loznica city major but cannot come to an agreement with him. He is “unavailable” no matter what she tries to reach him.
Animals whether healthy, sick, pregnant or injured are crammed into the shelter, get infected there, no fresh water, no food except what Sina and her small team bring in – recently the shelter staff have broken open the quarantine dog cages, removed the cage doors and taken out all animals without saying whereto.
There is no cooperation from the city council of Loznica whatsoever.
DO YOU KNOW ANY LOCAL ORGANISATION – ASSOCIATION – ANIMAL PROTECTORS – ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE – LAWYERS you can put in touch with or name to Sina Fingerhut to help her in her fight for the shelter animals survival.
PLEASE RESPOND TO SINA URGENTLY !!! Thank you !
SAV Comment – If the City Council / Mayor are Always ‘Unavailable’ to discuss the situation, then we at SAV need to go back to our photographic records and show you exactly what the recorded situation In Loznica has been like until now. This is just a selection from our detailed records. No wonder they do not want to talk ! – they should be utterly ashamed of what corruption does. We are presenting this to the world with the hope that suddenly the mayor and City authorities may think differently and suddenly become available to discuss things !!
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Some of our past SAV posts (Below) relating to Loznica:
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Posted on July 3, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Donation site link (SAFE Site):
We entered the new month having a debt from June.
At the vet we have new dogs who will be neutered as soon as possible.
Their lives were in danger because of their agressiveness. Bony, abandon Breton, is at the vet, in therapy, and she needs to recover and get stronger before she gets neutered. Besides, at the house we are taking care of six puppies found in garbage container, theu have been fed by hand… These days it’s time for their first vaccine. Street dogs and food for them we can’t even count anymore… We are dealing with it in different ways, getting in debt, borrowing…
Please help us with paying for at least two emergency sterilizations and six vaccines for puppies. This totals at around 110 euros. Two sterilizations are about 70 euros, and 6 vaccines are about 40. Because of out old debt, the vet has stopped everything else, and we are helpless about that.
Please give anything you can via the safe site on this link, thank you.
Donation site link (SAFE Site):
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Posted on June 21, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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DUSTY WAS RESCUED FROM A RUBBISH TIP IN GREECE BY DIANE, A TRUSTEE OF GREEK ANIMAL RESCUE (GAR)
THIS POOR DOG NEEDS OUR HELP SO PLEASE MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR HER TO COME TO THE UK (SEE THE FILM)
Watch the very moving video here on Youtube –
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY AND PUT ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER ETC. AND SHARE – THANK YOU
If you want to give a donation to help pay for Dusty to move to a forever home in the UK, then please click on the following:
Daniel Turner was not asked to set up a fundraising page – what a star he his – one of GAR’s youngest fundraisers must be about 13 now and has been doing sponsored silence and walks for years
Dusty is currently with GARs best foster carer in Athens and is doing really well!
Message from GAR:
Following the video that Gar uploaded to Facebook regarding a recent trip where a lovely dog named dusty was saved!!! I think we should all club together and help pay towards her flight over to the uk when she is fit and ready! So please if you can donate and help dusty.
P.S. When you make a donation, don’t forget to check the Gift Aid box if you’re a UK taxpayer as then your charity can claim an extra 25% from the government!
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Posted on June 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With the summer heat in full swing, life at the shelter seems quite uneventful as most of the kitties are spending their days passed out all over the place, rightfully feeling it’s too hot to even move around. However, it’s not only that their needs remain the same, but now is also the time to start and finish all of the minor repairs at the shelter.
Almost all of the platforms, ladders and wooden wire spools the cats are having so much fun with while playing in the yard need to be replaced now, after being exposed to all kinds of weather over the last few years.
Autumn rains and the winter cold have taken their toll and no matter how well these wooden items were protected by paint or stain, they can’t last forever. And our kitties just love them all big time!
The old outdoor fence which became wobbly three years ago is miraculously still holding up, but the posts keep crumbling and deteriorating with every passing day and it’s been ages since we could close the gates properly. It would be fabulous if this summer we could manage to raise the funds to rebuild the brick-made pillars and the small wall between them, clean and polish the old iron fence above and replace the sheet metal part of the gates. It’s got to be done this summer before the rotten posts completely fall apart and the whole fence goes down, that is…
And last but not the least, not by a long shot – the kitties must eat every day and now the time is rapidly coming for the mandatory yearly vaccinations against rabies.
The problem is that donations regularly slow down as summer approaches and while we totally understand everyone’s busy planning their vacations, our situation is always unenviable at this time of year. The same thing has been happening forever; when the weather is nice, we’re barely keeping afloat, and when we have enough funds to do something, it’s impossible to work outside due to the weather conditions.
We should’ve gotten used to it by now, I guess…
Anyways, if you have a little extra you could spare to help us out please do so!
Even the smallest donation means a lot, as they all add up and get us closer to our goal. A three-digit number of lazy, relaxed kitties and a couple of their tired humans will be immeasurably grateful for your vital help!
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Posted on June 17, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment
We are giving donations to a lot of appeals all the time from our own pockets – we ask for no money on this site; instead that people donate directly to the groups and by pass ourselves. Sadly many people do not bother to give anything, although a lot of very small donations add up to a large amount that often meets the appeals need.
We are a volunteer run organisation – self funding even for this sites upkeep; we do not have loads of cash stored away to help every appeal that goes out.
Sadly, when the required funds are not met; the worst happens. The message in red below is from Lina in her own words. This is the sad reality of some animal ‘welfare’. We try to put appeals out well in advance, as this appeal was no exception. There was very little in the way of support or donations, so now the dogs will be turned back onto the streets probably to be rounded up by the Shinters.
For them there is no hope after all… They are forgotten, rejected … Nobody want to adopt them , nobody want to help them to stay on safe .. After all , they will go to street , right to death…
To donate –
Lina’s Animal Rescue is organisation for animal welfare from Serbia . . We have 23 dogs in small private unfinished shelter, 20 dogs in 2 boarding kennels and 20 kitties in one rescuers home. Funds are desperately needed to pay the boarding kennel fees. We have debt for April 510€ and for May 960€ . We are desperate , those dogs can not go again on the street. The life of street dogs everywhere is difficult, but here in Serbia the dog catchers kill them rather than rescue them.Those dogs urgent need help . Each dog’s boarding fees are 60€ per month ( 40 boarding kennel + 20 food ) .With 20 dogs currently in boarding facilities, the debt is too great to even think about renovating our shelter. They depend only on help from good people. Please share our story and donate , this is URGENT APEL ! Thank you !
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Posted on June 12, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on June 7, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Come on folks, please donate anything you can – even 1 Euro; it makes a huge difference. This facility is too good to close down, as it has over 500 dogs in its care. It needs funds – we have got the ball rolling today – please give anything using the secure site – first link below – Thank You.
To donate and see lots more, please click on the following:
June 2015 – Things have reached a very critical situation at shelter ‘Alex’.
If you can help this dog shelter which has been running for years to help animals around the Subotica region, then please do so. It does not matter the size of your donation – anything at all will help with the dailt costs.
Andrea, who is a volunteer at the shelter, sends the following plea for help:
Today, things have escalated in shelter “Alex” to the point where the only person who runs the shelter has no strength to run it anymore and is willing to surrender it to other people. The pressure comes from another which is getting lots of support.
The shelter is full. No matter how hard we try to advertise the shelter, to share our dogs, to introduce other people with the work of the shelter, and publish each donation we receive to be as transparent as possible, simply it doesn’t go. There is no money.
Alex, with kind heart helps the dog, but in vain. Nobody else steps in with a minimum donation or a can of food, or to provide a ride to the vet or provide a temporary home for a dog. Nobody helps. Adrijana and Dragan kill themselves from all the work they do during winter and summer, hot and cold temperatures, rain and sun, while I only maintain the fb page of the shelter.
There are 500 dogs at the shelter.
In shelter “Alex” there are dogs who have been saved going back to 2003 and they are still alive. Everybody is welcomed in the shelter “Alex”. People can come and see the dogs, pet them, take them for a walk.
At this present time things are extremely difficult. Adrijana has helped at the shelter for many years but she is now finding it almost impossible to continue as financial donations are few and far between; yet the animals need to be cared for – veterinary costs, food costs, shelter maintenance costs, etc, etc.
Without Adrijana or more help with donations, the fate of all the animals at the shelter is uncertain. Please somebody help!! – give anything that you can to help, please; we do not know what more we can do than to simply ask people if they can help the shelter with a donation of any size – THANK YOU.
Andrea Sreiber
Volunteer at shelter “Alex”
About the shelter:
It is currently run by a lady named Adriana Nadj; this has been the case since 2010. She acts alone with big help by her boyfriend – that is great, but very difficult.
It was the first ‘no kill’ dog shelter in Serbia, founded in 2003. So this shelter has a long history and was involved with the original formation of SAV in England. As you can see from the following links, the shelter and SAV go back many years. In the earler days the shelter was run by Slavica, who is part of team SAV. When it was operated by Slavica, the shelter was known as ‘EPAR’. Here you can see some early SAV post links to the shelter when it was EPAR:
Things have not been easy for the shelter; in 2010 city officials attempted to gain access to the shelter in order to take the dogs so that they could all be killed.
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The shelter has a historically important meaning for Serbia. There have been up to 1000 stray dogs living there in the past; some of which were re-homed and some which died at the shelter by natural death.
There are currently around 500 dogs at the shelter.
The shelter was opened on 18.01.2003.
At the time, Subotica legally permitted euthanasia of dogs and on Fridays, people could bring their dogs to be euthanized for free. The shelter couldn’t allow this, so people from the shelter took those dogs and carried them to the shelter instead. This was the first no-kill shelter in Serbia. Its goal is protection of animals and the environment.
The shelter covers the area of 12000m2 + an additional land of app. 3600m2 next to the shelter which Adrijana received as a gift to expend the shelter.
As both SAV and Serbian campaigners have always spoken out iat length about sterilisation of animals (strays and owned animals); ALL the animals under the care of the shelter have been spayed and neutered.
A large number; approximately 70% of the dogs, are old (some having been under the care of the shelter since 2003/2004). Old dogs often lose control of their legs or suffer from an illness of some internal organ; and so the vets are regularly called on to help – and this costs money all the time.
The shelter does not have sponsors to cover medical costs. It is now looking for donations and / or sponsors to help with daily operating costs.
Small boxes at the shelter contain up to six dogs grouped by personality, to prevent fights. Dogs are also spread across six fields, also grouped by personality, around 10-20 dogs are on the fields. Each field also has a small pond. There are covered boxes, which contain dogs known for attempting to jump over the box walls. The small boxes and the fields require repair of old covers and installation of new covers, to provide shade.
Since it was originally founded, the shelter has helped thousands of dogs, having rescued, adopted and treated them. Dogs will only be adopted out after a mandatory inspection of its potential new home. Adoption is not possible if the owner intends to keep the dog on a chain. Adoption also comes with a mandatory contract. In the case of any dog being found to be in inadequate conditions, the dog is taken back into the shelter. The owner is also permitted to return the dog to the shelter at any time if there are reasons that they cannot continue to have the animal.
The shelter is funded exclusively by donations, which are neither regular or reliable. The City of Subotica currently only provides a free garbage dumpster and provides nothing in the way of financial help, even though the shelter is doing the city a big help by taking dogs from the streets.
The shelter also purchased a van to carry food three times a week from a nearby factory, and the fuel costs vary between 8000 and 10000 RSD. Electricity costs are around 15000 RSD per month. The shelter requires building materials, cleaning supplies, food (granules and canned food, salami, bread, etc), blankets, fleas/ticks
products and money to cover the vet costs, bills, etc.
Here are a few recent links so that you can see the work that is being done to help animals:
So, after having hopefully given you an insight into the opertions of te shelter, all we kindly ask is if you would consider giving a donation; no matter how small, to help with the operating costs of the shelter.
Here at SAV, we do not like to keep asking supporters for financial help; but the situation (as you can see) of trying to help around 500 dogs is a very costly one.
Please give anything that you can;
Thank you very much. SAV
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