Posted on February 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
U R G E N T !!!
Nearing the deadline for payment of the debt, and we have not even a quarter collected.
More and more I’m afraid that the dogs have to return to the street, because we have no other solution currently.
Everything what we did for them so far, will be in vain … their lives will again be are jeopardized. Can someone help them to stay safe ???
16 DOGS ARE IN BOARDING KENNELS AND THEIR FUTURE IS NOW A VERY UNCERTAIN.
WE ARE PAST DUE ON THEIR BOARDING FEES ARE FIND WE ARE IN REALLY BIG TROUBLE… WE ARE APPEALING TO EVERYONE TO HELP US KEEP THESE STRAY DOGS OFF THE STREETS AND SAFE!!!
Lina’s Animal Rescue is organisation for animal welfare from Serbia . . We have 17 dogs in small private unfinished shelter, 20 dogs in 2 boarding kennels and 15 kitties in one rescuer’s home.
Funds are desperately needed to pay the boarding kennel fees. We have debt for December for 10 dogs and still unpaid January for 16 dogs. The life of street dogs everywhere is difficult, but here in Serbia the dog catchers kill them rather than rescue them. Finding homes is very difficult as the culture in Serbia is not to adopt dogs, but rather buy a puppy then turn it out in the streets later when it is grown.
Ideally we want to adopt the dogs outside Serbia, but this involves blood-work, lab tests and transportation fees. The average Serbian salary is 200€ and 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.
First we must improve our housing situation as boarding costs are too high, pay bills and veterinary fees and then join forces with international rescue groups to finds these animals ‘furever” homes outside of Serbia. .
Please donate , this is URGENT APPEAL !
Spread the word!
Youcaring is a perfectly safe site in Canada where you can donate to causes such as this.
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Posted on February 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Drustvo za zastitu zivotinja ALEX
Victor’s story.
Victor was saved in 2008.
On a tip that a dog is in poor condition, that only serves as a guard dog, and that nobody cares for him, volunteers of NGO “Alex” immediately went on the field and took the custody over the dog. They named him Victor.
Horror is a mild word for the poor state the dog was in. Starved and weak, he had a heavy chain around his neck, food and water was nowhere to be seen, and he had a bad skin disease Demodex.
It took a long time for Victor to recover, to learn that he is no longer limited by a meter long chain, that food and water are always available to him, and that every day there is someone who will come and pet him, talk to him with a gentle voice and nice words.
Victor began to flourish. He got better, but kept his position of a housekeeper.
He doesn’t like other dogs and cats, but with people he is simply wonderful. He likes to go for walks and enjoys being in the center of attention.
Victor is now 8 years old.
He hasn’t found a home yet.
Volunteers of “Alex” would give everything if he could go to a family that will love and cuddle him for the rest of his life.
But, if that does not happen, Victor is grateful that he got a second chance in life. We don’t even want to think of the fate that would have awaited him if he had remained with that chain, and in those conditions for one more day or one more month… one more year he would not have survived.
Victor is a dear dog. He acts as if he wants nothing more than what he already has. But we think he deserves a home.
If anyone is interested in adopting him, it would be the most beautiful news for him and for us.
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Posted on February 21, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment:
The following shows just a fraction of the photographic and video evidence that we and others have regarding animal suffering in Serbia that is not being addressed by the Serbian government and authorities. IT IS NOW TIME FOR CHANGE – especially as Serbia wishes to become a new EU member. Citizens of the EU will not tolerate this kind of animal abuse.
We will be a Serbian Animals Voice !
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Further to the letter sent to EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn by English MEP / Vice President of the EU Intergroup for Animal Welfare, Mr Keith Taylor on 19th February 2015;
We at SAV have now completed a follow up letter to the Commissioner giving him several video links and many photographs of ‘animal welfare’ (??) situations we have experienced over the last few years at SAV. Note that we have published all the animal fighting videos on this site during the last month.
As you can see from our letter, we are asking Commissioner Hahn; who has overall EU responsibility for “European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations” – ie. allowing the Republic of Serbia to become a member of the EU; to review our presentation, photographs and animal fighting links (especially) to ensure that the Serbian government; local authorities and national police actually take EXISTING Serbian legislation much more seriously by actually enforcing the law. This is something we have not seen much proof of during our last 10 years producing this site.
We have been working with Mr. Taylor MEP over the last few weeks on this very issue. As both Keith says in his letter, and we also do in ours; by allowing animal abuse such as can be seen for example in the video links; and by not enforcing its own (Serbian laws) on animal welfare; which are good; Serbia is NOT upholding the fundamental principle set by the EU for new member states of proving that they are enforcing ‘the rule of law’ (their own national legislation) within their own borders.
And so by not enforcing the ‘rule of law’ on animal welfare as one example; and using Serbian legislation within Serbia to prosecute offenders; it (Serbia) is showing the EU that on just this one particular issue alone that we are involved with, national legislation IS NOT being applied. Thus it should be considered that Serbia is currently not in a position to be a suitable EU member state.
Only when Serbia actually does apply Serbian law on animal welfare; and prosecutes or takes other actions as necessary to prove things ARE being done to the EU; should it then be seen to be complying with the EU ‘rule of law’ requirements and thus be allowed to join the EU as a new member state.
Please click on the following link to read our follow up letter to EU Commissioner Hahn in full.
Note that at the start; all contact addresses have been removed from the original.
IMPORTANT – when you click on the following link below, you should then see a Word doc with this same name as below appear at the bottom of the site. Simply click on this same Word doc to open the letter.
It should start by saying: “Addresses removed from original sent”.
We now await further correspondence in future from the Commissioner regarding our letter and that of Keith Taylor MEP; and we will immediately report any news of information on this site.
We have lots of excellent Serbian campaigner friends and shelter operating friends – see some of them and their work at our ‘Shelters’ section of the site – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/serbian-shelters/ They work relying entirely on supporter donation support when it should also be provided by the government, who should have animal welfare responsibilities; especially regarding the keeping of stray animals in shelters.
Evidence is provided to the authorities; and they simply ignore it and walk away, leaving our friends to pick up the animal pieces. It should not be the case that hard evidence of causing suffering is just ignored.
We are finally starting to reach a corner. The government and authorities have done very little for animal welfare for many years by ignoring the evidence and failing to prosecute those who cause suffering. Maybe now that Serbia wants EU accession the tide is turning. They are NOT complying with the fundamentals of EU accession – namely enforcing the rule of (Serbian) law within Serbia. We, as an EU based NGO will continue to provide the evidence to the EU. We need the EU to act and inform Serbia that it is not enforcing its own laws for animal welfare. And we say to the EU, until Serbia does and proves that it is enforcing the law, it should not be allowed to become a new member state of the EU.
Serbian government and regional authorities needs to get their house in order re animal welfare before the EU even considers their accession. We speak for Serbian welfare campaigners, shelters and also for the current citizens of the EU who are shocked and appalled by what they see on this site.
Serbian government and authorities – clean up your act
– make things better for animals, not worse!
SAV.
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Posted on February 17, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
For the last few weeks there has been a lot of thought given here (England) to undertaking a virtual adoption of one of the cats at ‘Felix’ shelter which is run in Serbia by our good friend Danica.
No final choice was made as there are so many appealing faces at the shelter.
Then on Sunday night, more news and photos came through from Danica about some of the cats at the shelter. There was one little lady who immediately grabbed attention; Danica wrote:
‘Utata’ is living a happy life at the shelter, but there’s one little thing missing. She needs a virtual “parent” who will perfect her happiness and show her she’s special by choosing to sponsor her, just her. Is it you?
Utata needs a sponsor ! – Utata is about five years old, I found her as a tiny kitten. She was stubborn and had a mind of her own from the beginning. Although she cuddled with me she was generally distrustful towards people, until some time ago when she has suddenly become cuddly and lovable with everyone. She gets along perfectly with other cats.
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So, that was it – no more messing around and never making a choice; immediately it was decided that little lady Utata was going to be adopted virtually by SAV. On 16/2 we made immediate contact with Danica and informed of the decision. Today, 17/2; we have (via the Felix Blog site), given Danica our first months money to pay for the adoption of the newest member of the SAV yeam.
Utata poses for her picture to be taken
Utata now joins little ‘Twinnsie’ at SOI Dogs; who we also sponsor.
You can see more about Twinnsie on one of our fairly recent posts:
– it has to be those wonderful big furry ears and those very appealing eyes that won Twinnsie over as our SOI Dogs adoption. She is a beautiful little dog with big, furry ears.
We still have to make formal sections for Twinnsie and Utata as part of the team in the ‘About Us’ section on the site; but it will be happening real soon; so keep watching.
Both SOI Dogs (Thailand) and Felix shelter in Serbia have many loving animals who are in urgent need of a sponsor to help them get through their lives, by providing regular food and also by helping to cover any veterinary fees all within the monthly sponsorship cost. Could that sponsor be you ? – Please try and help by adopting an animal – it makes such a huge difference to the teams at the shelters as it provides more financial security for the animals.
Please see the message from John at the SOI Dogs Foundation (Thailand) website – https://www.soidog.org/Default.aspx
Then make your choice and start your adoption(s) !
I have a very strong feeling you will be seeing more of both Twinnsie and Utata in the coming months. We welcome them both as the latest members to the SAV team.
We will continue to post regular updates on all the other cats at Felix shelter, as well as the dogs with John and the crew at SOI Dogs in Thailand.
Regards for now – Mark.
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Posted on February 15, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Above – Beauty at its best !
Above – Fiona’s doing great, even though she’s a tripod kitty now! 🙂
Above – One of the climbers coming down
Above – Meditating on the roof
Above – Just a little stretching !
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Posted on February 14, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Another update from our post published on 10/1/15
– Repic Lepic is doing a lot better now; that’s great news !
Repic Lepic is doing a lot better, he’s still skinny and his coat is dull, but his overall condition is improving and he has finally begun to eat on his own.
Many thanks to all of you that responded to our plea for help and haven’t turned your back on us or more precisely, on him 🙂
Regards Danica.
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Posted on February 13, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment: We cannot bring these bears back, but we can ALL sign the open letter via the link given below. Please make sure you sign and pass on across the World – Thanks.
All photographs – Animals Asia.
Dear Mark,
Campaign expands as 13 more bears die in Halong Bay
Animals Asia has learned that 13 more bears have died at Cau Trang Bear Farm in Halong Bay, Vietnam bringing the total death toll since November last year to 18.
It leaves Cau Trang bear bile farm – at the centre of our international campaign demanding permission to rescue the bears – with only nine remaining bears. It has also left our team shocked, sad and angry.
Having previously focussed just on Cau Trang Farm, Animals Asia is now pressing the Vietnamese government to allow it to bring all 23 remaining bears in the Halong City area to its rescue centre in nearby Tam Dao.
The campaign had received a phenomenal response having been backed by almost 100,000 supporters including celebrities such as Ricky Gervais, Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Olivia Newton John.
In the two months since Animals Asia inspected three farms in the vicinity of the World Heritage Site, 26 of the 49 moon bears – a protected species – are said to have died leaving just 23 alive in Halong City.
Animals Asia has been informed that the authorities plan to dispatch an investigation team to the province. Their remit will be to determine the cause of the deaths, whether protocol has been followed and to ascertain how the remaining bears can be saved.
Animals Asia founder and CEO, Jill Robinson MBE said:
“These deaths are utterly tragic and unnecessary. It’s heartbreaking to learn that so many bears have spent years suffering on the farms, and have now needlessly died when there is a sanctuary ready and willing to give them the life they deserve.
“Through the increased local coverage of the death of these bears, Vietnam is seeing the reality and brutality of bear bile farming. While their death has shone a spotlight on the industry in Vietnam, there was no need for them to die at all.”
We will continue to bring this awful cruelty to international attention and do everything we can to force the release of the remaining bears.
Sincere thanks to Australian creative agency Enigma for their wonderful work on the petition site.
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