Posted on October 30, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Here is some great news from Danica and all the beautiful cats at shelter Felix:
We have great news that will certainly cheer you up! Amazing Nancy and her wonderful organization Straydogs Belgium have kindly donated some constantly needed high quality cat food and cat supplies to the Felix kitties. The cats were excited and thrilled to see all of the many nice things they’d just received. As you can see in the photos, they could hardly wait until the boxes were opened (many of them tried as hard as they could to help us unpack their gifts) and almost all of the cats immediately launched themselves inside the boxes to check out every single item they’d gotten. A huge thank you to Nancy and Straydogs Belgium for making our day bright and really special! We extend our deepest gratitude to Adamovic Gordana, our long-time supporter and friend who made the fantastic Straydogs Belgium aware of our existence. The crunchy sounds the Felix kitties are making while eating their kibble is real music to our ears! It’s been said a long time ago that pictures are worth a thousand words, so we’re sure you’ll enjoy our photos!
At the moment we are in Autumn, but very soon we will start to be seeing the Winter weather arriving in Europe. When it does we shall probably see the long dark days that will bring with them the snow storms and biting North winds coming down from the Arctic. That means that once again it will be time to do our best to ensure that all the cats at the shelter are snug and warm during the long dark days.
Last winter you may remember that we did an appeal top get the gas tank filled for the shelter ready for Winter.
Well this year it is no different to the last; but this time we (SAV) are trying to get the ball rolling in advance of an appeal from Danica which will probably be issued very soon. If you can help in any way please by donating to keep all the cats warm this Winter by topping up the gas tank then we will all be very appreciative.
At the moment please make any donation for Winter gas through the normal routes of the website and blog :
PayPal button is on the blog:
and the website:
Please can you mention that the donation is to help with Winter fuel. Thank you very much on behalf of all the crew and cats at shelter Felix.
The good news is that the main shelter roof has now been completely renovated – so this Winter there should be no worries about anything collapsing under the weight of the snow; which has been a concern with the old roof in the past.
Expenses are huge throughout the year for the shelter; as there are veterinary bills to pay, including regular de-worming, de-fleaing and vaccinations; fuel for the shelter; general maintenance and also the cost of keeping everyone fed !
Please give anything you can to help the shelter with its everyday costs.
We will sign off by showing you some pictures of all the shelter residents inspecting all the parcels which arrived from Nancy in Belgium (as mentioned at the start).
Please give anything; no matter how small; to help the crew at shelter Felix have an easier time this Winter.
Thank you – Mark at SAV (England).
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Posted on October 27, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With aching hearts and a slight pang of conscience, while we’re still wondering what we’ve missed and what more we could have done, we regret to inform you of the passing of our lovely Maxine.
We haven’t mentioned her for a long time as we had nothing important to say – she was gorgeous but almost unnoticeable, in the way that only quiet, placid and serene kitties are. A sweet, affectionate torbie tabby girl, totally unobtrusive and totally awesome, she was living her simple and peaceful life in the company of her kitty friends and the four years she spent in the shelter passed by in a flash. We knew she wasn’t young, but she wasn’t elderly either, and for some inexplicable reason it never occurred to us that she wouldn’t be here forever…
She started to decline slowly last winter but she was loving and beautiful nevertheless, although a little thinner. Spring came and went, then summer began and ended, but Maxine still seemed to be the same old Maxine we knew and loved, even though she had become significantly skinny despite her good appetite.
When the weather got cold, we noticed she had some nasal discharge, but knowing that she was also FIV positive, we took it seriously and rushed her to the vet who promptly prescribed her antibiotics; we were feeding her ground raw meat, giving her meds and vitamin supplements and she’d been putting up with everything with her usual tranquility. Just when we thought the worst had passed, she suddenly began to deteriorate frighteningly quickly and in only two short days she became incredibly gaunt, nothing but a faint wisp of the alluring, captivating kitty she once was. The end was near, she knew it and calmly accepted what was about to happen, while we were still frantically trying to think of something that would make her feel better, refusing to believe she was already far beyond any help.
Maxine passed away peacefully, she extinguished quietly like the flame of a candle, but her memory will live on forever in the hearts and minds of all of those she touched. Maybe time will alleviate the sorrow and ease the pain, but we’ll never miss and love this inconspicuous, yet fascinating kitty girl her any less.
Spread your wings and fly, our little angel, you’re free now and the sky is yours.
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Posted on October 24, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We have a Facebook site for Serbian animals as well as this site you are visiting here now; currently SAV Facebook has over 1,200 members. Why not join the site and increase membership – its free !
On SAV Facebook, supporters and animal saviours are free to publish whatever they want about animals that they have rescued and have in their care.
There are many appeals to help with financial donations via secure sites if you would like to support any of the causes.
Sometimes we publish a few appeals on this site also, but in general SAV Facebook is an open forum to help animals further – by passing having to visit this site.
And see some great work being done by some brilliant people with very little or no financial support.
They all need help, and you can read their stories and choose to help by visiting
Please join the site – and see a lot more about Serbian animals !
Please support me and all my friends on SAV Facebook
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Posted on October 24, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A new video (link below) from Felix showing some of the cats – plus other ‘cat’ video links –
Autumn Rhyhtm cats
Figaro’s feeling much better after just two days of medical treatment.
His body temperature has returned to normal, he’s got a healthy appetite and he behaves like he always has, half playful and sweet, half grumpy. If he stays this way, his leg surgery and neutering will finally be done next week.
Hopefully he’ll recover smoothly, without any additional problems; heaven knows he’s had enough of those already.
Above – Figaro
To support Felix and to make a donation to support all the cats please visit:
Take a look at the Felix shelter website
and blog to see who you’re supporting!
Purrfect for all your cat information !
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Posted on October 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Carmen tells and EU journalist about her very recent meetings in the EU regarding the situation for stray animals in Romania.
When Carmen returns to Romania we may make contact with her over the issue of Serbia and its treatment / policy against stray animals.
Before she left Romania for her meetings at the EU, we contacted Carmen to give her our full support. We asked her to also mention the situation for strays in Serbia when she met the EU personnel, and this she promised us she would do.
When we have more information from Carmen on her return to Romania we shall publish it. In the meantime, please watch the video for a review of events.
See also:
Janusz Wojciechowski MEP: Killing dogs in Romania
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Posted on October 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Our recent post on this site said – “The Serbian government / Ministry are claiming that animals were NEVER exported from Serbia in the first place and that we are wrong in what we say”.
Well it would appear that upon further investigation at our request by the EU, the EU Commission has been informed by the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture that the animals did originate from Serbia; in direct opposition to what was said to us earlier.
When Serbian campaigners questioned the Ministry about this issue in the recent past they were informed that they were ‘wasting Ministry time’.
But as a result of campaigners continuous “questioning” to the Ministry on the issue; they were then threatened with closure the shelter “Alex” (for stray dogs and others) as some kind of vindictive revenge for asking normal questions about the export consignment.
Now it appears that the Serbian Ministry are telling the EU that the animals did originate in Serbia; and that they were shipped to Israel in accordance with EU Reg 1/2005 and all IATA standards. We cannot currently prove or disapprove this at the current time. Possibly all was correct in the air; but why did the Serbian Ministry deny any involvement with the export consignment ?
Yes we agree, the photos on the posts were only taken in Israel; we have never denied that and make that clear in our posts.
But this does prove that the Serbian authorities will make threats to close down animal shelters within Serbia if questions about their work is asked by welfare campaigners. Suddenly we have a letter from the EU informing us that the lambs that we were informed ‘Serbia had no dealing with’, have suddenly been ‘exported from Serbia by air in accordance with all the regulations’ – and a threat made by the Serbian authorities to close down a shelter (Alex) if we kept on ‘wasting Ministry time’ !
Here is the EU letter we have just been sent to confirm the situation:
Past links and photos:
Was our persistence a waste of time ? – we think not.
But the very worrying aspect of this is the threats made to welfare groups by the Serbian Ministry when outsiders question them or anything they do – a shelter could have now been closed and animals back on the street to be killed by shinters and authorities.
As EU citizens and investigators, Do we continue to investigate (and take the Serbian Ministry threats for shelter closure) or do we just shut up and let them continue without any programme of stray animal management – just like Romania ? – see the above link.
Crunch time folks !
Serbia – if you are going to join the EU; then clean up your animal welfare policies and enforce them; as EU welfare groups from across the continent will be hot on your heels all the time to show where you are failing – and report you as a consequence.
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Posted on October 20, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The title could and should also be for the killing of dogs in Serbia as well as Romania.
President of the EU Wojciechowski animal welfare intergroup Janusz Wojciechowski MEP gives a very interesting and informative interview on the dog situation in Romania; the huge finances involved (supplied by the EU) which are NOT being put into sterlilisations and other areas of good animal welfare control. Instead it is going into authority corruption; just as we have said and shown in Serbia over many years of work.
Everything said by Mr. Wojciechowski in the video which can very easily also be applied to the stray animal killing and corruption which is going on in Serbia. Remember that Serbia is currently going through EU accession !
We have learned a lot from this interview and we will now be looking at also taking the same issues to the EU authorities; Commissions and animal welfare Intergroup regarding Serbia’s disgusting treatment of stray animals.
The people at the EU Enlargement Commission responsible for Serbian accession have completely ignored all the data we have presented to them. They are never in response to us – we and all of our evidence are simply ignored.
So now we have to move on and take alternative action(s).
We will aim to also use ‘Public Health’ across the EU as the basis for our evidence. We know that Serbian campaigners can also put pressure on their national authorities about this issues – especially as Serbia wants to join the EU !
As Mr. Wojciechowski declares; the non implementation of providing basic shelters and sterilisations for all stray animals by the Romanian authorities in “very bad”. It is seen that between 250 and 500 Euros of EU money – almost double the monthly wage for Romanians; is being paid by the authorities for the killing of every single stray animal in Romania; whist the same authorities are putting not one Euro into shelters and stray animal sterilisations to reduce animal numbers in the long term.
Oh how all of this stinks of the very same actions by Serbian government and ministry, and regional authorities. Corruption is the big player in Romania, as has now been exposed to the EU Commission and authorities – and the very same thing is happening in Serbia.
We have been trying to expose the corruption and lack of progress by the Serbian authorities for many years. Now the EU is waking up to what is happening in Romania; we have an obligation to provide the EU with all the on going evidence we have regarding the situation in Serbia.
As Mr. Wojciechowski says in the video; Public Health is an EU wide issue, not a national issue as the Romania authorities want everyone to believe. Everthing can be mirrored directly into the Serbian authorities actions and what is being said by the Serbian government and authorities.
The coming months will be interesting !
Video link – Janusz Wojciechowski MEP: Killing dogs in Romania:
Spot the connection:
Romania below
… and here we have Serbia
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Further update 20/10/15.
The above post, including the video link, has now been sent to the EU Animal Welfare Intergroup; members of the EU Enlargement Commission (for Serbia) as well as to Enlargement Commissioner Hahn at the EU.
Our first formal report should finally be produced within the next week and we will provide a link to it on this site for all to see. The report, if necessary will be the first of several detailing the evidence we and others have provided to the Enlargement Commission as well as information from other organisations and groups undertaking animal welfare in Serbia.
If the EU Commission is unprepared to enforce the Serbian authorities to act within Serbia for stray animal legislation; then we are now preparing to take our case to the European Courts. Our report(s) are / will be produced in order to provide full details of what lack of action the EU Enlargement Commission is taking in Serbia regarding enforcement of ‘the Rule of law’; which they at the EU proudly promote and inform us is a paramount requirement for any new state seeking EU accession.
This has now gone beyond ‘Serbia’ national legislation. With the money the EU is providing to Serbia; just like Romania, for alleged animal welfare; none of it is being used to the benefit of animals.
If we have to show this to the EU courts, then we will.
Over the next few weeks we will consider what way we are now to move on, and how we will do it.
For the above video link, replace ‘Romania’ with ‘Serbia’ – this will form the basis of our case. Corruption at the expense of animal deaths.
Public Health in Serbia will now become an EU issue for the new EU member state called Serbia that wishes to join.
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