Posted on March 28, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
There are a lot of cat appeals and things going on at the moment.
As you know, we have tried to support Jasna and Danika at ‘Felix’ shelter in Serbia for many years. Felix helps take in cats from the streets and provide them with a forever home at the shelter, where they get great food, warmth, a safe place to live and they feel love and attention, often for the first time in their lives.
But like all shelters; daily upkeeps for facilities and the animals is huge. This is where we now step in – to try and help get some support for much needed updates. Felix has been having a few problems recently covering all of its costs; and without support of a regular good quality Kibble food supply from Denmark (UFFAC) over the last few months; things could have been a lot worse. In addition, the Winter has been bad with temperatures often down to -25 degrees; so the gas tank has been working overtime to keep the cats warm. Money is required here also to keep the gas tank topped up.
8 of the 9 youngsters taken in last year have already been sterilised, and the last cat has to recover from sickness before he is able to be neutered also. Vet costs also add up.
Jasna informs us that the outside fence is literally falling apart, as can be seen in the photographs. This is a big job and will probably cost around 3000 Euros. It is a concern as at the moment, anyone can open the gates and approach the cats – and as we know, not everyone always has the best of intentions !
All the fence posts need to be buried underground and strengthened with concrete; after that they should be rebuilt around the thick steel poles in the middle so they won’t crumble and deteriorate in the years to come. The same goes for the low walls between the pillars. The gates must also be replaced and the ancient iron fence badly needs cleaning and polishing. It is a big job which sadly costs big money.
So we are putting out an appeal to everyone asking if they can help; both with a donation and also by sharing this link to as many places as possible. It could end up getting to someone rich who can help cover all the costs needed – so please pass this link / info around.
Below we are providing all the links to Felix if you can help out in any way. We know that we are nearly always asking for donations; but many of the facilities we support are the only places that have ever given a loving home and food and heating to many animals that lived pitiful lives on the streets.
Please help if you can – and please pass on this link far and wide.
Thank you – SAV – for our friends at shelter ‘Felix’.
Here are some pictures of some of the residents; and also the sad state of the walls and fence that we have talked about earlier.
Please go to the following to donate:
For alternative ways of giving donations:
PayPal button is on our blog:
and our website:
Webshop:
Dinarske uplate: Felix-Felinolosko drustvo 355-1070729-96
Please help us – Thank you.
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Posted on March 23, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Update 27/3 – Come on folks, get your dosh out !!
(an English term for giving money).
Anything please – even a few dollars will help us to reach the target.
We need to do this as soon as possible – please help – Thank you. – SAV.
Update 25/3 – well done to those who have donated; a good result for a short time.
But we really need to do this please – so give anything you can, no matter how small or large the donation – it all adds up.
Thank you – with hope – SAV.
We are putting out this special appeal to help our friend Susann in Germany.
You can read the story below – but basically it is a request to help an old couple in Serbia with food for all the homeless cats and dogs that they help; often going without themselves to do it.
Please give anything that you can – any little helps and it all soon mounts up.
Please dig deep and give what you can – Thank You – SAV.
Urgent: help for old Serbian couple and their 60+ strays
Please look at the following link to see many more pictures of the animals:
The Story
61 cats, 7 dogs and an elderly couple need urgent help.
Jelka and Branko live in Pancevo, a town close to the Serbian capital Belgrade. They’re both 65+ and not very well off, sometimes not having enough food for themselves, they go without in order to ensure the animals are fed in order to give them a better life than the one they had on the streets of Pancevo.
Luckily the very kind soul and animal rescuer Slavica happened upon them and is now helping them with the animals. Feeding them, heating the house in winter in order to keep them all warm as Serbia has extreme temperatures in the winter, spaying & neutering and getting the animals vaccinated or to the vets if they are sick is very time and money consuming. Especially because no one has a car and it is 4 bus rides away.
A small facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/306259319732027/) is helping Slavica, Jelka and Branko with a bit of money monthly but it is not enough to cover everything that is needed.
Things seem to get worse instead of getting better. Branko had a stroke and it is still unsure if he will survive. A new law requires all cats to be chipped and vaccinated incurring more costs, the fence is broken, etc… Slavica, Jelka and Branko need you to help them and would be forever grateful for any donations.
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Posted on March 19, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Video link:
We currently have only a few basic facts relating to this. They include:
It is in a region called ‘Mosorin’ which is to the North of Belgrade and to the East of the city of Novi Sad.
The location is on a meadow type land; and in the video you can see a 3 metre deep hole / pit down which villagers and farmers are supposed to put (dump) the bodies of dead animals. Despite this so called ‘disposal facility’; villagers leave dead animals on the surface ground of the meadow area – as you can clearly see. Dead cattle carcasses are strewn over the whole area. We are talking mainland Europe here, not a desert region in Africa !!
You can also see in the video campaigners from ‘Animal Rescue Serbia’ going down into the disposal pit area to rescue many dogs which have become trapped there. We cannot confirm but we have a very strong suspicion that these dogs are strays which have been enticed into the area by the easily available ‘food’’ source which they can get from the dead cattle. This is an issue which we have been exposing for many years – see a lot more (and almost identical pictures) at https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-serbian-animals/
We cannot confirm, but looking at the footage, rather than the use of the disposal hole / pit for the dumping of animal bodies; everything else (including cardboard, cans litter) seems to be thrown down there ! It appears that no cover for the hole / pit exists which could cause very serious injury to both humans and animals especially wandering at night. Is this how the dogs became initially trapped in the hole / pit we ask ? – did they fall during darkness ?
Live sheep are wandering round the meadow area in this video and can be clearly seen. We ask if they are not also vulnerable to also falling into the hole at night, just like the dogs which are now being rescued. Looking at the square access to the ‘hole’ into this pit, there is a lot of dirt on the immediate surface and no visible signs of any cover (in the video) or securing facilities for a cover. Thus we believe that this pit is open at all times.
We think that the stray dogs which fell into the hole may have survived down there by eating the one dead animal in the hole, which can be seen in the video. There is no water access. How did this farm animal get there ? – disposed of as dead or simply fallen whilst alive ?
We understand that the Republic Veterinary Inspection has associated with events here and that they are supposed to be producing a report on this; but we do not hold our breath. We also question if this facility is formally acceptable; as decomposing animal carcasses in the hole (maybe including dead dogs as well as cattle) would break down / decompose and make their way into the water table which could be used for drinking water by humans in the area.
We question also the fact that Serbia is a ‘Candidate Country’ for membership of the European Union (EU). Does the EU find facilities such as this acceptable we would ask ? – hence the urgent need for the official report from the Republic Veterinary Inspection to be produced – which we can then forward on to departments at the EU – making them fully aware as necessary.
We hope to be able to provide further updates to this, but we are unsure at present if the Serbian Ministry will actually take it any further or if this will be yet another situation deemed ‘ok’ and which will be swept under the carpet.
SAV – with full help and information from Slavica.
Comment from Venus:
I don`t know if I would see the same pictures in a desert region in Africa as those from the European region of Mosorin in Serbia.
I have never been to Africa. I know, however, that such pictures were given in Europe 500 years ago. When the people themselves lived in pits. But this is not the issue now. I know with certainty that I would not care if a man falls into the pit. The pit has been made by human hand against animal life. Therefore, I would not care whether a one falls, or the criminals of the village drink contaminated water. First of all, I would be interested in the life and safety of animals living in the area.
I would close immediately this hole dangerous for animals. And I would make a video of it. Because I take over the work of the city, the authority, and that must be documented. I would send the video to the responsible ministry with the reference, I also sent it to Jean Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission. Not because I expected something from the last. But when the Ministry learns this, hope does not put the matter under the carpet. Why the hole is open is secondary.
The main thing is to close it. For the safety of the animals.
There is a nice Japanese saying: ” Fix the problem, not the blame”.
Venus
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Posted on March 17, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on March 8, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This new footage of a farm in Serbia has been forwarded to us.
Here is the video link to the new footage:
Once again; we are informed that the Serbian Ministry – the Chief of Veterinary Inspections at the Ministry of Agriculture have informed journalists and newspapers that ‘everything is ok’ !!
We would argue that the footage shown in the video does NOT show that everything is ok; quite the opposite. But once again we have a Serbian government ministry living on a different planet to everyone else. They appear to be able to see everything through rose coloured spectacles when everyone else sees only helplessness and misery for animals involved.
We have been in similar circumstances before; and guess what; when we questioned the terrible conditions in which cattle was kept in the past; the same Ministry replied with the very same comment – that everything is ok.
Here are the links to our old posts; which show the disgusting conditions in which cattle was being kept. But as we say, all ‘ok’ in the eyes of the government Ministry Chief Veterinary Inspector.
We have provided the footage to our friends and colleagues at CIWF here in London – https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ – and they in turn have put both their Polish and Czech Republic office / campaigners onto this.
We are sending the footage to the EU Enlargement Commission who are responsible for monitoring Serbia’s application to become a member state of the EU. This is not satisfactory animal welfare – the keeping of animals – especially if they are destined to end up in the human food (meat) chain. The EU needs to take action and get Serbia to clean up its act in ALL areas of animal welfare.
We have worked with CIWF on this issue and have also asked that they provide evidence to the EU regarding in this instance what is an obvious abuse of farm animals / possible animals entering the human food chain. We hope that the EU will make representations on this issue to the Serbian Veterinary Ministry, but as with most EU / animal welfare issues and the EU association with Serbia; we do not expect much !
If there is any further news regarding this issue we will naturally bring it to you – SAV.
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Posted on March 7, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We have been contacted by Ana in Serbia; who wrote to us on behalf of her friend who runs a horse shelter in Serbia. Here is the link to the shelters Facebook page:
We are trying to currently look into existing Serbia legislation regarding horse welfare, as it not something we have done before. But we have liaised with Ana and said that even if Serbian horse law existed; in our opinion and experience, the Serbian authorities would ignore it just the same as they ignore legislation for stray dogs and cats.
Ana (being Serbian) is aware that the Serbian government could do a lot better when it comes to all animal welfare, but we are trying to help the horse shelter by giving out its Facebook link:
We will also be putting the link onto SAV Facebook page, where we hope a lot more Serbian campaigners and supporters will become aware of the excellent work being done to give help and support to the equine population.
If you can help in any way with a donation, then it would be greatly appreciated.
Even if you cannot donate, please just spread the link around so that more people are informed of this horse haven.
Thank you – SAV.
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Posted on March 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
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