Three Dogs Saved – But Does the Pope Care?

Thanks to the power of social media, our previous blog “Pope’s Visit to Sarajevo Means Death for Dogs” has been viewed over 2000 times. Thanks also to the power of social media, the fundraiser posted on that blog for “Caki” Bravo has nearly reached its goal. Caki is one of the rescuers involved in desperately trying to save dogs from the dog catchers who were removing dogs in preparation for the Pope’s visit yesterday.

Caki was out on the streets yesterday, along with Edina Pasic of Andjeo Sarajevo and others, trying to save dogs who they have fed for years.

Three dogs that we know of were saved…
This elderly female dog above was always with a friendly male dog in the area. Sadly people saw dog catchers taking him and so she was the only one in the area that was left. She was rescued and taken to safety.

This is survivor number two .. a lovely female dog who would make a perfect pet, but never rescued since there was always another dog in greater need who was injured or suffering. She appeared late at night after the killing started, she was shaken and scared.

And this is the third dog, a skinny, lonely big male that was the only survivor of his pack it seems. He is screaming to be a target of the dog catchers because of his size. He is friendly but we think he was smart enough to fear those men. Really lovely calm big male…

All three dogs are now under Edina Pasic’s name in pension. She desperately needs help to keep them safe until we can find forever homes for them.

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Dalida Kozlic, a young, unemployed lawyer who is instrumental in the fact that Bosnia even has an animal welfare law, has been ad closeup vising the rescuers on what to do about these illegal activities. We’ve helped Caki, now we need to help Dalida and Edina. Between them they have nearly 200 dogs they have rescued from the streets, dogs who would have been killed or worse. Bosnia has been documented to have one of the highest records of animal abuse in the world. Dalida has been making enquiries to find out if the dog from the awful picture to the right is still alive and if so, if it can be rescued:

If you can’t donate, can you share? This is Dalida’s YouCaring:
This is Edina’s YouCaring:
If you prefer to donate directly via Paypal, you can donate as per the instructions at the bottom of this page, just be sure to mark which rescuer you would like your donation to go to.

Does the Pope even know what happened in his ‘honour’? We don’t know. We very much doubt he was informed of the hundreds or thousands of messages sent to his twitter feed and via e-mails sent to the Vatican (unfortunately most of the e-mail addresses we found don’t seem to be working).

But we are sure he would be horrified. Don’t forget Pope Francis blessed a service dog of a visually impaired journalist and had a homeless dog attend his birthday:

Please keep up your posts to the Pope’s twitter feed. Please keep sharing this blog. Please keep helping the rescuers struggling so hard on the ground in Bosnia. Perhaps word will somehow get to His Holiness and a real difference can be made, not just to a terrifyingly small number of strays….. for this sweet dog’s sake, please let us all try to make a difference….

And if you can offer a home to one of these dogs, please contact us at info@awabosnia.org.

Please read related articles/blogs on this site for more information:

Pope’s Visit to Sarajevo Means Death for Dogs
Sarajevo Demonstrations Against Illegal Dog Catchers
Former Military Base in Sarajevo involved in dog killing?
“DOG-CATCHERS” OF SARAJEVO CAUGHT IN ACTION!
AUTHORISED SLAUGHTER OF DOGS IN SARAJEVO
2014: What is happening to the strays of Bosnia Herzegovina?
Animal Advocates Assaulted in Sarajevo
Bosnia: Let’s Respect Animals and their Right to Life
Veterinary Office of Bosnia: is it possible to solve the problem of stray dogs?
The “Aggressive” Dogs of Sarajevo
The Campaign Begins With a Slaughter: You will kill the dogs, but what will you do with the beasts?
Stray Dogs of Sarajevo to be Killed in Election Ploy
Stop the Killing of Strays in Sarajevo
Bosnia: Sarajevo set to become the next Bucharest
BOSNIA: kill and slaughter until the dog is no more…
Bosnia Killing Dogs – No Different to Romania!
ANTI KILL-LAW FIGHT – NOW WHAT?

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DONATIONS

Funds are needed to help individual rescues, for spay-neuter projects, for education also to continue advocacy work in Bosnia, uncovering the truth about what is happening there. Donations are managed by AWABosnia, an independent group of animal advocates. On their website, Animal Welfare Advocates for Bosnia, you can set up a monthly donation via PayPal, or if you want to make a one-off donation, please go to your PayPal account (or set one up, it’s very easy) and send the money to: donations@awabosnia.org. Click on the image below to be taken to PayPal’s home page.

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This site is dedicated to Vučko. Read his story and don’t let him have suffered and died in vain. Please help the stray dogs and cats in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The situation there is utterly dire, Vučko is but one amongst many horrifically abused animals. Even just one dollar or one euro will help make a difference.