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Surviving Dogs from the Canine Parvovirus Crisis Need Help

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Lady, Nena, Blackie, Tesa and Eric – I think Marley is in the little house

For those of you who read this blog, you will know that canine parvovirus spread amongst a group of puppies Jelena Paunović and Arijana Ari had rescued off the streets of Sarajevo. If you haven’t read about them, here is the beginning of the story, and news of the survivors. Eric and Oldie, the adult dogs, survived. Five of the thirteen puppies died, inspite of intensive veterinary therapy and everything Jelena and Arijana could do.

Jelena had to pay nearly 800 euros for the 10 days of therapy. Tesa, one of the surviving puppies, had pneumonia and an enlarged heart and needs ongoing treatment.

Tesa

Donations came in to cover much of this, but unfortunately there was not enough to pay for the puppies stay at the pension. Jelena and Arijana now owe the pension 350 euros. The owner of the pension is very upset, and has ceased all communication about the puppies until the fee is paid. They will also need funds to cover their winter stay and food in the pension. This costs, per puppy, about 70 euros per month, and for older dogs about 75 euros per month.

Lady. Nearly all of her siblings died from the virus.

Preferably they should be moved to King Pension, where conditions are better. Winter is a very bad time with heavy snow and extremely low temperatures. King Pension costs 120 euros per month per dog, including food.

Tesa, with her weakened immune system, should definitely go into King Pension, but there is no money for that. 


Please contribute, even just one dollar or euro will help save these dogs lives. And if you think you can offer one of them a home, please contact me.

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HOW TO HELP:
Please go to your PayPal account (or set one up, it’s very easy) and send the money to: donations@awabosnia.org as a ‘gift’. Click on the image below to be taken to PayPal’s home page.

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Or if you want to use the customised PayPal form, click the link below. However, a transaction fee and a percentage (2- 5.4%) will be deducted by PayPal for any contribution made.

If you want your contribution to go to a specific dog, please make a note in the PayPal comment box. If you wish to contribute via bank transfer or have other difficulties or questions, please go here.

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NOTE: These stories are only a few of hundreds. Every day animal welfare activists in Bosnia find abandoned, abused, ill, starving stray dogs. The government is doing nothing. The animal welfare activists rely totally on donations to pay for food, housing and medical fees.

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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. Go here to find out how to help them.  Money is needed for food, medicine and foster housing.  Even just one dollar or one euro will help.

Things Are Not Good in Sarajevo

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The canine parvovirus crises has taken 5 lives out of the thirteen. Here they are, when the virus started:

And now…..

This puppy, dead, has a prolapsed anus. The virus has completely destroyed the dogs intestines and stomach. Below are photographs of some of the other puppies who died.

 


Please watch this YouTube

Below is one of the remaining puppies, Beauty. She has severe pneumonia.

Treatment for the virus has ceased and now it is a waiting game to see if any of the other puppies will survive. Jelena and Arijana, who rescued these puppies off the streets, have been with them every day for many hours. And yet there are so many other dogs also needing help:

Oldie

Oldie was rescued from a river. He had been flung into it to die.


Oldie is now living in a box, chained up. His hearing and eyesight is impaired. He will not survive the winter unless donations are received to put him into a better kennel. This costs 4 euros a day.

King

King is an 8 year old German Shepherd who was found and rescued when he was hit by a car. This is what he looked like when he was first found, a year ago:

He too, lives in a ‘pension’ where he is very happy.


But the last two months it has not been possible to pay and 230 euros are owed. If no one offers to help, then we don’t know what will happen to him.

Cathy

A beautiful adult dog, abandoned. She needs donations to put her into kennels or someone to adopt her, as with all the rescued dogs. Go here for more photographs of this gentle, sweet dog.

Please know that the animal welfare activists in Bosnia and Sarajevo foster as many dogs and cats as they can, and they can take no more. The prevailing attitude towards dogs in Bosnia is very negative, so people do not wish to foster dogs like King or Oldie. Without donations, such dogs simply die on the streets. There are over 10,000 strays in Sarajevo alone.

Please watch this music video that Jelena Paunović was a consultant for. The video depicts scenes from the life of stray dogs and people from the margins of society in Sarajevo. Directed by award-winning Spanish director Raimundo Morte.

In an interview, Raimondo said this about Jelena: “I contacted her for helping me to shoot with a particularly hungry pack of dogs settled around the top. But I would have liked to meet her much earlier because we share a common view towards dogs and their situation. I think it’s amazing what she does and it’s just based in love, how much would humanity be more happier if we base our acts in altruistic love like she does. I encourage people who are touched by it to join her or collaborate her in any way they can.“

Please contribute, even just one dollar or euro will help save these dogs lives. And if you think you can offer one of them a home, please contact me.

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HOW TO HELP:
Please go to your PayPal account (or set one up, it’s very easy) and send the money to: donations@awabosnia.org as a ‘gift’. Click on the image below to be taken to PayPal’s home page.

paypal_banner

Or if you want to use the customised PayPal form, click the link below. However, a transaction fee and a percentage (2- 5.4%) will be deducted by PayPal for any contribution made.

If you want your contribution to go to a specific dog, please make a note in the PayPal comment box. If you wish to contribute via bank transfer or have other difficulties or questions, please go here.

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Little Marley, suffering from Canine Parvovirus and Demodex.

Canine Parvovirus Crisis

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Jelena Paunović spends all her spare time trying to help the thousands of suffering stray dogs in Sarajevo. She recently rescued thirteen young dogs and puppies, and with the help of donations and her own fundraising she managed to put them into ‘pension’ (kennels), taking them off the street and out of harms way. Most of them had demodex and she has been treating them for this. Some of you know young Marley.


Two days ago she heard they were ill. Very ill. All of them. Canine Parvovirus, a highly contagious and dangerous illness, that if left untreated has a 91% mortality rate. Treatment is expensive and lengthy, and not all dogs treated will survive.


All of Jelena’s infected dogs are young or very young: Marley, Rina, and two families of puppies, seven young puppies and four females. The fact that they have demodex means their immune systems are compromised.

Sadly one of the females died yesterday.

The others are in very bad shape. They are in one pension, so the illness spread quickly.

They received their first therapy treatment immediately, and with the help of donations they will be able to receive five more treatments.

In the next two-three months they must stay on medicines for demodex and supportive therapies consisting of steroides and vitamins. (Total cost for their parvo treatment alone is 780 euros). However, they are still very ill. Latest news is one of the puppies is passing blood.

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Please contribute, even just one dollar or euro will help save these dogs lives. And if you think you can offer one of them a home, please contact me.

______________________________________________

HOW TO HELP:
Please go to your PayPal account (or set one up, it’s very easy) and send the money to: donations@awabosnia.org as a ‘gift’. Click on the image below to be taken to PayPal’s home page.

paypal_banner

Or if you want to use the customised PayPal form, click the link below. However, a transaction fee and a percentage (2- 5.4%) will be deducted by PayPal for any contribution made.

If you want your contribution to go to a specific dog, please make a note in the PayPal comment box. If you wish to contribute via bank transfer or have other difficulties or questions, please go here.

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NOTE: This story is just one of many. Every day animal welfare activists in Bosnia find abandoned, abused, ill, starving stray dogs. In Sarajevo alone there are 10,000 stray dogs.  The government is doing nothing. The animal welfare activists rely totally on donations to pay for food, medical fees, spaying and neutering (which costs 40 euros for a male dog, up to 150 for a female dog).

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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. Go here to find out how to help them.  Money is needed for food, medicine and foster housing.  Even just one dollar or one euro will help.