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We
MUST get them food - or they will
die. We WILL get
them food. And we will feed as many street dogs in
the area as possible too. But we need your
help,
please! | |
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A
few days ago, our team in Ukraine received a
deeply distressing call from a prison manager
near Kharkiv, begging for our help.
According to the manager, the prison’s service
dogs are no longer being fed. These
skin-and-bone animals are locked in their
enclosures and literally starving to
death. Of course, our team immediately
alerted us, and we have promised to do everything
we can to help.
No one knows exactly why
these service dogs are not being fed, but the most
likely explanation is that state funding has
either dried up or that organizations on the
ground which once fed them may have stopped
operating. This is a war zone, and not only are
animals at the bottom of everyone’s priority list
(except ours, and yours!), but some organizations
are tragically no longer even in existence. What
has happened to them doesn’t even bear thinking
about.
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| While there are a
lot of unanswered questions, one thing IS clear:
the dogs desperately need to be fed and we are
the only ones who can do it. We MUST get them
food, and we must do it immediately. The
service dogs are STARVING. | |
Network for
Animals has received hundreds of pleas for help
from shelters and organizations across Ukraine
begging for help in feeding their animals. Pet
food supplies have all but dried up and it’s far
too dangerous for people to travel to find food
for their animals, or to venture out to feed the
unfortunate dogs and cats living on the
streets.
Vladimir, can you believe
that some street animals have managed to survive
two months of war? We can’t even begin to
imagine the physical and emotional state they must
be in, having spent months dodging bullets and
bombs to find tiny scraps of food, feed their
litters and just stay alive.
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| Thank goodness for
our partnership with pet food manufacturer
Vetmarket Pluriton! | |
Our goal is to
help as many organizations feed their animals as
possible, which is why we partnered with pet food
manufacturer, Vetmarket Pluriton, a few weeks ago.
Their team not only produces 21 TONS of pet food
every week, but they are brave enough to travel
into some of the most dangerous and devastated
areas to feed the animals who need it
most.
Like at the prison near
Kharkiv…
Here, 24 service dogs
- bred for service and used for security patrols
at the prison - have been slowly starving to
death as the prison survived a bombing and the
inmates continued to be fed. We are so grateful to
the prison manager who contacted us in desperation
as he could no longer watch the animals dying
before his eyes. | |
The dogs need
roughly 1,300 pounds (600 kilos) of food per month
to survive, and Vetmarket is able to drop this
food directly at the prison gate where it will be
collected and distributed to the ravenous animals.
Prices for pet food have soared and one of our
biggest challenges is raising enough funds to feed
all the animals. If we can raise the
maximum amount possible, we can feed not only the
prison dogs, but literally thousands of starving
dogs around Ukraine.
Please, help us save the highly
trained service dogs from the worst possible
fate. They didn’t ask to be ‘imprisoned’ in a
war and left to starve, and without us, they WILL
die. They deserve all our help!
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| With your support,
WE PROMISE to keep feeding the 24 service dogs
and up to 500 street dogs in Kharkiv who are
relying on us to survive. Some are
STILL locked up on people's properties!
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| Vetmarket now also
has a team of volunteers who go to their warehouse
near Kharkiv and collect NFA food to hand out to
the animals on the streets. They know where the
trapped animals are - animals who have
tragically been tied up or locked up on
people's properties - and they throw food to them.
These are deadly missions, as they skirt close to
occupied areas every day and are risking their
lives to keep the animals from starving to death.
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| Our team on the
ground is working non-stop to produce and
distribute Network for Animals’ food. We have the
capacity and the courage to do it, but we urgently
need the funds to keep going. Prices continue to
soar, and critical supplies are more and more
difficult to come by. We must hurry to
produce as much food as we can, so that we can
keep our warehouses full, and the animals fed - no
matter what might happen. | |
| Without your
donations, we simply can’t fund this LITERAL
LIFESAVING MISSION for the animals of Ukraine.
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For the animals,
Brian
and Gloria Davies (and Max and
Flora!)
Founders
Network for
Animals | |
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P.S.
you’ll be pleased to know that your donations
ARE reaching animals that would otherwise have NO
HOPE of ever receiving help in this terrible
war. We are supporting partners and feeding
animals in Odessa, Kherson and the Khmelnytskyi
Oblast region among others - areas that are under
constant siege or threat of attack. Without your
donations, we would never have been able to reach
these poor animals. Their every meal is so
gratefully received, and they are so grateful to
YOU! Please, be as generous as you can
today. | |
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Image credits:
Banner: War on the rocks, Image 1, 2, 3, 4:
Vetmarket | |
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