Sahip Çıkalım, Oyunun Kuralları

Sevgili Üyelerimiz,

Gruplarımızın (1,2, 3,…) büyümesiyle yardıma muhtaç hayvanları sahiplendirme gücümüz ve  imkanlarımız da gelişiyor. Ne yazık ki sorunlarımız da büyüyor. Grubumuzun nasıl işlediğini anlamayan üyelerimiz, yardımımızı İSTEYİP, hayvanları bizlere bırakıyorlar.

Bu tür durumların tekrarlanmaması adına işte sizlere grubumuzun idari kurallari , bu grubu diğerlerinden ayıran prosedürler ve bizi ”benzersiz” yapan özellikler:

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a)Viktor Larkhill’ in portfolyosundaki köpekler nereden bulunuyor?

Köpekler Türkiye’nin her yerinden ve çeşitli kaynaklardan geliyor. Hayvanları kurtaran ve onlara sahip arayanlar, sahiplerinin ”terkettiği” hayvanlara bakan veterinerler, satamadıkları için hayvanları öldürmek yerine vermek isteyen pet shoplar,orman ve oto yolda başıboş dolaşan hayvanlar, köpek alıp bir hafta sonra ondan kurtulmak isteyen insanlar…

Sahip Çıkalım burada hayvanseverlere yardımcı oluyor. (ve eğitiyor).

Zaman zaman şiddete maruz kalmış hayvanları ki çoğu vakada bunlar “hayvan severlerin” elinden oluyor, kurtarmak için bizler devreye giriyoruz.

Kesinlikle kabul edemeyeceğimiz iki durum var:

-birinin köpek yavrusu almaya karar verip, şimdi onunla ne yapacağını bilememesi.
-birinin bir hayvana ev/sahip bulunabilmesi için bizlerden yardım isteyip, bizim kararımıza güvensizlik duyup hayvanın nereye gideceğinde son söz hakkını kendinde görmesi

Diğer tüm şartlarda her zaman yardım ediyoruz.

b) Bir Hayvan bulduğunuzda yapmanız gerekenler:

Kurtarma prosedurumuz :

- ASLA hayvani barınağa götürmeyin. ASLA. BUNU YAPMAYIN!!
Barınağın anlamı koruma, bakım ve güvenliktir. Türkiye’ de barınaklar (bir ya da ikisi haricinde) köpekleri sadece bayat ekmek ve çöp olan menü ile besleyen tembel ,hiç motivasyonu olmayan, duyarsız çalışanlara asistanlik eden, hayvan istifçileri tarafindan yönetiliyor. Eğer bana bağlı olsa Türkiye’deki tüm barınakları kapatır,buradaki çogu müdürü uyguladıkları hayvan zulmünden dava ederdim.

Bu barınakların büyük çoğunluğunun neler yaptiğı sözle anlatılamaz.

-yaralı hayvan: onu veterinere götürün ve yaralarını tedavi ettirin. Eğer  köpek sokakta yaşayabilecek durumdaysa, onu bulduğunuz yere götürün. Eger açıkça terk edilmiş ise ya da o şekilde yaşayamayacak ve yeterince çekmiş olduğunu düşünürseniz, bizler ona yeni ev bulacağız.

- Sahip Çıkalım tarafından yeni evlere yerleştirilen köpekler: öncelikle onu kurtaran olarak sizler ,biz bir ev bulana kadar hayvanın guvenliği icin tüm sorumluluğu üstlenirsiniz. Eviniz ya da pansiyonda bakabilirsiniz. Eğer varsa bizler geçici yuva bulmaya çalışırız.(Bu yüzden geçici yuvalar çok önemli).

Köpeğin yeni evine yerleşmesi için elimizden geleni yapıyor olsak da, bu her zaman bize bağlı olmayabiliyor.

Bize hayvanın en az 10 adet fotoğrafını göndermeniz gerekiyor. Fotoğraf kalitesi iyi olmali. Fotoğraflar ne kadar iyi olursa hayvan için ev bulma şansımız o kadar yükseliyor. Fotoğraflarınızın yeterince iyi olmadığını düşünürsek size fotoğrafçı göndermeye calışacağız. Ancak bu her zaman mümkün olmuyor ve süreci uzatıyor.

Tüm harcama,tıbbi tedavi masrafı,kısırlaştırma operasyonu,pansiyon gideri,en son yerleşeceği eve ulaşım gideri kurtarıcıya aittir. Sahip Çıkalım bir elin parmakları kadar sayıdaki gönüllüsünün çabalarıyla sürüyor. Bu yüzden  kurtacıların getirdikleri hayvanların masraflarını ödemeyi kabul edemiyoruz.

Bir köpeği ‘’kurtarmak’’;  onun hayati tüm sorumluluğunu almak, uygun bir ev bulunana dek tüm ihtiyaçlarını sağlamayı üstlenmek demektir. Çok az insan bunu anlıyor ve anlamadıklarında geride maddi yükünü bizler çekmek zorunda kalıyoruz.

Sahip Çıkalım, bu kuralda hiç bir istisna yapmayacaktır.

Sahip Çıkalım’ ın Simba adında kurduğu bir fonu var. Amacı kurtarıcısı olmayan hayvanların , hayatta kalmalarını sağlayan cerrahi prosedürlerine finansal destek vermek… Diğer tüm durumlarda giderler kurtarıcıya aittir.

- Ev bulma,başvuranları inceleyip en önemlisi hayvanın kim tarafından sahipleneceği konusunda son kararı verme sorumluluğu Sahip Çıkalım’ a aittir. Kararlarımızdaki tüm sorumluluğu üstleniyoruz. Bizlerin tek önceliği ve isteği hayvanlara yardım etmektir, kararlarımızı kafamızda bu hedef varken veririz.

Tüm sorularınızı cevapladığımı umuyorum. Çalışmalarımıza  katılmak isterseniz lütfen çekinmeden benimle bağlantıya geçin.

En iyi dileklerimle

V

v.larkhill@googlemail.com

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Let’s Adopt, rules of the Game

Dear members,

As the groups grow so do our reach and our ability to find homes for animals in need. Unfortunately our problems grow as well, group members who don’t really understand the way the group works, DEMAND our help and animals end up dumping on us.

In order to avoid the repeat of this situations here you have the Rules of this Group, our code of conduct, the procedures that make the difference between this group and all others, the stuff that makes us “unique”.

a) Where do we get the dogs in Viktor Larkhill’s portfolio?

The dogs come from all over Turkey and from a variety of sources.. Animal rescuers who have saved an animal and are now looking for a home, veterinarians who have an animal whose owner has “disappeared”, petshops who have failed to sell an animal and want to give it away instead of killing him, animals that have been found wandering in the forest, or the highways, people who were given a dog and after a week want to get rid of it.

Let’s Adopt is here to assist (and educate) animal lovers.

We also do our own rescues. Periodically we have to intervene in cases of animal abuse, in most cases at the hands of “animal lovers”.

There are only two cases we refuse:

- someone decides to have puppies and now doesn’t know what to do with them.

- someone wants us to help find a family for an animal but doesn’t trust our judgement and wants to have the final word on where the animal goes.

Every other case we will always help with.

b) What to do if you find an animal.

Here are our rescue procedures:

- NEVER take an animal to a shelter. NEVER. DONT DO IT!!

The word “shelter” stands for protection, care, safety. In Turkey shelters are (with one or two exceptions) abject places run by animal hoarders assisted by insensitive, lazy and unmotivated municipal employees where dogs are fed a menu consisting of stale bread and garbage. If this depended on me all shelters in Turkey would be closed, and a large number of its managers would be charged with animal cruelty.

What those places do is, in the vast majority of cases, unspeakable.

- Injured animal: take him to a vet and treat him from his injuries. If the dog can survive on the streets, return him where you found him. If the dog has clearly been abandoned or you consider that he cannot survive out there and that he has already suffered enough then we’ll rehome him.

- Dogs to be rehomed by Let’s Adopt: First of all you, as the rescuer will assume full responsibility for the safety of the animal until we find him a family. You could keep him a home, or put him on a pension or, if available, we will try to find a foster home (this is why foster homes are so important).

We do all we can so that the dog is rehomed as quickly as possible but this doesn’t always depend on us.

You need to send us at least 10 pictures of the animal. The pictures have to be of good quality. The better the pictures are the bigger the chances of finding a home for the animal. If we think the pictures are not good enough we will try to send a photographer to you but that is not always possible and it will delay things.

Every cost, medical treatment, neutering operation, pension costs, transportation costs to the animal final home are to be covered by the rescuer. Let’s Adopt is run with the money of a handful of volunteers, therefore we cannot accept to cover the expenses of animals brought in by private rescuers.

“To rescue” a dog means to assume full responsibility for that animals life and provide for his every need until a suitable family is found. Very few people understand this and more often than not we are the ones left with the financial burden.

Let’s Adopt won’t make exceptions to this rule.

Let’s Adopt has set up a Fund, Simba’s Fund, whose goal is to finance life saving surgical procedures on animals who have no “rescuer”. In all other cases the cost will have to be covered by the rescuer.

- The responsibility for finding a home, screen the applicants and, very important, the final decision of who gets to adopt the animal lies on the management of  Let’s Adopt. We assume full responsibility for our decisions. Our only priority and interest is to help the animals, our decisions are taken with only that goal in mind.

I hope this has answered all your questions. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you want to get further involved in our work.

Best

V

v.larkhill@googlemail.com

This is a very special cat, a labour of love.
Jack was found in a municipal shelter. At first we thought he was dead. He was lying on the floor unconscious. His face was covered in
blood and his right eye was hanging close to his mouth. When we asked what happened the illiterate municipal worker told us that he had been attacked by a dog a week ago but he couldnt be treated because the vet was very busy.
So, we took the cat out of that shithole and we took him to Ali Ulker, our vet.
Over the last month he has been treated from his horrific injuries and is now totally recovered. As you can see in the pictures he has a
lovely and sweet character and absolutely loves to sit on peoples laps and purr.
Jack needs to go to a proper home and start a new life again.

Jack found a home amongst a Lets Adopt member..

Sip Sip and Kizim were raised like children by Sadiye an istanbul animal lover. She hand reared with a baby bottle when they were too young to eat by themselves, filled the house with toys and provided them with the best possible life a dog and a cat could ever have. Unfortunately disaster strikes and on the 31st of December Sadiye dies, leaving Sip Sip and Kizim orphans and with noone to care for them. Currently they are staying in their house, now emptied and completely silent. Sadiye’s friends and neighbors have been kind enough to feed them and water them until now but none of them has adopted them and they are, unwillingly putting the life of the animals at risk.

Let’s Adopt found them a forever home…

Ankara, 8 months ago… A baby dog is abandoned on a construction
site. The workers find him, they don’t know what do do with him so
they chain him to a cement wall and keep him alive by feeding him
bread and whatever is left from their daily lunch (mainly more bread).

This went on for 6 months, until the family owning the construction
site found us and asked us to find a good home for the dog. It was
clear that the animal was in desperate need of help so we quickly
organized his transfer to Istanbul.

This is Aspen, an Alaskan Malamute. A dog so beautiful that I have
people fighting for him all over Turkey already. People that want to
chain him on top of their roofs, or their gardens, or give him as gift
to their girlfriend. You can imagine the answer those people are
receiving…

Aspen has the curse of beauty. He is incredibly beautiful, so he
attracted the wrong people, people that see in him an status symbol.

Our condition for adoption would be that the family would have to have at least one other dog and that the dog would have to be an adopted stray dog.

We were lucky…

We found him the perfect family…

Kiki… Have we lost our humanity? (Part II)

This is Kiki, a beautiful Cocker Spaniel. He is between 5 and 8 years old.
This is his story:
2 years ago someone saw a beautiful cocker wandering around an old
abandoned factory in Izmit. The animal had clearly been abandoned but
nobody did anything. The workers in the nearby factories knew of him,
they sometimes left food for him to eat. Nobody could see him, he
would hide during the day and come out at nights to eat.
Over the next two years Kiki condition deteriorated. Kiki was too weak
and small to fight bigger dogs.
One day someone saw him laying down next to a wall. He had given up.
At first they thought Kiki was dead but that was not the case. Kiki
was inmediately brought to our vet in Istanbul and, during the next
three months he enjoyed the best veterinary care in this country.

Today Kiki is a healthy and happy dog. Gone are the memories of having
to fight for food on the streets. He is extremely loving and playful,
like most cockers, he is wonderful with cats and he is staying with
one beautiful cat in his current foster home.