Yesterday Gamze Neer, the manager of an infamous Ankara shelter, HAYKOD, issued a statement saying that they would never allow Let’s Adopt volunteers to rescue any of their dogs.
This statement, in itself is very sad, as those people should be working towards rescuing and re-homing dogs instead of keeping them locked in cages.
The pictures you are about to see are the story of one of those rescues. Those two little puppies were rescued from the HAYKOD shelter in Ankara. The initial resistance on the part of the employee was soon forgotten with the help of that great problem solver… a 50 lira note.
The two ill puppies were immediately flown to Istanbul, given proper veterinary care and placed on one of our foster homes. Four months later they were flown to Barcelona (Spain) were they live with a friend of us.
From hell to heaven thanks to our Let’s Adopt volunteers in Ankara.
In coming days we will be disclosing similar stories of animals we have been rescuing from shelters all across Turkey.
Let’s Adopt would like to encourage its volunteers to visit any shelter in Istanbul and other cities to rescue a dog or a cat from there and to keep him at home on a foster home basis whilst we find the perfect family for him. As we described on yesterday’s post the people currently involved in those shelters shouldn’t be allowed to handle such responsibilities, Let’s Adopt will do its very best to save as many animals from the hands of those people but to do so we need YOUR help.
Please contact v.larkhill@googlemail.com in order to coordinate specific rescue operations in your local shelter.
I WISH ALL OF THEM COULD FIND SAME OPORTUNITY . CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL THE WORK YOU ARE DOING.