This is a story of kindness, love, cruelty and neglect all rolled into one.
The woman found a stray dog. He was paralyzed and blind in one eye. It was obvious to her he would never heal, so she took him home.
But the dog never had the chance to experience love or a family life, instead he was carried down to the basement of the home and left there. In the dark and damp place he would be fed and given water. That was it. That was going to be his life.
In the meantime, outside the property, the woman took care of another paralyzed dog, but this one never entered the home, instead she took care of him on the street!
Last week’s heavy rains made the situation untenable… both dogs were at risk of drowning. In a scene worth of a Gothic novel both dogs, paralyzed and freezing were dumped at the infamous Shelter of Hell in Istanbul and were left there to die surrounded by filth and disease.
When we were told of this story we couldn’t believe it… we waited for a few hours to see if anyone in the animal lover community in Istabul took action and assumed the responsibility.
Noone did.. so we had to.
In all honesty, this is the kind of story that makes me despise most animal lovers, whose lack of vision, resources and wit ends up creating untold amounts of pain. Stories like these are also the reason why this group exists. Without us animals like Tom and Jerry (yep!, they have been given names for the first times in their lives) would die the most painful and miserable of deaths.
Tom and Jerry are now with us… they are staying in one of our clinics. They are in intensive care recovering from the ordeal. We need to make sure they don’t develop massive contact sores so typical of dogs in their condition.. we need to buy them wheelchairs… and we need to find them a perfect home, two perfect homes.. FAST!!!!!
Tom and Jerry will fly anywhere in the world where those perfect homes are found. Those two dogs would die in the hands of many so-called Humane Societies. We are their only hope, their only chance to living the live that was denied to them here in Turkey.
This is your chance to truly do something truly great, the ultimate gesture of generosity for a fellow living being. Your chance to truly become a hero.
This is not going to be an easy one. Please give Tom and Jerry a hand by contributing to their Chipin.. They need you. Please SHARE