Category: NEW DOGS

Here is the photo report on what we were doing on Monday and Tuesday. Our staff spent two days delivering supplies to local stray dogs; we bring food to the animals on a regular basis, so it has already become a tradition.

Volunteers had built kennels by the bridge over the Gubistskali River to house the ownerless dogs of the local area. It is a remote territory next to a thoroughfare a long distance from any human settlement. However, people leave new dogs there almost every day. And each month we deliver around a ton of canine food to the habitants of those dog houses.

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Over a hundred dogs in our shelter are from Gubistskali; senior animals, injured animals with wounds or broken bones, feeding mother dogs with puppies, and even recently born puppies without a mother. Unfortunately, it is impossible to rescue all of them, but some animals require medical treatment and are unable to live on the streets.

Despite the massive lack of space at our facility, there was no way we could get back ‘empty-handed’ this time. We have sheltered three female puppies and a young ‘nagazi’ (the Georgian name for Kangal Shepherd Dogs) with a broken leg.

Have a look at our new residents!

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The number of animals housing in our facility is increasing month-over-month. We manage to find new homes for many them. But anyway, there are 311 dogs, 29 cats and a piglet in our shelter at the moment.

We are not yet able to tell a story of every animal we have. But we continue introducing new dogs at our centre. So, here are the animals that joined us in March.

We get requests to rehome animals from very different people almost every day. They ask to impound animals that were taken from streets, animals involved in car accidents, abandoned animals, stray animals, senior pets, etc. People sometimes bring dogs directly to our shelter and just leave them by our gates. And our staff never pass by an animal that needs some special care or human’s attention.

Thus, by the end of January the number of dogs in our facility had almost reached 300.

In addition, about 27 dogs are now finishing their treatment and rehabilitation at foster care facilities in Tbilisi. In the nearest future they have to be taken back to the shelter. All those figures are already critical to our facility because we are limited by the number of available enclosures. When the kennels are overloaded, the animals start quarrelling with each other over space or food. Therefore, we had no choice but to make a very difficult decision under the circumstances. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept new animals at the moment due to the huge lack of space and resources.

However, the winter in Georgia is a period of suffering and starvation for stray dogs. So, we sometimes could not follow the strategy we had chosen. We continued adopting new surrenders even though there already were ‘habitants’ in every single corner; in every utility room and even in every bedroom.

At the moment, the question arises of expanding the shelter and constructing the new complex of enclosures.

But while we are drawing blueprints and trying to figure the budget out, please have a look at the list of all currently available animals that joined us this winter.