TwitchyNoses is small charity set up to raise funds for homeless, injured and abandoned animals in Bulgaria. The Charity’s aim is to aid a number of Munincipality owned shelters along with privately run shelters that are incredibly short of funds and to assist them in the following ways:-
# To buy food
# Emergency operations
# Routine Veterinary care including sterilisations
# And assist with various sundry items that the shelters need.
These shelters struggle to re-home even a handful of the hundreds of strays that find themselves at these shelters every year.
It was with this in mind that we decided to set up TwitchyNoses so that we could assist as many shelters that need our help as we possibly can and especially with regards to finding new forever loving homes for the dogs and cats be it in Bulgaria or abroad.
Each municipality in Bulgaria is meant to have a shelter for stray dogs and a state funded neutering program, however most of these state run places are little more than death camps for the dogs and the money given to the shelters for neutering programs is siphoned away somewhere else. These municipality shelters are usually off the beaten track and most people do not even know they exist, let alone that they have hundreds of dogs locked away, often with no food or water, left to freeze in the winter or in baking hot cages in the summer. There is little or no medical care and the chance of any of these dogs being re-homed is practically zero.
However, there are a handful of well run shelters, with amazing volunteers who are trying their best to care for and re-home hundreds of dogs. These shelters desperately need help with re-homing and donations for veterinary care, food, dog bowls, blankets etc.
TwitchyNoses was set up in order to raise awareness and funds for these shelters and to give money to where it is most needed; be that for food, funds for repairing or building housing for the animals, money for emergency operations or efforts to re-home animals within Bulgaria or abroad.
We believe every animal deserves a warm and safe place to call home, regular meals, veterinary care when required and love and companionship.
You will find details on this website of the shelters we are working to support as well as photos and descriptions of particular dogs and cats waiting for a new home.
If you are interested in helping, please see the ‘How You Can Help’ page.
If you can give a dog or a cat a good foster or permanent home, please get in touch.
Thank you for visiting and for your support.
