Working to support Bulgarian and Spanish rescue dogs
Twitchynoses is a small UK based animal charity working to improve the lives of stray, abandoned and injured dogs, mostly in the Maglizh & Stara Zagora regions of central southern Bulgaria and in the Costa Blanca region of Spain.
Originally based in Bulgaria, where Rachel lived for 14 years, TwitchyNoses took in, fostered and re-homed hundreds of dogs from the shelters in Bulgaria and the streets and championed the benefits of neutering. In 2020 Rachel moved back to her birth town of Kendal, Cumbria in the north west of England but continues to support the Bulgarian based neutering charity she set up and good friends that are still in Bulgaria, working hard to improve the lives of street dogs there.
Rachel also owns a plot of land in Spain and (once covid restrictions are lifted) aims to spend time there and is already involved in dog rescue and supporting a local charity there.
TwitchyNoses’ main priority in Bulgaria is neutering street dogs and village owned dogs and education on animal welfare through out-reach work in villages, as we believe strongly that this is the only way to significantly reduce the number of un-wanted dogs in Bulgaria. There is currently no government funded or managed neutering program in the Maglizh district. We also help to re-home badly injured, young or old dogs or those dogs that are not suitable for returning to the street.
In Spain we work with a small rescue to take out the worse cases from local council shelters, mostly older or injured dogs as well as capturing and re-homing stray and abandoned dogs in the local region.
You can follow the work we do on the website and our facebook page.
The Charity’s aim is to :-
# Promote neutering in Bulgaria for street dogs and village owned dogs.
# Help with education about animal welfare and the benefits of wide spread neutering.
# Raise funds to buy food and carry out routine veterinary care including sterilisations
# Fund Emergency operations where necessary
# Take badly injured, mal-nourished or diseased dogs off the street where possible through working with local volunteers and find the dogs suitable homes.
# Promote the plight of Galgos in Spain and improve their welfare
# Help take out the worse cases from Spanish council pounds
Please see details of the dogs we are hoping to re-home below.
Thank you!
News
We visited the Stara Zagora shelter again this weekend gone. Unfortuantely one of the first things we saw was three dead puppies lying in a …Read More »- Most of the start of this year has been spent running backwards and forwards to the Maglizh municipality, to try and finally get permission to …Read More »
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what our adopters say
JACKIE KIRK WITHAM
We adopted two dogs from Bulgaria, Cora in 2015 and Olive in 2016, we have always had dogs, but considering these two were street dogs they are the most amazing, fun loving and devoted dogs we have ever had, loving life, a great big thank you to twitchynoses xx
GILL JEWSBURY
We adopted Ivan in January 2016, he came over from Twitchy Noses to Dogs 4 Rescue in Manchester. Street dogs are just the perfect companion....they just want to be loved and have a home to call their own. Ivan has never had any separation anxiety and is very clean. And after not knowing how to play with toys, there's no stopping him now! He's our world xx
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