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 kennel in an outdoor pen. Mum and two remaining puppies were also in there. They had not been dead long and given the amount of worms on the ground and […]
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 re-build our barn so we have a handful of nice, indoor dog pens and more storage space (still ongoing, I am promised final paperwork in a couple of weeks) and
The start of 2018 was tough as new rules came in with regard to transport of dogs out of Bulgaria to new homes. In their wisdom the Bulgarian Food Agency decided to change the regulations so dogs could only get TRACES certificates for transport if the dog had come from a legal shelter, had been
For a number of years there has been signals from tourists in Borovets about a dog on a chain by the church. The dog actually has a long running chain and a little shed and the owner works at the church. The dog is called Pandora. By relative standards here she is fairly well looked
It is unfortunately that time of year when there are puppies being dumped everywhere. It was around this time last year we found 4 little souls dumped in the middle of a busy road. And this year is now different. Around 10 days ago, driving out the village we saw two young gypsy boys carrying
So 2018 started with a call from a friend to go and help with a very sick dog, lying in a field. The dog had clearly been lying out all night as it had frost on its ears, its friend was standing guard over her. She has no obvious injuries but very laboured breathing, very
In March 2015 we were asked by a friend if we could possibly help a homeless lady and her old dog. The lady had lived on the street for years, in the area of Sofia where my friend lives. She used to have 3 dogs but one died. She takes very good care of the