MORE THAN DOGS AND CATS

Our Shelter takes mainly cats and dogs in, but as an animal lovers  we cannot turn a blind eye from other animals.

Actually we have another Lese shelter in kaunas, where the volunteers are taking care also of some wild animals.

But here, in Vilnius currently we have  some animals who were found lost from the mums or injured.

This raven was found injured, and unfortunately the wound was serious and they had to amputate one of his wings.

This baby squirrel was found in a park. One raven was attacking him.

Also we found two rabbits. They came to the shelter when they were babies and in short time they became really big. They rescued one of them from dog´s attack, and the other one was found defenceless without the mummy because she was killed by a car.

Vesta is taking care of these animals (rabbits and squirrel) 24 hours because, as a babies, they need to eat very often. They started eating only goat milk with syringe but they also put around them grass or grains

When they learn how to eat properly, will be released.

Daily routine :)

PET RESCUE FINLAND

I will dedicate this page for Pet Rescue, an organization from Finland which is collaborating with us for finding home to our animals.

Here is a short summary about Pet rescue:

´Pet Rescue Finland is non-profit animal welfare organization, which started January 2016 in Finland by family, Liisa, her mother Marjatta, her brother Jorma, Jorma’s wife Heidi and Jorma’s daughter Jenni. 

We know that there are no street dogs in Finland and many Finns decide to adopt dogs from Spain, Romania and Russia. We thought, why not Lithuania? We contacted Lese, since we know they have been working with abandoned animals for many years and Liisa’s veterinarian recommended them for their responsible work. We like co-operatin with Lese, since the people are very honest and knowledgeable about their animals. They always know everything about the character and health of an animal. 

We choose animals, which have good nature and post photos in our web page. People in Finland write to us and ask all kinds of questions and we try to send the videos and photos. Once the decision is made and the animal has home in Finland, we get EU passports and do many tests to see if the animals is healthy. We have to organise transport, which is the most difficult part. Sometimes the animal has to wait for 5 months in Lese before the trip, either we need to cure them from some illness or we can’t find transport. We have to visit the vet many times and the Ministry of Agriculture for passports and TRACES European Union health certificates. So this takes a lot of patience from Lese. 

The dogs in Lese are super sweet and they become very friendly with people, since many volunteers walk with them and socialise with them. They just need more time with people and more training. 

People in Finland are very good with dogs. Dogs are always family members and treated well. Many people don’t like, how pure breed pedigree dogs have become so over-breed, that they have many illnesses, allergies and so on. Also, pure breed dogs are very expensive in Finland. So many families decide to adopt a dog instead of buying a pedigree pure breed dog. 

We think people in Finland don’t know that we have a problem of street dogs in Lithuania.  Finland is so close, only one hour by plane or 12 hours by car. When people learn that so close to them there are abandoned dogs, they want to help. 
We have also been collecting donated items, which we will bring from Finland to Lese on May.´

Simutė, Lordas and Lokė travelling to their new home in Finland

Uta And Vidas arriving in Finland

Find more information and happy endings on Facebook ´Pet Rescue Finland´

or in the webpage: www.petrescuefin.fi

R.I.P HARLIS

Sad new for this blog but I would love to write some words about Harlis.

I remember when he arrived to the Shelter. Two girls brougth him in a terrible appearance, very old and dirty. They found him next to the road. His first days in the Shelter was downcast and sometimes didn´t want to go out of the cage. I guess there he could feel protected, without any danger.

As soon as days passed, Harlis was cheering up more and more. When we went to take him, he was jumping for joy. Obviously none of the dogs is happy living in a cage but finally they get -at least- a bit use to. One day some volunteers took him to the Spa and he came back as the cleanest doggy ever!

Harlis stole the heart of the volunteers. he was very old but with so much vitality.

Short time ago he started having health problems, he couldn´t pee properly and this last days he couldn´t do it alone. The last vet consultations informed that the problems were very serious.

As I´ve alredy said, he was really old we didn´t want to see Harlis suffering for the rest of his life.

The decision was very hard and sad for all the volunteers.

Always in our memories. Harlis.