Lesė Shelter: 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.´