The nomination "Responsible for those...": A schoolgirl named Imtital has dozens of saved cat and dog lives.
Imtital or Imi studies at the second school in Dubossary. Money given by adults, her grandmother, mother, great-grandmother or neighbors, never lies "for later." They turn into food almost immediately. The girl has no desire to save up for gadgets or expensive toys when someone is hungry in the yard," the newspaper Zarya Pridnestrovie writes.
"They gave me money for the Children's Day. I bought myself something delicious first, and then I went to buy them food. Because they don't have such a day," says Imtital about stray cats.
It all started with one sick kitten in my great-grandmother's yard. Then, together with her friend, Imtital treated, fed, rubbed her eyes for the first time and waited for everything to work out. And, it turned out. And then the girls went to the local market and placed the kitten in a new family. Since then, the Imtital family has had so many similar stories that adults have lost count. Kittens from trash cans, puppies at stores, newborn babies in basements. There were also those who had to be fed out of a syringe by the hour and without guarantees. And some could not be saved.
One of the heaviest and at the same time light stories on this list was the Dymok. At first, the gray kitten just appeared near the trash can in the yard. Then he disappeared, and when he returned, he was already with sore paws. According to Imtital, the kitten combed them until they bled. Stones and dirt got into the wounds. The treatment was long. Throughout the summer, the girls bandaged, treated their wounds, and waited. Gradually, the paws healed, the fear went away, and trust appeared in its place. Today, Dymok lives at the schoolgirl's house.
Another touching story is the rescue of the Australian Shepherd Muffin. The girl found him near the store when she went to buy sausages for yard cats. The purebred puppy was just thrown out on the street. Imi brought the baby home. Muffin stayed with his savior. Moreover, Imtital personally deals with the upbringing and training of the dog.
"Imtital was named after her paternal grandmother. In Arabic culture, this word is often used in a spiritual and moral sense, as acceptance of goodness, justice and God's will. But so far, fate has turned out that he lives in another country, and my daughter, Imtital, and brother Edham live with us in the city of Dubossary. And they help all the tailed once," says Imtital's grandmother, journalist Inna Russu.
Together with the adults, Imtital takes the street cats to be sterilized so that there are no new suicide bombers. Cooks huge pots of porridge for dogs. And she says she will definitely become a veterinarian when she grows up.
Photos from Inna Russu's personal archive.