Arkady Kramarenko became known online among fans of tailed cats as "Mikhalych", and his online project "Mikhalych's Cats" has recently been gaining frenzied popularity.  

Dear friends! 

Our heroine found a homeless Central Asian Shepherd dog on the outskirts of Bishkek and could not pass by. 

Larisa Slobodskaya has been running the Kind Hands Charity Foundation for 13 years, which she opened in Bishkek to help injured stray animals. Therefore, when they saw a huge dog with incomprehensible growths on its muzzle, the locals immediately called Larisa. 

- When we found the dog, we saw a terrible picture. Its entire mouth was filled with papillomas. And this is a thoroughbred alabai, a large dog, people were afraid to come up and take it to the vet clinic. When I offered food, the dog just jumped into the trunk of my car by himself, she was so hungry," says Larisa Slobodskaya.  

Treatment of the papilloma virus is not difficult in itself, the first 10 days it is necessary to give injections, and then give the animal pills. The problem was that no vet clinic took a highly contagious animal, fearing for their furry patients. Not a single overexposure took the shepherd. 

- That's how Rada, that's what we called the dog, lived in my trunk for ten days. Well, it was spring, it was warm outside. I took her to the veterinarians for injections, fed her, walked her. When the disease began to decline, I found an overexposure for her. Rada was given a separate enclosure, continued treatment and within two months her mouth was completely cleared. It was such happiness! She became a beautiful fat Alabai dog. And when we put it on the site to search for owners, I was glad to find a new family very quickly! 

There are many similar stories of rescuing injured and sick animals in the piggy bank of the charitable Foundation “Good Hands”. For example, two kittens with broken jaws were recently brought to the volunteers. It turned out that their own mother had injured them. 

One day, a kitten with a broken paw was picked up on the street, and when the wound healed, it turned out that a very long time ago, fluffy ate a polyethylene package and simply died. I had to have an emergency operation. And after recovery, one of the volunteers took the poor guy to her and raised a gorgeous red cat. 

Photos and videos from Larisa Slobodskaya's personal archive.  

The story of how a thermophilic bird miraculously turned out to be several dozen kilometers from the Arctic circle was told by journalists of the Znamya newspaper from Urai.  

In early December, workers found an exotic flamingo bird frozen almost to death at the Severo-Semividovsky field in the Khanty-Mansiysk district. It was extremely exhausted and immediately trusted the man – they just came up to it and picked it up. It was brought to Urai by car and settled in a heated garage with the Repenko family. 

- The chick was so weak that it had only a few hours left, - said Anna Repenko, a resident of Urai. - A bird came out to the workers at the field with legs on which there was bare ice. They thought it wouldn't survive. We bought a feeding probe, we were afraid that the chick would not be able to eat on its own. 

There is not a single ornithologist in Urai and the surrounding area, there was no one to ask for help. Therefore, the Repenko family, which sheltered flamingo, turned to the volunteers of the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Center in Nizhny Tagil. 

- We consulted with them via video link so that the guys could assess the condition of the bird, – Anna continues. – They explained to me how to feed properly: you need minced fish, gammarus, shrimp, ground into a pulp and diluted with water. We even bought earthworms at the fishing shop. But it turned out to be extremely difficult to feed it.

- Flamingo couldn't figure out where he was at all, where his body, wings, head were. So I held his chest, and my mother-in-law served him a bowl of food. And suddenly! He began to eat a little by himself. That's how we kept and fed him all day. And the very next day he ate by himself and even tried to pinch and quack us," Anna Repenko shares her memories. 

As experts found out, a chick of about ten months came to the workers at the field. It became clear by the color - white-gray plumage, and only the down under the wings was slightly pinkish. The chick was named Fedya, although the newly minted owners never found out the gender of the flamingo. A few days later, the bird was picked up by Rosprirodnadzor employees and taken to the Wild animal rehabilitation center in Surgut. 

Where flamingos appeared in Yugra in winter, no one knows for sure. It is known that this is not an isolated case. In Nyagan and its surroundings, passers-by saw a flamingo standing on one leg in the snow. Another flamingo was found nearby on the helipad.

There is a version that young and less hardy birds lost their way during a flight to warmer countries from Kazakhstan during the strongest hurricane that swept over almost the whole of Siberia this year.

Photo from the archive of the Repenko family