In Lipetsk four-legged friends help disabled children

The girls traded gadgets and dates for cats and dogs.

Every month, the Timonin family — dad, mom, twin sisters Sasha and Tanya - load dozens of kilograms of animal feed into the car and go to Ryazan, where the Zveropolis shelter is located. It is 60 kilometers to get to it from the small town of Mikhailov, where the family lives. The path is not close, but it is the nearest place where you can help homeless animals, writes Dobro.Journal.

About 60 dogs and 20 cats live in the Ryazan "Zveropolis". The food that the family brings is collected by teenagers — 14-year-old twin sisters Sasha and Tanya. At school they tell teachers, students and their parents about the shelter. And for good reason, many respond and give the girls food packages.

Why are teenagers looking for food for stray animals instead of playing with friends? Why are parents being persuaded to take another kitty home from the shelter, rather than buy a new gadget? That's what  the twins' mother Maria told the journalists :

"Animals are the pain of our family. For as long as I can remember, we've always had dog cats, often maimed."

And sisters Sasha and Tanya have known about volunteering since childhood, their mother is a curator of the youth movement. Now the Timonins have two dogs, a cat and two cats who were taken from the shelter. Some of the stories in this family are related to human cruelty towards animals.
For example, Felix, the missing cat, was found two years later with a severed nose. 

"When I see an injured animal, I feel disgusted with the people who did it," Sasha says. "I think it's unfair that dogs and cats have such a hard life on the street."

Other student volunteers joined the girls in their hometown. During the year, they collected 540 kilograms of feed, 15 beds and 40 packs of filler for trays. The parents of the students learned that Timonins help animals. Now, when they meet a stray cat or dog on the street, they immediately call their mother. 

But the Timonin family does not stop there, because collecting food is not enough — the shelter needs new aviaries. To find funds the Timonins wrote a project and applied for the International Volunteer Award, which is how Sasha Timonina's House of Hope appeared. And the noble grant will very soon have 8 new aviaries in the Ryazan "Zveropolis". 

Now Sasha and Tanya dream that there will also be a shelter in their hometown and there will be fewer mutilated and abandoned animals on the streets.

Residents of one of the districts of the Turkish capital with the romantic name Fashion have created a unique community for helping street animals.

They do not try to domesticate them or take them into apartments, but maintain a familiar and comfortable lifestyle — feeding cats and dogs in their chosen territory, without provoking conflicts with other animals and without violating their hierarchy. Each cafe has its own shaggy or fluffy patron, who is on their allowance. To promote the unique ecosystem created in Fashion, daily guided tours are organized here... local dogs and cats.

The innovation is popular with tourists, on excursions you can not only learn stories about the life of one or another "tailed attraction", but also about all the details of the created system of caring for smaller brothers. 

— All funds from the excursions go to the veterinary care of our pets, — said the activist of the unusual project Burja Tarskian. — We deliberately do not take dogs and cats off the streets, allowing them to live in a familiar environment. Until the animal, due to age and concomitant diseases, begins to feel discomfort. Then one of the residents takes him to his house so that his old age will pass in comfort and personal care. 

It should be noted that Fashion is one of the most popular areas of the Turkish capital. European in its surroundings, but at the same time very homely and lamp-like. Foreigners really want to live here, but it is closed for issuing a residence permit. Therefore, residents of the neighborhood like to joke: it's easier to register with us if you have 4 paws and a tail.

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