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Dear representatives of the media!
There is a month and a half left before the end of accepting works for the International Award "My affectionate and necessary animal".
Viva worked as a guide dog and helped the blind owner. Now she works as a mom and helps to teach other dogs by her example.
Aliya Shamsutdinova's story began on the day she was returning home after a night flight. At the airport she saw a small pigeon on the sidewalk. The bird was covered in blood, lacerations were visible. And it turned out later, there was also a traumatic brain injury. And birds have them too. Afraid to take the pigeon in her hands, Aliya found a box, gloves and returned for the feathered one.
But feathered's misadventures did not end there. A week later the bird got worse, the eye was festering, although the new savior provided all the treatment to her ward. After two weeks of torment Aliya went to the veterinarians again. And it turned out that the veterinary clinic did not put on a special protective collar for the pigeon.
Now the feathered one lives in the Belarusian shelter “Bird Yard” for permanent residence and his maintenance is paid by the savior Aliya. Although the pigeon remained a one-eyed pirate, but thanks to human kindness, it lives happily among its relatives.
Photo from Aliya Shamsutdinova's personal archive
The story about the work of volunteers of the charity foundation “I am free” in the special military operation zone was told by journalistsLenta.ru.
The five-year-old grey Oryol trotter turned out to be the only surviving horse after the storming of Azovstal, when his stable came under fire. Fragments cut the stallion's neck and sides, one hit the head and exited through the left eye. The horse was half blind and deaf. According to his passport, his name is Competitor, but in common speak it's just Serega.
His mistress Olesya bought the horse as a foal from the Gypsies, raised and trained him. At the stable, the children were engaged in horse riding with a Competitor.
The "I Am Free" foundation found out about the Competitor when they were contacted by a 16-year-old girl Sasha from Frankfurt. Before special military operation the girl lived in Mariupol and studied with her beloved horse.
The employees of the foundation decided to place a Competitor in their rehabilitation center for life. The transportation cost 200 thousand rubles - this amount was collected by caring people. But transportation is not an easy matter. Horses are farm animals and many different documents are needed to transport them. The Competitor's passport burned down during the shelling and it was also impossible to get vaccinations and tests. Horse carriers were simply afraid to go to the fighting zone.
The director of the Tatersal horse club in Donetsk helped to make a passport for the horse. As a result a Competitor was delivered to the Svoboda Center by one Don Cossack. He took the horse to the Leningrad region, passing all the checkpoints and making a journey of more than two thousand kilometers. “I just felt sorry for the horse,” he explained his action.
Now a Competitor or just Serega is undergoing treatment at the rehabilitation center of the charity foundation “I am Free" in the Leningrad region.
Up to date over two thousand rescued animals have been accounted for by volunteers cooperating with the I Am Free Foundation. The Foundation helps shelters in the territory of the DPR and LPR with food and medicines, supports volunteers who are ready to take animals from front-line territories and also provides veterinary assistance to animals and places them in new families.