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.  

• People passing by threw bread to the pigeon, which he did not eat for obvious reasons. When a person has such wounds, a traumatic brain injury, they help him, not feed him. Any living being needs the same thing," says Aliya Shamsutdinova.  - I went to the clinic, where the pigeon underwent surgery. A flap of skin was sewn and the eyelid was returned to its place. I gave him medicine and taught him how to fly. The doctors said it was a baby bird and couldn't do anything yet. 

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.  

• The doctor looked and said that the bird had scratched its eye and therefore things were bad, it was necessary to put a protective collar. He had a second operation and said that the eye could not be saved," Aliya continues her story.  - All this treatment cost $ 300, which eventually turned out to be ineffective. So I took the bird home and arranged with a private shelter.

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. 

• Olesya had practically no medicines left and she treated her Competitor as best she could,“ says Yulia Rykova, Director of External Communications at the I Am Free Foundation. - For example, I made a bandage with aloe juice on its eye and treated wounds from fragments with hydrogen peroxide. There was no hay either and there was nowhere to get it.

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. 

• He is still stressed, he has not seen his relatives for a whole year. He lived right next to Azovstal, he came all gray from the ashes. Now he greedily pounces on apples and sugar, gets acquainted with our horses, is interested in everything and sniffs, - Yulia Rykova continues. 

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.

Alexey Yakimov found the moose when he got into a real "pit of death," says the E1 TV channel.

The story happened near Yekaterinburg. Workers were laying a route for a communication line when our hero discovered a terrible find while inspecting the territory. Alexey is from Nizhny Novgorod, but he came to work in the Urals. By profession a man is a signalman.

Alexey said that the pit was very deep, filled with water and mud, the moose could not get out on its own. The Nizhny Novgorod resident did not dare to pull out an animal without the necessary skills, so he called his friend, a hunting specialist, who advised pulling the moose only by the horns. 

In no case was it possible to tie ropes around the body, there was a risk of breaking ribs or legs under its own weight. Therefore, I tied a rope to the horns and with the help of a tractor I pulled the poor guy out," says Alexey. - The moose lay side by side for about an hour, then got up and went into the forest on his own feet. 

No one can say for sure where such pits appeared in the forest. There is a version that 10 years ago they put power transmission poles here and dug ditches for them and so they abandoned them. Another moose died in the same pit nearby. After the incident the workers filled up all the holes in the forest.  

Everything that happened was a matter of chance, I was just lucky that I was nearby and I had a tractor and a rope," Alexey Yakimov continues. - And it was scary or not, I'll say so, to be afraid of wolves, not to go into the forest.

Olga, the wife of our hero, told the journalists of the E1 TV channel that she was very afraid for her husband when she learned about his discovery in the forest.

— He was all alone in the forest, his brigade was 300 kilometers away from him. I was very scared when my husband called and showed the moose in the pit, because I knew that he would not leave it there," Olga told E1.

— By the way, he's not a hunter. And he has never been one. He is very kind and responsible, always trying to help everyone. He did not think that his video would spread so much, he shot it for his children, since they were still asleep when he called me and showed it all," Olga continued.

Alexey doesn't talk much about himself. But he shows a great example to the kids. He recorded the video especially for them. For a 16-year-old son and an 11—year-old daughter dad is a real example and role model. Olga says that the children are very proud of their dad. 

Photos and videos from Alexey Yakimov's personal archive