NEWS AND COMMENT: This story is a terrible indictment of the state of play in the UK on the issue of dog theft. Brandy is an eight-month-old dachshund who belongs to a Ukrainian family living in Lviv. They gave up Brandy to a UK friend, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I am pleased to report that Poland supplied enough food and essentials to the Shelter Friend animal shelter near Dnipro, to keep them going for a couple of months. The owner and founder of the shelter, Maryna Bolokhovets, who said that she …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues as the war grinds on into a war of attrition although recently Putin has realised that he can’t win it and therefore is scaling back. But for the last two weeks at least, the Russian army …
NEWS AND COMMENT-HOSTOMEL, NEAR KYIV, UKRAINE: Sasha, 26, (we don’t know her surname) owned horse stables at Hostomel. She also owned (with businessman Roman?) two Grand Prix standard showjumping horses at the stables; Cassandro and Pakistan. Roman also owned a rescue horse called Valencia. The …
NEWS/COMMENT- IRPIN, UKRAINE: For me, this is a distressing picture of an animal caught up in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There are many animals who have been killed and injured. Many have been taken by their owner/refugees to Poland and other adjacent countries. This …
Lisa Buck was horrified when she heard about the Ukrainian woman who was shot in her car while taking pet food to a shelter. She was mercilessly gunned down by Russian thugs (see link below). Buck is the kind of person who wants to take …
NEWS AND COMMENT: in light of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his unspeakable atrocities perpetrated against the Ukraine people, Crufts 2022 have banned the 52 entrants from Russia that were due to take part. In contrast, Ukraine’s flag was “omnipresent as the four-day event got …
PETA Germany are working overtime to rescue cats and dogs from Ukraine. The official motto of PETA Germany is: “There’s no time to lose when animals need us”. Very apt for Ukraine today. They’ve completed four missions and brought back hundreds of dogs and cats. …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UKRAINE: A young woman whose name is Anastasila Yalanskaya has been shot dead by a Russian death squad while in her car delivering dog food to a local shelter. Russian death squads are roaming around Ukraine targeting civilians in order to sow fear …
