Lack of condition, lameness: poor Ultra Chic has been worn out by the competitions!
2,400 kg
Dry food offered
2,400 kg
Dry food necessary
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Animal Webaction visited the site 16 November 2019 and confirms the situation described below.
In Macedonia, Mira has no more kibble to feed the street dogs, they will starve to death!
Mira and the French association that supports her beg us to intervene.
We were on site on November 16, the kibble stock was already gone.
On the street, hundreds of dogs are hungry, fights break out, the weakest will not survive.
Mira is the only hope for them, as they are rejected from all sides...
Burdened by debts and dogs in distress, Mira can no longer buy kibble.
We want to help them, by sending 2400 kg of kibble as a matter of urgency.
Every day, Mira wanders through the city to meet about a hundred street dogs who live there despite themselves, in order to feed them and provide them with a minimum of care. But her kibble stock has been gone for several weeks, even as the cold settles in, and life outside is becoming more and more difficult for them.
"As the weather gets colder the dogs need more food and become more agressive and teritorial. They fight over each other for food, places to sleep etc... dogs get bullied if they are weak" explains Mira, helpless.
With no shelter of hers, she already hosts many dogs into her home, it is impossible for her to get others off the street. She fears that the situation will worsen !
Faced with hunger, cold and sickness, stray dogs rarely find a helping hand out there besides Mira's: they suffer and die in general indifference.... Worse, they are considered a nuisance by many locals, who do not hesitate to poison or abuse them without any scruples.
"I feels sad when I sees more and more dogs on the streets left by their owners or born there. I would like people at least to not hurt the dogs on the street, not poison them" Mira told us when we came, while she had just rescued several very abused dogs.
Last June, the Animal Webaction community got together to send 4000 kg of kibbles to Mira, allowing her to feed the dogs for several months.
But this stock has been gone since October, Mira's few supporters have already done their best to help her since, she no longer knows how to get by: "It's even worse than last time we spoke, the situation is desperate" she told us, asking for our help.
From France, Linda Renton manages the Woolly Woofters association, to help animals in need around the world "We give of our time, we raise funds to pay for transport, food, treatments, spay" sums up Linda. Most of the funds collected come from the sale of creations made by the members of the association: knitted objects, paintings, and even plants of all kinds.
But the association generates little money, and supports several rescuers in different countries "Mira has officially run out. Woolly Woofters have raised funds and with a couple of donations we have sent enough to buy about 30/40 bags. Winter is fast approaching so they need food more than ever. Linda told us, begging us to help them too.
We can take action, we have already booked a truck and pallets, but we have to pay it before 27 November.
If the collection fails, we will not be able to pay, the departure of the truck will be cancelled and none of the collected kibbles will be delivered...
If the collection fails, we will refund all donors.
"Just now I have a dog that was raped and abused Another hard to say but both are in bad condition and waiting surgeries. 3 dogs with heart worms, 2 surgeries of broken legs, one of displaced hip after car accident, one amputation also car accident. With vet bills that are growing every day it is really hard to find funds for food"
Mira already uses hundreds of euros of her own money every month, but still has growing debts everywhere....
For nine months, the municipal pound has been shut, and no longer hosts any dog. Worse still, the spaying and neutering campaigns previously carried out by the municipality have been abandoned, with terrible consequences for the stray dog population.
"No neutering for 9 month, the number of stray animals increased terribly. Winter is coming, we have packs of the dogs in every corner. Hungry, they will start to make problems"
Feeding, spaying/neutering, treating... eveything related to stray dogs now depends on Mira, who is desperately short of resources to handle everything at once!
Involved in animal welfare for years, Mira has travelled and lived in different countries, and tried to help street dogs in each of them. Based in France for several years, she was already helping in Macedonia, where she settled permanently after her husband's retirement.
Since then, she has devoted herself 100% to street dogs, trying to relieve their daily lives while waiting for the situation to change on a larger scale. "Now i live here, it seems awful i know. But if we all give up and leave what will they do? "
"All i wish to say is help, in any way. Donate, foster, adopt... Anything. As we are all they have"
With an estimated population of 1 million street dogs, Macedonia regularly carries out mass extermination campaigns aimed at "cleaning the streets", at least temporarily. The last nationwide campaign in 2017 was particularly violent and led to numerous protests, including international ones. The most common method remains poisoning, which leads to slow agony (sometimes several days) for the affected dogs.
Beyond national measures, the treatment of dogs on a smaller scale also remains very harsh. Many municipalities practice poisoning on their own initiative, and the inhabitants themselves are often hostile to street dogs. Carried out with impunity, acts of cruelty perpetrated by individuals are numerous (acts of torture, strangulation, wild abandonment, etc.) and unpunished.
This collection is organized by the French association Woolly Woofters, for the benefit of dogs fed by Mira in Macedonia. The 2400 kg of kibble collected will be delivered to Mira in Macedonia to feed the 100 + dogs she feeds throughout the city.
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