With temperatures as low as -10°C, the 250 dogs in this shelter need kibble!

1. In Bosnia, Ina will soon run out of kibble to feed the 250 dogs at her shelter. We cannot let them get hungry this winter!

"There are a lot of abandoned dogs in Prijedor as well as in surrounding cities. We get calls on daily basis to take new dogs, even from towns that are hundreds of kilometres away. We try to help as many as possible by trying to move every dog that is in the street to our shelter, because if dog catchers take them, they are dead...

Our priorities are always hurt dogs, sick dogs, mums with puppies, puppies alone etc... At the moment we have 250 dogs at the shelter, some with disabilities, some with chronic illnesses, some with trust issues –we take care of them all, without distinction.

Our biggest problem is financial, we never know if we will be able to have enough for the next month. The biggest fear we have is that we won’t be able to provide dogs with proper food and care. At this moment our stock of food will last 10 to 15 days maximum. They have to have enough food because we want to keep them fed and happy. If they are hungry, they get nervous, if they are nervous, they might get in fight, and we cannot allow that to happen..."

2. Temperatures have dropped as low as -10 degrees in the last few days, dogs absolutely need kibble to face the cold.

3. Ina's shelter is the only hope for hundreds of dogs to avoid impoundment and brutal euthanasia. But without anything to feed them, Ina will no longer be able to save them.

"The more dogs we manage to save, the better. Because if it weren’t for us, all the abandoned dogs would end up in the killing shelter in Kurevo dying the most horrific death, or being slaughtered by some idiots; all the puppies would end up abandoned in forest, or thrown in the river.

In our country, animal welfare is completely marginalized. The authorities do not fund animal welfare shelters, they only fund death shelters...We are funded solely through donations of good people and although our community has allowed us to manage so far, the pandemic has now disrupted everything.

We are the only thing that stands between the dogs and death, torture and pain. That is why we need more help and more people involved. If we don’t have food, the dogs will start to become nervous, get in fights, then get sick and then god knows what... We will do everything possible not to allow this to happen. It makes me nauseated only thinking about it..."

4. Because Stevie wasn't good enough at hunting, his owner tried to kill him. Seriously wounded by bullets, Stevie is now blind and vulnerable to the lack of kibble.

"Stevie is a long hair Istrian hunting dog, and he was given to us. Actually, here in the neighborhood while we were passing with our car a hunter stopped us and said: "Do you want to take this dog? I tried to kill him three times and he survived. I do not know if I should waste my bullets on him. If you do not want to take him, I will kill him."

He gave the dog with a head full of buckshot, and that is why he went blind. He was only seven months old when this arrived, and the owner wanted to kill him because he realized he wasn't a good hunting dog...So we took him to the vet to take out the bullets. Luckily his healing process did not take much time, but of course he remains blind and he's more vulnerable than others."

5. Donations are collapsing, the only foreign association that supports the shelter is heavily impacted as well. Neither Ina nor her usual supporters are able to buy kibbles anymore.

"Over the years I've noticed that January and February are the worst months for donations. Right now, the drop of donations is huge. We try to live off the donations we got in the past months, but it is very tough. More generally speaking, ever since the pandemic started, donations have dropped by a huge amount.  

Until now, a partner organization in Milan called “Prijedor Emergency” was helping us with everything that was needed, but since Italy was hit very hard by the pandemic, they cannot help us as much as they used to.

People are out of jobs, the economy is crashing, people have died and others have lost everything during the past 10 months... Those are very challenging times that we are living, everywhere around the world. Even if some people might have some extra money, they are saving it as the future is very uncertain."

6. Ina is not asking for money, just kibble to feed her dogs.

"I have devoted the past 8 years of my life to helping and saving animals. I have been an activist for different causes but this vocation found me and became part of me. To be honest, I cannot remember my life before this. I've invested everything I had in this shelter, it was built with blood, sweat and tears; and we built it as home, so that the dogs who stay with us for long period of time or for the shy and wild ones who are not adoptable, so they can be happy and healthy. That's my proudest accomplishment.

Still I have to say that working with animals, especially with abandoned animals, trying to save them from a primitive environment, where,  it's "normal" to kill a dog because "you do not need them anymore" is extremely stressful and challenging. I have seen horrible monstrosities happen to animals in our area. I have seen human monsters get out of it, without any punishment.

But I never allowed myself despair because I am strong believer in harmony, in universe, and that for every monstrosity there will be punishment, that after the rain, there must be a rainbow. This is what keeps me going and not falling into depression."

7. If this campaign succeeds, Ina will not receive any money but 2880 kg of kibbles, delivered from Animal Webaction's logistic platform in Bosnia.

Animal Webaction has a logistic platform in Bosnia which allows us to intervene quickly and deliver kibbles.

8. Ina tries to seek help by all means, but her supporters have already done their best, and no new organisations are willing to help her.

"I tried reaching out to several organizations, but the answer was always the same: we are swamped with requests, we cannot help you at the moment, pandemic is causing lack of money etc etc.

The other issue that occurred was that people were getting out of job, businesses were destroyed. We lost a lot of regular donations and help.

We have few wishes for our shelter. But the biggest wish we have is to keep our dogs safe, that they never lack food or anything they need to be happy and healthy."

9. Campaigns launched on Animal Webaction often fail.

When a campaign fails, Animal Webaction cannot deliver the products. The beneficiary doesn't receive anything and the buyers are refunded. 

10. In Bosnia, stray dogs are tortured and killed illegally without anyone looking ...

If you know of a foundation or NGO that could help Ina, please invite them to contact us so that we can put them in touch with each other.

If you represent a Foundation or an NGO for animal protection, please help Ina's dogs, contact us and we will put you in touch!

If you want to come to Ina's shelter to help her, or if you want to send her directly some kibbles or a check, contact her via Facebook (note: direct help is under your own responsibility).

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