Jack is a old dog that needs a pills indicated for the treatment of heart failure for life. This medicine is very expensive and the shelter is unable to buy it, but Jack cannot live without it. “We took him off the street with a punctured lung, cured him and then it turned out that he had heartworms in his heart. We cured them too, but now Cardisure is support until the end of his days” says Yuliya.

The Gorod Cobak’s volunteers are very loving. They take care of each of the 200 dogs that live there, trying to cope with huge expenses, both for food and veterinary care. Only for Jack, regular checkups and medication are essential to his survival. When we found out, we couldn’t help but help him.

OIPA International ordered pills worth more than €300, as well as three bags of food, to give as a small gift to the other dogs who live with him.

Jack will have to take this medicine for the rest of his life. If you can, please help us with a small donation.

L'articolo OIPA’s Mission to Ukraine: our help for a dog with heart disease proviene da OIPA.

Support for the Temporary Shelter at VDNG

KSPA “Lucky Strand” team has worked at the Temporary Animal Shelter at VDNG in Kyiv, “One of our greatest challenges and at the same time one of our most significant achievements” says Alyona Zatsarynna, president of the association.

Since the end of March 2022, for four months, KSPA “Lucky Strand”‘s team was the first and only animal welfare organization that took part in establishing the Temporary Shelter for animals. They closely cooperated with the city authorities and carried out all shelter duties, including:

• organizing a team of more than 70 volunteers;
• providing twice-daily dog walking and feeding;
• ensuring regular cleaning;
• helping with the socialization of unapproachable animals;
• assisting veterinarians during treatments and procedures;
• organizing the receipt of humanitarian aid for the shelter

KSPA “Lucky Strand”‘s volunteers involvement at the shelter continued even after municipal staff were hired – until 2025. They assisted with dog walking, promoted animals on social media and information platforms, and supported their adoption.

Support for Municipal Veterinary Clinics

In the meanwhile, KSPA “Lucky Strand” focused on their own foster animals, who are kept in paid boarding facilities, ensuring their medical care, food, and rehoming and, beyond the VDNG shelter, they regularly visited municipal veterinary clinics in Kyiv. We photographed and walked the animals there to increase their chances of adoption. This significantly accelerated rehoming for many animals outside the VDNG shelter.

“We are proud to have been the first to take full responsibility for the animals’ care at the shelter and to have contributed to providing proper conditions and helping so many dogs and cats find loving families” says Alyona Zatsarynna.

L'articolo OIPA Ukraine, the tireless work of volunteers of KSPA “Lucky Strand” proviene da OIPA.

L'articolo Emergency Ukraine, OIPA continues to buy and ship dog food proviene da OIPA.

L'articolo 210 kg of dogs’ food for Gorod Cobak: our help for animals in Ukraine proviene da OIPA.

Last weeks, two dogs of the Gorlovka shelter are being shot by hunters, just for fun. Unfortunately, the shelter has not a fence around it so dogs are not enough protected. Thanks to donations from OIPA a big gate has been placed, it permits the stop of cars but it is not enough to guarantee safety of dogs.

Elisa Norelli
OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo TWO DOGS KILLED NEAR GORLOVKA SHELTER FOR STRAY ANIMALS proviene da OIPA.

Last weeks, two dogs of the Gorlovka shelter are being shot by hunters, just for fun. Unfortunately, the shelter has not a fence around it so dogs are not enough protected. Thanks to donations from OIPA a big gate has been placed, it permits the stop of cars but it is not enough to guarantee safety of dogs.

Elisa Norelli
OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo TWO DOGS KILLED NEAR GORLOVKA SHELTER FOR STRAY ANIMALS proviene da OIPA.

Thanks to all the donations received, the works for the construction of the veterinary clinic finally started.
The clinic will be a part of the biggest building of the shelter and it will be composed of three rooms, one will be the surgery.
Another necessary work is to fence all around the territory of the shelter, which is projected for the next spring.

Arnold Gofman, representative of the Gorlovka shelter for stray animals commented “Without the help of OIPA it could have taken us many years to find money for building the clinic and the fence. And now it is quite obvious that we shall have the veterinary clinic in about a month” and concluded “The director of our shelter Anischenko Alevtina, all the volunteers and all the dogs of the shelter want to thank OIPA for their big help”.

Elisa Norelli

OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo THE WORKS FOR THE VETERINARY CLINIC, AT THE GORLOVKA SHELTER FOR STRAY ANIMALS IN UKRAINE, ARE IN PROGRESS proviene da OIPA.

Among these groups, the OIPA member league Gorlovka Social Organization on Stray Animals Defence runs a shelter in the Donetsk region with about 140 dogs and cats. The shelter opened in April 2011 and it survives thanks to the work of volunteers and their donations, which allow paying sterilizations and maintenance.
The municipal authorities of Gorlovka don’t help the shelter and they even require the payment of the rent.

It’s necessary to expand the structure and create a veterinary clinic inside the shelter. The presence of the veterinary will be fundamental, because he can ensure medical cares in case of emergency and he will monitor daily the health of the animals. That’s why the project is to renovating an abandoned old building to use it as a veterinary clinic.
This useful project will be monitored and supported by OIPA, thanks to donations received for Ukraine animals.

Donetsk area is sadly famous because of the pit used by the municipality to throw dead dogs. In January 2012, the OIPA member league made a shocking video of this macabre pit.

Weeks ago we told the terrible story of Nastia, the bear cub snatched from her mother in the Lutsk zoo for use it as a tourist attraction. The good news is that on the beginning of July the animal organization Four Paws rescued Nastia from the clutches of animal traders and removed her from the private zoo where she was prisoned.

Four Paws affirmed that Nastia has some health problems, such as underweight and malnourished because of poor nutrition, problems with teeth and diarrhea, so she was treated with antibiotics and vitamins. Nastia has been reunited with her mom Masha in Lutsk, who has slowly recognized her.

Four Paws fights for the liberation of brown bears in Ukraine and in other countries.
Watch the video of the rescue of Nasta by Four Paws:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOV4Yy2ToY&feature=share

Elisa Norelli
OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo OIPA UKRAINE: A CONCRETE PROJECT TO HELP STAYS proviene da OIPA.

Despite the issuing of the “Law against animal abuse and cruelty” in 2006, the Government started a brutal campaign against stray dogs in view of the EURO 2012 Championship, showing the population pictures of dogs attacking humans. As a result of this unprecedented hatred campaign, even animal activists are constantly subject to threats or abuse, as considered guilty for the only fact of nourishing and taking care of dogs.
The town houses three structures. For each of these 10,000 Euros have been financed, but there is no trace of these funds. Actually, funds for dog shelters and neutering campaigns are available.
Dogs are killed daily: Just on 27th November 9 dogs died and a whole pack of sterilized and non aggressive dogs being managed by voluntaries personally paying for their upkeep and sterilizations.
On 12 December, as we can see from photos by Andrea Cisternino, somebody killed three small dogs, one of which was sterilized a (red collar indicates that a dog is sterilized).

Andrea and Alexandra tell us that the Ukrainian situation about dogs has always been negative, but from 2010 number of killings has enormously increased because of the EURO 2012 Championship.
The deputy major of Kiev has recently said stray dogs killings will be prosecuted and in case of dead dogs, the police will be sent on the spot together with a veterinary who will perform autopsy in order to verify the poison used to kill it.
The Ministry of Environment has recently declared that killings will be stop for length of six months; en fact this term exactly coincides with the start with the games starts. What will happen once the public attention on this famous event subsides? We highlight that despite the country’s institutions declarations, the situation is still dreadful, we can only imagine the proportions that this mass massacre will assume.

Elisa Norelli
OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo UKRAINE: FOOTBALL MATCHES FINISHED AND DOGS CONTINUES TO BE KILLED proviene da OIPA.

Despite the issuing of the “Law against animal abuse and cruelty” in 2006, the Government started a brutal campaign against stray dogs in view of the EURO 2012 Championship, showing the population pictures of dogs attacking humans. As a result of this unprecedented hatred campaign, even animal activists are constantly subject to threats or abuse, as considered guilty for the only fact of nourishing and taking care of dogs.
The town houses three structures. For each of these 10,000 Euros have been financed, but there is no trace of these funds. Actually, funds for dog shelters and neutering campaigns are available.
Dogs are killed daily: Just on 27th November 9 dogs died and a whole pack of sterilized and non aggressive dogs being managed by voluntaries personally paying for their upkeep and sterilizations.
On 12 December, as we can see from photos by Andrea Cisternino, somebody killed three small dogs, one of which was sterilized a (red collar indicates that a dog is sterilized).

Andrea and Alexandra tell us that the Ukrainian situation about dogs has always been negative, but from 2010 number of killings has enormously increased because of the EURO 2012 Championship.
The deputy major of Kiev has recently said stray dogs killings will be prosecuted and in case of dead dogs, the police will be sent on the spot together with a veterinary who will perform autopsy in order to verify the poison used to kill it.
The Ministry of Environment has recently declared that killings will be stop for length of six months; en fact this term exactly coincides with the start with the games starts. What will happen once the public attention on this famous event subsides? We highlight that despite the country’s institutions declarations, the situation is still dreadful, we can only imagine the proportions that this mass massacre will assume.

Elisa Norelli
OIPA International Campaigns Director

L'articolo UKRAINE DOGS’ MASSACRE STILL IN PROGRESS proviene da OIPA.