‘Kitty refuses to live...’ How rescuers from Kharkiv take animals out of the war zone under fire and bring them back to life
Life | | 843 | Author: Natalia Merkulova
Collage by Olena Zelenina.
One day, an exhausted red dog Ryzhik came to the soldiers' location with numerous wounds all over his body - he had been torn apart by dogs. In addition to the wounds, the dog had a severe life-threatening disease - pyroplasmosis - and could barely stand on his paws.
He was taken to Kharkiv, to the Kharkiv Animal Rescue centre, where cats and dogs brought from the war zone are rehabilitated.
After a long treatment, Ryzhik returned to his unit, where his soldiers were eagerly waiting for him. Ryzhyk became a ‘freelance fighter’ in this unit.
Who rescues cats and dogs wounded during shelling, seriously ill, exhausted from hunger, cold and stress, and left to fend for themselves in the war zone? How does Kharkiv Animal Rescue, in particular, its Little Prince rehabilitation centre in Kharkiv, work?
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