Our Wonderful Festive Dog At Christmas Time

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Funny Dog Video's of Our Pointer

Video of our Pointer dog getting very excited about her barking dog toy.

Video of our Pointer dog enjoying playing with her basketball.

World Animal Day 4th October 2014

Celebrate World Animal Day 4th October 2014

A day to celebrate all animals lives and to appreciate the way animals enrich and better our lives.

To show kindness and compassion to animals and be grateful for the wonderful bonds we share with animals but also to remember the unique and important roles that animals play in our lives.

Events for World Animal Day and Other Interesting Information

Events Taking Place in Europe

Events Taking Place in America and Canada

Celebrity Support for World Animal Day

Winner of World Animal Day grant is announced!

The Cruel History of the Stray Dogs in Istanbul, Turkey

Life is never easy for the poor stray dogs, they strive to find reliable food sources and good people, struggle to stay alive in the hot, wet and cold months, endeavor to find sheltered and protected places to sleep, while covering many miles a day and risking their lives by crossing many dangerous roads, every day in order to survive.
And if that is not enough, the street dogs lives are made even more difficult by man.
They are chased from that corner, kicked for exploring too close to that shop, shunned and ignore by many locals, in some cases even painfully poisoned and also aimed at and sped up on when they are crossing the road.

Watch this video, it gives an insight into the plight of the stray dogs of Istanbul, Turkey in 1910. It shows you how difficult life was for the poor Turkish street dogs and how cruelly they were treated and eradicated back then by man.
It is unforgivable and never forgotten what man did to mans best friend back in Turkey all those years ago and it is cruelty to stray dogs in its highest form but even in today's society it is heartbreaking to see the pain and suffering inflicted by man on innocent, trusting and vulnerable animals and we should never tolerate it .

The video tells the story of the Turkish strays and contains powerful photos.



Sesim Rüzgara: Modern Bir Sürgün Hikayesi from KAFA TV on Vimeo.

A Sad but True Animal Quote

Greetings from Street Dogs

Here are greetings from some of the wonderful street dogs who's paths we have crossed, we have met so many amazing street dogs, who have all been so friendly and gentle.

Adopting one of these lovely souls will get them off the street and save their life, their lives are not only very tough but uncertain too.

Street dogs make for the most loyal and loving pets. 

Please consider helping the street dogs in Eastern Europe. 

Allergic Reaction in Our Dog

 This month we awoke to find our poor boys face and the underneath of his eye swollen on one side of his face.
He had a runny nose, his eye had a little discharge and his mouth was drooling, we monitored him for a short while and then decided to take him to the vets.
We didn't like his behaviour it was very out of character, he seemed depressed and lethargic.
And it had got to the stage where our angel couldn't open his eye properly as it was so swollen, so he had to keep squinting. The vet administered an injection into him, this was to take the swelling in his face down.
His face stayed swollen and we kept an eye on him but the next morning his face was back to normal.
For three days all was ok until the swelling came back, we phoned the vet, he told us to go into a chemist and ask for Prednisolone, we did this and gave him a tablet.
Once again all day his face was swollen and overnight we awoke to find the swelling had gone again.
We continued to give him a couple more tablets to be sure the swelling wouldn't come back.
The vet thinks that our dog was stung by a bee or similar and had an allergic reaction, we also are not ruling out an allergic reaction to grass seeds etc.....
Our boy loves to trample head first into bushes and roll his body and face around on the grass, we think that was the cause of his reaction.
We still do not know why the swelling came back on his face after three days, maybe there was still some poison or a foreign body reacting in his system, all we know is our dog suffered an allergic reaction.
All we know is he is back to his happy, healthy and handsome self and we are very grateful for that.