Saving lives by fostering – thank you ladies

With all the sick, injured and young strays we try to help, one vital bit of support we could not do without is our foster carers.  Every foster place we have is a true blessing, but particularly in Romania.  Many animals are too sick or young to travel so having somewhere local where we can look after them is invaluable.  We thought therefore that it was time to introduce you to three amazing Romanian ladies who have saved so many lives – ladies Mioara, Octavia and Sylvia.  We are so blessed to know them and we are so grateful for all that they do to help us save Romanian strays.

Lady Mioara has been, for over one year now, one of our silent colleagues, a very modest lady who chose to support us after we first helped her and her many dogs.  With her help we have saved many poor souls, difficult medical cases and also lots of babies rescued from shelter or from the street. Currently we have over 15 sweet souls in foster care with Mioara, including old and almost blind Mozart , 2 tiny new born puppies, 10 bigger puppies, and last but not least 4 rescued cats.

Octavia is another fantastic lady, who we also first came in contact with when she reached out to us to help her with her own dogs and their puppies which she was struggle to support.  We helped to vaccinate and rehome most of them.  She is a wonderful lady with a big heart, and while she may not have much money herself she has opened her home and her yard to take in our foster cases.

Without our financial support she would not be able to do this.  But with our help she has so far fostered over 70 souls in need, mostly rescued puppies, saved from the shelter or street, some with their mummies others without.  She helps out of her love for animals and makes no financial profit (unlike some other fosters in Romania)  – for her the profit of helping animals far outweighs anything financial. Currently Octavia has over 20 little bundles of joy under her care – some of whom as you can see are quite mischievous!

Silvia is also close to our heart and she is the great foster mommy that helped us save Andra, Cornel and many other souls ♥  As a new activity , our dear Silvia is fostering …cats!  As some of you may know we had a big emergency when foster mommy Laura had to leave the kitties in our care when she had to leave the country.  We were desperate but Silvia with Mioara together helped us make things possible, fostering with love all the souls that were in care of Laura before ♥  Without them we do not know what we could have done with the little kittens and puppies that were too young to travel or put into the shelter.   We are happy to say that sweet Diva, also known as Lottchen by now, traveled to Germany, where she will start a new wonderful life , just like it her sweet sister Queen.

As part of our commitment to the poor stray and injured souls that we save, as well as these three wonderful ladies, we provide support through food donations, paying vaccinations and other vets bills.  We can only do this with support and donations from our supporters.  We need your help to fund their vaccinations and to find loving forever homes.

We also need to provide Octavia and Mioara some additional support.   Because they have a number of puppies in their care they have some issues with the neighbours.  The little puppies are noisy and love to play and run around in the front of the house. We would like to repair the fences, and build proper kennels and facilities for them at the  back of the houses.  As well as improving the conditions of the dogs this should also help keep the neighbours happy and thereby not jeopordise our foster care options.  This is a specific project that we need to fund and again we need supporters to help cover these costs.  Can you help?

Finally all of these puppies and kittens will need forever homes once they have been vaccinated.  We need people to share our posts and our photos.  We need people to ask friends and family if they have room in their homes.  We need people to consider rescuing a Romanian Strays rather than buy a puppy from a breeder.  These little guys need your help.  They deserve happy, forever homes, outside of a country which has abused them and a country where they have no future.

Please show your support for our three amazing foster angels.  Support us in helping them through donating for the puppies and kittens in their foster care and in helping to find them forever homes.  Join us in saluting these wonderful ladies by making a donation to support Mioara, Octavia and Sylvia.  Donate via paypal mentioning their names through hopeforstrays@yahoo.com or contact us if you can home one of these wonderful rescues.  Thank you!