I think I’m going to shut down the go fund me account. I had started it with every intention of sharing my excitement and inspiring others to join the Ukrainian animal rescue cause. I estimated that the plane ticket would be about $2,000 and the needed medications would be about $3,000. Therefore, $5,000 it was. Within 48 hours I reached the goal. It was the fist big step in making and sharing this experience with the rest of my friends, family and the world.
And I’m also going to probably start collecting for Ukraine for right now. I need to figure out what’s the best way to help the animals in Ukraine. Without contributing to the corruption and diversion of these dollars that are coming into Ukraine. Everybody around the world almost everybody, is providing resources to the people of Ukraine to try to help them in their effort to fight the Russian invasion of their country. It has affected every single aspect of their lives. Food is expensive gas is almost obsolete people can’t go out at night they can’t turn the lights on they can’t socialize they’re worried about being drafted they are restricted in where they can travel and how far they can travel and it’s frightening on a lot of levels and it’s also getting worse. When it comes to the animals there are a great deal of people who are very compassionate and empathetic inside and out of the country. But they’re also very limited on what they can do. Most people that are there now are the poor and the elderly. They don’t have a lot of land they don’t have a large house and they don’t have any money. Further they were multiple times that I was there and the banks were closed I didn’t know anybody who took a credit card there was no one that took a credit card there so that means people are in long lines for the bank machines if there’s even money there which creates more hysteria and more panic things like food of all kinds are in short supply and two are very expensive. Including dog food and cat food. I saw multiple examples of this. One of the guys from our group left a bag of dog food open on the side of the road in the town that we were in because there were dogs there. The neighbors called the police because they were worried about a new identified or unknown bag even though it’s a bag looks like a bag of dog food on their street. So the police came investigated and realized it was just a bag of dog food. It’s so abnormal for people to be feeding dogs on the street in with bags of dog food because the bags are so expensive that it created a panic in the towns people and the neighbors. When we do get food and the group that I was working with was giving massive amounts of food it Hass to be locked up either. Even if it’s locked up it gets stolen and then sold to private citizens who have pets at home and can still afford to buy food. So even though we’re just providing animal food it’s being diverted or sold. I can’t even get angry at this. Because those people are using that money to buy cheaper food to try to keep these dogs life because they have so many of them. Another good example is that the shelter we were working with which has over 500 animals was taking leftovers from the army base in town which was essentially bread some meat bones leftover meat bones and a whole lot of rice and vegetables. The rescue group got really upset because they had donated food but the food was nowhere to be found. And my answer to it all was although it wasn’t above board and it wasn’t ideal these people have not turned any animals away and therefore there cages are bursting.
I am not asking everyone to jump in, give money, donate a bag of food, but, I am asking you, you reading this, to consider adopting the next time. Maybe today? Don't make up convenient excuses, jut go out, adopt a pet, and save two souls.
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