Albania

NO LONGER ACTIVE IN ALBANIA AND MONTENEGRO!

In Albania, things look different from place to place. While the mayor took measures to treat street dogs in Shkodra in 2018 together with our former partner organization Pro Qen Albania, thousands of dogs were still killed in Tirana in 2021 by order of the mayor. Whether the new Animal Welfare Act, which has been in force since 2019, will put an end to its action remains to be seen.

In the very south of the country in Fieri and in the north in Durrës, we supported the Swiss association JETA Tier und Mensch, which carries out small but good castration projects and thus sets models of how the situation can be changed locally. Direct aid is temporarily suspended - please contact Jeta animal and human

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ALBANIA IS NOT A HOLIDAY DESTINATION FOR ANIMAL LOVERS! - Unless you want to actively help save animal lives

We take the view that vacations are meant as relaxation. Who wants to see helpless and abandoned dogs - without being able to help. And dogs are thrown away every day in rural areas and on the roads in cities. In an emergency, contact the associations”JETA animal and human“or Erza Cermjani from the club”ProqenAlbania.org“with Animals Need me Shkodra are:

- DVM Artenis Limoj at Fieri +355688353760

- DVM Rubin Piranaj in Shkodra +355 69 560 1111

- KLOER Veterinary Clinic in Durrës +355693177929

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Animal help at the holiday resort

Almost every major town has a vet. Take the dog or puppy to the vet, have it dewormed - very important - vaccinated and castrated. Ask for an ear tag. Then return the dog to the place where you found him and ask the local residents to give him water and food. In the best case scenario, you'll come across animal lovers who are willing to keep “their” dog with them in the yard for monthly contributions. Then you saved an animal's life.

CONTACT THE ASSOCIATIONS AND VETERINARIANS MENTIONED ABOVE - STRAYCOCO IS NO LONGER ACTIVE IN ALBANIA

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Shkodër

Thanks to the collaboration with the small Austrian association Pro Qen Albania and the volunteers in the city Shkodra/Albania (Animals need me), we can also carry out castration and vaccination campaigns in Albania every six months. Our two vets, DVM Blendi Bejdoni and DVM Eriola Palla Bejdoni, were in Shkodra as volunteers twice in 2016 and supported the local vets with castrations. The StrayCoco Foundation paid for the necessary surgical equipment and all medications. From January 2017, castration operations have been carried out regularly in this city, together with veterinarian Dr. Rubin Piranaj. The city paid for 230 treatments, we gave 200 additional dogs veterinary treatment! A total of 500 dogs were treated and castrated in 2019 thanks to funding from StrayCoco.

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Durrës

Our goals are to reduce the population of stray animals in Albania in the long term, to inform the population how to handle animals and animal welfare, to create rights for animals and to find habitats for abused animals.

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Law and Order in Albania

Albania does not have an independent veterinary office; the laws all relate to food safety. Pets are not mentioned anywhere. The cruel treatment of dogs by Albanians who are abandoned or beaten to death only shakes Animal Welfare Organizations - otherwise this is not a political issue! Pictures of abused, dehydrated, dying dogs are unbearable.

Our foundation had made no effort to make an impact as a foreign organization. Alone, we were too small and too powerless. Various NGOs in the country are protesting, but they haven't made any progress for years!

Anyone who wants to help can JETA animal and human or Pro Qen Albania support.

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