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Film commissioned by StrayCoco

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This film, created on behalf of our foundation, was distributed on social media in Albania and Kosovo. In simple pictures and words, he explains why dogs must be castrated, why animal shelters are currently not a solution in both countries given the tremendous number of street dogs, why killing does not produce the desired result. More than 76,000 people watched the film for at least a short time. We will need to continue to exert influence through education via social media.

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NEGATIVE EXAMPLE PRIZREN - THE PROTEST!

In Prizren, Fidan Krasniqi, farmer and large animal doctor, has won the contract for the state-financed castrations with his team. At first, he celebrated Ramadan until June 17, while in Pristina and elsewhere, the program began immediately and two weeks earlier. Several witnesses reported this year that he poisoned street dogs, unwanted puppies, etc. with cleaning products - it doesn't cost anything - and he answered the request from the associated municipality of Dragash to castrate the estimated 200 street dogs as quickly as possible with “in six months”!

As a result, the mayor contacted our veterinarians last week and asked the foundation to take over this work. The state will not pay them because our two vets are not allowed to castrate outside the region assigned to them. The bureaucracy in Kosovo is unbearable! We have photos of the poisoned dogs in Prizren, and from 2015 we have evidence that the Theranda Vets - as they call themselves - killed, poisoned and poisoned 831 street dogs. I'll spare you these sad pictures, but here you can see photos of the protest in Prizren on June 16, 2018 - the guests are the mayor of Tirana (5000 killed street dogs), mayor of Pristina (at least 200 street dogs killed per year), mayor of Peja (since our deployment a supporter of the CNVR instead of killing) and the new mayor of Prizren (whose chief vet in the knowledge of the city administration has systematically dogs poisoned).

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TRAINING OF VETERINARIANS IN THE SMALL INCISION TECHNIQUE

Since many large veterinarians are unable to castrate small animals, we have once again with the Slovenian Vets for Stray Pets A seminar was successfully held in Kosovo, this time in Fushë Kosova in April 2018, the last time this was in Prizren last fall. As part of the state program, we want street dogs not to be killed negligently, but to be treated as well as possible.

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TWO NEW NGOs IN KOSOVO

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Kosovo Small Animal Welfare

This is our newly established Kosovo Foundation. Our vet DVM Blendi Bejdoni is president, DVM Eriola P. Bejdoni, our veterinary technician Ermir Berisha, Erza Cermjani from the Austrian partner association Pro Qen Albania and myself are also represented. The reason for this new establishment is the fact that foreign NGOs can and must never intervene in the same way as a domestic foundation. It now allows us to carry out checks on government CNVR work. With this foundation, we also want all small animals Dogs like cats, are helping with veterinary treatment in Kosovo and are currently setting up a mobile clinic.

The website will soon be available at www.kosaw.org - this foundation will independently collect donations, especially for cats. StrayCoco will support the foundation for mobile deployments in the villages.

At the same time as founding our foundation, Elza Ramadani (Bachelor in Law), Granit Gashi and three Italian animal rights activists, founded the Kosovo Animal Rights Foundation (Animal Rights Foundation) founded. We have been in contact with Elza Ramadani for half a year and since there are enough activists in Kosovo - unfortunately only in Pristina, she has decided to create an information and intervention agency for animal rights based on the Swiss model. The two Kosovan founders will be in Switzerland in August and will also be able to learn how to enforce animal rights for a few days at the Animal in Law Foundation.

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OUTPATIENT CARE FOR VILLAGE DOGS

This panel van was privately financed and brought to Kosovo from Austria by the board member of Pro Qen Albania. Our vet DVM Blendi Bejdoni is currently working on the equipment, but it will be spartan. Upon notice or upon request, this mobile clinic will travel to the villages and treat and castrate private dogs there. They can then recover at home. This measure was necessary because the vet is not being visited outside the cities in Kosovo. That is why we visit dog owners - and offer the program through our new partner organization “Kosovo Small Animal Welfare” Foundation.

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OUR NEW TASK IN KOSOVO AND ALBANIA

Since the State of Kosovo Now financing the castration and vaccination program for the next 13 months, thanks to your donations, we are freeing up funds for the introduction of responsible dog husbandry - including CNVR in unallocated regions. In some villages, we have started systematically chipping, vaccinating, deworming, castrating private dogs on request - and registering dog owners (343 so far). With this, we create the second model - after 3 1/2 years of CNVR - how to Dog owners with their dogs under control keeps. I hear that the Veterinary Office has already extended its electronic recording of livestock to dogs. The current work of our team is still being registered with us, as soon as the state is ready for the second step, we will provide them with all chip numbers and holder addresses. Of course, we have already shown our registrations to the Veterinary Office and set out our plan. Otherwise, the street dog situation cannot be improved in the long term.

At the same time, we will largely treat and castrate street dogs where the officially appointed veterinarians are not planning to deploy them for the time being (see Prizren/Dragash!) - and emergency aid is omnipresent, and emergency assistance is required time and again with accident victims.

We also treat and castrate privately kept dogs in southwestern Kosovo whose owners are too poor to see a vet. In doing so, we want to prevent puppy births and abandonments. Every dog should receive at least one veterinary treatment once in a lifetime - better than once - that is our conviction. albania However, we are now starting to integrate the first city with contracts into the CNVR program. It concerns Shkodra, where a draft agreement has already been submitted, and the initial signals are encouraging (see below). The negotiations are conducted by Mag. phil. led by Erza Cermjani. We expect a positive conclusion soon.

PLEASE ALSO DONATE WITH THE NOTE: FOR THE STRAY DOGS OF ALBANIA!

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THE CLINIC BUILDING IN GJAKOVA

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The veterinary clinic in Gjakova is making progress, the windows and doors are in, as are insulation and cables. Electricity has recently been drilled, a well has been drilled - enough water has been found at a depth of 32 m. A septic tank is now being built, boxes are being set up, floors are covered with epoxy and the heating system is being installed. The concrete bases for the rather expensive fence around the 5000 m2 land have already been completed. The costs still to be expected amount to around 80,000 euros, of which 40,000 euros are not yet covered. Thanks to a generous private donation from December 2017 and a second great donation from the ASMI NARDO Foundation, half of the bills due in the next few months can be paid. The clinic and second sanctuary are to be opened on October 29, 2018. Help us complete Kosovo's first small animal clinic with an attached animal shelter.

‍LOOKING FOR VETERINARIANS, who can give up their practice here and give us an ultrasound device or X-ray and other equipment. An X-ray room is set up!

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ALBANIA!

ERION VELIAJ, known only as “the executioner of Tirana” in animal rights circles, rules over his people in a well-known communist way. He lies to his citizens, censors reports and deletes comments on social media that are disgusting to him. About 2 years ago, he announced a great CNVR program for street dogs — the lie that concerns our work. Our two veterinarians (Eriola Palla Bejdoni is from Tirana, both studied veterinary medicine in Tirana) wanted to visit their “colleagues” in Tirana at the beginning of 2017 and see how they carry out the program. They were not let in! Activists began to research, collect evidence and it is now clear that the mayor's mission was to kill 5,000 street dogs - appropriate quantities of T61 were ordered (proof available) and injected into the dogs without any anesthesia. The program is sold as CNVR. Erion Veliaj was confronted with his lies by our activist friends in Prizren on June 16 while visiting the Urban Space Project in the documentary cinema (see picture, mayor in black next to wearing denim clothes).

StrayCoCo is a member of Oipa.org and they have started a petition that we wish success. Participation is possible and encouraged under this link: PETITION

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The mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, in Prizren when entering the documentary cinema (in black clothes) is greeted by our friends with the message “Prizren and Tirana: Stop killing and poisoning dogs!” - in Albanian language - confronted. “He was not amused!”

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MINOR PROGRESS IN SHKODRA - NORTHERN ALBANIA

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This woman, Mayor Voltana Ademi of Shkoder, Albania, is now in control of the fate of the stray dogs in her city and region. StrayCoco has given her a fair offer, according to which we will treat and castrate 500 street dogs with Pro Qen Albania and vet DVM Rubin Piranaj in 2018, provided that they are not killed. We've already been finalizing the contracts for six weeks. Our vet has continued his work over the past year on behalf of our foundation without contracts. The first 150 street dogs and private dogs of penniless owners have been castrated... we hope that our contract negotiations will be concluded positively.

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WHAT'S GOING WRONG

The veterinary service of Albania and Kosovo does not comply with EU rules in any way. The EU Commission for Commercial Imports will now explicitly exclude Kosovo as of October 1, 2018. This means that adoptions are made more difficult and if you contribute in any way to relieving our sanctuary and adopt one of our well-socialized dogs, you must either visit Kosovo - WELCOME - or rely on our information.

The vets have thoroughly “messed it up”. Documents are falsified in both Albania and Kosovo. A week ago, on June 9, thanks to an attentive German, we were able to rescue a screaming dehydrated puppy from Mentor Gashi's gruesome “Prishtina Dog Shelter.” He suffered for two days with stones in his stomach... our vet was able to stabilize him with intravenous nutrition and the stones came off. But that is not the important thing... but the arm had already been castrated at 3 months, although she is adopted and is not allowed to travel before the 7th month, the vaccination certificate contains three vaccinations, including June 11 rabies vaccination. How does it work, on June 9 we received the puppy? The request from the vet in Pristina revealed that he had done all three vaccinations on the same day with the castration and simply “adjusted” the data a bit! The puppy should be taken to the EU one month after the blood test - another illegal act!

We understand that the EU does not want to work with such veterinary services. The hope that Kosovo or Albania will one day become more modern states is unfortunately shattered. Albania doesn't even have a veterinary office - just an agricultural office whose interests certainly do not lie with dogs and cats! More international animal welfare organizations would be needed on the ground, but apart from us, there is still nothing in Kosovo! In doing so, we could offer entry aid for new foreign animal welfare NGOs if they want to invest in the country. The need for animals is endless, but the financial and human resources of our foundation are limited.

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Arrival of the afflicted puppy from the “Prishtina Dog Shelter” at Nagavc Sanctuary. Little Leika has recovered. We can't save all dogs, but thanks to attentive helpers, one or the other occasionally finds their way into our sanctuary.

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DONATIONS ARE USED AS FOLLOWS:

• Primarily for the treatment of street dogs in Shkodra, Albania
• Second and foremost for the treatment of street dogs in regions of Kosovo where official veterinarians do not act - and we are asked to do something about it.
• Thirdly, for the treatment of private dogs at our locations.
• In line four for targeted chipping and registration programs in individual localities.

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WHEN THEY TELL US WITH A CONTRIBUTION TO CLINIC/GNADENHOF GJAKOVA IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP, PLEASE STATE THIS EXPLICITLY ON THE DONATION.

WHEN THEY GO TO THE SETTING UP OUR CLINIC VEHICLE IF YOU WANT TO DONATE TO KOSOVO SMALL ANIMAL WELFARE, PLEASE NOTE THE SAME. WITHOUT appropriate notes, all donations go directly to the animal.Thank you!