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Text from shelter site

I don’t know how to write this, but last night our shelter was burnt down. The dogs who were inside perished.

Also burnt was the outdoor enclosure where our blood donors, Mitya and Styopa perished. We managed to rescue only a few dogs. All the sick dogs and little ones were killed.

Still alive are the dogs who were in the kennels and those who were in enclosures opposite the shelter.

Several dogs have gone to Yura Mikityuk, several are in the ‘Champion’ veterinary clinic

The cause of the fire was ther wiring, although it was renewed fairly recently.

Our phones

8-911-2850394-Tanya

8-911-9363314-Natasha

8-812-7166619-Kira (medicine)

8-911-9110963-Olya

Alive [about 55]:

My Stella has just come running from the base.!!!

All the enclosures ipposite the shelter – Josephine, Jessie, Bonya, Bulan, Yasha and German are at the vets with burns.

List of other names alive including Stella mentioned above.

 DIED  List of kennel entries for those that died.

Please friends, all can offer help send your telephone numbers, even if it is a long time since you were in contact with us. So that we don’t have to look for you in the confusion of telephone numbers.

Needed

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food -- essential

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things

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ropes and leads

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plastic dogbeds with sides – preferably medium size

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a generator – 10 kwatts

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 Several severely ill dogs are at the vet’s clinic. They urgently need blood transfusions!

 An enormous thank you to all for your support!

Named dogs taken into over=exposure  

 02:03

Friends, I just managed to get onto the net.

Altogether at the moment, as has already been said, the corpses of 55 dogs have been retrieved., 13 have been taken for ????? postmortem, the rest ???? distributed around the ground.   

In the shelter today there was a simply unreal number of people.

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Friends, probably the organisers of the shelter did not even suspect that so many people would respond to this terrible tragedy.

They have brought everything: food for people, porridge, chicken, sandwiches, coffee, tea, friut, sweets, but no one could eat hardly anything.. They brought warm clothing.

For the animals they brought food,  meat,  coats ,  beds,  horsecloths,  leads and collars,  muzzles,  bedding,   rugs,  blankets and in general  a pile of everything.

Selema’s husband,  Sergei,  great chap,  effectively organised people,  they quickly set about warming nearby quarters so that the animals could be taken there.

Igor went to shops for things which had been burnt in the shelter. Seriozha’s wife,  Lena,  went to get a microwave and kettle.

Kostya Zhukov drove the dogs to the vet’s. Nearly all of our friends from the forum came.

People came simply to express their grief,  to offer help with cars.

Truth to tell,  I simply do not have words,  friends,  to tell you all enough of a thank you,  there are not words such as can express everything that I want to say.

An enormous thank you for all the material help: thanks to all the help offered, I can honestly say that such a stream of people came that sometimes it wasn’t even possible to keep track of who gave what, they just shoved money into our hands  and went. And to the request ‘Wait a moment, let me write you down’ they said it wasn’;t necessary. Friends, without you all we just couldn’t have coped, we simply couldn’t raise what we will have to rebuild in the nmear future: We shall have to rebuild the main building, - it is practically destroyed – only the walls remain, we’ll have to build enclosures, rebuild the veterinary block. And we had recently done some repairs.

I am so astonished that so many people responded.

I don’t know with what words or how to express to all our gratitude for the support and help, but I would really like everyone to know that you are wonderful people!

At the present time the shelter is throwing all its efforts into rebuilding the building destroyed by the fire and the area around it.

There are needs but already not so desperate:

Tins of chappie [as many dogs are not eating well because of stress]:

Collars;

Slip collars – very necessary for work:

Leads 1 metre 20cm not with carbine sleeve?????? But with a flat loop.

Plastic beds with sides because winter is setting in and it will be cold on the ground.

Seryozha is aranging about building materials.

I’ll mention medical supplies tomorrow as Kira has been dealing with this and all telephones are engaged.

Enormous thanks to all of you our dear people for your help, for the supportm for all that you have done this day.

Friends, a deep bow to you all!!!

I am repeating myself but we really did not expect such an incredible stream of help. We thank a million times all the people who simply came to express their sorrow, stood weeping by the burnt building, who rang from all over the town, asking about particular dogs – ‘Tell me, is Lotta alive?’ ‘Tell me, has the dog with the white tip on its tail that was brought in a month ago survived? And can we come and see her?’

 They came up to the enclosures where the dogs were, talking to them, calming them. I heard one woman reading the Lord’s prayer by an enclosure with living dogs in it and at the end she said: ‘Lord, thank you that at least these children are saved’ -  it was unbearable to hear this pain, being expressed simply around the shelter. Such feeling, that was piled up together by all, young, old, children.

By midnight the chaos began to lesson a bit and the dogs who had survived began to cry. This crying was more terrible because who could tell if they were saying goodbye to those they would never see again, painful and frightful to hear the sobbing of a healthy dog, realising that something terrible, irredemable has happened.

For us people this is a tragedy, it is not only our charges in the shelter who have perished, it is our children, many of them came to the shelter as puppies, we watched them grow up and form their little gangs. Two on the list of dead were honorable blood donors – Styopa and Mitya – they more than once saved dogs who needed blood transfusions.

I could go on forever enumerating everything that happened, but I’ll just say one thing – it is frightening how irredemable is the result, painful the realisation that those that have gone  can never again look on this earth with long since blinded eyes and real human gratitude to people, wonderful people of whom in our troubled times there are a great number.

Friends, I understand that Saturday is New Year’s Eve but for us Saturday will be a day of mourning!

I think many will want to say goodbye to those who have died.