Leia

• Age:
• Rehomed on: 10.09.2022
• Sex: ♀
• Neutered: ✅
• Vaccinated: ✅
• Passport: ✅
• Microchip: ✅

In September 2022, Leia found her home!

In May 2022, people noticed an exhausted adult dog limping on one paw. The plan was simple: catch her, treat the injury, sterilize her, and release her back. But she skillfully avoided every attempt to catch her. She would only approach food after people moved far away.

One day, we followed her to her shelter. It turned out to be under an abandoned garage near a busy road — a pit filled with trash. The dog disappeared under the garage, and soon we heard quiet squeaking sounds. We spent a long time waiting there, listening, calling, and shining flashlights into the darkness. Eventually, we spotted puppies. At first, we didn’t even know how many there were.

Every day we stayed near that garage. Every day the dog came for food, ate, and disappeared back underneath it. We noticed that her stomach and chest were covered with cuts and wounds — she got them crawling over broken glass bottles and sharp cans to reach her puppies under the garage.

After many days, we were close to despair. The puppies had started coming out from under the garage on their own, and they were growing quickly. Every day we became more afraid that they would wander onto the road and get hit by a car.

We could not wait any longer. We decided to rescue the puppies first and then continue trying to help the mother dog. There turned out to be two puppies — a boy and a girl. As soon as the puppies were placed into the car and sent to the clinic, their mother walked up to us herself, calmly allowed us to put a collar on her, and came to the clinic with us.

The puppies turned out to be healthy and very large for their age — just over one month old. We named them Luke and Leia. Their mother, because of her thinness, was named Twiggy. X-rays showed that her paw was not broken; it was only bruised. In foster care, Twiggy gained weight, her leg healed, and she continued feeding the puppies. You can read her full story on her Kotoprovod page.

The puppies turned out to be wonderful dogs, and by the end of summer both had found homes. In autumn, Leia moved to a family where she could run freely in a large garden with a vineyard — and even make friends with the neighborhood cats. Our project also helped cover the cost of her sterilization once she was old enough.

Receiving updates from a huge, happy dog living safely at home is a real joy.

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