Luke

• Age:
• Rehomed on: 20.07.2022
• Sex: ♂
• Vaccinated: ✅
• Passport: ✅
• Microchip: ✅

In July 2022, Luke found his home!

In May 2022, people noticed an exhausted adult dog limping on one paw. The plan was to 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 a safe distance away.

One day, we followed her to her shelter. It turned out to be under an abandoned garage near a busy road, inside a pit full of garbage. The dog disappeared beneath 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, though at first we could not tell 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 saw that her stomach and chest were covered in cuts and wounds — she was injuring herself on broken glass bottles and sharp cans while crawling to her puppies under the garage.

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

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

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, 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 both found homes by the end of summer.

Luke moved to his new family already that same summer — to a private house with his own yard. He grew into a huge, beautiful dog and for a long time kept sending us greetings from his new life.

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