- Age:
- Date of death: 28.04.2025
- Sex: ♂
- Neutered: ✅
- Vaccinated: ✅
- Passport: ✅
In the summer of 2024, Pes showed up near our volunteer’s home — the same place where our Hasya and a dog named Ula would later appear. Ula found a home without our help. Our volunteer fed Pes and Ula, and in July 2024 both dogs were neutered/spayed and vaccinated.
Then both of them suddenly disappeared. We suspect that neighbors who were afraid of dogs took them and dumped them outside the city. But Ula and Pes found their way back. They had clearly been walking for many days: their paws were torn and infected because dangerous foxtail grass seeds had lodged inside them. They were in a lot of pain. The dogs were urgently taken to the clinic, and a long process of treatment and recovery began.
Ula recovered first, and we returned her to the place where she had lived before. As a side note: later, Ula was hit by a car and seriously injured; one of her eyes had to be removed. After rehabilitation, she did not return to the street and found a home instead.
Pes’s paws, however, would not heal. He needed more time and care. We were very afraid that people would again be scared by his enormous size — despite his angelic, soft homebody personality — and would take him somewhere again. So we decided not to return him to the street and instead placed him in foster care.
In September 2024, Pes moved to foster care at one of Yerevan’s shelters. In winter, unexplained episodes began: Pes would have seizures and suddenly lose consciousness. He was also found to have joint problems in his legs. Those problems started to progress as he gained weight, which is almost inevitable in foster settings with normal access to food and without enough opportunity to give a dog sufficient physical activity.
The doctors prescribed pain medication for Pes. We continued searching for the cause of the episodes. He underwent a large number of tests, but there was still no answer. The episodes became less frequent and disappeared by spring. We breathed out a little.
Then, unexpectedly, at the end of April 2025, the foster place wrote to us and said that Pes had died the previous morning. We wanted to take his body and have an examination done to determine the cause of death, but it turned out that he had been given to an outside person for burial without our consent, and that the place could not be found.
This story was a shock to us. We no longer work with that foster place, and none of our animals are there now.