Animal help in the Dominican Republic - for a better cooperation between humans and animals
Helping with a sponsorship
As representatives of animals in need, we would like to introduce you to some individual animal fates. To make sure that the supplies for these animals – medical supplies or food supplies – are provided for, we are offering you the opportunity to take on a sponsorship for one or more of the animals. With a small monthly contribution you can help them survive.
At Amigos de Lucky there are no obligations or minimum charges for sponsors or donators. The sponsors themselves determine the amount they would like to give, for us already 10,- €/14,- US$ are a great help. Everybody should really only give what they can put aside every month. The monthly costs for food and medical treatment naturally differ from case to case but on average you can expect about 20,- to 40,- €/28,- to 55,- US$ – this is only an estimate, please don't take it for an obligatory monthly sum!!! Feel free to align with some friends and take over a sponsorship together, as was done for our sponsored dog “Puschel”.
Of course you can end your sponsorship at any time; we don't even need a reason, just a short e-mail stating that the sponsorship cannot be continued as a note for us, then we can display the animal as „available“ on our homepage. And of course no sponsor need be afraid that we will stop looking after an animal once a sponsorship has ended, we will never abandon an animal!!!
The contributions for the sponsorships are unfortunately only possible via our German bank account or Paypal.
Anybody willing to take over a sponsorship can contact me via e-mail under info@amigos-de-lucky.org
Linda
Sometimes it is unbelievable, how cruel humans can be, thus in the case of Linda...
On the highway between Nagua and Santo Domingo dogs repeatedly get abandoned. A car stops, the door opens and the dog gets kicked out – it's the easy way out when people want to “dispose” of unwanted animals. B
But because most of the poor dogs start running in complete panic, this usually ends fatally under the wheels of a passing car or truck.
Linda’s sad fate was to be sealed even quicker
than that, since she was thrown onto the street in a corded up sack – a to 100
% lethal trap...
But sometimes even these dogs are lucky under the circumstances, namely when
somebody with a heart drives by and doesn't hesitate to take the animal in.
Before it came to the worst with Linda, a friend of ours was able to get her
out of the sack and to take the trusting, but totally distressed little pet
into his car.
Suzie, another dog – back then still a puppy – had already been saved by our
friend from the highway a couple of months before. And it seems as if they
exchanged their terrible experience, because they immediately became the
closest of friends.
Because the family already has a couple of abandoned dogs living with them and
its financial means are limited, it would be great, if we could find a sponsor
for Linda’s food and medical care. So that Linda will be able to lead a happy
life from now on with her fellow mates Suzie, Tata, Diego and Quita...
Linda escaped death by an inch...
Linda and her friends would be very happy to find a sponsor!
Lulu
Lulu belonged to the same French man as Blanca (see the very bottom of the page) –we were able to find a Dominican Family for her back then. But now the family has lost interest in Lulu and she has more or less become a stray dog. We regularly give food to a friend, who lives close by, so that he can feed her daily.
Of course we are desperately looking for a new family for Lulu – which is difficult because the Dominicans don't like dark dogs and she also isn't the youngest any more – but until we find her a new home it would be great if a sponsor could take over the feeding costs for Lulu...
Until Lulu finds a new home, she would be very happy about a new sponsor!
The beach dogs of La Yagua
Female dogs have repeatedly been abandoned at the secluded beach of La Yagua and have ever since been breeding there unchecked.
After being dewormed, vaccinated and neutered by us in April 2009, they have been doing very well. Up to now Fisherman Alberto is looking after 10 dogs and we support him regularly by providing food and performing deworming.
A new puppy was abandoned in 2010 – naturally a female – who has already been neutered and medically tended to by us.
All of the stray dogs there are doing fine – they frolic freely and play with their pals. Alberto and people walking along the beach stop and stroke them. When they get ill, Alberto informs us right away and we see to it that the animals recover quickly.
The beach dogs of La Yagua would be happy to be your sponsored dog!
Dulci
Dulci is still in the foster home at Brandas.
She overcame the papillomavirus thanks to homoeopathic
medicines and good food, only her skin is still worrying us a little...
Therefore we weren't able to find a loving family for her yet, but will keep on
searching.
Although Dulci is neither big nor strong, she guards Brenda's property like a proper guarddog. She is an absolute bundle of energy in other ways as well; she frolics around and especially likes to be cuddled..
Silvia – she has just moved to Las Terrenas – regularly brings Dulci food, treats her skin and doesn't hold back on the cuddling either.
You will find the report about Dulci and a photo in the 14th NL
The sponsorship for Dulci has kindly been taken over by Silvia H.
Jamonita
Jamonita is a wonderful example that proves that you can change the life of an animal to the better for the long run using relatively small amounts of medical and financial effort.
A couple of months ago she was nothing but a little
picture of misery that was chased away by most people. Today she calls the
carwash her home and not only that, the owner of the bar there has adopted her.
As soon as he comes to work in the morning, Jamonita tail-waggingly jumps up to
him – something only few Dominicans accept – and gets fondled by him
immediately. He shares his lunch and dinner with her and when there are people
in the bar, Jamonita also gets a little something from them.
Furthermore she gets supplied by us medically, e.g.
with deworming tablets and of course many a time we also give her a portion of
dry food and meat... ;-)
You will find the report and photos of Jamonita
in the 14th NL
The sponsorship for Jamonita has kindly been taken over by Regula F.
Salomon
Solomon is and will remain our biggest child of
sorrow... after the tumour up on his back vanished thanks to homoeopathy we
nearly wanted to dance with glee, unfortunately new tumours appeared in other
places. Of course some of you will say: why don't you put this dog to sleep?
Because Salomon shows us every day, how brimful of life he is and how much he
is fighting for his life. He is only in pain sometimes, eats with pleasure,
frolics after the ducks and is a passionate cuddler. Are we to put all that to
an end? Of course he has his bad days – but don't we all?
Only when we get the feeling, that he is agonizing
himself will we think about euthanasia. But till then he will get all our love
and medical help, supplements and special high quality food and may his destiny
be linked to ours for a very long time...
His sponsor Nicole comes here regularly for her
holidays. For Easter 2011 I took her for a tour to the poorer districts of Las
Terrenas to show her the successes of our work there. There we met Salomon and
for Nicole it was love at first sight. I can't exactly describe what it is
Salomon has about him, but he can look deeply into your soul and you feel a
special bond towards him.
You will find photos and reports about Salomon
in the 8th NL and 14th NL
The sponsorship for Salomon has kindly been taken over by Nicole S.
Isabella & Chivi
In newsletter No. 9 I told you about the fates of stray dog Isabella and her puppies. Isabella (Photo leftmost) and her daughter Chivi were fixed by us, vaccinated and brought to live with a very nice but very poor family.
The two of them were very happy there, they always
slept cuddled up to one another and were always on the road together.
In October 2011 the adjacent property got
sprayed with herbicides – this was Isabella’s death sentence (see report in the
15th NL).
Now Chivi is on her own and it took quite some time until she got over her grief. We visit her often, bring a lot of treats to comfort her and cuddle her a lot. Through the death of her mother, Chivi has abruptly become an adult – previously she still was as frisky and boisterous as a puppy... When I visited the cat at the neighbours house the other day, she ran to the gate and was very happy, that's when for the first time I was able detect a bit of the “old” Chivi in her eyes...(see picture at the right)
The sponsorship for Chivi has kindly been taken over by Daniela G.
Puschel
Puschel used to lived on the street in front of a
“Ferreteria” (a kind of
ironware store) and was fixed by us in January 2010 – admittedly we had
to do everything secretly, because the owner is a real idiot and threatened us
with the police. Albeit he never noticed, that Puschel is neutered... ;-)
Puschel was fed daily by our friend Nicole, provided
with drinking water and treated by us medically when needed. Puschel is a
really clever chap, every day he punctually sat in position awaiting his food.
Unfortunately his skin is very affected by his long
life on the street – a Chow-Chow simply needs a lot of care and is not really
made for street-life. Therefore it wasn't surprising, that he had a couple of
abscesses in July 2011, which we had to treat at our house.
Desperately we looked for a home for him and
though Nicole already has so many dogs, she took Puschel in. He fitted in with
the pack well, is an absolute cuddler – maybe we should rename him from Puschel
into Kuschel (= cuddle)... - but unfortunately he is still having some problems
with his skin despite the medical treatment. Since his fur grew back well, you
don't see the small wounds immediately and therefore flies can lay their eggs
unnoticed, which lead to a maggot infestation. But we will get on top of this
as well, because Puschel is one of the most patient patients we know – he even
wags his tail while you are picking maggots out of his wounds and washing them
out...
You can see a report and photo of Puschel in the 14th NL
Puschel today – old but happy and some day he will be all healthy again...
The sponsorship for
Puschel has kindly been taken over by Katharina B.,
Michelle S., Dagmar Z. and Jochen M.
Chiquito
Chiquito
was born in July 2010, he comes from La Romana and has a malformed front leg.
His mother gave birth to him and five other siblings in a backyard. After about
three weeks his mother and siblings suddenly disappeared, Chiquito was left
behind on his own. Thereupon a German took him in. But since she was already
looking after a couple of animals herself and wasn’t going to be able to keep
Chiquito in the long run, she tried to find another home for him, sadly without
success. Nobody wanted to have a handicapped dog. So she turned to us and we
took Chiquito in.
Since than
he has been living with the family of our worker (a very animal-loving Haitian)
with us on our property. Chiquito is a cheeky little fellow who gives us a lot
of joy.
In May 2011 he was neutered – sometimes dogs become calmer after that, but not Chiquito! He is a boisterous bundle of energy and preferably frolics about with big Onyx. His handicap doesn't bother him in the least and he is just as fast as all the other dogs with his three legs. Small but oho...! He takes very good care of us and barks away everybody and everything that passes behind our fence.
Report and photos of Chiquito in the 11th NL
The sponsorship for Chiquito has kindly been taken over by Hans K.
Onyx
Onyx turned up on the streets of Las Terrenas at the beginning of September 2010; he had some wounds (probably bites) on his head and neck that were very swollen. We got some hints about his whereabouts, but every time we looked for him in the streets, he was untraceable. On the 23rd of September an Argentinian woman called us, she got hold of Onyx and looked after him till we turned up. His wounds were full of maggots, which she had already partly removed and treated with a blue disinfectant spray. Onyx was very thin, his temperature was low and because of the infection an abscess had formed, so that he could hardly move his head and also had trouble breathing and swallowing. We tended to him medically and the abscess finally opened up.
With a lot of good food, love and care he quickly
recovered. Admittedly a scar remained from his big wound, but that bothers
neither him nor us ;-) In May 2011 he was neutered. And since he came to us, we
have been searching for a good home for him– however without success. Since
such a big dog needs a lot of food, it was difficult for us to meet the costs
for him. Thanks to his sponsor Susanne, Onyx can now stay with us forever,
because with her financial support, food and medical supply is provided for.
Onyx learned to fit in with the pack quickly – his
best friends are our male dogs Lucky and Leon, he frolics about with them
incessantly, which sometimes gets too much for handicapped Leon. And sometimes,
when Onyx needs a lot of love, he jumps up onto the sofa to us, makes himself
as small as possible as if we wouldn't notice him then and rolls his red-brown
eyes – an absolutely lovable fellow...
You may find reports and photos of Onyx in the 11th NL and in the 12th NL
The sponsorship for Onyx has kindly been taken over by Susanne and Robert L.
Mäuschen (Mousie)
Mäuschen (Mousie) is one of the river-dogs we fixed in December 2009. During
heavy rains in July, Mäuschen was swept away by the water of the swelling
river, thrown against a stone and caught behind a bridge, where she couldn't
move forwards or backwards and was close to drowning. She didn't only swallow a
vast quantity of water; in addition to this all the floating litter drifted
into her mouth, amongst other things a big piece of broken glass.
Finally a dauntless Dominican saved her more dead than alive from her desperate
situation and I was informed about it. Of course I took her with me straight
away – she was in deep shock, her spine was heavily bruised, the piece of
broken glass had caused severe inner injuries and due to the lack of oxygen she
had suffered brain damage. Everybody who knows me knows, that as long as an animal
shows a will to live and there is a chance of convalescence I will not give up.
For two weeks we fought for Mäuschens life with the help of our homoeopathic
veterinarian in Germany, luckily she threw up the broken piece of glass pretty
quickly, so that the inner bleeding could at least be stopped.
Mäuschen recovered by and by and learned to walk
again. A couple of wobbly steps turned
into longer and longer distances. Today she runs everywhere with her typical
wobbly-walk – up the hill and down again, to the fence to bark and preferably
after our horses...
She has nearly lost her death fear of water as well.
She only needs our help with eating and drinking, we feed her by hand and
support her head when she drinks.
Mäuschen will always be a handicapped dog, but as with our other handicapped dogs it diminishes neither her high spirits nor her activity – Mäuschen is very happy!
You will find further reports and photos of Mäuschen in the 10th NL and in the 12th NL
The sponsorship for Mäuschen has kindly been taken over by Stefanie M.
Blanca
Blanca belonged to a French man, who lived in Las Terrenas. When he went
back to France Blanca was to be killed because he didn't want to take her with
him – he found the costs for her departure documents too expensive...
We desperately tried to find another home for Blanca, without success. From an
early age she has been suffering from a serious dermal problem. Despite various
treatment methods we have not been able to get it under control yet. The
Dominicans find her "disgusting" and the Europeans who live here
either already have a dog or would rather have a pure bred.
So we took Blanca, who is very shy and intimidated, in
as a long-term patient. She gets treated medically, gets special food and of
course much love and tender care. Blancas state of health very much depends on
her state of mind. When I have a lot of time for her and attend to her
intensely, she usually feels better. Unfortunately this is often impossible
with all my work and the many other patients. Because of my long stays in
Germany and in hospital her state worsened again. We hope very much, that she
will recover one day, because slowly she is showing more of herself and a large
appetite for life...
You will find a photo and a report about Blanca
in 13th NL
The sponsorship for Blanca has kindly been taken over by Günter S.
This page is continuously updated. The animals introduced so far are only some of so many who need a sponsor. So please check here every now and then and follow the sad single fates and give them a bit of hope with your sponsorship. You can also take over a sponsorship for somebody else, for example as a birthday- or Christmas present. If you have any questions or wishes do not hesitate to contact me.
Those who don't want to take over a long-term sponsorship can also take over a one time neutering-sponsorship – information is to be found under Donation Calender
Thanks, also on behalf of all of our sponsored dogs, Yours Miriam