There are an estimated 40 million street dogs in Eastern Europe in need of rescue routinely faced with the most abject cruelty from poison, starvation, beating, freezing to death or fall victim to being run over by a tram or car and sustain horrific injuries.

Stray dogs and cats are found in high numbers in every village, town and city. Sadly they are subjected to horrific animal abuse – whilst some residents feed the strays, many others attack them. We have found dogs tortured, poisoned, hung, shot, stabbed, raped, set on fire, purposely run over, dragged behind cars, bludgeoned to death, mouths and limbs tied up, mutilated and left to die a slow, agonising death. This is why…