Terror Yet Again - Solt, Hungary.

Hey Fellow Pet Lovers,
Today, I decided to postpone finishing the story I started last week and start covering yet another one, that involves Satan himself, and some crazy, animal-hater people who decided to blow off steam by torturing helpless animals.

The terrifying house in Solt caught the attention of a local woman, who called the Pet Rescue League as reinforcement, and so the investigation began.

I included the map for Solt so that you could see how far the League can reach. :)
(Police, the dog mentioned in my first post is also in Solt with a temporary caretaker, he is UP FOR ADOPTION! Feel free to contact me about him if you find him appealing and would like to get some information about him)

The League members found some things even they did not expect. They have found a dog half de-composed, several skulls of dogs and dead chicken. Also, the number 666 was painted on the wall with black paint, giving the impression that this house belonged to some kind of satanist group or person.

There were several strings hanging from above, probably used for hanging other animals. The police started the investigation immediately, so they are currently trying to find the person or people who did all this.

Fortunately, the League could rescue a beautiful Golden Retriever from the scene. You can see on the picture that the dog was chained somewhere, so they had to simply cut it off from the animal's neck.

The dog was friendly by the way, and he accepted little pieces of dog treat. He was taken to a doctor because he had some gigantic ticks in his skin (of which I deliberatly did not post pictures because I did not want to make you feel any sicker.


A report has been filed against an unknown culprit, the charge is killing and torturing animals for which the perpetrator can expect a long time to be spent in prison.

With my whole heart, I feel grateful that groups like Pet Rescue League exist and take action on occasions like these. I do hope that the perpetrator will be caught as soon as possible and will be taken into custody to receive the punishment they deserve.

“Dog De-adoption” in Gödöllő

This week has been thrilling, exciting and filled with many crazy things happening all over the place. Back in January, the so-called Állatvédőrség and the League had to face a situation that was extraordinary – even for as experienced people as they are in the means of pet rescue.

Prelude:

52 puppies were found at a breeding facility, kept in bunny cages, in tiny spaces. First, as normal procedure requests, they called a professional to the spot, in this case a vet, who declared the situation to be animal abuse. Then, police forces had to be summoned to begin official investigation, they took photos and a report has been filed against the lady responsible for inappropriate pet keeping and breeding without license and permission.

Normally, policemen would take the dogs from the place as evidence, and they would get a decision about where to keep the puppies from the Bureau.

They, however, decided not to take them but to hand them over to the pet rescue forces that were arriving with vans and cages suitable for pet transport. The Association for Pet Rescue (Állatvédőrség) did not have the equipment needed to transport, so the Pet Rescue League was called to the spot to help them with carrying the pets to a safer place.

This might already sound as an ordinary kind of pet-rescue fairytale with loads of rescued puppies, but I can even top the idyll. The puppies were later given to brand new owners, the whole procedure has been made legal, with papers, all dogs with new ID chips and full license, thus making them “go legal”. After placing these sweethearts was the time when everything started to fall out of place.

According to the Head of Communication of Állatvédőrség, Anita Tornóczky, misinformation caused police forces to act based on documentation that was not even properly made. Police forces from Gödöllő actually visited the owners of two puppies claiming that they need to take the dogs, as they were - after all – parts of an investigation process and should be treated as evidence, like a pair of socks or fingerprints.

But let’s not forget that these puppies – legally now belonged to the families they were given to, with legal papers and ID chips and medication paid for either by the League, Állatvédőrség or the owners.  Some of these families consisted of parents with little children; one new owner was a pregnant woman in her 9^th month, and elder people. Police forces however did not hesitate to actually go and grab the puppies , forcibly taking them out of the hands of two owners. Then was the time when an owner, an lady called Állatvédőrség, sobbing like mad, to tell them about what was happening.

The whole charade began when the Pet Rescue forces started questioning the actions made by the police – and quite right they were. The biggest issue was not the case of the action of taking the dogs away, the pregnant mother even refused to give the puppy away, saying she would rather get arrested than to hand over her dog, but considering her situation, the officers decided to file a report against her instead of taking her into custody. The main issue was the three month-old puppy, that was not old enough  to take any kind of vaccines yet, and was anyway taken to Cegléd, to a facility, similar to the Pet Shelter in Gyömrő. The problem is that the puppy had no protection from the viruses or sicknesses that might come up at a facility containing many grown dogs, and it might even kill the animal. This was, for example one thing that inclined that the police forces, acting upon order, had not thought about. The professionalism of the legal forces is to be questioned from this point on. The puppy was taken there nevertheless, and it is highly possible that if it does get an infection or some kind of disease, it might not even be able to survive.

The reason for policemen to take away the dogs was – reportedly – based upon the orders of the Bureau of Pest county), but the serial number of the injunction was missing from the papers, so this particular injunction that was on the paper might not even existed at all. This is the conclusion after the members of Állatvédőrség contacted the Bureau, and they said that they had no idea what was actually happening to the dogs and upon what orders the policemen were carrying out their morally and legally questionable actions. Citizen Law says that the puppies already belonged to the new owners as they were in possession of legal papers, but unfortunately Hungarian Law does not make a distinction between living and unanimated evidence, concluding that they could even put the dogs in bags, or anywhere anytime as they were part of an earlier and still ongoing investigation.

The problematic part is that the police forces were – back at the breeding spot – given all the data needed about the dogs: the number of them, color, breeds, gender etc. 

For conclusion, make sure to come back next week - I can give a full report on how and where the case is going at the moment.

Aktion Fair Play - Demonstration Against Cruelty at Shelters

Dear Readers,

As spring has struck the country, all animal lovers decided to get involved with the so-called Aktion Fair Play movement. This whole movement has been organized against cruelty done on animals, and it was the turn of Budapest to raise their voices, and they did! I've attached the video below.

The two sibling organizations for rescuing pets, Bullyrescue Hungary (specialising in bull-type dogs), and the Pet Rescue League both turned up at the event, wearing their t-shirts bearing the logo of the League proudly.

These demonstrations were not meant to agitate anyone, I think this way of expressing anger and thoughts on disagreement in connection with the cruelty sometimes done at animal shelters is the best and most peaceful.

It has come to the League's knowledge that sometimes when an animal is sick at a local shelter paid for by the local government, the local gov. pays for them to be put into eternal sleep. If the animal is that sick or really old, suffering too much, I would even understand it. The big issue about this is the following:

Many shelters decide to take the money for the medicine that would put the dog to sleep, and choose to simply hit the animal with something heavy on the head, to kill it in a "cheaper" way. Also, there were instances when they let the animals bleed out - they were not killed but only lethally injured - on the premises.

Actions like these were the reason why the League decided to join the demonstration for a more fair, closely supervised keeping of animals at shelters.

This would be it for today, I hope you liked this post! ^^

'No Big Deal' and Another Cutie Face - Bella

Hello Fellow Pet Lovers,

Today's post will be much more like a report about last week's achievements in connection with the League.

First, on the 6th, another chip-checking action was carried out, and I have to say, Újpest scores ridiculously high in pet-loving. Out of the 52 dogs that were checked for a chip, 52 had it in order! Props to the residents  of this district, respect to you for caring so much about your dogs and keep up the good work.

Other big news from Újpest: 

"No Big Deal"

This is the banner and the motto of the newly organized group of volunteers. Their actions are about keeping Újpest clean, their first and latest action was to assemble a group of people to collect droppings from a park in Újpest. I HIGHLY encourage You too, Dear Reader to raise awareness and follow their example. It only takes about a couple of hours if you use Facebook or any sites to gather some people and clean an area somewhere close to your place. 

Visit the website for further news, if you have difficulty with translating the content of the website to English but are interested, please contact me! I'm more than happy to translate for a good cause. :-)

There was another action that has Újpest's name in it: 

There were several sportsmen who offered their shirts with their signatures for a bidding to help an animal shelter. Aren't people like these amazing? I feel absolutely envious sometimes that they have such a friendly and helping community where animal care is that big of an issue.

And now let's get back to love, the greatest power of all!

Let me introduce Bella to you. 

This adorable little lady of about 3-4 months was found and rescued by members of the League, she now lives with her temporary  care-takers. She is looking for a family that knows how to handle american staffordshire terriers (I personally know a grown one, and that dog is just perfect for family and a great guard as well.). If you are interested in adopting Bella, please contact me via e-mail so that we can discuss further details of adoption. I would really like this puppy to have a decent family, she is so cute that she immediately made me fall in love with her. 

Thanks for visiting, have a nice day!