Animal-Kind International Blog

The dogs in the pictures above were lucky to be rescued and cared for-for their remaining years-at the Save the Animals-Armenia shelter. They are no longer with us. Save the Animals-Armenia cares for about 150-170 dogs at their shelter. Many of them are older dogs because it's so difficult to find adoptive homes, especially for large, mixed breed dogs, which is what most of SAA's dogs are. So once a dog enters the SAA shelter, it's unlikely the dog will be adopted. Animal-Kin

Save the Animals-Armenia has been an AKI Partner Organization since 2010. For AKI support to SAA after 2016, please read AKI Blog posts on AKI's SAA page here; before 2016, keep reading...... It's never easy to raise money in Armenia for Save the Animals-Armenia. But 2015 was especially difficult for Nune and the SAA shelter. So Nune was very grateful to receive AKI's 2nd disbursement of 2015. She bought dry dog food, rice (see 2 pictures), and meat, paid shelter workers' sa

Every winter we work especially hard to make sure that Save the Animals-Armenia has enough nutritious food for the shelter dogs, can pay the electric bill (for the heated shelter building where many of the dogs sleep during the winter), and can take the shelter dogs to the vet, when needed and pay for their meds. Since the majority of SAA shelter dogs are middle aged or older and haven't had the easiest lives, many of them need special care and daily meds. In the winter, they