Under our care are abandoned, lost pets and those, who never had a human family. With our help, more than 500 animals in distress have found reliable and caring owners.

The number of stray animals is growing, but the authorities have been slow to allocate land for the construction of a municipal shelter, finance or implement the project. In our city the problem has so far been dealt with through capture and killing of animals.
Omsk is a major city in western Siberia, but the stray animal practices adopted by the local government are very inhumane.
There is no municipal animal shelter in existence or spay and neuter practices even though other major cities in Russia have created them.

We accept donations from private persons and use the funds to foster care for stray animals in our mini-shelter and homes and then facilitate their adoption, we have also created partnerships with two local veterinarian clinics to receive spay and neuter services at a reduced fare.

Recently, we were able to create a mini-shelter for dogs! Of course, this is not what we dreamed of, but we have to start somewhere. Currently, 5 outdoor fenced-in enclosures are under construction and are intended for sheltering puppies and dogs. For the winter time we plan to rent a heated facility for cats and for post-operative dogs.

Today the shelter, originally meant for 20 animals, permanently accommodates about 30 or 40 dogs without counting those kept outside the shelter in flats of the people who, under patronage of our employees and volunteers, care for our abandoned and homeless little animals. All the animals in the shelter receive constant veterinary checks and are vaccinated and sterilized. Some have undergone complicated operations.

Our work also includes regular contact with the city of Omsk to protect the rights of homeless animals and address pressing problems. We are in dialogue with the local government for the revision of inhumane methods that are currently used to control the number of stray animals, namely their capture and brutal murder.

Thousands of stray dogs, huddling to people and cramming, during frosty nights, into garbage cans and basements, where they are taken almost with bare hands - they are easy targets, whose life is taken without any control and, most importantly, any meaning. This brutal eradication campaign is generously financed by the city budget.

It's much easier to stick them with a shot of Ditilin (a curare-based poison that is banned in civilized nations). Well, it'll suffocate for a few minutes, in full consciousness, and there is no problem. Or place them in "dushegubka" (an asphyxiation chamber). Give your paw, Jim! Yeah, okay, don't be afraid. Nothing personal, just business.

... James Herriot, who spent his life saving animals, wrote in his "Memoirs of a Country Vet": "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."