It would be ironic for a Husky dog to die in the snow. Abandoned on Tampa Mountain by an owner who doesn’t deserve her, Holly remained trapped in an inaccessible area. Nobody knows how the dog got caught between two cliffs at a height of 10 meters. She used her remaining energy to cry out for help. Her luck came with a blogger who documented the route from Tampa for her blog and heard the dogs’ cries. ”She was standing there for a week, stuck on the rock where I found her. Someone who heard her cries every day the previous week thought it was a wolf. During that time she had nothing to eat or drink; that’s why she was so weak. She was very dehydrated. Luckily she ate some snow, because otherwise I don’t know if she would have resisted a week. I could hardly climb to reach her, and I struggled to get her down from there. We started talking to her, trying to guide her towards us, saying, ”Come on, come over here, come!” says Alexandra Roșu, a mountain lover. Before returning to Bucharest, the young woman left the dog in our care at the Victory shelter.
How difficult it is to place a dog for adoption in Romania
The dog had a collar, so she was probably abandoned by her owner. Her name is Holly, and she’s about eight years old. She was vaccinated and spayed; she received good food and recovered quickly. Alexandra posted online that she had found the dog, but the owner didn’t show up. After her recovery, Holly was given up for adoption. “The procedure involves finding an owner who loves animals and is able to provide the necessary conditions specific to this breed: a playground in the yard, a paddock, solid fences. Unfortunately, we could find just a man who wants to keep the dog in his apartment and another one who needs her to guard his house under construction,” said Oana David, Victory shelter’s manager. Alexandra got involved in the adoption process and learned how difficult it is to find a new family for a dog. It’s as hard as finding a job can be when you’re older. “In the last two weeks I was contacted on Facebook by over 20 people who wanted to adopt her. After I told them she’s eight years old, they all vanished. Maybe they didn’t have the necessary conditions either, but although I kindly asked them to keep me up to date, because I feel responsible for this dog since I saved her life, most of them didn’t even have the decency to respond to my messages. Some even lied to me. Just one person had the decency to tell me that the reason he can’t adopt Holly is because of her age,” wrote Alexandra on Facebook.
Holly left last week for Germany, where AMP’s partner Bund Gegen Missbrauch der Tiere in Karsten has found her a family. We’ll soon let you know how the epic of the Husky ended, a dog who’s too old to deserve a Romanian family.
