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There are many ways in which you can make a difference to the lives of the animals.
Vucjak Shelter is home to over 1600 dogs plus cats. Help us provide quality food, shelter and veterinary care for these beautiful animals—no contribution is too small, and every dollar is greatly appreciated.
Your support goes toward quality food, warm shelter and life-saving surgeries, and veterinary care for every animal we rescue. for every animal in our care. Thank you so much for caring!
🐶 All of our donation platforms are through our friends at Bones and Me LLC, and 100% of the funds go directly to the shelter! (You can use PayPal for checkout.)
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VUCJAK WINTER SHELTER PHASE II UPDATES:
Winter 2019
We started fundraising for the first phase of construction for Vucjak Shelter's winterized buildings. We did so much in such a short amount of time!
First, we bought 1.4 hectares of land adjoining our old property; then fenced in and gated the entire property (and built a road into the new shelter area) ; we put a set of 10 heated kennel rooms and 5 single heated kennel rooms to house 150 dogs; we built the handicap home & vet clinic (still to be set up with supplies and a vet); then we purchased approximately 60 new dog houses and made smaller outdoor enclosures for our new intakes and troublesome pups. A lot has changed—many great things are in place but there is still so much to do.
Spring 2020
It was critical year of changes. Our adoption rate fell alarmingly, from 300 adoptions in 2019, to just 50 in 2020. Due to COVID travel restrictions, we could not get our dogs out of Serbia. This year’s rescue intakes almost tripled, bringing our numbers from 600 dogs IN 2019, to approximately 900 dogs in 2020. We feel much was due to insecurity surrounding covid, the state of the economy, job losses etc. making it difficult for many to keep their pets.
Donations kept falling by the fall of 2020 to 50% of what it was the prior years. By the end of the year we had over 1200 dogs.
In October and November 2020, we had four giant dog houses constructed to fit 50 dogs each, a large indoor outdoor, 5 single trailers brought in, 6 wood stoves to heat the trailers and 10 small dog houses and a large indoor/outdoor facility built to house all of the cats!
Spring 2021
Our shelter was hit hard in June 2021 with an attempted take over by a corrupt criminal group. All donation platforms were shut down, and we had to start from scratch. We did not give up. We still managed to improve our infrastructure with two double trailers, one more single trailer 15 single kennels, 8 more wood stoves, 10 small dog houses, and we installed new windows and doors and flooring in all the old buildings.
2022-2023
Vucjak Shelter has fought an intense recovery, from overcoming the loss of our donation platforms and setting new ones, to having found an increasing number of supporters and remote volunteers to help us with our communication and exposure tasks!
We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to our friends and supporters around the world, who helped us make as much progress as we have and save the lives of more than 1000 beautiful animals! We couldn't do this without you!
Please like/share our social media accounts, visit the shelter, adopt a pup, organize a fundraiser, or donate—no contribution is too small!
Thank you so much for your generosity!