26/08/2026
This is Jimmy ❤️
Jimmy was very nearly born on the streets of Ukraine.
His mum was heavily pregnant when our rescue partners found her living on the streets and brought her to safety. Not long afterwards, in the security of foster care, she gave birth to Jimmy.
And sometimes we look at him and find it almost unbearable to think about the other version of his story.
The one in which nobody found his mum.
The one in which Jimmy took his first breath outside as a tiny, vulnerable puppy, completely dependent on a mother who was already struggling to survive.
We will never know.
Because our rescue partners got to his mum in time, changing Jimmy's story before it had even begun.
But Jimmy is just one of many.
Ukraine was already estimated to have around 200,000 stray dogs before the full-scale invasion began in 2022, and animal welfare organisations confirm that the number of homeless animals has risen sharply since. Dogs continue to be abandoned, displaced and born into a life on the streets through no fault of their own.
Earlier this year, one rescue team in Kharkiv evacuated 357 animals from war-affected areas in just one month. 152 of them were puppies.
We are a small charity, but we work hard to raise the funds needed to support this life-saving work.
Every dog brought to safety, every mother sterilised, every pregnant dog rescued, every litter born somewhere warm instead of on the street keeps us going.
And for Jimmy, it changed everything.
Looking at him now, you would never know how different his story could have been.
We are so incredibly grateful to the people on the ground who keep doing this work, despite everything happening around them... and we are proud to continue supporting them so that more little lives can have a different story too.
Jimmy never had to know what it was like to be a street dog.
Thank you to his adopters in Germany for reaching across borders and giving Jimmy the life his mum could never have given him on the streets. ❤️🐾🇺🇦
