Making a small difference...

 Those that know yours truly know that there are more K9's than a normal person has sharing his life and recently we have become very involved in rescuing Romanian dogs. The communist regime over there treated people appallingly and as a consequence the animals were left to fend for themselves during mass population moves. Dogs, who were family pets were abandoned and had to fend for themselves and so they bred like rabbits leaving thousands of unwanted dogs roaming wild. This poor lad was a pet, or a working shepherd dog and has been abandoned.

 Hunger drove him to seek food in a motorway service bin and he got hit by a car bowling him over into a drainage ditch where he awaited death.

 Thankfully Amicii dog rescue found him and with help of passers by fetched him out of the ditch

 and to the vet and then the Amicii rescue shelter. This is where we got involved and paid for his vets bill, bed and board

 and a few weeks later here he is.

 A very happy, very loving

 very large Romanian Shepherd dog with the founder of Amicii, Fodor Dora, a university lecturer who has devoted her life to saving as many dogs as possible.

 Rio is on the mend, painfully thin still and mangy but well on the way to recovery

and soon will be joining our Romanian girls in the endless battle of the sofas.