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Yana Vadimivna Nifontova, kennel of Newfoundlands and RCT - "Bolshoj Malysh".
Sukachi village, Ivankivskyi district, Kyiv region.

 

From the first day of the war in occupation, on February 25, the house was bombed.

The kennel was occupied for 43 days, without communication, light, heat, practically in the open air. But the worst thing is no FOOD... For 8 giants and 7 two-week-old puppies. She left food for the puppies. Adult dogs were first transferred to potatoes. When the potatoes ran out, she collected potato peelings around the village. The dogs ate, they vomited, but they ate again.

When the food I left for the puppies started to run out, and there was nothing to give them instead of food, that is... NOTHING AT ALL... I made a decision. I asked the local collier (a person who butchers pigs) to quickly kill the puppies because I couldn't watch them starve to death.

Hour X was approaching, there were 5 days left. And then a MIRACLE happened. A woman Lyudmila (I don't know her last name) came to see me. She is a resident of our village and works as an accountant at the Ivankiv hospital. She took two puppies, and since she did not leave her workplace at the hospital throughout the war, she told the hospital about my situation and the puppies were sorted by good people.

Do you even imagine what it is like - during the war, in a deep occupation, when there is nothing in the stores for a long time, to give out puppies of a giant breed? During the occupation, I walked 6 times to Ivankov in the hope of picking up the last feed from the pet store, past the Rashist roadblocks. It was impossible to pass - cars and even at the beginning cyclists were shot.

We all survived, the dogs lost a lot of weight, two in particular had critical weight loss. In the nursing mother, and in another one who got lost at the very beginning, was afraid of shelling. I found her after 5 days. As soon as it became possible, on 7.04, volunteers of Ukraine took us to a safe place.