Robo and Whitefang
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Robo and her pups
 Robo's Story
I’m responsible for fixing all the Robotsin Northern Afghanistan. I'm also the only Marine on the base and the one whowas taking care of the mom and her 6 awesome puppies that I miss so much. I first met the Mom in April when I first came to my base and arrived inAfghanistan. She was skin and bones, she only came out at night when itwas cooler. I couldn’t get to see her to closely cause it was dark atfirst but you could here her struggling to breathe. When she started gainour trust she started coming out more during the day and it was then thatwe can see her neck was badly cut and almost open. She took a liking tous. We called her Robo.
It wasn’t til much later that we met her boyfriend who we calledWhitefang. He was timid of humans and would run whenever we were aroundand leave Robo when we were out. Robo and Whitefang had a strongfriendship and were always together. He’d be seen cleaning her neck herwounds whenever they were together. Whitefang started more and moreopening up to me and he became my dog. He also became a great Guard Dogfor the robotics shop a he was very loyal to us and always playful. Henever left our area and slept by our front door. It was Whitefangs’ loyalty to us anddedication that was his downfall as I never met a more loyal dog. He wasput down to sleep after a change in policy and Robo was in danger aswell. We started hiding Robo in our robotics shop. It was then thatwe noticed that Robo was fully house broken and would never ever go to thebathroom inside our shop and would always let us know when she had to gooutside, not by barking as she almost never barks. We noticed Robo was pregnant not much after that as her belly kept gettingbigger and bigger. We knew others were asking where she was and we didthe best to hide and protect her especially knowing she was about to give birthto her and Whitefangs puppies. We felt we owed it to Whitefang to takecare of her as best as we could. We could tell Robo missed him. Shewas always looking for him not knowing what happened to him. Robo finally did give birth to 6 amazing puppies! For such a small dog wethought that was amazing. 3 girls and 3 boys. The girls are veryeasy to tell apart. One has two black spot on her ear and a black spot onhere tail, she is such a sweet heart. One is completely all white theonly all white with the longest fur of the litter she’s very affectionate, thethird girl was the runt which we called Munchkin and is also all white and isone of the leaders for being such a little girl she was always exploring. The 3 boys all have light tan ears and are all nice sizes and very playful. One of the boys was a little larger then the other 2. I have never seen alitter of 6 completely awesome puppies. Robo did an excellent job oftaking care of them and raising them and is a great mom to them. We knew we had to get them off the base if they had a chance to survive. Theirdays were numbered for them and everyday that they stayed here we knew we knewit was becoming more difficult to hide all of them. Word startedspreading on base about the Marines dogs. We were trying everything and asking people for help to get them out ofhere. We found out about Pen and Nowzad andeverything started falling into place thankfully. We payed a local Afghanto drive them off the base the mom and 6 puppies to the Nowzad shelter 10 hoursa way. Now we need to get them to the states. They deserve a chance at life. A note from Nowzad
Question: How is the money I donate spent? How do I know it is used to help an Afghan stray companion animal? Can my donation go towards a specific animal?
Answer from Nowzad: As a charity we are bound by the strict auditing regulations demanded by the UK charity commission. The board of trustees make sure the money is used to maximum effect in making a difference to the lives of animals in Afghanistan, which includes the daily running costs of the Nowzad Afghan shelter, rescue transport costs, animal food and medicines (including vaccines) and of course our Afghan staff wages. If, for whatever reason the companion animal rescue is not successful (disease or injury) then Nowzad will use the money collected on this ChipIn page to support the daily running of the Nowzad shelter – if you are not happy with our policy then please do not donate as we are unable to offer refunds. Donating via ChipIn is not tax deductible. Please visit the Soldiers’ Animals Companion fund www.sacfund.com if you wish to make a tax-deductible donation from the US. If you have any further questions about how to donate then please just ask at donations@nowzad.com We would like to make everybody aware that this ChipIn page is not the only method that is being used to fund raise for the rescue costs associated with this companion animal from Afghanistan. The total required for a companion animal to travel to north America is on average $4000 (we make no profit and everything is subject to currency valuations and fuel prices on the day). To try and reflect the donations received from sources such as the Soldier’s Animals Companion Fund www.sacfund.com or via direct PayPal transfers, you may see the total amount required for this particular ChipIn less than the $4000 average. If you need further explanation then please just ask! Nowzad Dogs is a registered charity (non-profit) 1119185 in England and Wales |
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