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Dogs get sick, fall in an accident, losing paws. But this does not mean that they need to be euthanized immediately. Ten stories about how disabled dogs rejoice in strollers or with prostheses

Galina Makarova and Arbat

Galina and Arbat Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

We took Arbat at the Eco Tsaritsyno shelter in December 2011. We already had a dog, and we did not need the second. But his story caught my eye - the Arbat used to be a home dog, and then his front paws squeezed the arrow before the train, and the former owners threw him right on the rails. And when I read his story, I cry for two days, and then said to my husband: “Let's take it.” And the husband immediately agreed. I was fifty then, children are adults, there are no grandchildren, but there is strength.

We were ready to pick up Arbat at once, as we met - he is such a sunny dog, he cannot but like it. But we were first tested for a long time in the shelter. This is right: I am now a volunteer in Solntsev, and we also check potential pens very responsibly. My home even laugh at me: "Mom, you have to go to the police." And here is a disabled dog, it is even more responsible. So the curators tormented us for two weeks: they talked to me, talked with my husband, met on test walks to see if we could physically manage him. Arbat is a heavy dog, I am also aunt not small, and we live without an elevator on the fourth floor, so we had to be adopted.

Our dog turns on wheels no worse than a police car

A wheelchair for Arbat cost five hundred dollars, and the curators from the shelter helped us a lot: they raised money and wrote a letter to Eddie's Wheels in America, which produces these strollers. There were so imbued with the history of Arbat that they made us 50% discounts. They also helped with delivery. In the apartment, we, of course, unfasten the stroller, and the Arbat moves with a duck - with a chest forward, and picks up his legs.

Once, a squirrel ran running the way to us, so it was necessary to see Arbat. He drunk, flew after her in his stroller at such a speed that I barely caught up. We have four cats at home, and I don’t know why strangers surrendered to him, but if he sees a cat, just hold it. And it turns on wheels no worse than a police car.

At first, neighboring dogs were afraid, they did not understand what it was for his device, but now we have full girlfriends and friends. He is a contact guy, he loves the girls in general - albeit castrated, but his ears are immediately asleep, and behaves like a gentleman.

Sergey Zvyagin and Polkan

Sergey and Bernky Zennenhund Polkan, 13 years old photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

We have no terrible stories: simply, when Polkan was twelve years old, his paws began to take off. I did not find a stroller right away, about six months Polkan, poor, tormented while the hind legs still acted. But from last summer we walk, run, walk. Once a woman on the street went on to me, why I was mocking the dog, harnessed her - I did not understand what was the matter.

We got used to it for about a month-both he and me. He flew out of the habit on a tree, it happened, with a run, he turned over. In winter, of course, it is hard in the snow in the stroller. I have now found old skis, I will attach small runners by winter instead of wheels so that it is possible to ride.

Dogs some are stunned, they cannot understand what a cool pepper rides on a wheelbarrow here.

Well, he always treated the girls loyally, loves them very much. And sometimes he growls on the male, let me go, now I will deal with them, even in this form. In general, he is a favorite of the public in the yard, everyone adores him, squeezes him.

Irina Gulina and Gosha

Irina and Gosha photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

Gosha with a puppy lived in a car parking lot. When he was ten months old, some moron shot him from pneumatic weapons. The bullet hit the shoulder blade, Gosha jumped out onto the road from pain and stress and hit the car. So on the road and lay, until one girl dragged him to the side of the road and took him to the clinic. The paw paralyzed, he could not walk, and he had to amputate.

I read about Gosher in the newspaper. Before that, a dog lived in our family for a long time, then she died, and she died painfully, and I decided that I would not have more dogs. But I had a dream that we were finding a three -haired dog on the street. And the very next day I open the newspaper, I see a photo of Goshin and a request for help. We immediately went and took it, in August there will be nine years, as he lives with us. He is a wonderful dog, not embittered on life, very good -natured.

When Gosha was young, he did not notice at all that he did not have enough paws, jumped through his fences. And only closer to the age of nine years he needed a vest-support for his chest. He is thick. For a walk, he still cheerfully goes on his own, and back, when he gets tired, I drag him by the handle home. It’s hard, of course, my back falls off. This is not important - it is important that it is.

Olga Oleinikova and Richard

Olga and Richard Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

My husband wanted a shepherd, and I wanted a retriever or a labrador. And once a sister calls us and says: “Do not want to take a puppy? They attach it here. ” "What kind of breed?" "Metis Labrador with a shepherd." My husband was so impressed: "Everything, we take, like our dog." Then we joked: "Half of you, half me."

Richard lived for thirteen years and died recently, on May 29. At the age of eight, a sharp dysplasia manifested itself - the paws began to be a gesture, they began to refuse. This is time. Secondly, in the same year he broke a bunch. We did the operation and, on the advice of a doctor, found on the site Animals Mobile support-gylet. For a year and three months I drove Richard on this support. When they did an MRI, our doctor was surprised: “I don’t understand how he walks with you.” That's just on one love he went with me. Richard and I went to acupuncture and rehabilitation to the pool, where he and the instructor was engaged. Swimming for dogs is not some kind of luxury now-a lot of clinics offer this method of rehabilitation. And even if there is no money, it is immutable - my friend restored his dachshund after surgery in the reservoir in the country. But at some point it turned out that Richard had two old hernias on the spine. They operated on, he was recovering, but the problem with the kidneys was discovered. And, apparently, everything disappeared together.

I do not think that we did something unusual. Richard was wonderful, understanding the dog. And I would like to thank the doctors from the Medea clinic in Novopedelkin and from the veterinary center of Dr. A.A. Vorontsov for what they did for him.

Andrey Yarkovich and Max

Andrey and French Bulldog Max Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

We made a stroller ourselves, there is nothing complicated. The polyethylene pipes that go for heating were welded, plus two wheels from a baby stroller. I looked on the Internet on the Internet and built on them. Max at the age of six had an intervertebral hernia, and his hind legs refused. We have been living like that for two years. But in a stroller we do not walk often, only when to go far, or on the street slush and dirt. And so we try to walk with him on the suspension, on the walkers, otherwise he completely forgets about his hind legs.

Max dogs react like a bicycle: they run after him, do not understand what's the matter, try to bite for the wheels. But Max himself is Shebutnaya himself, he will not give himself offense, he rushes into a fight and on wheels. He is trying to chase in this stroller behind the cats, but we try to hold it and not let go, because he can turn over, and his back is damaged.

Nina Baber and Verba

Nina and Dog-therapist Verba Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

We have for three years, we found it on the site of the shelter in Shcherbinka. We wanted to have a dog and immediately decided not to buy thoroughbred, but to take from the shelter or from the street. Verba’s three -vanity did not frighten us: the site posted a video where she ran and played with other dogs, and it was completely obvious from this video that the lack of paw did not bother her at all, and all the more surrounding dogs.

Two years ago, we decided to learn the top of the therapist-these are dogs who, after special training, go to orphanages, hospices, nursing houses. The decision was very organic: on walks, people often paid attention to the isolation, approached, asked what happened, stroked her, and it was clear that communication with people was clearly not a burden. And then I accidentally took the leaflet of the Foundation "Not just dogs / Pet" and decided that we can try.

Now we are going to go to the children's library with a verba once every two weeks, where children read the books out loud - in this way they get used to the reading process, liberate, they like that they have a listener who does not interrupt, does not correct, does not stress correctly. Periodically, we go to the resource center for foster families on Shabolovskaya, there are whole events with dogs, scripts are invented. Just now, the therapists with experience of more than a year had re-certification, and Verba passed the standards best in the group!

Dogs some are stunned, cannot understand what kind of steep pepper rides on a wheelbarrow here

Three -lapel of willow children are surprised much less than adults. They quickly accept it for granted: there are black dogs, there are bright, come with a long tail, they are short, and there are three -lap. Of course, we explain to them that Verba lost its paws, but they perceive it very calmly, very natural. And after all, this is really natural: every living creature can suffer. But adults perceive differently. Usually with sympathy, but sometimes even with some excessive sympathy, because in fact, Verba does not feel any suffering at the moment. But people are so arranged that they see something unusual and believe that the dog needs to be sorry. I think Verba would be very surprised if I found out that she was pity.

Natalia Shushunova and Masyanya

Natalia and Dachshia Masyanya Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

Masyanya lived with us for almost thirteen years. She fell ill when she was five. There was a long epic with a diagnosis, and then it turned out that she had an elementary hernia of the spine, and atypical for dachshunds, closer to the cervical region. It was operated on, but late, so the paws did not recover. We found an uncle who made animals for animals from a piece of iron with two strong hoses. With such a stroller, it passed for three years, and then four more years with the new one, which we decided to order from America. The stroller was gorgeous, very light, Masyanya drove in it and along the grass, and went to the car travels with us: to the Crimea, to Prague, to the eagle. She had a lurk character-we, in her opinion, had no right to leave the house without her, then we always flew to us. In Prague, she went to the zoo, there she really liked it. She already felt unimportant, and it was not so easy for her to run, but she was happy and burst straight a mountain - it was interesting to approach the cells and see who lives there.

Inna Chernikova and Lissa

Inna and the Dog-therapist Luc photo: Maria Ionova-Gerbin for TD

Lissa appeared by chance, no one was going to start her. I was then a volunteer in the shelter, and once a woman called us, who saw a barely crawling dog at the railway station in Kashira. The owner of our shelter asked me to go there, and on the way back I decided to call with a fox in Vetclinic. It turned out that she needed an urgent operation - she was pregnant, I don’t know how she managed. I began to nurse her and then parted, of course, I could not.

Now Lissa is a therapist dog. We are going to orphanages, children's libraries, nursing houses, for support courses for children from foster families, and hospitals. She is ridiculous and charming, there is not a drop of aggression in her, she is calm, affectionate, listens to the commands - the coaches will not be picked up.

Lissa drives perfectly in a car - we have such a model of a car that the trunk goes into the salon. Here she travels. Last year, she and I drove ten thousand kilometers throughout Europe to Turkey and vice versa. She bathed in the sea, and ran around the mountains in her stroller. Everyone has a sea of ​​impressions, especially the border guards. When you pass the control, they ask: "Open the trunk." I open, and there are not things, but the dog - every time they are amazed. Strangers at first regret the fox, and in vain: she, generally speaking, is a happy dog. She does not feel her disability and perceives herself as a completely ordinary dog.

Stella Kuznetsova and Dana with Bulat

Stella, Danochka, Bulat photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD

I have two crested Chinese dogs and three disabled dogs, two in a stroller-the back of Danochka and Bulat, his hind legs are partially chopped off-and a blind tanguit. I wanted to take a disabled dog because I like to take care of dogs, take care of them, walk. I work after three days, I have a private house, next to the expanses, the Klyazma River, so we walk for three to four hours a day.

Dana came to me from the shelter "Republic of Friend" in Chernogolovka. I saw her and realized: everything, my dog. Her eyes are unusual, huge, expressive, and she herself is red, sunny. I went to the shelter three times, learned to care for: it has a spinal cord torn, so she will never stand on her feet, and there they do not immediately give dogs, but at first they look at a person: reliable or not reliable. And for a year now she is with me.

Bulat was brought to me from Volgograd. He lived in the village, was homeless, but he was all fed, he was considered a common dog. And once he slept in the field, and his hind paws were harassed by the combine. He was scared and ran away. Somewhere and a half to two months they did not see him, they thought he died from blood loss, and suddenly he appears in the village-his paws were already dragging on. It seems that he licked them to himself. Well, people decided that he could not survive alone, and sent him to the local flayer, "tomb". But there his hand did not rise to lull - the dog survived so much, everyone spared him. So he lived for six months on a chain in a booth, until the volunteers learned and began to attach about him.

And Mishutka is generally from the Amur region, from Blagoveshchensk, they brought him on an airplane. It is unclear what happened to him. He faded to the enterprise there, thin, barely stood on his feet. The veterinarians said that the eyes were most likely dried out. On the side, the hole may be from the bullet. Even now, when everything is dragged on, the wool does not grow.

Everyone already knows me in the district - both dogs by name and me. I walk with all five at once. At first she was afraid, and then adapted. Here the Bulat begins to run into a stroller on Danochka, I say: "Wait, an accident." They think and begin to keep the distance. I also manage to speak on the phone! Children react very well to dogs - they stroke everyone, kiss. Sometimes someone will see that they are in wheelchairs, and how they will begin to lament: "Oh, poor, unfortunate." And I always say: "You talk with them for two or three minutes and you will understand that they are happy." And I'm happy. I never lived so happily until my dogs appeared.

Nadezhda Baranova and Moon

Nadezhda and Moon Photo: Maria Ionova-Gribin for TD

I saw a photograph of the moon in social networks, in the group of the rehabilitation center of homeless animals “Republic of Friend”. Before that, I did not plan to start any dogs. I loved them on the side: stroke, play, but so that there was no trouble at home. And then I somehow sat, leafed through Facebook, and suddenly I caught my eye with a photograph of the moon. At first I won her, and then abruptly returned and instantly realized that I wanted to take the moon home. I read that she is a disabled person, that she was not easy, but it did not frighten me at all.

I called the Republic of Friend and said that I want to see Lunyash. “Oh, why are you calling so late, we are just flying to France to view potential owners. Call in a few days. " And so I called four days later in the shelter, and it turned out that the conditions there were bad, and they did not give them Lunyash. We met, met several times, the volunteers decided that I could be entrusted with the dog, and on New Year's Eve the moon moved to me. I still can't believe it. This magic is me, a person who has not wanted a dog at all, now I do not leave it. And how much joy she brought me! In addition, I began to do everything twice faster to spend more time with her.

Judging by the nature of the injuries, the moon became a disabled person, because someone was mocking her. She has a fracture of the spine in three places, the spinal cord is torn and the hind legs are twisted - they were twisted, the joints are turned in the other side, like a grasshopper. When the Moon only got into the “Republic of Friend”, she screamed like a cut, did not allow her to touch her paws. And only thanks to volunteers, she gradually got used to people. When she was brought to me, she was afraid of everything. It seemed to me that she was accustomed quickly, but in fact, as I understand now, the process was slower than I thought. For example, after some time she began to bark when someone clapped the door in the entrance, and her friend explained to me: “Now, now she admitted that it was a house for her, and began to guard it.” A few months after moving, she gave me a stroke of my tummy. The dog does not allow everyone to stroke the stomach - if she did so, then she relaxed, recognized you by the mistress.

The moon did not get used to the wheelchair did not get used to it. They put it, fixed it-we must go. Unless we developed a gait for a week: she was used to moving at home with jumps - she sits on the priest, pushes away with front paws and jumps like a kangaroo. Very quickly, sometimes overtaking me. Поэтому, когда мы ее поставили на коляску, она передними лапами пыталась прыгать, и надо было ее научить, чтобы она как лошадка двигалась, гарцевала: одной ногой, второй ногой. И все: сейчас она у нас гоняет по любым сугробам, кочкам, ямам — бегает так, что все во дворе смеются, что и мне пора кроссовки надевать. Очень любит детей, людей, все ее зацеловывают, когда гуляем, — домой в помаде приходит.

За нами регулярно толпа собирается: все подходят, спрашивают, что с собакой. Мы всем очень рады и всем объясняем, что и такие собаки имеют право на жизнь. Ведь если собака не мучается, если ей не больно, если она ведет себя как абсолютно нормальная, веселая собака, ее не нужно усыплять. С Луной случилось вся эта история, когда она была еще щенком, и с тех пор она уже обо всем забыла, для нее две лапы — норма. Да, для хозяев это двойная забота: иметь такую собаку — это как двух или трех, наверное. Ей надо помогать ходить в туалет, памперс надевать, когда она одна дома, пристегивать коляску перед прогулкой. Но ничего сверхсложного, ко всему этому привыкаешь за месяц. Зато сколько она дает счастья! Сколько в ней жизнелюбия и радости! Очень много людей подходят на улице и говорят: «Какая у вас собака жизнерадостная, нам бы у нее поучиться такой жажде жизни. Смотрим на вашу Луну, и самим жить хочется».

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