Apart from a LOT of volunteer hours- and we could not do it without them- the **main cost is money**.

Some dogs are

Lyla and Grace only found their humans due to tireless work by our rescuer(s), volunteers and fantastic sponsorship by our Lora's Luck sponsors and donors (Aunties and Uncles.)

found in the street like little Anna here... she's now in the UK waiting for her humans to see her, and take her on her final journey to her forever home!

or

in the kill cages, like the beautiful Celia was...she is going home to her forever humans soon (Oct 2021!)

or

dumped somewhere in a bag like little Pippa and her brother Clive. Both are in the UK now waiting for their humans to see them...

or

about to be crushed at the tip like little Jet and Sirius were. Sadly only Jet made it home, Sirius died suddenly and unexpectedly in the arms of his foster mum.

Just some situations we find these poor dogs and pups in.

When we find a dog

like Dassika, who found US in a car park and refused to move till we took her with us!

or a litter, with or without a mum, like Brigid and her babies here, who was dumped at our door rather than getting Brigid spayed...

the first thing we do is

🆘risk assess🆘.

Questions like:

Are they close to a busy road?

like little Neo and his sibs. They are all home forever in the UK now except for little Eleanor, still in UK foster and hoping her humans will come soon!

Or stuck down a hole (accidentally or PUT THERE by humans to die)?

How long have they been there- do they need emergency fluids? Are there any broken bones or other injuries?

How long do they have before their kill order happens?

Like Jonty, who only had hours till his time was up and he was killed, just because he got old. We don't believe being old is a death sentence!

Where is the closest and best NGO† or in home foster registered with us to place them in? And how can we get them there safely and quickly?

Which vet is open, best and closest to give them a good check up to assess health, do a stack of tests, and if old enough, vaccinate/neuter?

Where can we quarantine them while we check for any viruses or other health issues?

How can we feed them?

How fast can we get them chipped and registered on the system?

How can we provide safe shelter for them?

How long might they be there before their humans see them?

But, first

where will the

💸💸💸money 💸💸💸

come from to fund all this?

Every time, is the biggest question of all…

Here are the figures:

Distemper/parvovirus tests prior to vaccination £30 then before travel £30 again

internal deworming + external spot on against fleas and ticks £10-£15 once a month legally

Passport £40

microchip £12

and vaccines £36 each

Rabies vaccine £36-50

TITRE TEST £36-£50

4 DX SNAP TEST £36-50

Internal Transport costs up to £50 each time

Spay/neuter £60-£120 (depends on weight)

Brucellosis, giardia, and leishmaniasis tests (done together) usually costs around £50

Food per month £36 (non UK) £45 (UK)

Register the dogs in the UK £35

Provide custom ID tag for all adopters £5

So each dog costs

Up to £215 in the first month˚

then up to £137 a month after that till they go home^

and the month they go home it costs up to £437* to get them legally ready to travel.

˚ some dogs need extras, like vet treatment for being underweight or sick on arrival, others need to go a long distance to get them to the bets NGO or foster for their needs.

^foster costs are not uniform. Food and items fosters supply themselves from food to taking them to the vet, to treats and blankets- they cost the going rate for the vet/ retailers/ area/sites they use to buy things.

*Neuters cost more if the dog is bigger and we always spay or neuter before the dogs go home.

In the UK you would not get this all done for less than £2500* if you tried to solo rescue a dog from where they were found to arriving in your home.

We rescue so you can adopt.

Buying from a breeder you can 💋💋💋 goodbye to at least £2500 without even having all this done for you like we do.

But we don’t ask adopters to pay one penny 👛 of this. We only ask them to pay the bus fare to the UK (£325 from Romania, £375 from Serbia) and UK legal costs we now have due to Brexit such as customs charges and VAT (£75).

For fosters we need to raise funds for the bus 🚌 and legal costs too!

This doesn’t include

insurance, checks and licence costs registered fosters and NGOs have to have
cost of the vet consultations

just the treatments and food

Not

blankets

or bowls 🍲

or beds

or toys 🐻 …

and god help us if there’s an 🆘emergency🆘 as the emergency pot gets emptied all the time for pups in dire need…

This service doesn't stop when the dog is adopted! We offer all sorts of extras to our Lora’s Luck family- any adopter who buys from our shop is buying at cost and also gets a free welcome gift pack too!

This is why we rely on donations

and we have a very special ‘club’ of Aunties and Uncles mostly based on Facebook but also on Skype messenger where our amazing volunteers and past, present and future adopters also ‘live’ or at least hang out for the lifetime of the dog, with live chat advice and support 4 days a week 12-12!

Please consider becoming a Lora’s Luck Auntie and Uncle today.

Donations start at just

💥£1💥

to help name a new dog

to

✊£3 minimum a month ✊

to help with monthly costs

AND helps us save new dogs in need too!

New dogs in great danger and distress come in every day. We can't help them all, but with your help we could do more. This mum doesn't have a name yet, and neither does her blind boy. No name means we can't register them, so they have no chance of ever going home...

We have PayPal lorasluck@gmail.com or you can use

the donate options on this website in the shop where we have special £1 and up buttons ready made for you to use to buy a donation

or directly on the home page- just scroll to the bottom!

If you want to support our volunteers who offer products and services for us, check them out here. If you'd like to be on there too, or volunteer, email us and ask for a volunteer application form! You can check out our FB Community page for more.

And if you’ve seen our Community Hub project and would like to donate or ask more, the contact/PayPal is lorasland@outlook.com or check out our FB community page for more on that too!

Rescue takes more than money though.

It takes heart.

Whether what you have is

£1 to spare

and be an Uncle or Auntie

or

an hour to volunteer

or more, we want to hear from you!

Contact us on the website here or as above to get more involved, or check out this blog.

Most of our blogs are already available in

large print

if you can't see the one you need in large print just contact us and request one!

† An NGO is a non-governmental organisation that is non-profit and that furthers some social or humanitarian mission around the globe.

* In Romania and Serbia, keyhole spay and neuter is standard, unlike the UK. The average cost in the UK for a keyhole spay based on a dog under 20kg is £410, not including recovery vest, aftercare or follow up appointments.

All the photos included in this blog are of our actual dogs and how they were first found. All rights on the photos reserved.