“We took them because we can’t live without them,” said Katarina, a refugee from Kiev who fled with her two Pomeranian cuties.
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Like her, thousands of refugees cross the border with cats, dogs, turtles, birds and other pets.
In Prezmysl, a Polish town not far from the border, a shelter also takes care of receiving Ukrainian animals that volunteers come to drop off.
“The situation is that dogs and cats from Lviv are brought here to rest, and to change their means of transport. They drink, they eat and they start to calm down because they are extremely nervous, they are hungry, they are stressed, says Joanna Puchalsa-Tracz, manager of the Orzechowce shelter. They rest, then they are sent to Germany or to other refuges in Poland. We free up space for the following who come from Ukraine. »