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About Dinah, or about black and white...
Dinah has a remarkable colouring her head is divided in the middle into two stripes: black and white. In just the same way, her life story has black and white stripes, which resemble the trace of a beating human heart. Peaks represent hope, dips mean that everything crashes to bits and this pattern goes on bringing either happiness or pain.
It was us, human beings, who messed up this dogs life so it is our moral duty to sort it out and repay the debts.
We first came to know Dinah in most horrible circumstances. A bunch of sadists left her hanging from a tree by the neck and the right paw. Nobody knows how long she was hanging there suffering excruciating pain, crying for help.
If Dinah could talk she would probably have told her story like this: I was quite an ordinary girl like many in Moscow streets (well, probably not quite ordinary far better looking than many). I was happy and enjoyed life with the rest of my pack unaware of what pain was like. This came to an end one summers day in 2005 when my ordeal began. I always trusted people and gladly accepted whatever food they used to give me. That day it was this irresistible smell of sausage which attracted my attention so I ran up to a group of people offering some to me. When I realised it was a trap it was too late. They caught me and hung me by my neck and my paw. oh, it was so awfully painful!!. Why?.. What have I done? The last thing I remember apart from pain was these people going away leaving me there.
I dont remember how much time I spent there.. This was the first black stripe in Dinahs life.
Finally somebody spotted her and took her to a veterinary clinic. There was a struggle there to save her right paw with the damaged nerve but eventually it was amputated.
It is impossible to imagine what this young sweet lovely dog had to experience in a short period of time. Waking up after the operation, while everything was spinning around, trying to move and being unable to walk on the right, missing paw, feeling pain, pain and even more pain .being scared of people approaching her - it was a nightmare.
The damaged tissue didnt heal up so there was another operation. Then Dinah was food poisoned while staying in clinic.
At the same time Dinahs carers started looking for a home for her. There was an attempt to take her over to the USA provided the paw healed, all the necessary paper work done and all other requirements met. Dinah was temporarily based with two women who promised to look after her. And they did look after her but in their own rather strange way. They didnt take her out for long enough walks, they walked her too slowly, the collar was too tight and she couldnt breath properly, her paw was aching but for some reason they wouldnt take her to the vet. Eventually people who wanted to give her a home in America disappeared. This was another black stripe in Dinahs life.
Another attempt was made to find Dinah a home in Russia. A young woman was very keen to give her a home but due to some new circumstances withdrew her offer. What made things worse was that the two women looking after Dinah became so desperate that they decided to put her down. The black stripe in Dinahs life was getting bigger and bigger!!! Her life was in danger again.
Fortunately Dinah found temporary accommodation with a family and then was moved to an animal shelter. But for this young and lovely dog a shelter is not a way out. Dinah is hoping against hope to find a loving owner, the one and only, who will taker her home, her real home. Forever. So that there will be only one stripe in her life the white one.
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