Virginia Veterinarian to Help Animals in Ukrainian Refugee Camps

By the chaos and the battle in Ukraine, a whole lot of civilians have been killed and thousands and thousands fled to security. And a few have been left with the tough selection to go away their beloved pets behind. 

Now, a veterinarian from our space is planning to go the world over to affix in a mission to offer a lot wanted medical assist to animals affected by the battle. 

Dr. Courtney Katsur determined to pack her baggage – overflowing with medical provides – and convey her experience from Annandale, Virginia, to the border between Romania and Ukraine to assist sick, wounded and malnourished animals that have been separated from their homeowners or needed to be left behind because the starting of the battle. 

Her urge to assist got here as she noticed devastating photos of what animals throughout the nation have been going by way of.

“The entire atrocity of the battle has been tough to look at. It is tough to look at figuring out I can’t do something,” she mentioned. 

However then it dawned on Katsur that there was truly one thing she may do.

“Watching all of those folks flee with their pets, how necessary their pets have been to them, after which these those who left and felt so terrible that they left their pets,” she mentioned. “And I spotted that I do have a spot to assist.”

That place is true on the refugee camps on the border between Ukraine and neighboring Romania, the place for 2 weeks Katsur can be taking her experience from the Columbia Pike Animal Hospital to affix two organizations, Breaking the Chains and Warpaws, whose volunteers because the begin of the battle have gone proper into war-torn areas to rescue animals.

And like with each courageous choice, there are some issues.

“Yeah I feel there’s at all times a stress of security. Nevertheless, I do really feel considerably safe figuring out I’ve some navy guys on my aspect. And, you already know, the entire course of has been occurring for a couple of month and so they have finished fairly effectively. And I’ll be in a safer zone,” she mentioned. 

For now, she says her greatest fear is that after she will get there, she could not be capable of “save as many as I might like.”

Katsur is accumulating donations that may go in direction of buying wanted provides, journey prices, drugs that she is going to carry together with her by way of this daring journey, and likewise to entrance adoptions and reunite pets with their family members.

Quickly, these furry mates could have a hero by their aspect.