Nothing in the world is more despairing than facing death. If so, it must be facing death again and again. No one should like that painful feeling. The lifespan of a dog is only a dozen years. Those who have owned dogs for a long time must have expe...
Nothing in the world is more despairing than facing death. If so, it must be facing death again and again. No one should like that painful feeling.
The lifespan of a dog is only a dozen years. Those who have owned dogs for a long time must have experienced the scene of saying goodbye to their dogs. That unforgettable painful feeling will definitely make you swear that you will never keep a dog again.
Of course, there are many people who are not willing to accompany them to the end. After entering old age, the various functions of the dog's body begin to decline, and the dog becomes more and more in need of human care. Once it becomes ill, it will cost the owner a lot of money for treatment.
The phenomenon of elderly dogs being abandoned is increasing day by day. However, abandoned elderly dogs have almost no chance of being adopted again. They can only linger in fear and despair, waiting for death alone. For them, the best outcome is to use euthanasia to end their suffering early...
Fortunately, there are people in the world who are willing to care about them.
Nicola used to be a nurse. After retirement, she founded a hospice pet hospital to take care of abandoned old dogs and terminally ill dogs.
Whenever the veterinarian at the shelter says that the dogs have less than half a year to live, Nicola and her volunteers will take over to take care of them until they are returned to the dogs.
Taking care of an old dog is not an easy task, let alone taking care of many old dogs. In order to take better care of each dog, Nicola can only take up to two dogs when she goes out for a walk. She takes them for a walk and lets them enjoy the sun and grass... This kind of dog walking activity needs to be repeated more than ten times a day.
In addition to enjoying the sun and grass, Nicola will also take the dogs to eat ice cream and steak that they may have never eaten.
If her health permits, she will also take them to the beach for a whole day and take them to eat fish and chips on the beach.
Because they are abandoned dogs, she has no way of knowing the dogs’ past and their birthdays, but every adopted old dog will be assigned a birthday. On their birthdays, Nicola will give them handmade dog food cakes.
Nicola and the volunteers provide these old dogs with meticulous care and love, hoping that they can leave a beautiful memory and still feel love and warmth in the last moments of their lives, instead of dying alone and painfully in the shelter center, or facing the cold euthanasia needle alone.
Among the dogs that Nicola has taken care of, the longest lived for a year, and most of the dogs only lived for a few weeks and then hurriedly went to their dogs.
Even if we have not been together for a long time, even if we are used to seeing life and death. But for Nicola, it is still very difficult and painful to say goodbye to the dog that she has cared for for several weeks. Every time a dog leaves, she and the volunteers grieve for a long time and need a short break to avoid falling into grief for a long time.
Every time someone asks Nicola why he wanted to establish such a hospital. She said that although what I was doing was difficult, it was very meaningful. Dogs accompany their owners throughout their lives, but when they get old or sick, they are abandoned by their owners. This is not a phenomenon that should occur in a civilized society. I hope I can give them love and warmth when they fall into darkness, and that all their wounds can be healed by kindness.
Dogs accompany their owners throughout their lives. As an owner, what reason do you have to abandon your dog when they need you most?
