07/04/2023
Dear followers and friends. The first piece of information is written by Philippa Johnson and the second is from Chantal Ozbas herself. It’s long but please bare with us. 🥰
We are all very aware of what coercive control, physical and emotional abuse are now.
Chantal has been suffering from all of the above for years. As with all people in this situation you can only get out of it once you realise that it’s NOT OK, you DO NOT deserve it and you CANNOT fix it, no matter how hard you try. To leave your husband and break up the family is a traumatic decision wherever you are but in Turkey it’s just not an acceptable thing. Terrible things have been happening to her, the children and the dogs, details of which are being handled by lawyers and can’t be discussed on here. She is safe, the children are safe and now as of this week the dogs are safe.
It's been a very long time since my last proper update for this I apologise 🙏
The pups and me have been going through a very hard time. Due to personal problems I've had to keep away from the farm since last august. This led to the pups not being looked after properly. It was and is still breaking my heart but I had no choice. Be it as it may I'm finally allowed to share. In the last week I've moved all the pups from Kuşadası to İzmir. A wonderful new area that belongs to wonderful people who live and breathe dog. There is a similar situation as mine already, 30 beautiful streetpups. They were kind enough to take us in. I don't want to share the many heartbreaking pictures I've seen of my pups at birdisland farm, that in one year turned into a hellhole for dogs. It isn't necessary. I'd much rather share with you that the pups are safe, in the best hands and I get to be with them again. I've had to build another shelter. They had the area but of course not the fencing and kennels. So I did that. Come hell or high water I had to make them safe. I can now continue the dream of finding each and every one of them a new home in time. I'll share a couple of pictures today so you can all see what it looks like.
If you could find it in your hearts to support the pups and me in our new place we would be extremely grateful. There are some pups that needed emergency treatment which puts my bill at the vet to 10'800tl (£420) Zeus, emaciated, dehydrated, erlichia and leishmania untreated. Ena, cancerous tumors left untreated, emaciated and dehydrated - an operation will follow as soon as she is strong enough. Furthermore we have to de-worm and de-flee all of them as well as finally sterilize and castrate those teenagers - about 9 of them quite urgently. A big part of our job now is to re-socialize them - they have been sorely neglected for months, many have gone back to their old ways, scared and wary of anything new. We will manage in time also. Food costs will amount roughly 10'000tl (£420) a month give or take.
Thank you to everyone who does a monthly donation the money has been paying towards food. It would be amazing if anyone else could find it in their heart to pay even just £5 per month towards a dog to help them to a better, happy future. If you could help with anything please say. Our PayPal is still good and for other ways do contact Philippa or me directly
Love & Light ❤️🙌🐕