Now it’s more than 2 months since three angels (in our days they are called “volunteering vets”) arrived at the shelter supporting us with their professional skill for two precious weeks.

This time they were not send from heaven but at least for us from a similar organisation known as Worldwide Veterinary Service.

They arrived at the shelter and almost immediately started their work and while here this international team: Morgane (France), Veronique (Belgium) and Emma (England) made a real difference to the shelter.

Selfish as we are we tried to use their competence as much as we could. To that it beacme necessary to triple the number of dogs and cats collected for sterilisation. As you can imagine that increased the intensity of the work of our staff and it became a real busy time for all at CfD, especially while at the same time significant renovations of shelter facilities were going on and beside that the daily work of the shelter had to be done. But it proofed worth it.

And those two weeks passed just to fast while these three ladies did a tremendous job. Their workload consisted of about 33 sterilisations and 4 emergency operation not talking about the profound advice they offered us and many little things here and there.

Well, as an ordinary volunteer walking on the shelter ground you almost didn’t notice them, that was because you hardly could see them in the open daylight.
But if you’ve taken a look behind the office you would have found them if not in the examination room (temporary transformed out of our storage room) just a step to the right into our surgery room. There they were heads above the body of a doggie, deeply concentrated in their work.

If you need a further example to their commitment, I’ll do the witness and tell you about the morning I came to the shelter and heard about Morgane’s accident.

In the evening a washing table broke down falling onto her foot, she had to be transported to the hospital getting several stitches and examination.

I was shocked wondering about the bad luck that even hit people doing such good things.

The next day at the shelter, big surprise, there was Morgane. You had to look twice whether the woman hobbling with crooks was really her but yes she was. Well, I guessed she came for a short hello, sorry and good bye, but not with Morgane.
Minutes later while we were still head-shaking, she simply returned to the surgery resuming her work.

What a strong woman!

Thank you very much Morgane, Veronique and Emma, hope to see you again.
Your work was a real inspiration and it proofed how much Care for Dogs can benefit form the permanent presence of a vet at the shelter.

=> More about the newest developments around this aspect coming soon!