Hero.

[kpete]

Ukrainian trying to save disabled dogs from a shelter in Irpin, a city shelled by the Russian Army, and take them to a safer place.

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[chowder66]

1. That's one hell of a photo.

[dameatball]

4. It sure is.

[StarryNite]

2. Yes, she is a hero.

I hope she is successful in getting those dogs to safety. I hope somebody helps her!

[Kali]

3. Can't help but feel people come first

I love my animals and would probably try to save them, but if I saw old, disabled, or children they would have to take priority. Putin and war sucks, but people need saveing first.

[chowder66]

5. Maybe the people were already evacuated or under evacuation.

[North Shore Chicago]

6. We can chew gum

and walk at the same time. They ALL need assistance.

[StarryNite]

10. Absolutely.

[PatSeg]

8. Yes, that is a tough one

Also, I don't know how merciful it is to save animals when their future is so uncertain and probably traumatic. What kind of life do these dogs have to look forward to in a war torn country? It is a hard decision and I honestly can't say what I'd do under those circumstances. When I think of pets I've had, I'm not sure how well they'd fare on these arduous and dangerous journeys many have to make.

[LT Barclay]

12. On the other hand, how much emotional healing could they provide when it is over?

[pazzyanne]

24. + 1 nt

[PatSeg]

25. Yes, that is true

I am grateful that this is a decision that I would never have to make, as there are no good answers. My heart goes out to all those affected.

[Kali]

27. I doubt if there is any shortage of other stray animals where ever they end up.

[LT Barclay]

31. But sometimes hurt people connect to hurt animals.

Winter the dolphin had little hope of a normal life but had an impact on many and had more of a life than she would have if she had been euthanized

[Kali]

26. exactly

do they have what will be needed when the arrive wherever they are going? what resouces are needed, and will that impact what is available to help humans who need it it?

[PatSeg]

29. I'm picturing many animals so terrified

and traumatized, that even if they do survive, they may never recover. Watching people carrying their cats, I can visualize the cat getting spooked, jumping out of their owner's arms, and getting lost in a strange and dangerous place where they will undoubtedly die alone, hungry, and afraid. Of course, on an individual basis, I cannot imagine making a decision to put down a beloved family pet either.

[North Shore Chicago]

7. Look at the way she is holding her head!

High and proud! You go girl! we are rooting for you AND these helpless animals.

[StarryNite]

9. I love the way she is holding her head high and proud.

It boggles my mind how anybody can be critical of what she's doing.

[StarryNite]

11. Henry Beston says it best...

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” ~Henry Beston

How can anybody be critical of those who are trying to help in any way they can?

[LT Barclay]

16. Have you ever read any books by Carl Safina?

We have closed our eyes to so much that is amazing and beautiful because of our need for self congratulations and fascination with our own destructive creations.

[StarryNite]

17. No, I have not read any of his books.

I will look into them. Thank you.

[StarryNite]

19. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

It looks amazing. I just ordered it on Amazon.

[LT Barclay]

30. I read a different one, but my wife read that one and loved it. I'm trying to get my 10 and 13 year

old to read the “young reader” version.

[colorado_ufo]

20. This writing took away my breath.

An extraordinary mind and wisdom, a glimpse into truth.

[MLAA]

22. Beautiful

[North Shore Chicago]

23. Nailed it!

x1000

[Kali]

28. it feels like that is a position of comfort and privelege

that may not be practical under wartime conditions, sort of like medical triage. hard decisions have to be made and they involve life and death. innocent humans should have priority, in my opinion.

[LT Barclay]

13. Amazing, she looks like a hero Berkeley Breathed dreamed up

[flying_wahini]

14. Noble act, but have to say I would find them an out of the way shelter, leave 100 lbs of food dumped

Plenty of water and disconnect them. She is going to get herself killed.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Unbelievable!

Unbearable.

[niyad]

21. May the Lady of the Beasts keep her, and all who are trying to save our sister

and brother creatures, safe.

And may Nemesis deal with those who created, enabled, and support this horror as they deserve.

So mote it be, three times three.