Evacuating The Rottweiler From Pokrovsk (18 December 2024)
Large dogs that are in enclosures always present their own challenges. But when you take a dog like a Rottweiler and add it into the mix, it takes challenging to another level. Then to top it off, you add the fact that the dog is traumatized by all the constant explosions from artillery, drones, CAB, and FAB hitting Pokrovsk around the clock. What that gives us is a dog who becomes extra territorial, scared, and afraid to leave the his enclosure which is the only safety he knows.
We had to wait on the owner to arrive since this was not a dog we were going to be able to just blindly handle without substantial risk. The dog kept retreating into its' house, which was not something we could get into without dismantling the entire front of the structure. He was visually irritated at us being in his yard and his body language reflected that. We had no choice but to wait for his owner to arrive at the house he was already supposed to be at when we arrived.
It is dangerously frustrating in situations like this. The entire city of Pokrovsk is under constant drone surveillance by the Russians. Sitting in the open does nothing but invite unwanted attention from the skies, which leads to unwanted visitors from the skies. We inform owners how long we will be to their location, and they say they will be there waiting. Here, we had to wait fifteen minutes for the owner to show up. Thankfully, we did not draw that unwanted attention which can kill you in these areas.
Once he was there it was just a matter of patience and timing for the owner to get the leash on the dog. It is a safe statement that the dog is traumatized from what he has been through in Pokrovsk. All he wanted was to go back to his enclosure once he was out and on the leash. We had to put the catch pole on him to assist in getting him into the back of the Nissan. The owner said the dog has completely changed in the past few months and he was not able to evacuate with him based on those changes.
You can see that the owner was quick to respond "YES" when asked if he was evacuating. The only reason he has not left until now was his responsibility to the dog. That seemed to be just bringing food for him every couple of days since there was a large amount of poop in his enclosure. A quick tap on his watch and he indicated that he himself was evacuating immediately after we leave and that he had been waiting on us to arrive so he can go.
What a lot of people do not take into consideration is that we save a lot of human lives along with the animals. By evacuating his dog, he can now leave and will no longer be at risk in Pokrovsk. He likely has a family to join him elsewhere judging by the house he lived at. In many locations it is the same story. Once the animals are evacuated, the people will evacuate right behind them.
We only wish that many more could or would evacuate together......
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