Well in fact I don't really know if a fundraiser is opened or started, haha :'D As some of you -MIGHT- have noticed, I volunteer in a shelter in the south of Germany, Göppingen to be more precisely, in fact www.tierheim-goeppingen.de to be very precise ;) We are one of the very few shelters that take everything- YES, EVERYTHING! No seriously we agree to take in dogs that have no chance to find a new home in the near future, we take dogs with drastic health-issues and of course we take in dogs that are confiscated.

To give you an idea, if you go to "aktuellen Tierbestand anzeigen" then "Hunde" and every dog, that has a "nein" at the far right is a worry. Those dogs are either very aggressive or very ill. We don't euthanize dogs for non medical reasons even though having that many dogs we need to keep over a longer period of time cost thousands of euros per year. But it is okay because we love what we are doing and we believe that we are doing the right thing. A few weeks back we got 10 Rottweiler from a animal-hoarder. We had to give some of the healthier ones to other shelters as finding homes for 10 Rottis is really difficult. One of them already found a new home *yay <3* but we still have some left. In fact we have the total wrecks left... The girls are about 1 year old but so many complicated operations are going to hit us as their skeletons are a mess. Little Liv needs multiple operations for example. Not only do we need to have her hips fixed (she has HD and sooner or later the pain-killers she is getting atm won't help any longer) but we also need to have her heel mended. A piece of bone got split off, most likely she was either hit or had a fight with one of the other girls for food or water. Having a dog's hip-joint replaced is around 2500 Euros-for one hip. We know that two of the girls for sure need to have their hip-joints repaired. We are a rather small shelter with room for 50 dogs,mainly financing ourselves over donations (the state pays us I think around 40.000 Euros per year which is nothing) so you can imagine that those extra costs are being heavy on our hearts. We talked to the major of our town already but they won't help. Some people actually already suggested we just have them put down. Noway ever is this going to happen.

They deserve to live the life they were never granted before. They need to find a family, get to know the feeling of being all excited and happy when their humans come home, they need to learn, they need to get to know what it is like to lie on the sofa together with their human. They need to know what true love feels like as they never had it before. They need to hear their human say "this is my girl, isn't she beautiful". Lol I am getting carried away but I feel so strongly about this.

Okay, so here is the deal: I will draw for my shelter to help cover the costs for our Rotti-girls. http://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/raikhan/ here are my current prices, I really, really hope they are okay? If you have a spare cent left that you'd like to donate, please feel free to do so, every little cent helps <3 delicatstudios(at)gmail(dot)com is my paypal. I will absolutely not keep that money myself, this shelter and its creatures mean the world to me. Every spare cent I earn I spent on it, every free second I have I spent there, it is my second home and my greatest love.