Mari was found wandering around the grounds at the Nowzad shelter in June 2011. She appeared to have been well looked after and had a lovely nature so the Nowzad staff took her in and waited to see if anyone claimed her.
Sadly no one did come forward to claim her but she did form a bond with one of Nowzad’s volunteers, Sarah.
Daisy came into her soldiers life in January 2011 as a 3 week old pup who had lost her mother and was in danger of starving to death. Her soldier found her and immediately knew he had to take her in and care for her and since then Daisy has gone from strength to strength and is now a healthy 6 month old pup who has a dream.
Daisy’s dream was to go home and spend her life taking care of her soldier
‘Here is Shadow’s story. Shadow was adopted by an American unit who picked her up just outside of Dand District Centre near Kandahar. She was only a very young puppy at the time. They brought her to the camp in Dand, where I am staying. Sadly at the time the unit had not heard of Nowzad and the work they do, so no rescue could be arranged.
She had been vaccinated, but the records have been lost.
Gremlin was found abandoned and being stoned by Afghan Police outside of the American embassy in Kabul. One of the American contractors working there stepped in, scooped up the fragile pup and prevented any further injury to the pup from occurring.
Gremlin as she was soon named was cared for by many of the American embassy staff until Nowzad was asked to take her into our care at the Nowzad animal shelter.
Whilst on a mission from Fire Base Davis, Qalat City, Zabul Province of Afghanistan the Special Forces soldier found a lonely abandoned pup maybe only three or four weeks old lying on a mound, the weather was extremely cold and the pup was freezing.
With no mother in sight, the soldier felt only compassion and scooped up the pup and carried it back to the fire base.
Chloe was found in the Marjeh district centre, Helmand Province in Afghanistan which has seen some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan. She arrived at the Nowzad shelter in October 2011.
As this US Marine’s mother explains;
‘My son, is a tough guy Marine.
An interpreter who worked at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province rescued a female dog while in the Fharad area of Afghanistan. Unknowingly the dog was pregnant and gave birth to 3 pups. One of the pups was already adopted and brought back to the states during an earlier Nowzad rescue. But unfortunately, one of the other pups was accidentally run over by a truck and the mother was put to sleep by animal control thinking she was a loose dog on the base.
As the Afghan Police patrol approached Kabul airport a litter of young puppies scattered to avoid the oncoming patrol.
Except for one.
The very same contractor that offered Nakita and Hesco a forever home had actually come to Nowzad in Sept 2011 to ask for help with getting 3 kittens home. She had rescued the 3 kittens from the base she was working at and had become very attached to them but was no longer allowed to keep them on camp.
Nakita was found by a US Soldier as he returned from a mission; she was a stray that sneaked on the Forward Operating Base at night to find a place to sleep.
The dog looked scared and very skittish at first but beef jerky would normally do the trick. Some days she would follow the American patrol on missions and stay close to the soldiers ably making sure that other feral dogs did not stray too close.
