Nowzad

May 2012 The Forecaster

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:15:18 +0000

TOPSHAM — Susan Chadima’s life as a veterinarian includes her practice on quiet Foreside Road and on war-torn streets in Afghanistan.

Chadima, who founded the Androscoggin Animal Hospital in 1985, will talk about her experiences at the Topsham Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15.

With her will be Pen Farthing, a former United Kingdom royal marine who founded Nowzad Dogs, a nonprofit organization that rescues stray and abandoned dogs, cats and donkeys in Afghanistan. The group rehabilitates those animals and locates them new homes in safe places around the globe.

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May 2012 Metro

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:14:05 +0000

t’s a year since Bin Laden’s death so you can be forgiven for forgetting about one of the combatants. However, as President Obama basked in the reflected glory of SEAL Team 6 the spotlight had already fallen firmly on one unlikely team member, a certain four-legged warrior called Cairo, a Belgian Malinois dog.

The mighty mutt eventually met the US president who said later in a campaign video ‘It wasn’t until I knew that they were across the border, they were safe, everybody was accounted for including the dog, that, you know, i allowed some satisfaction.’

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May 2012 Reuters Video

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:12:34 +0000

Watch this great video of Pen at the Nowzad shelter in May 2012

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May 2012 Reuters

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:11:27 +0000

Spot made the clandestine journey from the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Helmand to the capital Kabul, where he is undergoing medical treatment before moving to the United States to live with the family of the Marine who rescued him.

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Apr 2012 Huffington Post

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:08:09 +0000

In 2006, while serving as a Royal Marine Commando in Helmand Province, Sergeant Pen Farthing encountered a battle just outside their operating base of Nowzad. It wasn’t a typical show of combat between men; this was a rough and brutal organised dog fight. Pen stepped in without hesitation to end the vicious display, completely unaware how this action would change his life.

Saved from the brutal bloodbath, one of the dogs, a mangy mongrel with a docked ear, immediately adopted Pen, faithfully following the Sergeant everywhere. They became best buddies and inseparable friends. So strong was their bond that Pen set in motion the necessary procedures to bring his new pal ‘Nowzad’ back home to the West Country of England. After saving one animal, Pen was determined to save more. And thus Nowzad Dogs, a not for profit charity, was born.

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Apr 2012 Pet Pardons

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:06:50 +0000

Nowzad, a charity set up to relieve the suffering of stray and abandoned dogs, cats, and other animals in Afghanistan and Iraq is the only animal welfare organization in Afghanistan, and the only hope for the dogs and cats in the country.

NOWZAD issued an urgent plea for help Thursday explaining that he group has been told by local authorities that they must either buy the land where their shelter is located in Afghanistan or give up their mission.

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Apr 2012 Touch FM

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:11 +0000

The family of a Claverdon soldier killed in action are now on a mission to save a charity which helped them bring his adopted dog home from Afghanistan.

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Dec 2011 – The Sun

Nowzad — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:58:32 +0000

A FALLEN hero’s family wept as the stray dog he adopted on the front line bounded into their arms yesterday — after her rescue from Afghanistan.

Tears of joy filled the eyes of squaddie Conrad Lewis’s mum, dad and sister as they kept a promise they made to themselves after he was killed aged 22.

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Goldie

Nowzad — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:42:35 +0000

Goldie came into the Nowzad shelter in August 2011 along with her family of 10 pups and her husband, Beethoven. Nowzad had been taking care of the medical needs of the dogs whilst they lived on the base but then we received a call one night to say they could not stay on base and we needed to get the 12 strong family out!

We got them all to the shelter and one by one all of the pups found homes with Afghan families and in the West and Beethoven went off to a new life in America but Goldie remained with us.

In March 2012 Jim contacted us about adopting another dog to join Spin who we had already rescued from Afghanistan. We spoke to Jim and his family and established who would be a good match and in April 2012 Goldie got her lucky break and headed off to Colorado for a new life with Spin.

Goldie adores her new life and behaves like she always lived in America.

Operation No Buddy Left Behind

Nowzad — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:34:01 +0000

Following a successful mission in collaboration with Guardians of Rescue and SAC Fund to reunite a dog called Trigger with his owner, in March 2012 we once again partnered with Guardians of Rescue and SAC Fund to undertake what became known as ‘Op No Buddy Left Behind’

From time to time dogs arrive at the Nowzad shelter that have been cared for by soldiers but when it is time for the soldiers to leave they are unable to offer them permanent homes in the USA. The soldiers obviously do not want to leave their battle buddies behind to an unknown fate so they bring them to the Nowzad shelter and we work on finding them loving homes in the West.

After working hard we were able to identify 1o dogs that had been raised by soldiers and desperately needed homes in the West and at the end of April 2012 after much hard work we were able to transport all 10 animals to New York where they were met by Guardians of Rescue and taken to Hounds Town for some training in preparation for being re-homed with US Soldiers and Veterans.

The lucky dogs who were given this chance at a new life in America were Lucky, Sunshine, Vegas, Cinnamon, Socks, Blackie, Tony, Sonny, , Tommy and Pnut.