Former Rescues

The greatest adventures aren't measured in miles, but in moments shared. Open your heart to a Nowzad rescue and discover a friendship that will last a lifetime. From surviving the streets to exploring the world beside you, our rescues bring courage, loyalty, and a heart full of friendship to every new adventure. Could your perfect companion be a Nowzad rescue?

These are just a selection of the amazing rescues that the Nowzad team with your generous support, have been able to achieve since the charity was formed in 2007. Please click on a rescue to read more.

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Tiny

Tiny was born on a US forces base in Orgun-E in Afghanistan and as the tiniest of the litter of pups born to feral on the base she was named Tiny! Sadly the litter suffered from worms and all but Tiny died including the mom. The US soldiers teamed up and helped raise Tiny together... Read more

Poppy & Maxchat

Poppy was found at the side of the road next to her 2 dead siblings in Basrah, Iraq when she was so young. Her mum was nowhere to be seen so contractor Adam and his team picked her up and took her back to their base. They could not bear to think she would suffer the same fate. Maxchat came... Read more

Hera

Hera had been adopted by British Soldiers in Southern Afghanistan who had sadly found her being used as a football by some local children. They politely took Hera (named after the Greek Goddess of Women) from the children and transported her back to base where they nursed her back to... Read more

Bear & Buddy

On their third day defending a hilltop in a major Taliban-controlled area, a unit of American soldiers were on a patrol in a nearby village. They found a nine-week-old puppy in a bombed-out building. He was shaking, dehydrated, and hungry. He had no tail and no ears. Bear, along with another... Read more

Henry & Anthony

Nowzad first ever cat rescue! One morning the English contractors woke to hear a constant meowing coming from outside their front door. There they found a tiny skinny black kitten with an injured back leg that he could not use. Although he was weak with starvation he was very noisy and... Read more

Kandy & Junior

Kandy was a young pup who was found when probably around about 6 weeks old, rummaging through a rubbish tip in Kandahar looking for scraps of food. Luckily for the starving pup the contractor took her back to his compound and cleaned her up as she was severely malnourished and very... Read more

Kilo

In 2009 Kilo was named after the British Army unit that found her wandering as a pup on Camp Souter, an Army base in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. For the soldiers who took turns in looking out for Kilo she was their five minutes of normality and positive precious moments during a... Read more

Shola & Gus

Shola was first found on the streets of Afghanistan by an ex-pat probably just a few days after Shola had been hit by a car, the result being a broken leg. Thankfully the ex-pat immediately took the dog to Nowzad where the break was fortunately easily treated and Shola soon recovered after a... Read more

Guiseppe

Guiseppie is one of the most pampered cats we think ever came through the Nowzad shelter. A contractor had adopted him in early 2010 and quickly decided that Guiseppie would go to the USA when her contract was finished. When Guiseppie arrived at Nowzad for his vaccinations and preparations... Read more

Lexi

Cpl Day found a young female pup abandoned on the side of the road. His photograph of Lexi being carried back to camp became the iconic cover photo for our Nowzad charity – it symbolised the mission we undertake to assist as many soldiers as we can rescue the companion animals they have... Read more

Peg & Private Conrad Lewis

In April 2011 Nowzad received a plea from the father of soldier Pte Conrad Lewis, who had been sadly killed in action early in 2011. Conrad had told his family at Christmas he wanted to bring his dog called Pegasus, home with him when he finished his tour and now his father wanted to... Read more

Wylie

We are not going to say too much about Wylie – this special dog from Kandahar has had some amazing adventures and you could read all about them and help the charity by buying the book that tells his ‘tail’ here Read more

Cristo & Pablo

Cristo and Pablo’s owner asked Nowzad for help in February 2011. Cristo and Pablo were another 2 cats that enjoyed a fairly safe existence living in an aircraft hangar on a US base but their adopted soldier wanted to give them a better life and bring them back to the USA. At the... Read more

The Famous Five

Tambah, MJ, Trigger, Rosie and Zito were a litter of pups born on a base in Eastern Afghanistan and luckily for the Famous Five there were five soldiers each interested in adopting. Getting them all to the Nowzad shelter was a task but they safely made it and after vaccinations and... Read more

Snickers

Snickers came to the Nowzad shelter in March 2011. The soldier who adopted wrote; ”Snickers is from Afghanistan. US Marines took her away from the local nationals after one of us witnessed them kicking and throwing rocks at her. She was very skinny and extremely hungry. Marines... Read more

Alice & Panshir

Alice was found living outside a US Marine forward operating base in Garmsir and they then took care of the wayward young pup for about a month. But when the Marines found out they were about to receive an IED Detection Dog they were told that Alice had to go. Thankfully another unit of... Read more

Soji & Karma

Soji was found in a pile of rubbish by her soldier in February 2011. She was thin and not in the best of health until a US soldier took pity on her. With left over MREs (the military ration packs) plentiful Soji was soon putting on weight but the soldier knew he had to have her... Read more

Dude

Dude was around 4 weeks old when some local children brought him to the base. His soldier immediately fell in love with Dude or his full name as he was sometimes known; El Duderino. The young pup was a huge boost to the unit’s morale and he spent his life eating MRE’s and... Read more

Rosie

Rosie was found after she was abandoned in a compound dumpster in Herat in an astounding act of cruelty. She was taken into the base where she quickly learned basic commands. Her days there were numbered as she was forbidden to stay on the base so her owner frantically contacted Nowzad... Read more

Rommel and Blitz

Rommel and Blitz were rescued by American soldiers after their mother and siblings had been sadly killed. Both tiny puppies were just a few weeks old and they desperately needed all the help they could get to survive, so the dedicated soldiers rallied to save them. Against the odds,... Read more

Bear

Bear was found in Western Afghanistan freezing cold and struggling to survive, by an American contractor in December 2013. He was incredibly tiny and would not have survived the harsh winter if he hadn’t been rescued. Bear’s new owner immediately knew that he wanted to... Read more

Pressel

In September 2014 we received an email from a Royal Marine serving in Albania. He and his colleagues had been taking care of a young puppy whom they had called Pressel, they were to be leaving for good shortly after and could not bear to leave him behind. This was the first time we... Read more

Gambit

Gambit came to the Nowzad shelter in summer 2013 with his mother and siblings. They had been found on a British camp in Kabul and their mother was struggling to take care of such a large litter on her own, the whole group were suffering. Gambit’s fate was sealed when towards... Read more

Kohi

Kohi was brought into the Nowzad shelter with his brothers and sister in July 2014 for their vaccinations. They had been plucked from the streets by an Afghan family who had seen their mother was not around. Sadly after a few months the family were struggling to find enough money... Read more

Cash

Cash found his way into the heart of a contractor in Iraq when he was just 3 months old in September 2014. He was known as the small dark spotted orphan of the camp, his mother was nowhere to be found as she had either abandoned him or had died, no one was really sure. One day, Cash... Read more

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