If you can help, why not
We (Barbara and Justina) represent one half of the founders of the local animal welfare society (Društvo za zaščito živali Trebnje, DZZŽ Trebnje) with several goals:
In this way we are trying to be good animal owners, we are trying to breed the only way it should be done i.e. DNA healthy, "conformation healthy", "work healthy" dogs, we are trying to teach dogs different things with positive reinforcement, we are constantly reading, learning, going to different theoretical and practical lectures, we are trying to pass gained knowledge to others, we are trying very hard to make the difference.
We also helped to organize the doghiking events for DZZŽ Trebnje which started in 2013 (in 2014 STL took over the organization). Stane prepared the trails, Barbara the paper work, Justina measured time (and took care for the food if needed), Tomaž became a baby-sitter for all our animals for that day.
- help animals in need
- try to change the society's behaviour towards animals with educating people about animal rights, teaching how to properly treat them, how to properly socialize, raise and teach/train them, with trying to be a roll model i.e. to show in praxis how it should be done (but that does not mean that we do not copy better praxis and that we stopped learning)
- try to make bureaucracy to follow and respect the law even if the law is not perfect yet
- try to create, support better animal-law
- close all animal shelters which do not work for animal's welfare (which euthanize healthy animals just because they do not get any money from the township anymore)
- help all the animal shelters which work pro animals
- ...
In this way we are trying to be good animal owners, we are trying to breed the only way it should be done i.e. DNA healthy, "conformation healthy", "work healthy" dogs, we are trying to teach dogs different things with positive reinforcement, we are constantly reading, learning, going to different theoretical and practical lectures, we are trying to pass gained knowledge to others, we are trying very hard to make the difference.
We also helped to organize the doghiking events for DZZŽ Trebnje which started in 2013 (in 2014 STL took over the organization). Stane prepared the trails, Barbara the paper work, Justina measured time (and took care for the food if needed), Tomaž became a baby-sitter for all our animals for that day.
