📢📢📢Please note: We have not confirmed that we can help yet due to the costs but we are hoping we will be able to raise some funds to help Bear and commit to rehoming him. I did originally direct the charity in Turkey to rescues who work with imported chows but they do not have the capacity to help at this time.

We have been contacted by a UK registered charity called Animal Friends of Turkey as they have taken in an abandoned black/blue chow at their sanctuary in Turkey recently. He was abandoned when he was no longer the little fluff ball he was as a pup.

The charity who have taken him in, think he is still very young (probably about 1 year old) has no health issues and will have all his health checks before coming over to Scotland.
He will not be able to travel for another 2 or 3 months due to travel regulations etc. It would also cost £1600 to bring him here (door to door) using a DEFRA approved animal courier.

Animal friends of Turkey have said they will pay his vet costs there etc and they will try to raise some money towards his travel but we would need to raise as much as possible as well.

To ensure transparency, I want to state that we currently have £1787.64 in the Chow Rescue account but as this was donated to SCOTTISH Chow Rescue, to help chows in Scotland, we don't think it is appropriate to use these funds to import a Chow.

We are confident that we could find him a great home here but we need to get him here first!