A guide
How to adopt a street dog from Turkey
People ask the same three questions, in the same order. How does it work. How long does it take. What will it cost me. Here are the answers, without decoration.
Journal
What we know, written down.
Everything here is first-hand: what that land is like, what a winter does, how an adoption actually works, and where the money goes. No campaign language.
From the ground
What a winter does to a dog with no walls
We can treat an infection. We can fill a bowl. We cannot make a dog survive a Turkish winter with nothing around it.
The beginning
Doccio: the puppy who chose to live
He was left to die in the street. A broken tail, alone, about a month old. His eyes had barely opened.
For adopters
The first thirty days
A dog who has lived on open land does not arrive knowing what a home is. Nearly everything that goes wrong in the first month is a version of the same mistake: too much, too soon.
Money
Where a donation actually goes
Most people give without ever learning what they bought. Here is the whole ledger, in three lines.
First-hand
Why a dying puppy in the street is an ordinary sight
This is not written from research. It is written from mornings spent handing food to dogs who had learned exactly which corner to wait on.
Two weeks
That is how long a dog has out there. Reading is good. A home is better.