Success Stories - Ponga

This is Ponga. She was seen on an uninhabited island in the Kerela waterways whilst Sharon and Henrik were on a boating holiday in 2023. She was a lively little pup about 6 weeks old.

She could not use her back legs properly and we were concerned that she would starve to death once her mother stopped feeding her. According to the boatmen, her sibling had already drowned. We asked Raja to arrange for someone to drive from Tamil Nadu, many hundreds of miles away, to contact the boatmen and to rescue the puppy. She passed her rabies titre test through a blood sample sent to an approved German laboratory and after the requisite 3 month wait, she was allowed to fly from Chennai to Heathrow where she was put in a warm coat and promptly feel asleep.

She is now living in Poland with her new family, close friends of the Bierer-Nielsens who feel in love with her. Ponga has learnt to love the snow! It was very hard indeed to give her up as she had settled down well in London but she is living as good a life as any dog.