Many responded to the call to find a home for the dog of the missing 13-year-old Nikolay from the Stara Zagora village of Konare, bTV reported.
The child's mother said yesterday that the family does not want to look after the animal. It is in a miserable condition - visibly malnourished. After veterinarians examined it, the predictions are that it will not survive.
Today, however, the stepfather of the boy with Down syndrome, who disappeared on December 17, said that he will not give it up.
„Yesterday, veterinarians came, gave him a pill. Now they will come on December 27 and will give him an injection, chip him and fix his documents. I don't agree to give him away because I've been looking after him for a year and a half, and now, as this thing has happened, there's no way I'm going to let him go," said Dimitar Yankov, Nikolay's stepfather.
When asked why his wife told someone else to look after him, he replied: "She's angry because the child is gone. She doesn't want to see the dog, but I'll look after him, because there should be a dog in a house."
Tatyana Baychevo from the organization "A New Chance for the Rejected Angels of Kazanlak" has made arrangements with the family and has taken the dog in temporarily so that he can be examined and treated. After that, however, she will return him.
"The dog from Konare is with me. We are traveling to the "Flamingo" clinic. I took him in very hard, with the promise that I would return him after an examination. What will happen depends on the tests. The dog was again on a chain, in a house made of a refrigerator. There was some kind of salad for food. The man does not give it to him, because he was promised that a whole bunch of doctors would pour in there. And he believes it. I do not know how events will develop and I do not promise that I can forcibly keep him, not by legal order“, Baycheva wrote on Facebook.
“Today the dog from Konare was supposed to be with me. Housed in a clinic, with all the tests. Who told you that by chipping him, you will solve the problem? At the moment the puppy is tied up in the rain, without a hutch, shivering from the cold. He is sick, dying. You will chip him! And tomorrow they will start taking care of him? Feed him, take him to the doctor, walk him? I am disgusted with you“, she was indignant.
We recall that the dog appeared aloneò in the village on Sunday around 7:30 p.m. and was recognized by the boy's mother and his stepfather.
When it was found, the animal was very stressed. However, an attempt was made with it to find a trace of the child with Down syndrome - without success.
13-year-old Nikolay has been missing for the eighth day, and as of today, military personnel have also joined the search operation for him.
In Konare, Interior Minister Atanas Ilkov assured that the search will continue, but starting tomorrow - in a reduced number.