Tobi

❗️Tobi and the merciless street

Tobi sits on the metal table and his hind legs splay out to the sides. He tries to gather them under him, support his small body and stand up. Finally he manages. He takes a few steps, but there is none of a puppy’s ease in them. Every movement is unsteady, his body wobbles, and his legs look as if they can’t carry him properly.

The vet takes each of them in his hands. He bends the joints, straightens the limbs, checks their mobility and Tobi’s reaction. This tiny dog stands calmly and lets himself be examined. He doesn’t understand that right now it is being decided whether one day he will be able to walk normally, run and grow up without pain.

Tobi is extremely weak and dehydrated. His body no longer has the reserve of strength it needs to fight. He has a wound by his ear, moves with great difficulty and needs urgent diagnostics of his limbs. First he has to be rehydrated and stabilised. Then blood tests must be done, his joints and bones assessed, the cause of his mobility problems established and treatment started. All at a time when his body is still growing fast.

Tobi has no time to wait. If the problem concerns the bones, joints, muscles or nervous system, the coming weeks may make the abnormal way of moving permanent. The weakness won’t go away by itself either. He needs fluids, proper nutrition, treatment for his wound, a vet’s supervision and observation of how his body responds to therapy.

He was born on an Egyptian street and that is where he spent the beginning of his life. With his mother, among cars, dust and places where every day you have to find water, food and a scrap of space to rest. The street doesn’t stop for a puppy who is starting to walk badly. It doesn’t do tests or give drips. It lets him grow weaker until he can no longer keep up.

Tobi is no different from a dog born in Poland. He needs a mother, care, food and treatment just the same. He should just as much be playing now, tumbling over with momentum and learning his own body. But his place of birth meant that instead of his first safe months he got a fight for survival.

Today he is at the clinic. Today a vet is examining him. Today we can start a real fight for his health. But without funds, this help will end with the last paid-for day. Tobi will leave the clinic and go back to his mother on the street, still weak, with his diagnostics unfinished and no one to oversee further treatment.

We can’t let him go back in this state. We have to pay for diagnostics, treatment, rehydration, proper food, his stay at the clinic and later care. We also need time to find a solution so that Tobi doesn’t go back to a place where his worsening gait will once again go unanswered.

For more than twenty years, as Fundacja Centaurus, we have been helping animals where, without human support, treatment simply stops. Today we must direct all this help to one little dog. To Tobi, who is only just starting life and already can’t walk a few steps freely.

We ask for your support now. Every 10, 20 or 50 zł can turn into a drip, a test, an X-ray of his limbs, wound treatment, a nutritious meal or another day under a vet’s care. Tobi doesn’t need one person to pay for everything. He needs many people who won’t let his treatment end with a return to the street.

He hasn’t learned to run yet. Let’s give him a chance to be able to one day❤️