                        {"id":1729,"date":"2024-05-04T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/bez-katehorii\/oblyzanyy-ob-iektyv-sobaka-nulyk-i-vriatovani-koni-iak-zhyve-prytulok-pehas-na-dnipropetrovshchyni\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:13:13","slug":"iak-zhyve-prytulok-pehas-na-dnipropetrovshchyni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/en\/reportazhi-en\/iak-zhyve-prytulok-pehas-na-dnipropetrovshchyni\/","title":{"rendered":"A licked lens, a dog Nulyk and rescued horses: how Pegasus shelter in the Dnipropetrovsk region lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sopha looks over my shoulder. The apples I gave her have been eaten a long time ago. And now she grabs the edge of the lens with her big soft lips and then runs her tongue along the lens. Well, the lens has been licked by a horse. And yet, even so, everything I point it at here seems alive and bright.<\/p>\n<p>Sopha lives in Pegasus shelter among the meadows of the Dnipropetrovsk region.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to horses, there are other domesticated animals, cats, dogs and wild animals \u2014 more than 800 in total. How come a small village in central Ukraine had a whole animal rescue centre? Let&#8217;s go and find out.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>They came from everywhere: Nulyk and goats from the garage roof<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>About an hour&#8217;s drive from Dnipro, and we turn off the highway to Malozakharyne. Having passed it, we roll along the dirt road away from human dwellings. Finally, we hear barking among the paddocks. We have arrived.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You come here and you have a different mood. You say hello to everyone. It has its own atmosphere that cannot be expressed in words,<\/em>&#8221; smiles Sava, the head of the shelter. <em>&#8220;<\/em><em>W<\/em><em>e have raccoons over there, they are inhospitable, always asleep. Let&#8217;s go to the pigs instead.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, let\u2019s go to the pigs. We pass by the stables, and behind them there is the area where the pigs live: a few domestic ones, many Vietnamese and in the last compartment there is a wild boar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This wild boar <\/em><em>escaped from the farm and we took him,&#8221; says Sava. &#8220;Only Vova comes in to clean. And no matter how long I&#8217;ve been working here, I&#8217;ll never go into the stall with the wild boar! To be honest, I&#8217;m afraid of him. Come closer, I&#8217;ll introduce you.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The boar&#8217;s name is Soma, and he quickly turns to familiarity when we get to know each other: he demands to be scratched. There are special brushes for this purpose. Sava asks the very Vova to scratch Soma&#8217;s hair. The man says: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to him: \u2018Soma, Soma!\u2019\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 <em>and he obeys. But just in case, I come in with a shovel to shield myself if he gets in a bad mood.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Soma&#8217;s mood is normal. Nearby, goats are being let out of the barn. Sava points to a few of them: <em>&#8220;These are Kherson goats <\/em>\u2014 <em>we took them off the roof of a garage in Kherson.&#8221;<\/em>[\/vc_column_text]\n                    <div class=\"swiper sliderSwiper\">\n                        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                                                     <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3542-scaled.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3529.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3555.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/arrow-sl.svg\"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/arrow-sl.svg\"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\n        [vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Russians blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, many locals from the Dnipropetrovsk region bought boats and went to take the animals, the man says. Then about 200 dogs were brought to Pegasus from the city. Among them was little Chapa. Sava recalls: <em>&#8220;<\/em><\/span><em>We were approaching Antonivskyi Bridge. The Ukrainian Armed Forces warned us not to go there because there was constant shelling. We took the risk. As we were leaving the bridge, we saw a dog running. The shelling starts, and we hear it flying&#8230; Can you imagine the adrenaline! We stopped abruptly and tried to catch the dog. She was already shell-shocked, afraid of sharp sounds. I grabbed the dog, and two or three shells fell not far from us.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The local cats have health problems. All those who could be given away were adopted. There are many more dogs. Pegasus can no longer accept stray animals: there are no enclosures. Now they take only evacuees from the hot spots. &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This one here is<\/span><\/i> <i>deaf, from Bakhmut, he&#8217;s shell-shocked,<\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduce me to an old dog who lives in front of the quarantine house. <\/span><i>&#8220;And this is Nulyk <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> do you know why? He came from the front, from nul <\/i>(\u2018nul\u2019 is a zero front line in Ukrainian).<i>&#8220;<\/i>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1208&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>30 rescued pegasuses\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8220;Well, let&#8217;s go!&#8221;<\/em> a smiling woman approaches me with a bucket of carrots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is Olena Rusina, the founder of the shelter. We take the bucket with us to the stables, and Bambi immediately reaches for a carrot. Her nose is slightly crooked, but she hardly seems to care. As a baby, Bambi had a slim chance of survival. With a nose defect like hers, it is almost impossible for a horse to learn to eat on her own. Bambi was put up for sale and bought by Pegasus. Here, she had grated vegetables and fruits for a long time and was taught to eat. And now she calmly bites off an apple from my hands.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1284&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first horses appeared in the shelter in 2013, back in Antonivka. Now, in Malozakharyne, there are 30 of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these horses have special needs. None of them can be a &#8220;workhorse&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some because of their age, others because of their health. Almost all of them were bought from their owners, who had given them to slaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We received calls from people saying that cows, sheep, horses needed help&#8230; But do you understand how difficult it is to make such a serious decision? They need a place, care and maintenance. Even a healthy horse is expensive to keep, but here there\u2019s a sick one! We took the risk, though, took them and it worked out,&#8221;<\/em><b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena recalls.<\/span><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the horses, there is the shelter\u2019s namesake, Pegasus. He had a leg injury, so it was clear to the owners that the stallion would not be able to carry loads or riders. Now he lives here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Probably, Liubasha, the mare, has the most problems. She suffers from hypoxia attacks: it is difficult for the animal to breathe, and she has to be connected to an oxygen machine. The mare Adele has cancer. The horse Black, a former athlete, can no longer rest on his hind legs as before. These animals should live in a specialised facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shelter is planning to build a hospital for sick horses. It will have a soft cover and all the conditions for a veterinarian to provide on-site care to the animal.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]\n        <div class=\"support-big\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3754.jpg\">\n            <div class=\"info\">\n                <p class=\"title\">UAnimals and Humane Society International are building a hospital for Liubasha, Bambi, and other horses at the Pegas shelter<\/p>\n                <p>Caring individuals donated over 985,000 hryvnias to UAnimals for the construction of a hospital for sick horses at the Pegas shelter, and partners from Humane Society International matched this amount. Now the horses can receive treatment on-site, without the long journeys that could cost them their lives.<\/p>\n                <div class=\"sm-btn-b\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/raise-funds\/\">\n                        <div class=\"sm-btn-b-in\">Support UAnimals' fundraisers!<\/div>\n                    <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>Ship of the desert<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the stables, another interested eyes follow me. It&#8217;s Yasha.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;He is really like a ship of the desert, the way he looks down on us,&#8221; <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena says. Despite his absolutely friendly appearance, a camel is a dangerous animal. <\/span><i>&#8220;I\u2019m always worried that he won&#8217;t bite off someone&#8217;s head,&#8221; <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says the owner of the shelter. <\/span><i>&#8220;<\/i><i>We give him watermelons, and he bites them into pieces right away. It&#8217;s barely a mouthful for him!&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yasha came here three years ago. Before that, he lived in a zoo complex near Odesa. There were also predators there: when Yasha got cystitis, they decided to give him to them for food. Pegasus employees took him to the shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Oh, how we treated him&#8230; It was like hunting. We waited for him to lie down to rest, and the nurse had to give him an injection quickly in his ass. And after that, he was hunting for the nurse&#8230;&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only Masha, the donkey, is not afraid of him. Indeed, Yasha virtually raised her. So they decided not to separate them.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1137&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>A shelter that appeared at the dacha\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena had a technical degree, and at the age of 33 she decided that she needed something else. The woman used to treat stray animals and had already settled several dozen dogs at her dacha. That\u2019s why she went to study veterinary medicine: <\/span><i>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to work in a clinic <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> it was necessary for my dogs,<\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says Olena.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;The <\/span><\/i><i>girls from the training helped me: after classes, we quickly got into the car and went to the dacha. We treated everyone there and came back. When everyone started using the Internet, it became easier to meet people like them. Someone saves someone else, and then there is nowhere to take them! You can&#8217;t throw them away!<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s how, in 2006, an animal shelter was set up at the dacha that belonged to Olena&#8217;s father. However, it soon became too crowded for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2012, all the dogs moved from the dacha to the village of Antonivka. Pigs and goats appeared already there. However, they also had to move from Antonivka: in May 2016, a mudslide hit the shelter and carried the dog kennels and enclosures for a kilometre and a half. <\/span><i>&#8220;The water in the house was up to our necks. We carried the animals upstream in our arms,&#8221; <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recalls Yana, a shelter worker. People and animals quickly moved to Malozakharyne, to higher ground. They started building Pegasus already there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, the father, the owner of the dacha where it all began, was sceptical at first. Now he takes part in the life of the shelter: <\/span><i>&#8220;Dad helps in ways you can&#8217;t even imagine! He used to grumble and grumble, but now he fosters dogs at his place. And I also have a trick: we don&#8217;t actually cry here, but I learned how to do it before my dad. We had puppies with enteritis. I called him, crying, and said, \u2018Dad, please take them in&#8230;\u2019 And he agreed, and even took them to the clinic for treatment. In fact, my father is proud of me.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena&#8217;s son Mykhailo also helps the shelter. It was he who built the first enclosures and made the fences for the paddock and the bathing area for the horses. When I come to the shelter, Mykhailo is just building a hospital for sick animals.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>Working days and nights\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pegasus is divided into 4 zones: the so-called wild zone, cat zone, dog zone and the farmyard where domestic animals live. This zone is a local feature and even pride: Pegasus is known among animal rights activists as one of the largest shelters with domestic animals.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]\n                    <div class=\"swiper sliderSwiper\">\n                        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                                                     <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3774.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3644-e1714851963239.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3834.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <div class=\"slider-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <div class=\"slider-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/uanimals.org\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/DSCF3750.jpg)\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    <p class=\"description\"><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/arrow-sl.svg\"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/arrow-sl.svg\"><\/div>\n                        <div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n\n        [vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;A weekend can be a couple of hours. And you are happy to have these two hours. But you stand there and don&#8217;t know what to do with them. Because you&#8217;re used to being on all the time,&#8221; <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says Olena. She moved to the village. There is no other way: <\/span><i>&#8220;Sometimes patients are brought to the shelter at night, and I pull the nurse right out of bed. Or something happens to someone, and it&#8217;s already the dead of night! I call the doctor and she says, \u2018I&#8217;m at home, it&#8217;s okay, go ahead!\u2019. And then we take the animal to her&#8230; This is my way of life.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, a nurse works at the shelter, a doctor visits, and a blacksmith comes to the ungulates. Olena&#8217;s main task is to plan everything, especially the logistics: who to take and where to go. People from the village work directly with the animals, everyone knows each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I pull out the recorder, they gather in the yard near a pile of firewood. Everyone is focused, and one of the workers is aiming at the pile with a net. It turns out that they are waiting for the cat: he needs to have his procedures done, but the sly one is hiding under the firewood.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;If I&#8217;m free, I also work with the animals,&#8221; <\/i>Olena says.<i> &#8220;The horse Ruslan, for example, must be driven on ropes for the health of his legs. Sometimes I go to the dogs <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> they need attention and communication. I don&#8217;t do the same thing every day.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>Multiplication problems\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena shows me her bank statement: <\/span><i>&#8220;Wow, how far I\u2019m going negative! I have 36 thousand in credit. This is the clinic, hay, pharmacy&#8230; And there are not even petrol costs here!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shelter lives on donations, and sometimes charitable foundations help with food for dogs and cats. However, hay is hard to get:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;People are more likely to donate for cats and dogs,<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8220;<\/em> Olena explains. <\/span><i>&#8220;And if you write that you have nothing to feed your horses&#8230; It&#8217;s harder. If we had money, when the mowing started, we would have bought hay in advance <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> the price was better then. That year, a bale of hay cost 50 hryvnias in the season, and now it costs 75, 80, 100&#8230; A bale is food for one horse or cow per day. For a camel <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> 2 bales. For 3 donkeys <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i> 1 bale. But hay is the hardest thing to raise money for.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1200&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><b>Yana and her savages<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><i>&#8220;Lena acts with her heart. And I am responsible for rationality,<\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says Yana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman has been working at the shelter ever since it appeared in Antonivka. She and Olena met on New Year&#8217;s Eve in 2012. They have been working together since then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I was 17 years old,&#8221; says Yana, &#8220;and I worked as a dispatcher for a transportation company. Someone threw away a puppy and it was running around near my work. It was so cute. I realised that the dog would get hit by a car if it stayed there. So I started looking for a place to take it. I found a shelter, and they said: either pay money or come to work. I promised to work for them. However, the work turned out to be completely different from what I had agreed on. At that time, someone poisoned the dogs in that shelter. I worked off by collecting corpses.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1235&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yana did not study to be a veterinarian, but she mastered the protocols for treating wild animals on her own. The shelter gradually began to accept wild injured animals: foxes caught in traps, birds with broken wings. Then exotic animals from nurseries and private zoos came. Most of them arrived sick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Our raccoons are very fat,&#8221; says Yana. &#8220;It&#8217;s my mistake. Shall I put a treadmill or something? There are ropes&#8230; Dusya is so clumsy when she chases me away with her hand. I can tell all raccoons apart, they are completely different to me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A steppe marmot, foxes and two wolves have apartments in the &#8220;wild zone&#8221;. Common raccoon dogs are their neighbours. Despite their names, these animals and raccoons belong to different families. Both are predators, but these are the raccoon dogs that particularly do not mind biting an unwary visitor. Olena laments: <\/span><i>&#8220;Sometimes schoolchildren come on excursions, but the children manage to stick their fingers into the enclosure. They stand like this: \u2018A raccoon, a cute one&#8230;\u2019 And they put their fingers inside!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amber eyes stare at me from the last enclosure in the &#8220;wild zone&#8221;. It&#8217;s a wild fox. When someone set fire to the dead wood, it got caught in the fire and was completely burned. This fox is the only one who has at least a small chance to return to nature. The other foxes of Pegasus will not survive there: they are either very injured or have long been accustomed to humans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yana plans to equip their enclosure so that the conditions are as close to natural as possible. Perhaps the foxes will even be able to build their own dens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The car sways gently on the dirt road again, moving away from Pegasus. Iryska, Yana&#8217;s dachshund, climbs onto my lap. And now someone is trying to lick the camera again.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sopha looks over my shoulder. The apples I gave her have been eaten a long time ago. And now she grabs the edge of the lens with her big soft lips and then runs her tongue along the lens. Well, the lens has been licked by a horse. 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