The image of Santa Claus (Santa Claus) is always associated with warm, joyful and unexpected things on Christmas Eve. Seven Christmas seasons have passed, there is such a “Santa Claus”, a special edition “Santa Claus” that gives love to abandoned cats and dogs. Ms. Tran Uyen Nhu (29 years old), the owner of the Saigon Time Dog and Cat Rescue Station, made a set of Christmas photos for the station’s dogs. The story behind the children’s photos touched many people and called her the “Santa Claus” of unfortunate dogs.
In 2014, Ms. Tran Uyen Nhu (29 years old) received a dog and cat rescue station from a friend. Since then, she has devoted all her youth, time and money to her “children”.
A young girl, with a stable business in the field of wedding decoration, decided to put it all aside. Previously, the station was managed by another person, but this person abandoned the children because he thought that rescue work had no future.
Since then, out of love for the children, she has rented a house and taken care of them until now. In a rescue of a dog, she was bitten right in the face, torn jaw muscle, had to sew 38 stitches. I still have scars to this day but I don’t blame them because the kids were panicking. And many times, she was bitten and scratched, but she never showed any aggression towards the children.
In the early days of starting work, she received a lot of derision and even disparagement, which was very difficult to hear. Many people say that she is “crazy”, calling her “animal” when she does not help people but helps dogs and cats. She laughed at those words. When asked about her family, she feels grateful that now her parents are the “biggest sponsors” of the station.
Ms. Nhu said: ” Although her family loves dogs, her parents were very worried and prevented her from coming into contact with this somewhat dangerous work. But when her parents came to the station and interacted with the children, they were support her and also be the “big” sponsor of the station .”
The touching story behind the series
The Christmas photo series was taken by her and pet photographers. Her purpose is to have a small gift for children with special circumstances at the station. Through this, she hopes that the stories of the children after each photo will reach everyone’s heart. Any pet deserves to be loved.
Skimming through each photo, all of which are stories behind the children’s appearance, no matter where they read, viewers will feel heartbroken.
Pet house wishes
Since childhood, Uyen Nhu wanted to have a house with many cats and dogs. When she was 8 years old, she once saved a paralyzed cat and two dogs abandoned by their owners in a landfill. It was her childhood actions that made her carry with her the promise of helping those unfortunate pets. She has saved more than 400 dogs and more than 700 cats.
Currently, there are 328 animals at the station, including dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, pigs, squirrels, owls, turtles, etc., who are treated and cared for by her every day.
Nearly 7 years with the station, there are more than 10 times when she wants to give up when thinking about her future. But then, lying in the middle of the cold winter looking at the children shivering because of the cold and needing her warmth, she continued this arduous journey.
When she was short of money, seeing her children hungry, she was helpless but did not give up. She borrowed everywhere, she asked for permission to mortgage her parents’ house to have money to maintain the station.
Many times, she also had to give up because lack of manpower prevented her from saving all the children. But once, because she loved the old Becgie dog in Ca Mau about to be killed by the furnace owner, she rode a motorbike in the night from Saigon to rescue this dog and 7 other dogs.
In order to maintain the station, in addition to her personal work, she also runs a petshop business and receives donations through the station’s fanpage. Uyen Nhu’s wish during this year’s Christmas season is to soon have enough money to buy a 1000 m2 piece of land to take care of the children.
The accommodation also caused many inadequacies and she wanted to have better conditions to take care of the children. Hopefully, Santa Claus will soon hear her wish to help her and the children meet good things in life.