In the Kaliningrad region awarded a unique premium "My tender and necessary beast." In the list of nominees - kindergarters and animals who committed a real feat.
Vyacheslav Rudakov from St. Petersburg - blind. In the Kaliningrad region it is for the first time. According to unfamiliar streets of the resort Zelenogradsk, he confidently leads the guide of AKS.
Having lost sight after a heavy accident, Vyacheslav could forever stay in home imprisonment. But with the conductor's dog, he himself walks on excursions, in shops, clinics, traveling and even helps other blind.
Vyacheslav Rudakov, the owner of a guide dog: "We are people who received a guide dog, suggest how to work with a dog, how to behave, how to walk on the route, how to go down in the subway. We made a "Nevsky Explorer" to say blind people: guys, do not sit at home. "
Another nominee is a service shepherd with a double smoke-smoking wolf Mercury. At the ceremony, Kobel became a star photo shoot. Especially often asked to take pictures of girls. Merkuri's wolf with his mistress and partner, a filmologist Maria Kophatsova, is the real heroes. Last year, in St. Petersburg, they arrived at the challenge to look for a lost girl, and in the end did not allow pedophile to overthrow over the child.
Maria Koptseva, Inspector-film cynological service of the State Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region: "This guy, working with his spout, brought to an abandoned house. Clearly directly in the first parade flew. With us were the staff of the territorial department, they were very clearly detained, broke immediately. "
The video taken in the village of Syndor in Komi, at the ceremony did not demonstrate. The hosts of Jack Russell Terrier Jessie still can't watch recording without tears. The 10-year-old boy played in the hide and seek out of the site, disappeared behind the snowdrift, and in a moment a wolf seemed a few meters from him.
Saved the child's favorite family, a little dog Jesse, who selflessly rushing to drive the beast. This feat was worth her life. The owners of the four-legged hero presented her award and puppy, also Jack Russell Terrier, also a girl.
Marina Gubar: "I believe that in each family there should be a pet. No matter what big or small. You come to him and feel that you need someone. We, of course, are needed more to us that we are kinder. "
About kindness spoke and received an award for helping animals. In Zelenogradsk, not only four-legged for inhuman heroism, but also people for heroic humanity, such as, for example, the volunteers of the center "House of White Aist", finding wounded or freezing birds already in four regions.
Andrei Grigoriev, Volunteer of the Astam House of Astam "House of the White Stork": "The mission is that the world and the places where we work, become kinder, more accurate, more carefully for the suffering of other living beings."
Chelyabinsk veterinarian Karen Dallakyan from suffering who just did not save - and bears, and the Amur Tiger, and Leopard, and Lviv. In Zelenogradsk, he received a "folk hero" award, for him the most votes were given on the Internet.
Karen Dallakyan, President of the Foundation ZOO "Save Me": "I think, in 5-10 years, we will forget already about the photo-pointers, about the circuses of mobile, we will see around us healthy happy animals and happy people around us."
The jury and the laureates of this year want a premium in Zelenogradsk, where animals seem to love more than somewhere else, gained momentum so that the nominations for the year becomes more and more. Candidates for the 2022 premium will begin to choose from tomorrow.