Serbian seeks to get tails wagging again after floods

DRAZEVAC: It’s been busy time for Vesna Prokopjevic, a Serbian dog-lover seeking to reunite bedraggled pooches with their owners after they were separated by devastating floods in the Balkans.
“The dogs were scared and muddy. We gave them food and water,” Prokopjevic told AFP at her noisy makeshift dogs’ home in her garden in the small village of Drazevac outside Belgrade.
Since Saturday, when the floods forced half of the 20,000 population of nearby Obrenovac to be evacuated, rescuers have brought at least 70 dogs of all shapes and sizes to her shelter.
“We were the closest and they knew I would take care of all of them,” Prokopjevic said, fielding constant phone calls by people searching for their four-legged friends.
Helped only by a few volunteers and a local vet working for free, Prokopjevic has been working like mad providing basic care “until the owners who lost everything in this horror settle somewhere.”