ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Vafa Animal Shelter | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/vafashelter/activity/ Activity feed for Vafa Animal Shelter. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:14:00 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d160c8f4274aa52c3cf134cde56ebac9 Vafa Animal Shelter wrote a new post, Hercules' Story https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=31312 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:36:09 -0700 Once upon a time, Hercules lived like a king. Together with two other great danes, he lived in a gated orchard west of Tehran, Iran. He was healthy and strong. His human knew how a great dane should be fed and […]

]]> 0 38c006408b9118f28d3655129e3b5fa4 Vafa Animal Shelter wrote a new post, Jaanaan's Story https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29338 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:37:06 -0700 Jaanaan was a very young puppy when she was separated from her mother. She was so small that a shoelace was used as a collar and leash. As she grew, her fur covered the shoelace, and it remained around her neck. […]

]]> 0 442aa88c44c364ee075083ac551b3c09 Vafa Animal Shelter wrote a new post, Omid the Miracle Dog https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23329 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:19:52 -0800 Omid’s story starts when the driver of a passing vehicle in a remote part of Jaajrood, Iran, thought he saw something moving about a hundred meters away on the side of the road. He was curious and worried, so he p […]

]]> 0 25ca6f7361ca2d144b302793b714981e Vafa Animal Shelter wrote a new post, The Story of Raha, a Special Dog From Iran https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22108 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:05:49 -0800 After years of working with all kinds of abandoned, neglected and abused dogs, right when we thought we had seen it all, a special dog arrived at Vafa’s shelter. We named him Ghahraman, which means hero in Farsi, […]

]]> 0 d8434120aa8e4f815e98706b4f1ad8cf Vafa Animal Shelter wrote a new post, Iran's first animal shelter, against all odds: Vafa's Story http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=20329 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:57:11 -0700 Vafa is an animal shelter in Iran that was founded in 2003 by Fatemeh Motamedi to take care of dogs who were sick or needed care. Before that, there was sadly no such institution in Iran. 

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