Volunteers and organizations in Montenegro in need of help

Zhanna Kaganovskaya

Zhanna is a founder of the private shelter "Faithful Heart" in Danilovgrad. Thanks to her, hundreds of sick animals were taken from the streets, cured, and then handed over to new loving owners.
Besides, she helps volunteers across the country providing advice, goods, and medications for free. She also administrates the "Living Montenegro" Facebook community.

- You can donate to Zhanna's shelter here: https://spasi-me.com/donate/
- If you are willing to donate some goods or pet food: https://spasi-me.com/other-help/
- Check out the shelter's Instagram page, where you can find animals who are looking for a new home, and make a repost - or adopt a pet: https://www.instagram.com/spasi_me/

Alisa Popovic

Alisa Popovic is the eldest volunteer in Budva who helped hundreds of cats along the coast! Most of the sterilized cats in Becici, Rafailovici, and Kamenovo are the result of her work. Alisa feeds the animals every day - early in the morning and late in the evening, before and after she goes to her day job. Since Alisa is looking after cats on quite a vast territory, she is a regular visitor of local vet clinics - she brings animals whom she found in critical health conditions after an encounter with a dog or a car accident, ensures they are operated on, and takes care of them after the treatment.

She has eight cats of her own (!), two of which are suffering from Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV). Also, more than ten cats at her place are looking to be adopted.

Details for donation:
- Transfer in euro: 530-0400100152850-67 NLB Bank (Popovic Alisa)
- Transfer in rubles: SBER 2202 2067 8314 5142 (Зайцева Ирина Ивановна)

Also you can help with consumables: pet bowls, diapers, old linen or towels, pet food. Please contact with Alisa via Telegram at +382 69425210

Irina Bogomolova

Irina Bogomolova does the impossible all by herself, that's something we can officially declare. At the time of writing this article, she has 13 animals under her care, all of whom had incredibly harsh early days. Irina found them on the street severely injured, weak from infections, with sick eyes, or completely blind.

Now it's hard to believe that the animals from the shocking pictures and the beauties worthy of a glossy magazine are the same, but they are.

Petite Irina takes care of an unbelievable number of stray and rescued animals, which is too heavy weight for shoulders of one person. She rarely asks for help, and continues to change the lives of poor souls to the better again and again.

She always needs help with:
- pet food,
- medications,
- financial assistance (for vaccination, spaying, surgery and treatment of complex infections).

Details for donation:
- CKB banka: 4174 6550 1197 3818 (Irina Bogomolova)
- SBER card: 2202 2036 0205 4951 (Ирина Богомолова)

If you can help Irina in any way, please contact her in telegram or facebook.

Eugenia T

Eugenia is one of those people with a big heart. She tirelessly helps homeless animals, putting significant effort and compassion. She takes on even the most challenging cases, including treating cats with severe diagnoses like FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) and bottle-feeding multiple tiny newborn kittens.

Eugenia cares for more than ten cats, with new ones joining from time to time, many of whom are undergoing therapy or rehabilitation. The cats in her care need pet food every day. In other cases, medications, surgery costs, and other medical expenses are also required.

Please help our dear Eugenia continue her good work. Any help will be a step towards saving another life.
Details for donation:
- Wise for transfer in euro: https://wise.com/pay/me/denist972- Tinkoff bank: 5536 9140 1964 5153 (Евгения Т)
- FPS Tinkoff: +79290410115
- For crypto transfer: TXLazUVrYL193HZo4hV6DAGzRxBV1QxFBp (network - TRC-20)

You can donate money, food, or medicine by contacting her directly viatelegram.

Svetlana Shabalina.

Svetlana and her husband have been helping homeless animals in Russia for 14 years. After moving to Montenegro, their “scale” increased, because the situation with stray animals here is totally critical.

While having 6 pets at home already, Svetlana does not pass by animals in trouble on the street. Over six months she and her husband have rescued two dogs (that were later sent to adopting parents in Riga and Spain), more than 7 kittens with various health problems, including complex bone fractures, a dog with a broken leg, an abandoned dog with 5 newborn puppies... And this is not to mention spaying and neutering of street cats and feeding a huge number of stray animals.

Details for donation:
- Transfer in rubles by number: +79191411510 (Светлана Ш.)

You can donate money, food, or medicine by contacting her directly via telegram.

You can also help her pay the medical bills for the rescued animals in this topic of our chat - https://t.me/cg_stray/204.

Irina Koroleva and Irina Efremova.

The two Iras, Efremova and Koroleva, joined forces in Herceg Novi to help cats. In just three years (2023-2025), this joint venture has achieved impressive results; just look:

• Spayed - 95 animals.
• Treated/operated on - 50.
• Found a home - 38 cats/kittens, and right now, as you're reading this post, they are warming their bellies on cozy couches all around the world, from Chicago to Paris, from Amsterdam to Podgorica.

The girls take the selection of future owners for their charges extremely seriously, and at the moment they have as many as 9 kittens for adoption between them. This number rarely changes, because the global cat distribution system keeps throwing new poor souls their way 😐 But they don't give up and keep going.

Details for donation:
- Euro: Hipotekarna 4213 5700 0057 0926 (IRINA KOROLEVA)
- For crypto transfer:: network: Tron (TRC-20) USDT: TKZ6AFJvLTrt1FYCojKdynYgd1ZoR4cqEP
- Wise: https://wise.com/pay/me/irinae330

You can donate money, food, or medicine by contacting her directly via telegram.

Nelly Lozinsky

Nelly is a volunteer from Budva who is in charge of 200 cats. This is not a typo, it's not two or twenty, it's two hundred!
Nelly cures and sterilizes stray animals most responsibly, including doing preliminary tests and a quarantine when needed. Please visit her Facebook page and see the happy cats who moved from dangerous streets to loving homes in Europe!
You can support Nelly and her pets with a PayPal transfer to nellylozinsky910@gmail.com or leave cash at the VetMedica clinic in Budva with a comment "for Nelly".

Kotor Kitties

Kotor Kitties is a charity organization that does both stray and home cat spaying in Montenegro free of charge. Besides, the organization popularizes and promotes pet neutering and adoption.

- If you are in Montenegro and willing to help, please take a look at: https://kotorkitties.org/en/inside-montenegro/
- If you are abroad, you can also help here: https://kotorkitties.org/en/outside-montenegro/

Phoenix Dog Shelter.

This shelter in Cetinje is in great need of dog food. For example, Josera or Farmina Fundog are good budget brands.

How to help?
- Donate food in Cetinje by calling +382 69 208 410 - Julija, the founder of the shelter, speaks Montenegrin.
- Buy food at the pet store ZooTropico in the center of Cetinje and leave it there with the message “for shelter Phoenix” or “for Julija Milanovic”. The address of the store is https://goo.su/JYCyP1
- Donate pet food to the shelter representative in Bar/Budva/Cetinje, contact: +38268878784 - Marina (Serbian, Russian, English)

Shelter “Mali i Veliki Raj”.

There are more than 60 dogs and more than 40 cats in the shelter, which are in great need of help: food, finances, adoption…

All details for help, as well as contacts and information for visiting the shelter can be found on their website.