Szent Ferenc Animal Shelter Foundation
Szent Ferenc Animal Shelter Foundation
Adoption
About us
Its founder, Ms Henriett Merza, when asked about her activity in the 1980s and 1990s, always fervently protested against being called a shelter. For her, and probably for the average Hungarian person as well, the notion of a dog shelter conjures up images of distressed dogs locked up in small kennels, waiting desperately for a miracle to happen: somebody releasing them from their prisons. In contrast, in Ms Merza’s “home”, located in the forest of Ócsa presented quite a different picture: a large, fenced-in area with a rustic farm house, with a great many kennels scattered around the place, and lots of waggly tailed dogs – big and small, male and female –all in the same place, together. read more…