Gabriel - A Brave and Special Soul

I should not be here. I should not have survived.

I am just a puppy—no more than 6 or 7 months old—yet already I have known pain no living soul should endure. A kind holidaymaker found me curled up on the ground, broken and bleeding. My body was covered in wounds, and one small leg hung, badly broken. I was weak. Helpless. So utterly alone.

But that woman… she didn’t turn away. She gathered me gently into her arms, held me close, and carried me to a local vet. She paid for the operation to mend my shattered leg. She covered the bills to treat my wounds. She saved my life. But the very next day, she had to fly home. And just like that… I was alone once more.

That’s when my puzzle of survival began to take shape.

A local angel, *Bahar Aygun*, heard about me at the vets. She shared my story on Facebook, begging—pleading—for someone to help me. The post was shared far and wide. And then, thousands of miles away in the UK, a phone beeped.

*Vivienne*—who had already adopted from PRS—saw my broken little face. She sent a message to Tanya, the PRS Adoption Coordinator:

“Is there anything you can do to save him?”

From that moment on, PRS refused to let me go.

Tanya immediately reached out to Jackie, PRS’s Social Media Manager. Together they started piecing together the fragments of my story. Tanya, who once lived in Turkey and speaks fluent Turkish, left audio messages for Bahar. At the same time, Jackie was messaging her too. Slowly, painstakingly, the pieces fit together—until finally, they discovered where I was. I was lying in a veterinary clinic in North Cyprus.

But then came another heartbreak.

Politics. Dogs like me cannot travel directly from the Turkish side to the Greek side where PRS have trusted volunteers that could have helped me. That meant I would need to go from North Cyprus to Istanbul, then on to Larnaca, and only then could I make my way to the UK. Complicated. Risky. Exhausting. And I was so very fragile.

But Tanya and Jackie would not give up. Tanya started researching and contacted *North Cyprus Pet Travel Charity*—and that’s when another angel appeared: *Stephanie*, its founder. She had already helped countless rescues before, and she promised to help me too. She offered a better way: I could fly to Istanbul, stay one night at a processing centre, and then travel directly to Heathrow.

But I wasn’t ready yet. I needed four months of healing—time for blood tests, vaccinations, and paperwork. I needed somewhere safe to stay. And again, another piece of my puzzle clicked into place. Stephanie reached out to *Sertap*, a kind woman in North Cyprus who fosters rescue dogs. And she said yes. She opened her heart and her home to me.  I will be transferred from the veterinary clinic to her home on the 25^th of this month.

One by one, angels carried me forward. The holidaymaker who first lifted me up. Bahar’s desperate plea. Vivienne’s message of hope. Tanya and Jackie’s determination. Stephanie’s guidance. Sertap’s safe haven.  With constant ongoing support from Stephanie.

Piece by piece, my puzzle is being completed.

But one piece is still missing.

I need a family. A forever home where I will be safe, loved and protected. A place where nothing will ever hurt me again.

Even though my body still hurts and my heart is unsure if I’m truly safe, I’m trying so hard to find the courage to wag my tail again—because deep down, all I want is to feel loved, safe, and free from pain.

My name is *Gabriel*. Tanya gave me this name. She told me she chose it because I was meant to survive—that one day she would hold me in her own arms and come to meet me and whisper that all the pieces the team had been working on to put me back together forever were finally complete.  That I would be loved and my life would be full of kindness instead.

Will you be that last piece of my story? Will you give me the home that I should have always started out with?

With love and hope,

Gabriel

*Follow my story on our social media where you can watch my journey of recovery via my special reels and videos that our team are putting together.    You will see that as time goes by, my little tail wags will become more confident and happy as I begin to trust the world again.