He was found by a walker who took him to a private rescue centre, Valentina who runs it is well known there for taking in strays and abandoned and neglected dogs and cats and works with some contacts in Germany to find homes for them in western Europe, which is how we found out about him.
Two weeks ago a volunteer in Frankfurt flew to Moscow to bring him over, another then drove him down to another volunteer in the south of Germany, where we collected him from.
He's about 5 months old and a real charmer, our 2 Rottis took to him immediately, Kyra (typical bitch) can be quite jealous but I think her maternal instinct has kicked in and Dylan, well he just loves everybody and everything anyway and follows the little fella around offering him toys to play with.
He's already very mobile but I'm working on a harness with an aluminium frame to take a couple of front wheels and he should be even more mobile pretty soon. We have an old babies buggy to take him the 200m or so to the stable, but the first time we tried it he jumped out after 10m and hopped and slid the rest of the way there, desperate to keep up with the other dogs. At the moment we are training him to walk on his back legs with the use of a harness with a handle, we sort of carry him along to get his back legs working and he really enjoys this work.
Here's a few pics of him, starting when he was first rescued in Russia, you can see how ill he was, and then some here on the farm. I will be bringing him into Zurich and to some events next year, and the few of you here who have already met him will confirm, he will soon have captured many more hearts.
and a little video of him the first time he came to the stable with us, he's desperate not to be left alone!