How a retired Edmonds entrepreneur is utilizing tech to assist dogs and cats in Ukraine

EDMONDS, Wash. — Soon after investing his career functioning with tech, Dan Fantastic is continuing to place his competencies to great use in retirement addressing a crisis throughout the world.

Good is investing his retirement acquiring strategies to use technology to help abandoned animals in war-torn places of Ukraine.

“I just considered, how do we apply know-how, great outdated Seattle technologies and know-how to be equipped to aid with this larger dilemma,” he reported.

Fine is just again from his 2nd journey to Europe helping rescue the missing animals of Ukraine.

Fantastic at first went to wander canines, clear cages and support out as very best he could at community shelters very last spring, but on his return this summer time he realized a great deal a lot more required to be done.

“We have to have to go large on this issue,” he said.

All through his newest journey to Ukraine, Fine observed shelters housing 3,000 canine and heading via 1.5 tons of meals each and every day.

Dogs are living in deserted residences and bombed-out properties with no one particular to care for them.

Veterinarians are performing in squalid circumstances in makeshift clinics to keep the animals alive with the hope they’re going to one particular working day be reunited with their family members, or adopted.

“What you see there is absolutely heartbreaking,” explained Good. “I just consider to myself, how can I preserve all these animals, and I know I can not.” 

There are concerning one and two million deserted canine and cats in Ukraine.

During Fine’s short time there, his team vaccinated, sterilized and chipped 5,500 of them.

But which is a drop in the bucket.