Canine sailor seeking home

The vessel Ryazanovka revealed a last surprise this week when crew had to surrender their canine crew member, the 12-year-old male Chucha, who spent most of his entire life aboard the trawler. The Walvis Bay SPCA this week confirmed that Chucha' grew up among the rotating crew of the vessel as they made their way from port to port for more than a decade.After the vessel was sold to be scrapped, crew had to disembark in order to return to their home countries. Unable to take the dog along, they surrendered him to the SPCA, hoping to find him a new and loving home. “He is a very friendly and chubby dog, and in the time here he has quickly made friends,” Nolan Cloete, kennel master at the Walvis Bay SPCA said this week. Cloete explained that in recent days a former crew member of the vessel visited the SPCA to check on Chucha, and provided some background to the SPCA on the dog. “He was practically part of the crew and they told us he is not used to living on land. He has lived on the ocean most of his life and because the crew rotates routinely on a ship, he never really had one master, so he quickly gets used to new people,” Cloete added. The Walvis Bay SPCA and pet lovers across the country are now hard at work to find a loving home for Chucha, preferably a home in which Russian is spoken.“He doesn't understand commands in any other language but Russian and he is a bit insecure as he's been removed from his 'home' on the vessel, and has been separated from the people he knew and loved,” a notice shared widely yesterday explained.Anyone interested in helping Chucha find his forever home can contact the Walvis Bay SPCA at 064 204 041.JANA-MARI SMITH

Canine sailor seeking home

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