“I noticed all the cute, cuddly ones were being selected, but he was being overlooked, so I decided I would have him,” Ursula Dalton said. “Here his life is totally different to in Romania.”
Rourke will visit Romania as often as necessary to oversee the sanctuary’s construction. Right now he is working on the acquisition of a piece of land that could sustain a football field-sized shelter.
“It sounds really corny but it just seemed like the right thing to do. I saw the pictures and my heart just melted.”