On February 20, 2026 when I first saw Arik, he had no owners. A vet in ФИЗИО сlinic in Knyazhevo asked me about his age, and registred me as an owner – “СОБСТВЕНИК”, because the poor dog was not at vet for last seven (7!) years, completely neglected due to illness of his mistress, and later due to complete abandonment of the heirs of the property. He was sitting in the garden in the rotten crate, chained, fed “sometimes” by the tenants of the house.
Effectively I was first person in seven years who cared about his health, and was willing to adopt him. When I paid for his extended blood text, I was registered as an “owner”, when I paid for his anti-vorm treatment, I was an “owner”. When I paid for his antibiotics treatment, I was “an owner”. When I paid in advance for his vaccination, and vet passport I was an “owner”, but when it was time to issue the passport, the heiress (see Family chapter in Menu) showed up and claimed her “righs.”

Suddenly another vet of the clinic ФИЗИО has removed my name from the clinic records, and inscribed as “owner” Zlatimira Ninova Colova, who failed Arik in every possible way!
I paid €460 for treatments of a stray dog, receiving bills, where my name was inscribed as an “owner”, but when the vet passport was issued, it was issued on the name of a person who didn’t pay a cent! Moreover, she complained about the dog of her late aunt as a burden, and collected donations among colleagues to feed it, because she didn’t wish to pay for the food of the dog herself.

Can Colova claim the ownership? (See the correspondence below)

– Colova can’t claim what her mother didn’t posess. After the death of Galina M. nobody cared to take Arik to a vet to claim the ownership. Noboday cared to claim the ownership at Municipality (СТОЛИЧНА ОБЩИНА). Nobody paid taxes, although Arik was not sterilised, and in this case the owner was not exempted from payment of taxes until February 11, 2025 when Arik was sterilied in a shelter as a stray dog. 

Marjana C. didn’t claim ownership of her sister’s dog, she didn’t take him to a vet after December 2021, she surrenderd Arik four years later on January 31, 2025 to a shelter for free sterelisation following the Sofia municipality programme for stray. Afterwards the dog was released to his “habitat” – the rotten crate in the garden. 

If Marjana C. was an owner, as her daughter Zlatimira pretends, she should have paid fines for four years of failure of her duty to vaccinate the dog for a period from her sister’s passing away in December 2021 to January 31, 2025 when she surrendered the dog a stray to a shelter.

In Bulgaria, owners are legally required to have their dogs vaccinated annually against rabies, registered with a veterinarian, and microchipped. Failure to comply can lead to fines, which, for issues like exceeding the allowed number of pets, can reach up to 1,000 Lev (approximately €500).

(See MENU above chapter LAW).

CONCLUSION:  Colova scam includes:

• false pretences of ownership;
• backdating documents/claims;
• identity fraud.