Trix 4 Animals - Facebook Shelter Cats

Please take a moment to look through me ever increasing Facebook photo album for homeless kittens and cats in South Africa - Mainly the province of Gauteng.

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Trix 4 Animals - Facebook Shelter Dogs

Please take a moment to look through me ever increasing Facebook photo album for homeless puppies and dogs in South Africa - Mainly the province of Gauteng.

Please share this album with your friends and family! ♥

ABUSED 3 legged Staffie - Funds needed

P O BOX 1809 Fourways 2055

Fax:  086 669 6264

Email:merinda@4ourpaws.org.za

Cell: 083-377-3219

052-145-NPO

Web: www.4ourpaws.org.za

25 May 2011

Dear All

We recently came across this poor Staffie in Diepsloot squatter camp. He was shaking terribly and on closer inspection, we realized that he could not stand on his front leg. We took him to our vet, Dr Shelagh Hahn, who confirmed that he had SEVERAL broken ribs and that his front right leg was very badly broken in MANY different places! She also confirmed that whatever happened to him, happened some time ago, so this poor dog had been in the most excruciating pain for who knows how long!

Dr Hahn informed us that the leg was just too badly broken to try and save it and decided to amputate the leg.

 

His ears had also been cut off, most probably a self done job with a knife or scissors. We suspect that he had been used for fighting.

Fortunately this sweet, strong boy made it fine through the operation and is now on the road to recovery! As soon as he has made a full recovery, he is going to need a very good home. Please contact us if you can offer him a home. We urge people not to give their pets to their domestic staff who live in Townships! They simply do not have the finances or transport to provide their animals with health care or veterinary treatments.

We are in desperate need of funds for his medical bills, please help us by making a kind donation or supporting our fundraising initiatives (see below) and please forward this email to all your friends and family? We also desperately need dog and cat food for all our shelter animals.

Thank you and kind regards,

Merinda Brits

 

Banking details:

FOUR PAWS

Nedbank, Fourways

Branch code: 168405, Acc no: 1684110750

DOES ANIMAL AMBULANCE CONTINUE OR DO WE STOP

Helping the sick and abused 24/7

083 241 4452

NPO 2010/012064/08

DOES ANIMAL AMBULANCE CONTINUE OR DO WE STOP

SORRY OUR EMAIL HAS BEEN DOWN GOGGACONNECT FIXED IT TODAY

PLEASE WITHOUT YOUR HELP NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE

This is so urgent and I really don’t know where to turn to anymore.  We really need your help as we have reached 100 dogs but we need a permanent home so that we are able to help these animals. Its all good we have 100 animals that need us but if we don’t have a home we can call our own they will be without one. Please we need to raise R400 000.00 and only with your help is this possible. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

 

    

URGENT!!!!!! This husky urgently needs a home please call us if you would like to open your home to him.

Teabag

Day 1  (6 April 2011) The people moved out and left our friend here to fend for himself. Teabag arrived at animal ambulance yesterday.

Day 12    (17 April 2011)  Not much has changed and not much hair growth as yet but one thing I can say is his spirit is up and his playing and eating well

Day 32 (7 May 2011) Loads and loads of new hair growth but the boy still has a long way to go and its going real slow for Teabag the itching has stopped at least and that can only be good

Mathew came in from Sabokeng township with TVT cancer he has started his chemo last week and is doing well. Vet bills are now standing at R13 000.00 and climbing where do we go for help if we cant ask YOU for help.

5 Kittens are ready for a new home the rest are all black and white……

 

    

If you would like to help Teabag on the road to recovery please support our work with a small donation. Without your support Teabag and many others cant receive our help.

Animal Ambulance has added Sebokeng into our feeding program this will be township number 16. We in need of food and blankets please if you can help as we use 400kg per feeding in the townships. We have enough food for this weeks feeding thank you to everyone that has been helping with this, but not enough for next week please help if you can.

Boot camps available please call us for more info….come and experience how to live with 80 dogs for a weekend.

Credit card facilities also available on the web site.

SMS “HOME”

38114

To donate R10.00

FNB

Animal Ambulance

Acc 62258531089

Branch: 250044

www.animalambulance.co.za

DESPERATE HELP NEEDED 

HOW DO YOU TELL AN ANIMAL 'SORRY WE ARE UNABLE TO FEED YOU TODAY AS SOMEBODY HAS STOLEN ALL THE MONEY' DO THEY UNDERSTAND???? NO!!!!


Hi Guys

... As you may or may not be aware we are a self funding shelter, recently we had the misfortune of our Bank Account been cleaned out by Simpanancash (Indonesian Bank) HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have no idea. As we all know, the bank is busy with the Investigation so we must just WAIT!!!!!
 

 
This has left us in a situation that we are unable to supply food and goodies to the animals in our care or even pay vet bills. We where however, able to receive our  25kg's from Complete Pet. Heila Brophy had delivered blankets and towels.
 
We desperately need:-
 
1) Food wet and dry kitten and adult
2) Cat Litter
3) Funding to enable us to pay our vet bill as we still need to have some inoculated and neutered/spayed.
4) Toys, cat litter trays, bowls, etc
 
If any body is in a position to assist.......  Please contact Zelda or Klaus
(011) 915-0142
 
A VERY "BIG" THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FROM ALL THE FURRY FELINE FRIENDS OF GRABLERS KITTY HAVEN

Name of Account   Grablers Kitty Haven
Bank                     The Standard Bank
Branch Name         Benoni
Branch Code          01 30 42
Account No            043 355 439
Type of Account     Business Current Account
Zelda Grabler

Grablers Kitty Haven
NPO 084 507
(011)915-0142
071 519 2822

Were we give a Feline Friend a 2nd chance to live 9 lives

10 Cats and 15 kittens - Owner unable to look after them!!EXTREMELY URGENT

Hi Everyone

Please see this plea from Neels (082-3983002) who is a pensioner and can’t afford to feed all the kitties let alone sterilise.

If people can offer to foster 2 or 3, we can solve this problem before all these kitties land up at the SPCA in 2 days time.

Regards

Annita Hendriks        

083-6340069

Hi all

I had a call from Neels van Tonder who is a pensioner and lives on a plot in Tarlton.  He has 10 adult cats and 15 kittens that needs rehoming as he was attacked 3 times and shot in the head but survived.  He can no longer take care of the cats.  I spoke to him about the problem of having unsterilized cats and offered to have the adults sterilised at no cost for him provided that he takes them back – but I am not sure if he can afford to keep them.  Please can you network this request for new homes for these animals – Neels’s cell number is 083 398 3002 and he can be contacted directly.  We at FORA is just too full and cannot take in any more cats.  Neels gave us 3 days to network and find new homes for the kittens else he will have to call on the SPCA to assist him.  He cannot send photos of the kittens but he said there are all colours available.

Appreciate help to network this request to try and save some of these kitties.

Regards

Breggie de Beer

FORA shelter manager

TINY NEEDS A HEART OPERATION - PLEASE HELP THIS LITTLE KITTY

Hi Everyone

Tiny was hand reared by Barbara and is now 6 months old.  She desperately needs a heart operation, so she can live a long healthy life.  Please forward her plea to all your animal lover contacts.

Barbara urgently needs to take Tiny in for a series of tests that will cost R900.00 and thereafter Tiny will have to have an operation that has been estimated at between R6,000.00 an R8,000.00.

The vet currently attending to Tiny is Dr R Lobetti at Bryanston Veterinary Hospital, 0117066023 (Jenny).

If you are able to contribute anything (no amount is too small) that will help this little girl become an adult, please make a deposit into the bank account attached (the vet didn’t want to take responsibility for funds received and asked us to do it) and send confirmation to 083-6340069 or annita.hendriks@dsa-arch.com.

This is what Barbara writes:

Tiny needs a heart operation which will cost about R6000.00 to R8000.00. I don't have that kind of money and love her so much (and don't want to give her away). However, I will to someone that wants her and can afford the operation, so that she can live a healthy long life. The vet said if she does not have the operation she will only live about 8 months to 1 year and will die a terrible death. The chamber in her heart did not close when she was born, so now her heart beats too fast and she does not get enough oxygen going though her body. Tiny tries to be a kitten, but gets tired and out of breath very quickly.  She was so small that she could not reach her mom to feed, so I used to sit on the floor and hold her up to the nipple so she could drink.  She fought so hard to live, even with the other kittens pushing her away, she came back fighting.  She is a lovely girl and needs a chance to live.
Thanks, Barbara and Tiny

You can contact Barbara on 074-1067707 or bavd@telkomsa.net, alternatively you can contact Annita on 083-6340069 or annita.hendriks@dsa-arch.com. Tiny is situated in Alberton, Johannesburg.

UPDATE:

Hi Everyone

Tiny had her first round of tests and scan on the 3^rd of May.  Dr Lobetti determined that she has a small hole in her heart between the top two chambers.  He wants to run more tests in a few weeks to see whether the hole is getting bigger or smaller, before “fiddling” with her as he put it.  In the meantime he has told Barbara to treat her the same as a human with a heart condition – she has to take it easy.

Thank you to everyone for the contributions received to date.  We received R1,800.00 so far and have used R900.00 of this for her first scan and tests.  She needs to be sterilised as she has gone on heat.  This will have to be done through Dr Lobetti, as she needs to be monitored carefully due to her condition.  We are waiting for a quote from him.

All the best

Annita, Barbara & Tiny

083-6340069

Now what hug can be better than this???

-"Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you." Jacques Prevert 

-"A hold-me hug in the ocean can make you feel all safe...until the dry-me hug, later, takes the shivers away." Steve Wiesinger, from The Little Book of Hugs 

-"A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms." unknown author 

-"Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism." Leo Buscaglia 

-"A silent hug means a thousand words to an unhappy heart." unknown author 

- "Hugging closes the door to hate." Tony Davis 

Please help Trixie and Deano find a new loving home

PLEASE NETWORK THESE BEAUTIFUL MUCH LOVED DOGS - YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS MASTER OF YOUR FATE !!! 

So dear friends

Please read this and also circulate as far and wide as possible.

We are desperately looking for a kind home for Deano who is a Jock of the Bushveld look alike and Trixie, the Jack Russell - if necessary, even a temporary stay to buy us time would also be gratefully received. Deano and Trixie are like brother and sister (except in looks) so it would be sad to separate them BUT if they have to part .......... a home for one is better than a home for neither! Photos are attached.

Their tale of woe goes like this:

"We are two loving, healthy dogs who have lived our seven years with a happy and caring family including two children who have been much a part of our lives - so, we are also used to children.

As you know, life brings with it the unexpected and very sadly my master and mistress have chosen to part ways. Our mistress is now living in a one bedroom apartment and our master in a small cluster with a very teeny garden
- you can see me, Deano, in the one photo behind the gates waiting, waiting and hoping for his return at the end of the day. It is lonely here as our master works long hours and even though he does love us, we have heard him say that he cannot keep us any longer .........OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED - WE CAN NOW COUNT THEM ON OUR TOES ...1,2,3!

We are happy, intelligent dogs, wanting only to oblige and make happy. Since we are both seven we are quite sensible really but we still have lots of years in which to bring pleasure to some special person or family who may be kind enough to love us in return. Please think about me and little Trixie - we promise, if you offer us a home, we will return your love a million times over! We cross our paws and hope not to die! "

Please call me as soon as possible if you think you can help these dogs - my cell no. is 082 929 1604. I shall also be most grateful.

With thanks
Eileen Chapman

Barking Mad (DogTown) and Claw Birthday Fundraiser

Wolmer - Walk a Dog FUN DAY - 04 June 2011

SPCA Randburg Dog Walk & Family Fun Day 29 May 2011

KOSTER SCHOOL PIGEON SHOOTING UPDATE

Apparently the Koster School is allegedly ridiculing the animal activists who tried to stop the pigeon shooting that took place on the 13th and 14th May 2011.

Paula Klaasen, one of the organisers of the competition mocked the animal activists by stating that she got all dressed up with make up for all the newspapers / television / radio journalists who "would" be attending to try stop the event and stated that all that effort was for nothing. 

The animal activists against this killing are already starting to work on plans to prevent this annual event from taking place in 2012.

Champ: Blind Puppy, Highly Senstive Case Needing a very SPECIAL HOME!!!!

Good morning fellow animal lovers

Champ is in JHB but he can be flown free of charge to any city in South Africa so if you can offer this special little dog a loving home please phone Estelle who is fostering him in JHB at 0761554439 / 0765919905. 

I have spoken to Estelle (the foster mommy in JHB) and it is not necessary for him to be homed together with his little sister (although it will be nice if they do get homed together).  Champ will be fine without his little sister as long as whoever fosters him is at home most of the time.

Regards

Estelle Timms

Reasons to Adopt a shelter animal

Reasons why you should adopt from rescue shelters rather than buying from breeders or pet shops.

Please take the time to read this case for adopting from rescue shelters, or at the very least, please share this with everyone you know. We need to stop the murdering of innocent animals because the people who they trust have let them down. Yes it may hurt you to read it but your pain is brief and emotional. Their pain is very real and continuous and in most cases will end in their death. They rely on those who “own” them to do right by them. Their lives hang in the balance. We MUST educate those who are ignorant and punish those who are cruel and selfish. Taking a stand has never been more important than right now. DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

A Letter from a Shelter Manager

Hate me if you want to. The truth and reality hurts. I just hope I may have changed one persons mind about breeding their dog or cat, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this and it made me want to adopt". THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT

I think our society needs a huge "Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will.

First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know.

That puppy or kitten you just sold or gave away will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little plaything anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that your dog or cat will never walk alive out of the shelter it has been dumped in?  Purebred or not! About 50% of all the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays" that come into my shelter are purebred.

The most common excuses I hear are; "We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets? Did you really not enquire beforehand?

They say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would". How big did you think a German shepherd would get?

"We don't have time for her". Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!

"She's tearing up our garden". How about making her a part of your family?

They always tell me "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her. We know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog". Don’t kid yourself. Face reality : you have just signed her death warrant. Live with that !!

Odds are your pet won't get adopted and how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies.

Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (Pit Bull, Rottweiler, Bull Mastiff, Bull Terrier etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted. It doesn't matter how 'sweet' or 'well behaved' they are.

If your dog doesn't get adopted within 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will have to be killed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long. Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are killed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be killed because shelters just don't have the money to pay for even a R 100 treatment.

Here's a little euthanasia for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down"

First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always think they are going for a walk, wagging their tails happily. Until they get to "The Room", where every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by one or two helpers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff". Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves. Kittens and puppies’ veins are too tiny for a needle so the executioner carries out death by lethal injection by thrusting the needle straight through the sternum into what they hope is the little beating heart. Sometimes they miss and hit the spleen.... the liver. Enough said. And don’t let anyone tell you they don’t do this to baby dogs and cats. THEY DO!! THERE IS NO CHOICE.

When it’s all over, your pet’s corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back together with all of the other animals that were killed, waiting to be collected like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Turned into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head. I deal with this everyday on the way home from work. And many of us become alcoholics to drown the nightmares.

I hate my job, I hate that it exists and I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter. Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are good homes.

The point to all of this?          

Don’t buy a puppy or kitten from breeders or pet shops while shelter pets die.

Don’t breed your dog or cat. Have her sterilised.

You want your dog or cat to have just one litter for your children to witness the miracle of birth? Then you should be prepared to complete their education by allowing them to witness the miracle of death in the backroom of a shelter.

You never have a problem finding good homes for your puppies or kittens? Visit them six months later to see what happened to them. Still there? Lonely and neglected in a backyard or a happy part of the family and allowed to sleep inside?

When you are old, don’t adopt a puppy or very young dog when there is a good chance that they will outlive you. Rather give an older cat or dog a peaceful home.

Don’t acquire a pet on a spur of the moment or give in to the demands of a whining child. Dogs can live twelve to sixteen years depending on breed, cats up to twenty years. Where will you be fifteen years from now? Taking pets with you when emigrating is not an option because of endless quarantine and costs.

Don’t ever “rescue” a puppy from a man standing on a street corner. By paying him you encourage puppy factories and hamper efforts by animal charities to sterilize township dogs. And what do you do afterwards? Give it to a charity, only to be killed in the end? Or keep it and deprive a shelter dog of a home?

Missing Guide Dogs Clubview / Valhalla, SOUTH AFRICA

Hi to all of you

Please send this to anyone you know in the Centurion area.

My Guide-Dog Wotan went missing on Saturday 30 April, at Around 11h30, from 31 Wag 'n Bietjie Avenue, Clubview. He was with our pet Labrador, Shadow.

Wotan is a 5 year old male golden retriever. He has a tag with my contact details as well as that of SA Guide-Dogs. He is also micro chipped. Most vets should be able to scan this chip.

Shadow is a 13 year old yellow Labrador (picture attached). She was temporally wearing my previous dog's (Haig),  collar.

Please contact me if you hear of anything. I am desperate to find them.

Kind regards

Robert Vernon

Performance Improvement Consultant

Learning and development

Momentum Employee Benefits

Centurion

Tel        +27 (0)12 673 7436

Cell       +27 (0)82 851 8601

E-mail  rvernon@momentum.co.za