Hope for Homeless Animals

A Light in the Darkness for Homeless Animalsin South Africa

Learning with the Dog in KZN Midlands!

animalman | December 17, 2009

Funda Nenja, a township dog training initiative, started in Mpophomeni Township, outside Howick, KZN, in July 2009, has taken us all by storm.   A tentative trickle of about a dozen people with their dogs came to the first class.   Week by week the numbers have grown until by the end of 2009 they average around [...]

Helping in the Townships – One step at a time…

animalman | December 15, 2009

(Our members come from far and wide and belong to varied organisations, and the article below came to me from Linda-Louise, with whom I worked a couple of years ago on the Husky Rescue project in Port Elizabeth, via Michelle, with whom I communicate on a regular basis. It’s good to see how the Township [...]

Sad, but True…

animalman | December 8, 2009

(The essay below came to me at the end of a harrowing period for the writer, one in which I felt powerless to help in any concrete fashion. It is s story that is repeated weekly and the Animails are full of the consequences of a combination of economic and social woes – to say [...]