Derek | March 25, 2011
SO-CALLED ‘BREEDERS’ CAN BE DIVIDED INTO 3 GROUPS: TRUE PROFESSIONAL BREEDERS, COMMERCIAL ‘BREEDERS’, AND ACCIDENTAL ‘BREEDERS’… PROFESSIONAL BREEDERS we need, without them we would lose all the wonderful breeds we have. If all breeders were these, animals would be rarer, more in demand, and more valued by the public. They are generally the people who [...]
Derek | March 18, 2011
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” goes the adage, and it is completely appropriate to the domestic animal welfare scenario in South Africa. The major focus of most animal welfare organisations is on rescuing neglected, abused and lost animals. In the current crisis, where more and more animals arrive daily at [...]
Derek | March 18, 2011
(I like what the Lucky Lucy Foundation is doing. Here is a quick pictorial summary sent to me by Rachelle – animalman) We believe firmly in Rehabilitation, everyone fights us many of the times saying it is better to euthanzae them, but all it takes is time, and yes money but look what we can [...]
Derek | March 16, 2011
(I love any initative that focuses on the root causes of our problems, and sterilisation is one that reduces the number of unwanted animals better than any other strategy – animalman) Well, where do I start? After a very successful outreach in Alicedale on 13 December, we realised the need to follow up with a [...]
Derek | March 9, 2011
The animal community, including the domestic animals in our care and the people who love them, is under siege, and the consequences are in our emails, in the media, and patent to anyone with even a modicum of common sense. The cause of these events are readily apparent to everyone, it seems, except Government: The [...]
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