Hope for Homeless Animals

A Light in the Darkness for Homeless Animals in South Africa

Yappers: A Second Opinion…

Derek | September 22, 2011

(The Happy Yappers saga continues, with much gnashing of teeth from animal lovers who have condemned HY without so much as a single question as to the legitimacy of the NSPCA actions, media coverage, and subsequent pressure, not to mention the fact that such condemnation would rest on a single opinion, prejudiced by a personal [...]

HAPPY YAPPERS press release: rationality rather than trial by media…

Derek | September 16, 2011

(Ever since I was a little boy, I have hated bullies, and it seems I have been fighting them ever since. When a large organisation acts imperiously and with impunity and has an unconstitutional law on its side, the bullying becomes even worse. This is far from over…) To assist our community in understanding the [...]

Lucky Lucy Sterilization Campaigns

Derek | September 15, 2011

(Sterilisation is the way we mould the future of animal welfare, and one of the best is the Lucky Lucy Foundation..) We work ourselves to the dog gone bones during our Mass Sterilization campaigns – and we have successfully sterilized nearly 80 dogs in Kalkfontein since we started working there in June and this all [...]

Unsung Heroes: Linda Roodt of Clairwood

Derek | September 14, 2011

(Linda Roodt is another ‘unsung hero’, who goes about her work quietly and yet makes a difference in many animals’ lives…) In the area around back streets of Clairwood there is poverty and as well as this in a lot of cases just total disregard for the animals’ welfare. 16 years ago I started driving [...]

AACL: Cleary Park SPAYATHON

Derek | September 14, 2011

(AACL PE – need I say more?) Well, it really was all systems go at our Cleary Park Centre on the weekend of the 3rd September and we managed to sterilise 55 animals over the two days.  AACL is truly blessed to have such a wonderful team of volunteers, who simply mucked in, got their [...]