Hope for Homeless Animals

A Light in the Darkness for Homeless Animalsin South Africa

Highveld Ridge SPCA Inspector Saves Dog From Slow Death

animalman | February 8, 2010

(It’s great when the public respond to situations, and it’s even better when the animal escapes what would have been a slow and agonising death. What kind of person does this to an animal? In my opinion they should be behind bars, since they are a threat to society. I would like to point out [...]

Lucky Lucy’s Narrow Escape

animalman | February 1, 2010

(Often, it is only a series of fortuitous events that leads to the discovery of cruelty, and this may well have gone unnoticed had it not been for the chance meeting of rescue workers with an unknown man. In many cases, it is only rescue workers that stand in the gap between cruelty and justice, [...]

DA abandons animals and it’s constituency

animalman | January 18, 2010

(There are some tough women working in animal welfare in South Africa, and they don’t come any tougher than Nikki Botha. Here is a copy of her recent response to some of the weakest justifications I have ever seen from a political party. If you want to see the letter from Geordin Hill-Lewis that prompted [...]