Derek | August 3, 2011
Last week, the NSPCA arrived with a warrant at Happy Yappers (HY) and proceeded to euthanize 5 dogs and removed 122 dogs, 9 cats, 2 hamsters and 2 birds over the next two days. On the one hand, the necessity for an intervention was patent. HY was well over capacity and significantly under-resourced for such [...]
Derek | August 2, 2011
The South African Mass Animal Sterilisation Trust (SA.MAST) has during the past four years repeatedly appealed to the City of Cape Town and Provincial Government of the Western Cape for funding. We have gone to great lengths in our attempts to convince the Western Cape’s governing party, the Democratic Alliance, to provide funding for the [...]
Derek | July 18, 2011
The pictures accompanying the recent reports from Sweet Home Farm in Philippi in the Western Cape said it all: humans taking revenge against animals because a human child was killed by a pack of dogs. Some puppies were tossed on a train track and crushed by a passing train, while others were beaten to death [...]
Derek | May 5, 2011
‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ – Benjamin Franklin As a strategist and problem solver in the Corporate world, I was always somewhat dumbfounded by the degree to which problem-solving was directed rather simplistically at symptoms rather than root causes, effectively only solving part of the problem, or solving it only [...]
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 [...]
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