Hope for Homeless Animals

A Light in the Darkness for Homeless Animals in South Africa

Animal Outreaches: Valencia

Derek | February 6, 2012

Valencia this was a rough long outreach for the team 567 dogs 55 puppies and 1 cat. No Animals removed. The rural township outreach starts to get bigger now as most of the seasonal work is over so unemployment is high, which means more people bring dogs. The ticks and fleas on this outreach were [...]

TAWI: Toughing it out in the Transkei

Derek | February 6, 2012

(I sat down with Richard Norton for two hours last week when he came up to Joburg to get supplies. He’s the kind of person one thinks of when the term ‘salt of the earth’ is used, just a very good person who has taken on the most impossible odds. This man and his team [...]

The Miracle Cat

Derek | February 1, 2012

Recently we came across this poor feral cat, on the premises of Vodaworld in Midrand.  We have been asked to trap and sterilize the feral colony living there and we have already sterilized a number of ferals and taken in several kittens. We could see that something was seriously wrong with her and fortunately we [...]

Dorette & Co: A Force for Fostering and Sterilisation

Derek | February 1, 2012

(Just this last week, Dorette and Theo have had to deal with a ‘complainant’ who seems to be invisible since Council will not tell us who they are, and the narrow-minded by-laws have been used once again as leverage, the arbitrary pet limit laws coming to the fore. My argument has always been that these [...]

Veterinarians for Animal Welfare in Zimbabwe (VAWZ) Update

Derek | January 16, 2012

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the very generous folk who have given us so much support in both cash, kind, and their time throughout the past year. We have held five fund-raising events recently  all of which have been very successful not just in terms of raising much needed funds, [...]