Hope for Homeless Animals

A Light in the Darkness for Homeless Animals in South Africa

Wollies Animal Project Pretoria

Derek | April 13, 2012

(This is another post featuring people who work in relative anonymity and do a great job without very much marketing and fanfare – and Cilla focuses on sterilisation and education, so she is investing in the future of animal welfare – her efforts are making a sustainable difference. Nice job, Cilla!) Since 2003 I have [...]

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 [...]