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		<title>SAPS &#8211; DO YOUR JOBS, Uphold the APA!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, we have featured several cases of neglect and cruelty – Councillor Woods&#8217; dog, who was starved, and her puppies died; Lucky Lucy who escaped with her life after being tied to a railway track; the little fox terrier buried alive, also named Lucky; the horse that was still being used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/23/saps-do-your-jobs-defend-the-apa/</link>
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		<title>Rottie rescued from neglect and abuse</title>
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(Yet another case of neglect makes the headlines, and it&#8217;s too easy to blame the economy or say it&#8217;s an isolated incident. There are too many of these, and the situation is not improving. It&#8217;s time somebody took action, since clearly our SAPS do not intend to.  &#8211; animalman)
&#60;&#60;Hi there,
Yesterday I was  on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/14/maggie/</link>
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		<title>How can I help?</title>
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It&#8217;s a question I get often, and there are so many ways you can help that it&#8217;s truly easy to get involved. Every time you take action in even the smallest way, you add your efforts to those of others, and together we can start moving this mountain that is the domestic animal crisis:

Tell others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/12/how-can-i-help/</link>
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		<title>Highveld Ridge SPCA Inspector Saves Dog From Slow Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(It&#8217;s great when the public respond to situations, and it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/08/highveld-ridge-spca-inspector-saves-dog-from-slow-death/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Poisons 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American SPCA has published the TOP 10 Pet Toxins of 2009- and here they are:
1. Human Medications
For several years, human medications have been number one on the ASPCA&#8217;s list of common hazards, and 2009 was no exception. Last year, the ASPCA managed 45,816 calls involving prescription and over-the-counter drugs such as painkillers, cold medications, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/03/top-ten-poisons-2009/</link>
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		<title>Lucky Lucy&#8217;s Narrow Escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/02/01/lucky-lucys-narrow-escape/</link>
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		<title>Do the SAPS know about the APA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(We have a serious problem when the police, the people assigned the duty of upholding the law, seem to look the other way when it comes to animals. Whether it is in ignoring the lawbreakers who light fireworks in the presence of animals, or obvious abuse in the cased detailed below, it seems the rule [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/01/25/do-the-saps-know-about-the-apa/</link>
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		<title>DA abandons animals and it&#8217;s constituency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(There are some tough women working in animal welfare in South Africa, and they don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2010/01/18/da-abandons-animals-and-its-constituency/</link>
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		<title>Learning with the Dog in KZN Midlands!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funda Nenja, a township dog training initiative, started in Mpophomeni Township, outside Howick, KZN, in July 2009, has taken us all by storm.   A tentative trickle of about a dozen people with their dogs came to the first class.   Week by week the numbers have grown until by the end of 2009 they average around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2009/12/17/learning-with-the-dog-in-kzn-midlands/</link>
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		<title>Helping in the Townships &#8211; One step at a time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Our members come from far and wide and belong to varied organisations, and the article below came to me from Linda-Louise, with whom I worked a couple of years ago on the Husky Rescue project in Port Elizabeth, via Michelle, with whom I communicate on a regular basis. It&#8217;s good to see how the Township [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2009/12/15/helping-in-the-townships-one-step-at-a-time/</link>
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