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		<title>Animal Outreaches: Valencia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/02/06/animal-outreaches-valencia/</link>
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		<title>TAWI: Toughing it out in the Transkei</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I sat down with Richard Norton for two hours last week when he came up to Joburg to get supplies. He&#8217;s the kind of person one thinks of when the term &#8216;salt of the earth&#8217; is used, just a very good person who has taken on the most impossible odds. This man and his team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/02/06/tawi-toughing-it-out-in-the-transkei/</link>
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		<title>The Miracle Cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/02/01/the-miracle-cat/</link>
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		<title>Dorette &amp; Co: A Force for Fostering and Sterilisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Just this last week, Dorette and Theo have had to deal with a &#8216;complainant&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/02/01/dorette-co-a-force-for-fostering-and-sterilisation/</link>
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		<title>Veterinarians for Animal Welfare in Zimbabwe (VAWZ) Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/01/16/veterinarians-for-animal-welfare-in-zimbabwe-vawz-update/</link>
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		<title>NO second chance for NUNU.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent letter to the Booysens SPCA from Andrea Marais-Potgieter: I am a monthly supporter of the SPCA as well as a sporadic supporter (the funds I contributed for the Melville cart horses as only one example) but must say that I am devastated about the experience I had with Booysens SPCA last year. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/01/16/no-second-chance-for-nunu/</link>
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		<title>Mass Sterilisation in Townships, Animal Outreaches Style&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a township outreach a couple of years back and over 500 animals were treated. I want to try and motivate every one to help with the largest township sterilising campaign we have ever attempted. The townships Shamrock / Fitches Corner / Bossies Camp and Moses Madeba all very poor townships with far too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2012/01/16/mass-sterilisation-in-townships-animal-outreaches-style/</link>
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		<title>OBP Horse Update &#8211; URGENT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Some years ago, I was involved in the rescue of the Onderstepoort Biological Products horse slaughter campaign, which resulted in slaughter being taken off the table and a committee was formed to make decisions concerning the future welfare of the horses and attempt to find them homes. This is an urgent appeal from Hayley of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2011/12/13/obp-horse-update-urgent/</link>
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		<title>Will this ever stop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Mike Kerr in Umtata Some days I just cant find the words to explain the pain I go through when you find an animal in this condition. Some days I don&#8217;t know why I do this because its never going to stop. This little guy was picked up on Friday just outside Umtata, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2011/11/06/will-this-ever-stop/</link>
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		<title>Face to Face with PIT BULLS: The Real Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this recently and I heard subsequently that it had been cited in a radio program: Ten Commandments of Pit Bull Ownership Thou shalt NEVER trust thy Pit Bull not to fight Thou shalt contain thy Pit Bull securely when not supervised by an adult Thou shalt NEVER leave thy adult Pit Bull alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hopeful.ws/2011/10/25/face-to-face-with-pit-bulls-the-real-deal/</link>
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