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BLANKETBLANKET BINGOBINGO Our last Bingo was fabulous, raising some R2 300! This not only covered the treatment of Siska, a puppy who’s owner is wheelchair-bound, but for many other animals—see pg 2.
OUR NEXT BINGO IS FRI 4 JULY OUR NEXT BINGO IS FRI 4 JULY
7 for 7.30 pm7 for 7.30 pm
@ the George Bowling Club@ the George Bowling Club
Please bring an old Please bring an old BLANKETBLANKET or or
TOWEL for our SPCA dogs! TOWEL for our SPCA dogs!
Delicious home-made soups available plus a cash bar and plenty of good
fun and prizes!
Don’t miss this fun dialogue where various
pets get the chance to ask SPCA vet,
Dr Elke Schwellnus, various important
questions they’d like answered from
itches to stitches, wing clipping to the
pros and cons of ‘snipping’!
Come to the Garden Route SPCA AGM
and hear this talk plus and even ask a
question you might like answered.
Garden Route SPCA AGM GEORGE MUSEUM HALL, entrance Caledon St. 10am, SATURDAY, 19 July
You can renew your membership, enjoy an illustrated report-back
on the work of the past year, get the low-down on your pets’
health concerns and finish up with tea! See you there!
For it is in giving that we receive. Saint Francis of Assisi
Sat 26 July is SPCA
COLLECTION DAY in George.
We’re only allowed two collection days per year… so please give generously.
If you’d like to help on the day, please call Maria for details : 044 878 2819 or 072 245 0111
Will I really be
happier without my
b-b-b#lls?
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Above: Pixie,
the MinPin, is
encouraged to
take her first sip
of water after
her extensive
surgery!
Centre: This
stunningly
beautiful cat
will need a new
home once her
front leg has
repaired.
Thank you so much for saving my precious pup!
“While my fingers were deep inside her
tiny chest, I felt her heart stop!”
Here are 3 stories that will warm your heart...all thanks to those kind
people who support the SPCA and those who have taken out Life or
Medical Care memberships and thereby helped fund these rescues.
“When the Miniature Pincher arrived at the SPCA, I did not think there
was any hope... she’s smaller than a cat and had been run over by a car!”
says Dr Elke Schwellnus, resident vet at the Garden Route SPCA,
George. “Both lungs had collapsed and I was sure her
internal organs were damaged. During emergency surgery I
felt her heart stop! Working at breakneck speed we injected
the drugs needed to get it beating, finished the internal
repairs and stitched her up. We monitored her anxiously…
but the next day she showed signs of pulling through… and
later that week was taken home by her very lucky owner.”
“The cat I’m holding was found with her leg crushed in a
gate. Although she can’t weight bear on her one front paw,
she may well make a full
recovery. She has not been
claimed. So if you want a super
affectionate cat, please adopt
her!” says Elke.
Having delivered two still-born
pups, this little lady was rushed
to the SPCA where Tossie
Botha and Estelle le Roux
managed to save a last pup by
applying CPR to his tiny body!
Look how THIN she is!
What were they thinking when giving them away? Did this Boerboel’s owner imagine that his gardener was going to feed her properly and take her on lovely walks every day? Well, the reality is that she’s been starving and spending her life chained to a tree!
And did the owner of this little pug-daxie cross believe that he would be cuddled and loved and taken to a vet when stress and malnourishment brought on mange?
Unfortunately these are not the only dogs that find themselves given to employees who can’t say NO and can’t afford to care for them!
We find them all too often!
The SPCA asks that owners who can no longer keep a pet to please bring them to the SPCA and NOT give them away!
Inspector Bruyns has fallen in love with the gentle boerboel and is hoping for an equally loving owner to adopt her!
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As a GR SPCA MEMBER you can help prevent unwanted puppies and kittens!
Your entire R100 annual STERILIZATIONS membership fee goes
towards the sterilization of a dog or cat that would otherwise be pro-
ducing unwanted litter after unwanted litter!
Such pups are often born sickly or develop mange after weaning and
are discarded by the owners. Unless sterilized, bitches can be
infected with TVT, a sexually transmitted cancer that is expensive
and very hard to treat!
The R500 000 mass sterilization project that we were awarded by the WC Dept of Agriculture means that 1285 dogs from Borchards and Lawaaikamp will be sterilized… so sterilizations for animals belonging to owners in other underprivileged areas and local pensioners must still carry on! Please help us!
If you can afford more than R100 annually, why not become an ‘ADOPT-A-SPAY’ SPONSOR and contribute monthly?
TO BECOME A MEMBER OR ’ADOPT-A-SPAY’ SPONSOR, please call Yvette 044 878 1990 or email [email protected].
Praat van onbaatsugtige liefde!
Tannie Katriena het haar lewe lank op n plaas op
Geelhoutboom deur gebring. Deur moeilike en goeie
tye het sy haar vyf diere kinders met deernis hanteer.
Ons as die Education Unit het haar een keer per maand
besoek om haar hondjies te dip. Sy het nooit baie geld
gehad nie, maar as sy haar maandelikse toelaag kry, het
sy eers gesorg dat haar diere kinders kos kry. Haar diere
kinders het haar beskerm en niemand kon naby haar
kom nie. Haar honde was haar alles en as sy praat van
hulle het dit geklink asof hulle mense is.
Sy het n baie lang siek bed gehad en as ons daar kom sal
ons altyd die vyf honde met haar aantref op die bed. Sy
is onlangs oorlede met hulle getrou op haar bed. Hulle
was langs die bed toe hulle haar lyk ontdek en wou haar
nog beskerm min het hulle geweet sy is oorlede.
Die familie het ons laat weet om die honde te kom haal
omdat daar geen ander heenkomewas nie. Een van die
honde ‘Killer’ was deur haar seun aangeneem. Ons het
Killer gaan aflaai maar die volgende dag het hy 45 km
ver gehardloop na sy ou huis dit het twee keer gebeur
nadat die seun hom kom haal het. Ons het Killer twee
weke gelede terwyl ons daar verby gegaan het voor
Katriena se huis se deur gekry, met hartseer, vraende oë
waar is my Mammie?
"Ek gaan definitief die R70 pm een doen want julle kyk so mooi na my daxi Peanut ek vertel vir ALMAL hoe skoon is haar hok en al die hokke!!! Julle is AWESOME!!!!!!!"
In response to our Facebook appeal for folks to ‘ADOPT-
A-KENNEL’ at the GR SPCA for R70pm to help us care
for the dogs awaiting adoption in that kennel, we received
this wonderful response from Angelique in Mossel Bay:
Killer waited
in faithful
hope!
Killer has now gone to a loving home! From the photo you’ll see that he was typical of many township
dogs who spend their lives outside with no kennel! If you have an old kennel that you no longer need,
please donate it to the SPCA. We will ensure it goes to a dog in need!
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OFFICE HOURS: Weekdays 9am—4pm
Sat 9am-11am
GEORGE: 044 878 1990
A/H Emergencies: 082 378 7384
MOSSEL BAY:
044 693 0824
A/H Emergencies: 072 287 1761
News of KINDNESS and CRUELTY!
When Senior Inspector Salomé Bruyns arrived at the SPCA last Sunday
afternoon, she found these lads waiting outside the locked gates. They had found a tortoise in Eden Park and not wanting it to be eaten, they walked all the way to the SPCA to hand it in! What kindness!
But on Wednesday 11th June, Inspector Henrico Pypers was called out: children were beating a young Vervet monkey in Eden Park. He found it - but it was dead. Its tail had been cut off! Henrico is busy investigating and will lay a charge. This follows the discovery of two dead monkeys in
the rubbish behind a George supermarket. They had been shot with a pellet gun and one had had its hands removed!
And on Thursday 12th June, the community of Brenton-on-Lake, Knysna, was reeling with shock and disgust following an unspeakable act of cruelty. A well-known resident, dragged his one-year-old ridgeback on a leash behind his black sports car in what appears to be a fit of sadistic anger
after the dog had escaped from his property. Eyewitness saw the animal being lugged mercilessly behind the car and over a speed bump at high speed. When the car came to a stop, they surrounded it in an effort to prevent the owner from continuing the torture. They have laid a charge against the abuser at the Knysna Police. The ridgeback, was taken to the Knysna Veterinary Clinic.
Vervet Monkeys are protected
in terms of the Western Cape
Nature Conservation
Ordinance, 19 of 1974. People
contravening the ordinance
can be fined or receive a
prison sentence.
Call 044 878 1990 (George) or 044 693 0824 (Mosselbaai) to see how you can help.
A wonderful volunteer, Cheryl Joubert, has made up 60 warm fleecy jackets for our SPCA dogs. Snugly comfortable, they promise to last longer than knitted ones.
If you’d like to buy one for YOUR dog, Cheryl will use the money to make more SPCA doggie coats! Sizes are XS/S/MS/M/ML/L/XL and prices range from R50 to R140. To order yours, contact Cheryl on 072 775 9185.
Why not
spend your
67 minutes
helping at
an SPCA?