WELCOME, DOGBLOG GUESTS
On this blog, you will find some happy stories, some fun content and some very sad facts.
I hope that by reading these truths, you will be angry enough to be more proactive in order to curtail animal abuse, neglect and cruelty?
WHAT WE CAN DO
1) STERILIZE YOUR PETS
There are too many suffering and unwanted animals in this world, all of which deserve a good, loving home. The statistics of euthanased, unwanted animals are horrific. Approximately 20 tons of euthanased animal bodies where dumped in the first 3 months of 2002 and this figure is increasing rapidly. Don't play a role in these Stats! Every puppy or kitten that is brought into this world will either directly or indirectly , they will either become an orphan OR take a potential home away from an orphan. So please STERILIZE.
Lets also take into consideration those stray cats at your office. Speak to your local shelter and raise funds from the office park tenants to have them sterilized too.
2) DO NOT BUY FROM PETSHOPS OR BACKYARD BREEDERS
These people are puppy mills (please see my link). They don't care about animals; animals are a source of income to them. Who cages and the sells their animals to anyone who has the money anyway!?! Unspeakable cruelty occurs behind the schemes.
a) Buying creates a supply and demand situation.
b) There are millions of animals on death-row at shelters just waiting to love you and protect you and be good doggies, if you give them that second and probably last chance, please (woof woof) don't let them down, they will never let you down.
3) TAKE YOUR BLINKERS OFF
That doggie you see that is sad, hungry and thin will not be rescued by the next guy. In fact in all probability he will not live through the next week.
The next guy is not an animal lover (we are very few) and even if he is he too will say the next guy will rescue him. Take your blinkers off and PLEASE RESCUE THE ANIMAL, you are its only chance. If you cannot re-home him yourself ask one of the Pro-Life shelters to help you.
4) FEED THE HUNGRY
Animals at shelters do not only need a good home and love; they need food, shelter, medication and caring people to look after them. This can't be done on love and fresh air they are in constant need support i.e. funds, food donations, blankets, volunteers, especially the smaller Pro-Life shelters (please see a few of them in my links) as they do not have the exposure and support that the bigger ones do. You can also visit http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com. This is a site where you can feed a hungry animal just by clicking. I would love to get something similar running in South Africa, so if any of you know of companies or individuals who could pay to advertise on such a website, please let me know. I am also looking for other idea's to raise funds for these shelters i.e. sms competitions etc. Again if anyone could assist with sponsorship, ideas, projects or advice. The animals and I would be GRATEFUL FOR LIFE, and I mean that in every possible way.
Thank you for visiting and thank you for caring. It is you and I who will make this world more bearable for our abused, scared, hurt, hungry, cold, unloved babies.
Who ever said that small groups can't do great things, we are the only ones who ever do
Until then email me and keep visiting DOGBLOG and my great links.
Much love
Davina
davinahg@gmail.com
082 549 5177
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
In memory of any dog (original version by M. Consuelo Polo Delgado).
This is not for you, beautiful specimen,
showing your shiny fur in dog food commercials.
This is not for you, gorgeous felt puppy,
which everybody likes.
This is for you, bunch of bones, dog without owner
skitish, walking across the tracks of my country, Spain.
This is for you, hunting dog,already old,
lost your sense of smell,
your owner decided not to share with him your useless old age,
your life ended with a good shot.
You were not so lucky,
they did not want to waste a cartridge,
were abandoned in the open country,
your agony was long, painful, a trap trapped you.
This is for you, shepherd dog,
fellow in a thousand of suns and stars,
maybe the happiest.
This is for you, involuntary kamikaze,
blown up in pieces, victim and innocent accomplice of the wickedness of man against man.
This is for you, my friend,
that in your endless goodness
move your tail to the one who inoculates youwith a lethal virus or cuts off a limb in the experimentation bench of a hospital.
This is for you, poor abandoned dog,
from door to door, begging for some food,
your insistent tenderness bothered someone,
so you appeared one chilly morning with your body riddled with bullets.
This is for you, shelter dogs,
piled up waiting for an adoption,
without pedigree,the human vanity does not want you.
This is for you, already just a skin smashed on the road.
For you all, my heart cries!
[Posted by: Davina at 10:01 am]
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