Reports on Rescue, Re-home and Manage Stray Animals in Nepal

Project Report | Apr 2, 2024
A Happy Puppy and A Happy Community

By Ravi | Project Leader

Hello Supporters!

It was time for us to up our work and therefore on 10th March our team started the satalite dog neutering campaign where the team go on the road around Nepal to neauter street dogs and free roaming dogs. All these acttivies are funded 100% through indivdual donations - you make this happen!!!

Starting at Kapilvastu Municipality a total of 138 dogs have been neutered Among them, 80 were female dogs and the rest 58 were male dogs. The team then moved to Ramgram Municipality where 143 dogs were neutered in the camp, along with one cat. Among the 143 dogs, 77 were female dogs and the rest 66 were male.

A really successful 2 days and then the team headed back to base for 4 days to re-group and get supplies before moving to the next satalite camp, however the team had a busy 4 days back at base as the clinic was overwhelmed.

First day baco the team responded to twelve rescue calls. For the remaining three days, they performed neutering surgeries for pets that were owned by individuals.

The team neutered 34 pets, 21 of which were dogs and 13 were cats. Out of the dogs, 19 were female and 2 were male. Out of the cats, 11 were female and 2 were male. We have noticed an increase in the number of cat owners who are willing to get their cats sterilized which means our outreach education is working!

One of the cases that stood out was a case of pyometra - an accumulation of pus in the uterus. The owner travelled from Syangja, a neighbouring district to save his dog. The infected uterus weighed nearly 7 kg.

Back on the road headiing east the team setup next in Dharan Sub Metropolitan to continue the annual dog neutering program. It is our eighth intervention in the city. A total of 202 dogs was steraized here before they headed to Ram Dhuni to neuter 250 dogs

The most significantly positive aspect of this camp is that only 5 dogs were found with pyometra. This is a massive decline from our past experiences. We keep our fingers and toes crossed that it remains like this for the next two days of the camp.
The team are still out and about on the road but supplies are getting low, while we travel using public transport and stay in home stays and over low cost accommodation to maximise the number of operations we can perform it still costs around $2,000 to setup a satalite camp and we have funding for about 3 more camps before the bank balance hits zero again and our team must return back to base while we stat fundraising again.
On this note we wanted to let our amazing supporters know that next week Mondya 8th April until 11th April all donations up to the value of $50 will be matched by 50% from GlobalGiving so if you donate to us next week, your donation can steralize 2 dogs rather than 1
Thank you for supporting us,
Namaste

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Nov 22, 2023
Rescue, Re-home and Manage Stray Animals in Nepal

By Vuyo Mngomezulu | Personal Assistant to the CEO

Jul 25, 2023
Strolling the Streets of Nepal

By Ravi | Project Coordinator

Meet Floppy

Hello Our Pawsome Supporters!

It's been a busy few months for our team in Nepal, we have seen a huge increase in emergency rescue and rehab dog's being brought to our attention and so our team jumps into action and heads out to try and save these dogs. Your donations allow us to put fuel in our rescue van and to head out and find these injured, sick and abandoned puppies. We then with your support transfer them back to our clinic where donations fund their emergency treatment which can run into hundreds of dollars as we get many extreme cases, once we save them they stay with us and your donations help us feed and shelter them before they are ready for adoption.

Every puppy that interacts with us must be sterilized and again this is funded by donations, the reason for this is so we can help tackle the huge numbers of dogs on the streets across Nepal, it is such an important step for us.

We had a very generous donation at the start of this year which meant we also were able to run a mass outreach program across satellite camps in Nepal to offer poor families and stray dogs an opportunity for stealization and free anti rabies vaccination. Our team over the past 2 months administered a total of 1,498 anti rabies injections that provides a year's long protection to the dogs. This included 854 male dogs and 644 female dogs with a breakdown of 997 free roaming unowned street dogs, 343 free roaming but owned dogs and 158 owned dogs from poor community members.

We are excited to fundraise to do more of these outreach events as they make a huge difference but also help us get our message out across more communities. Finally I wanted to leave you with just one of the many rescues we had over the last couple of months and photographed above is 'Floppy' a community dog for Bengnas who we found was suffering from Ehrlichiosis, an infection transmitted by ticks.

Floppy's recover has been another rollercoaster for us, she was so weak that we couldn't get food down her for days and it began to look like we might lose her but our team didn't give up and with your donations we was able to fund drips and fluid to aid her recovery and she is now on the mend, she still has a long way to go but things are looking positive - this is one of ten cases we had last month costing us around $23,000 and this was 100% funded through your support and donations so THANK YOU!!!!

Until next time, thank you for being part of our community and project here in Nepal!!

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