Help Suffering Animals Get Medical Treatment

2020 has been our most challenging year ever and everyone here at Lanta Animal Welfare will be glad to see 2021. To celebrate the 'ending' of 2020, this report includes 2 happy rescue 'endings' and a few words from our Founder.

Happy Anniversary, Gati

Gati is a very sweet little beauty who has now been in our care for exactly one year.  It has been a successful stay with us as a lot has changed for her.  She was so tiny and sick when she first arrived at our clinic.  She was rescued by our dog catching team during a mobile clinic.  She had been abandoned and left to die.

Gati was seriously malnourished and dangerously underweight, but she is now a strong, chatty, happy cat that loves to play with her doggie pals. And she loves her food! 

Unfortunately, Gati is suffering from feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). You wouldn’t know it to look at her.  Cats with FIV often lead long and normal lives. However her condition will make it a bit difficult for Gati to be adopted as she'll need a forever home environment without any other cats.  We are optimistic that this won't be that big a challenge as many people only want one cat.

Pascal has Recovered

It’s hard to believe this is the same dog that was rescued by our mobile clinic team in late July.  He was in really terrible condition, in a very, very bad way.

He was suffering from a horrific maggot wound on his face and neck. The injury was caused by a dog bite and had become severely infected.  His poor body was suffering due to this inflection.  Our medical team got to work on Pascal and helped his fragile body gain weigh and recover from the massive inflection.

Pascal is now a beautiful, happy dog, full of energy and full of life.

A few words from Junie Kovacs, the Founder 

This definitely has been a challenging year.  With the country locked down and no tourists since March, we’ve had to revamp our animal support services due to no volunteers allowed into the country.  We’re now fostering out animals when they are released from the hospital as there are no volunteers to take care of them.  And with no visitors, there is no hope for their adoption, so these animals are best to wait it out with a foster family. 

Fortunately, this lockdown and the cancelation of tourism hasn’t impacted our rescue mission nor our mobile clinics.  Our full medical team is in place and busier than ever.  We’re doing more rescues and more clinics than ever thanks in part to the support of the GlobalGiving projects.  More lives are being saved and more suffering is being relieved.  You should all be proud of yourselves for helping make this happen.

I look forward to 2021 and if I look real hard, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Things will return to some sense of normal hopefully by mid-year and once again we’ll be welcoming new volunteers and visitors to our Centre.

I wish you and yours all the best for a safe and peaceful 2021.