Animal Welfare India Project #45945

Help our Animal Hospital Survive Covid-19 Crisis

by Tree Of Life For Animals (TOLFA)

Project Report | Nov 16, 2022
Helping Us Through The Worst - Thank You

By Clara Nowak | UK Director

Macky, after his wound had healed

It's the time of year at TOLFA we know as 'maggot wound season' and it's about as much fun as the name suggests! Hundreds of animals, mostly dogs, are brought in with gaping wounds being eaten away by maggots. You need a strong stomach to walk through the rescue kennels, but our staff have seen it all before and take it in their stride.

This male dog, Macky, was admitted with a maggot wound on this neck and ear (the worst wounds are usually in places where the dogs can't lick them clean themselves). Our treatment team shaved the area to give it a deep clean and remove the maggots. To help him heal Macky has been given antibiotics and pain relief as well as daily wound cleaning.

As Macky was unsterilised we can be certain that his wound was sustained by fighting with other males during mating season.

The bigger wounds we have seen this year have pretty much all been on unsterilised males. On average our ABC project (Animal Birth Control) sterilises 50/50 males and females. This year we have already sterilised almost 1,700 males. In the last 5 years we have sterilised almost 7,000 males and yet still see wounds like Macky's (and a whole lot worse) which goes to show how important the continued ABC work is. Not only does it reduce the number of puppies born on the streets but it also helps the health and wellbeing of the adult dogs.

Macky has now been sterilised and given his rabies shot at TOLFA, and will shortly be released to his home area a healthier, happier dog.

Your support helps us get through the worst and enables us to save lives like Macky’s – Thank You.

Most rescued dogs now have maggot wounds

Thank you for helping us be here for the animals

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TOLFA's NEW Website

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Jul 19, 2022
Among The Challenges, There Are Animals Like Tigs

By Clara Nowak | UK Director

Tigs after his treatment for mange at TOLFA

There are many challenges still remaining since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tourism is still down in Rajasthan, so there are fewer tourists to both help the street animals and support the local economy. We are experiencing more extremes of weather with both the hot season getting hotter and the wet season getting wetter. This situation not only makes the logistics of animal rescue more difficult, but it also makes life so much harder for the street animals.

Let me introduce you to just one animal we have helped recently. Poor Tigs had been running around Ajmer scratching his itchy skin until his hair fell out and he started giving himself wounds.

Mange by itself isn’t life threatening but the wounds caused by incessant itching can be. Infection can set in, and in damp weather maggots can infest the wounds. If left untreated these will kill a dog. Tigs was raw, miserable and with little hope in sight… Until our vehicle was called to rescue him!

At TOLFA, all mange dogs like Tigs are given weekly chemical baths and anti-parasite injections, so slowly the itching lessened, his wounds started healing and the rawness went away.

It took many weeks for us to make sure that every parasite was gone, but Tigs is now parasite free, sterilised and vaccinated against rabies and will soon be off back to his area to live his second chance at life.

Tigs is just one animal we were able to help, but our emergency number receives about 50 calls to help animals like Tigs every single day. It is our aim to help every single animal that needs us. This is all possible due to your support and we cannot thank you enough.

Tigs was in a sorry state when he first arrived

Our Rescue Vehicle Team help animals every day

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Help Us Get A New Rescue Vehicle to Reach More Animals Like Tigs

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Mar 9, 2022
Up To 50 Rescue Calls A Day - Helped By You!

By Clara Nowak | UK Director

This chart shows the animals helped by Rescue

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, with the terrible illness, travel restrictions and uncertainty, we helped more animals in 2021 than before, with the average number of calls we receive on our rescue line now at 50 a day.

We reached 42% MORE animals in need in 2021 compared to 2020 through hospital admissions and street treatments, with the total number of animals helped by our Rescue & Care Project alone being 13,496.

Based on the data from 2021, 81% of the animals we treat are dogs and puppies, 16% are cows, 2% are cats and 1% are 'other' (usually equines or camels).

We reached 28,908 animals across ALL our projects in 2021 (our other projects are Anti-Rabies & Sterilisation, Rural Animal Health, and Owned Animal Care). This is a phenomenal figure, and we are truly grateful for your support which allows us to do so much.

December and January are the worst months to be a puppy in India. Due to the breeding seasons, they are either around 6 months old and the perfect age to be attacked by distemper virus or canine hepatitis or they are just a few weeks old and starting to venture away from their mama meaning they are more likely to be attacked by other dogs or get hit by a vehicle.

We have seen a lot of distemper and many cases of haemorrhagic gastroenteritis which are both viral, spread like wildfire and have no direct cure other than support such as IV drips, vitamins, and nurturing work to ensure the pups are eating.

During just December and January, we admitted over 500 puppies, and we provided Street Treatments to almost 600 more.

Thank you for your amazing support which helps so many vulnerable and sick animals!

Just one of hundreds of pups helped in Dec & Jan

We've been inundated with sick puppies

You help us give life-saving care to those in need

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