Using Animal Care to Promote Empathy in Children

It was beneficial for me to have my dogs spayed because they are beautiful now and they no longer wander off to other people’s homesteads. Even community people ask me how I did it.

When I am asleep at night my dog would go around eating waste food from neighboring homes, and I feared for it because some homesteads smear their left over food with weevil tablets to exterminate dogs roaming their homes at night.

What also pleased me about spaying my dogs is that I was getting irritated of the new puppies every now and then. The dog would give birth to cute puppies that all eventually die. I could not figure out why this kept happening because my dog took its vaccines appropriately. Then I learned that both mating dogs must have their vaccines, or the puppies will die. This brought me to the conclusion of spaying my dog, so as to give it and myself peace of mind.

Narrated by: Thembi 

Ngisitakele kutsi ngiphakule tinja tami ngobe setinhle futsi atisaphumi tiye lemitini nabomakhelwane bangibuta kutsi ngitente ngani.

Bengitsi uma ngilele iphume ihambe iyofuna kudla lokulahliwe emitini yabomakhelwane. Besengesaba ngobe kuleminye imiti bavele batsatse emaphilisi engobolwane babhoce lokudla kute tinja letifika ebusuku tidle tife.

Lokunye lokwangijabulisa ngalokuphakulwa kwalenja kutsi bengidzinwa ngulemidlwane. Beyitala badlwane labahle kepha bagcine bafe bonkhe. Bengingacondzi kutsi kwenteka kanjani loku ngobe yami inja beyijova base bayangitjela kutsi nome ingajova, yahlangana nalengajovi labadlwane bayafa. Ngase ngiyabona kutsi kuncono ngiyiphakule lenja ivele itihlalele inje nami ngiphumule.

Ibhalwe ngu: Thembi 

Vusumnotfo collected Thembi's story 7 months after the community spay day at Mshingishingini, through the use of Most Significant Change methodology. In response to the many requests that we are receiving, with your support, we would very much like to carry out several more community spay days in May to August, 2015.