By Karen Menczer | Executive Director
Although the dogs feel otherwise about spay/neuter surgery!
Dear AKI Donors,
Your GlobalGiving donations are being used for Have A Heart-Luderitz spay/neuter surgeries, with some set aside for the dog house project.
Attached to this report you'll see pictures of 2 of the 21 dogs that were fixed during the 24 January "spayathon" in Luderitz. The spayathon--which was funded mainly with AKI-GlobalGiving funds, concentrated on dogs and cats from Area 7, one of the very poor sections of Luderitz. At HAH spayathons, dogs and cats are also vaccinated and dewormed. Kamuri, the doberman cross in the pictures, has tick bite fever, so her owner was given pills to treat her. A dog can die from tick bite fever, but once diagnosed, the cure is not a difficult one-it's just important to begin treatment early.
Mr.Wise (see picture) was the only kitty to be neutered at the 24 January spayathon.
Spotty (who isn't spotted!-as you can see in his photo) was not going to go easily for his surgery, but Dr. Maya, holding him by a leash, made a plan to make friends with him, and off they drove for neutering. Sometimes you have to be underhanded!
If it can be arranged, the next HAH-Luderitz spayathon will be planned a little farther afield, in Aus, a small town 124 km east of Luderitz. With fewer than 1000 people, Aus, has no vet or SPCA but a lot of dogs and cats. So HAH-Luderitz decided to expand to Aus and help no/low income cat and dog owners there. The date is TBD, and depends on availability of Dr. Baines and his team and available funds. Geesche told us, "our dream would be to have the first SpayDay in Aus end of March on top of the Luderitz SpayDay! Let's see if our dream will come true - everybody please hold thumbs."
The dog house project is moving ahead.....full steam. Geesche sent the following news that she asked me to pass on to donors:
"We are sooo excited about the dog house project!!! With support from Animal-Kind International we will be able to pay one or two unemployed youth (it looks like this will be organized by the Peace Corps youth project) in Luderitz to build around 15 - 20 dog houses. In case we will get all the all the material we need sponsored we might be even able to build up to 25 dog houses.
This will be:
We still need:
A special paint for the wood, we don't want anyone be able to use them as fire wood and we still need nails and simple tools.
Geesche has 43 dogs on her list for dog houses! But so far only 13 houses. Her response: "WOW!!! I'm a little bit lost for words.... That is a lot.... Imagine how many more will there be..??!!"
I think that illustrates the importance and absolute necessity of our work with HAH! AKI thanks our GlobalGiving donors for making it all possible.
THANK YOU!
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