2)
Support
and
rescue.
The Animal
Trust itself goes out into poverty areas
rescuing
and uplifting the lives of dogs, some of them living lives
of unimaginable suffering, abuse and neglect. In these
situations we are faced with four choices.
Mostly we
find families that do the best they can with the little they
have and although their animals are neglected,
undernourished and with no form of shelter or protection
against the harsh winter, we find they are often open to
learning the correct way to own a pet. However they simply
do not have the money or the know how and even though their
animals are starving and neglected, they refuse to give them
up. Many situations are heartbreaking as the law is against
us the animals have no rights. We are left with one
alternative, to educate and
support
them as much as possible. Often they are
extremely appreciative of our help and some brought to tears
in their desperation. The deal we make with these families
is we supply them with dog blankets, good strong kennels and
an indefinite supply of healthy dog food every month, and in
return they start treating their animals with kindness,
compassion and respect. Often this new way of treating
their pets is very foreign to them, but with out fail, every
family so far has met our challenge to some degree. We visit
them every month while delivering the food and in the
majority of these families, we find these once emaciated and
terrified animals, now healthy, confident and playful.
Unwanted
puppies end up in one of our private houses, they are feed,
loved and cared for, then re homed to wonderful loving
homes.
If the
animal is unwanted we take it to either one of our homes or
to one of the no kill sanctuaries, where it is rehabilitated
and eventually homed.
On some
occasions the animals are in such a bad way that the only
solution is to call on one of the rescue societies to come
and asses the situation themselves, often sadly their only
option is euthanasia.