There is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to help hungry street dogs in South Africa!
Here’s the extraordinary situation…
In November last year, a massive truck carrying 30 tons of top-quality dog food overturned on a road near Malmesbury in South Africa. The dog food was recovered, taken to a warehouse and properly stored – ready for delivery to vets and supermarkets. It has stayed there ever since because of an insurance dispute, and it is now approaching its sell-by date. If the food isn’t used soon, it will go to waste. Even if the insurance claim is settled soon, it will still be too late to send the food to retailers because they would not be able to sell it before it has to be discarded by law.
Because of the pending insurance claim, the dog food company can’t give the food away – so it reached out to Network for Animals and offered us a giveaway price of $715 (£520) per ton. If we can raise $7,150 (£5,203), we can buy TEN TONS of good quality food for street dogs who are in desperately in need. The company has also offered free delivery. Imagine how happy the dogs will be when a truck full of food arrives!
Imagine what a boon this would be for street dogs. South Africa has been racked by an insurrection very similar to what happened at the Capitol in Washington in the US. In South Africa, the Parliament was set on fire, after a period of mass looting.
This, plus COVID and a crashing economy have caused donations for animal welfare to dry up. The animal shelters and feeding programs we support in South Africa are all in trouble. Now there is a chance to make things better. If you and other animal lovers like you donate today, we will be able to provide food for 1,479 dogs for the next three months.
- 300 dogs at the shelter our partner TEARS runs in Masiphumelele, Cape Town,
- 450 dogs our partner Fur-Get-Me-Knot feeds in Westlake township,
- 29 dogs our partner Shaygam cares for in the impoverished slum of Hangberg, and
- 700 dogs we feed in drought-stricken Calvinia in the Northern Cape where the need is ABSOLUTELY URGENT.
When we told one of our partners what we are trying to do, she burst into tears. Chances like this don’t come along every day, and the dogs would be so happy if we can secure as much of this food as possible.
These are dogs who were born into situations of abuse and neglect in poor areas where commonplace cruelty takes place every day. We have rescued dogs tortured with acid, dragged behind cars, burned, whipped, set on fire, buried alive – beaten dogs, kicked dogs, paralyzed dogs and countless starving dogs. These dogs have been through hell – they deserve our help in getting them a decent meal.