We try to help as many of the local areas as we possibly can but since our funding is always in danger of running out I'm afraid that we have had to play favorites in the past year. I will admit that a lot of our decisions on which areas to assist are based heavily on who it is that is in those areas and whether or not the local community is going to assist us in any way since it simply isn't possible for us to be everywhere at once.
As I have mentioned in the past after we pick up and sterilize and treat dogs and cats, we almost always will return them to the areas that we found them, even though they are technically homeless. While this might seem cruel we don't really have much of a choice since our kennels were never big to begin with and have been beyond their capacity for basically all of 2020 anyway.
I feel a little bit bad that I do not remember her name but this lovely lady, who also is not a wealthy person herself, is very compassionate towards the stray dogs in her area and reached out to us for help. She has promised that she wants to look after the dogs that are there but doesn't have the money to do so on her own. We struck a deal with her: We will vaccinate, treat, and sterilize all of the dogs in her little area if she agrees to continue to look after them and on occasion provide us with a photo or two.
You can't tell by the above picture but she was all smiles when we agreed to help her, she was even a little bit teary eyed at one point - which lead to us being the same.
Getting this "insider information" is very helpful to us because when we turn up in an area, it isn't really possible for us to know how many members of the pack there actually are. Even though we mean well and are there to help, dogs just generally speaking are very apprehensive about people that they do not know. Therefore, this woman was absolutely instrumental in helping us to ensure that we got all the members of the pack. There are 8 dogs in total that live in her area but luckily only 2 of them were female. Both females have had pups already at least once and some of the other dogs in the pack may actually be their children. I have no idea and it doesn't really matter.
We vaccinated all of the dogs on the spot - which is very easy to do when you have someone like this woman who knows the dogs and they are calm around her. When you do not know the dogs, this can be a complicated and perhaps dangerous prospect as they may not like you poking them with a needle if they don't know you. We have had to muzzle and restrain dogs in the past in order to get this done and obviously, we would prefer to avoid doing this if possible.
Once this woman was around all of the dogs were calm, it is very clear that they see her as a mother and this is a very good thing. Even though she insisted that she didn't need the big bag of food we gave it to her anyway because it was pretty evident that this woman, although she clearly works hard, doesn't have a great deal of spare cash.
This makes me so happy to see that someone who barely has money for themselves is so generous with animals in her area and we are delighted to help out however we can in these situations. We are also hopeful that she can help us to spread the word that our organization is here to help, especially if the members of community are willing to pitch in as well. The job is so much easier when we have a little help.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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