Saturday, July 31, 2010

A Story of Jack (True Story)

Next week is the month of Ramadhan. It is a month for fellow Muslims friends to fast, to remember the poor, a month for joyous gatherings, goodies and of course not forgetting nice colourful fireworks.

In the beginning of year 2009, a little black pup, most probably 6mths old then, walked into a commercial building in Muara area. When I saw this little black pup, my heart felt pity for him. I saw him skinny and weary, searching for food in the rubbish dump. He was skinny and untidy, most likely has gone without food and water for days. He was very shy and I was unable to get close enough to touch him.

During that time, there were still other domineering strays in that area. Being a new member, he has to be challenge by other dogs to show him that they are the leaders in this area. He was always being bullied and ended up crying and whining and will hide in some bushes till he recovers from his fright.

He liked to sleep at my corridor every night, perhaps sensing that I will not hurt him. I feed him everyday and leave him fresh water at my corridor 24hrs a day. Day by day, he grew bigger and bigger but he has never never disturb any humans being in the neighbourhood. Many people walked passed him but he never bother and he also never disturbed them. Things seem to be going just fine…

Then came the month of Ramadhan, September 2009, this black pup, then has grown to a relatively medium sized dog, met his first Ramadhan in his life.

During this month, fireworks are available on sales in all major superstores. In the evenings, it is the most joyous thing to do after the family broke fast, to light up the fireworks and have fun! Wow, what a joyous thing! 

Unfortunately, some teenagers decided to use fireworks to enjoy in a different way. Every evenings, teenagers will appear in groups, laughing and playing. With their pockets full of fire crackers, they will go to every corners, even into the bushes, at the stairways, under the cars and what will they do??? BOMB!!!!! They will dig their fire crackers from their pockets and threw at the strays!

The innocent black dog was of course the victim of the so many BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS….

Each time when he sleeps peacefully at my corridor and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a huge BANG will sound right in front of him. The teenagers will cornered him to a stairways and then threw the fire crackers onto him. NIGHT BY NIGHT, I would like to emphasis here, for the WHOLE MONTH, this poor dog has to suffer all these huge sounds and mockery from these teenagers.

All the sounds and mockery made his character changed TOTALLY in just that month.

From a mild and harmless dog, he has became a bad tempered and aggressive dog. From then on, each time he heard the sounds of teenagers walking passed, whether they are the same group or not, he appeared in front of them and ran after them. He will barked and wanted to challenge them. Other ignorant people, not knowing how much he has suffered to behave in this way, I have to try to stop him each time when he did that, hoping he will not hurt anyone.

But this behaviour caught the eye of a Muslim man and he thought this dog’s behaviour is unacceptable. He went to his car and pull out a parang, the black dog in front of him, he raised his arms with the parang…

Just as when he was about to slash the dog with the parang, one of my worker shouted “Uncle, what are you doing?” Uncle replied “He wanted to bite the children (in Malay)!” In the midst of this, the black dog quickly slipped away….

Out of no other options, not wanting any of the teenagers and children to get hurt, and neither do I want the black dog to be killed too, I transferred him to my warehouse in October 2009.

Till now, he has been in my warehouse for 10months and have been doing perfectly fine.  Not only has he grown a lot more bigger, he has also allow me to touch him, stroke him and comb his hair. He is also very friendly with my other dogs in the warehouse and made friends with them.

Now, I named him JACK! :)

I wrote this STORY OF JACK, on hoping that adults to get a chance to educate their children, families and friends that FIREWORKS are meant to display in the air, to fill up the black sky with beautiful colours. Please do not turn your fireworks to our poor strays friends. They feel pain and will be hurt too.

I wrote this story on hoping more teenagers will get enlightened with this. Dogs will not chase you if you do not provoke purposefully.

Jack was a harmless dog before the Ramadhan month. His character changed because he sensed that teenagers are dangerous to him. They are the one who challenged him first. Jack just want to defend himself. People do not normally went to find out the whole truth. Luckily Jack was not killed by the man. However, I believe not many dogs out there were as lucky as Jack.

So please, do not hurt our strays anymore.

PS: This is my 1st time writing a story. Please pardon me if I did not do a good job. :)

Agnes, CAS Volunteer

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Please Understand Us !

Dear all, we do understand there are strays outside that need immediate help but due to our limited resource and manpower, immediate actions could not be done. At the moment, there is really nothing we could do in homing strays that all of you have found these couple of days because we do not have a proper place to home them yet. But the least we could do is to help in advertising and get them a new home if we are able to find interested people.

The problem we have with cats now is there is no foster home for them. Foster home means you are able to assist in offering them a temporary home at your place till they find a new owner. Do drop by a message or an email if any of you are interested.

As for donations, since we are not an organisation, we are not in the position to accept any cash fund but you can help us by sponsoring the medical costs or sterilization cost (BND180.00 for female dog). Such fee can be paid to the clinic directly provided that proper communications and arrangements between the CAS volunteer and yourself have been sorted out. After you have paid the medical fee, please obtain an official receipt from the clinic so both CAS and yourself will have a record on this. Food too can be donated to the animals. just email us for more details.

To PREVENT people abandoning more animals, we usually do not reveal the address of our feeding sites, foster homes, the rescue location or where we found the animals. We understand that some kind-hearted people would want to visit the sites to care for the animals but we have encountered a lot of dumping cases after we told them the locations. As such, we strictly do not reveal addresses anymore. Some stray dogs/cats, young puppies/kittens are usually afraid of us human being so we do not encourage more people to visit those sites as they might not appear at the same place anymore.

Procedures of Adoption:-

1) Please browse through albums uploaded by us in Facebook or at our blog .

2) Please email us at care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com to inform which pet you have your eye on and tell us a little about you and/or your family, whether you are single, living with your housemate, married, with kids, any other pets (where are they kept at? if you have female pets, are they sterilized?), etc. This is for us to understand that you have a healthy family environment and that you have the ability to take up another pet.

3) You are to ensure that you will not chain or keep your pet in cage because this does not give a healthy living environment to your pet. Pets that are to be adopted by yourselves are not to be allowed in such situation too.

4) Please leave us your name, contact number and address so that we can send over the pet for viewing purposes. You can make your final decision after viewing.

5) Please also allow us to do a home inspection before adoption i.e. whether your house is "fenced", is there sufficient space for the pet to joyfully play around, the surroundings must not have another "way" because dogs are capable of digging a hole out of it and might run free. We will cancel the adoption if your present pets are found not to be in a healthy condition.

For further queries/clarifications, please email us.

Thank you.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Rita

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  • Around 1 Year Old 
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Olivia & Winnie

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  • Around 1 Year Old
  • Both Female
  • Sterilized

White Junior

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Toppy

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Koko Boy

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Male
  • Sterilized

Botak

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Brownie

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Blackie Senior

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  • Around 3 Years old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Bitey

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Kimmy

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  • Around 1 Year Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized

Mel

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Male
  • Sterilized

Lucky

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  • Female
  • 2 Years Old
  • Sterilized

Moon

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  • Around 3 Years Old
  • Male

Sally

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  • Around 2 Years Old
  • Female
  • Sterilized
  • Disabled Front Leg