Coco, the Blind (limited vision) Pomeranian is again for Adoption Urgently!

Coco, the blind Pomeranian was abandoned at a pet store, adopted from there only to find himself back at a foster home again.

You may read the earlier story here.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.395157307179670.105561.139700362725367&type=3

Coco is around 10-12 yrs of age, male. He has cataracts in both eyes, limited vision but not blind.

 

Coco needs full supervision if let out to walk. He will need basic grooming for his fur and keep his nails trimmed regularly.

He is a sweet and mellow fellow! Suitable for family who is willing and committed to take care of him. He likes to be cuddled and pampered.

We hope to find him a loving and permanent home as he had gone through abandonment, adopted but return to foster home again.

If you think you are the one who could give him love and care, please email to care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com and our Re-homing team will get in touch of you.

Please be reminded, No Chaining and No Caging.

PUPS TO REHOME URGENTLY!

Do you still remember them?

They are pups abandoned as rubbish behind a restaurant during Chinese New Year spring cleaning in a commercial area this year. Refer to the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.349850928376975.96845.139700362725367&type=3

 

After 4 months, these pups are still there. Now there is a PROBLEM. These pups need to be re-home urgently!

As usual, CAS volunteers are always stuck with the question “Could you relocate and find them a safe place?” Now this is our difficulty “Where to relocate them and where is a safe place?” 

Health inspectors came to inspect the restaurant premises and found these dogs behind. Expectedly, the dogs were consider as unhygienic and restaurant staff were asked to remove them as soon as possible. Now, whose fault is this?

IRRESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS!

EVERYONE thought that restaurant premises are good places to dump your puppies. These IRRESPONSIBLE OWNERS thought these dogs could find food as restaurant has left over food. No doubt this is true but it could cause hindrance to proper business operations. Humans are pushing responsibility one to another. This is a vicious cycle!

It is the same thing if we are relocating the dogs in a neighbourhood. If a pack is gone, new pack will take over the empty spaces. This would be a cycle on and on. If you do not sterilise your female dog, this cycle is going  forever and who is suffering? Both animals and humans!

Now these pups’ fate (in the pictures) are unknown. If these pups were relocate without notifying CAS volunteers, we are unable to trace and sterilise them. There are 5 pups altogether, all females approximately 5mths old.

We need to find homes for them ASAP.

CAS has an adoption policy of No Chaining and No Caging.

These animals are innocent! They are just victims of irresponsible human beings! If you could open your heart to adopt even just one of them, please email to care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com with your home address and contact details and we will contact you.

We pray for miracle.

More pictures of the pups could be found in this link:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.359099104118824.98726.139700362725367&type=3

Project Scaby Cat

Last week, we received a report from a restaurant in Kiulap reporting of a cat with scabies, a skin problem condition. Scabies could be treated with injections, nutritional meal and supplements and medicated shampoo.

We would like to raise about B$500 for this cat's treatment as such skin problems will take a relatively long period to be fully recover. Patience is needed for treating skin medical issues.

Please help to make this cat's treatment possible. If you would like to sponsor, kindly email to care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com and subject "Project Scaby Cat" and we would respond to you with the sponsorship details.

Every little effort counts!

Email: care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com

FOOD SPONSORSHIP

FOOD SPONSORSHIP: CAS 6th Activity Day, 15 Jan 2pm-4.30pm You may buy a bag of dog food, 20kg B$56.00/bag Help to feed the strays. Sponsor a bag of dog food during Activity Day. CAS feeds about 100dogs at several feeding sites and 80dogs at foster homes. Spread a little kindness, be kind to animals. We need your support to enable us to help the strays. Every little counts!

CAS 6th Activity Day !

Supporting homeless pets is one of the best acts of kindness. Spread this kindness and give our Brunei Kampong Specials a warm and lovely home that you can call FAMILY!

CAS 6th Activity Day

CAS 6th Activity Day. Another year is coming to an end, a New Year is coming very soon. For year 2011, we are glad CAS has created some awareness, we have started our merchandise selling, invitation to talks in schools, rescued and sterilised some strays. Of course, there are some happy endings as well as sad ending... But life has to go on and we will try to do as much as we could.

We do have to apologise that CAS is unable to attend to every calls or emails to us as we lack of experienced volunteers to do field work and rescue. We also like to inform we do not collect every puppies and strays on the road as we do not have a shelter. Again, we have to remind that all dogs we foster are staying in our volunteers' own homes and they are about 50 of them, about 10dogs average in a home.

 
But what we can do is to help to sterilise the strays in your own neighbourhood where the residents in this neighbourhood could help to feed them daily. In this way, it is ensure that your neighbourhood will not have an increase in the strays' population.

In the New Year 2012 (not sure if it is end of the world yet :)), we hope to have more support to help control the strays population in the community, promote adoption instead of buying pets from breeders, the importance of sterilisation, promoting responsible pet ownership and also not forgetting to STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY, No Chaining and No Caging!

To start a BRAND NEW YEAR 2012, CAS is holding our CAS 6th Activity Day on 8 January 2012, Time: 2pm - 4.30pm. Venue to be confirmed as we are looking for a suitable outdoor location where we could bring our dogs for adoption and they are able to run freely. If you have any location or land that you could lend CAS for a 2.5hrs, please email to care.actionsforstrays@gmail.com

We are also looking for Graphic Designer who could help CAS to design this Activity Day poster so that we could put up in Supasaves, International Schools or some of our supporters' companies upon request.

We look forward to a brand new year soon and Every Little Effort Counts!

CAS Volunteer Team

It’s never easy – Kiulap Tumour Dog

It's never easy for volunteers to close a case with sad ending. Volunteers struggled emotionally when one of the decision making is euthanasia (put to sleep).

For the past 2 weeks, we received reports from the public about a dog in Kiulap with a big open wound on his back. Volunteers had assessed this dog a couple of times. Preliminary speculation by the volunteers was a tumour on the dog's back and it has burst to an open wound. The dog was seen to move and walked quite slowly and kept trying his best to turn around to lick the wound on his back. I could not imagine how painful, itchy or uncomfortable could that thing caused him.... How much suffering he may have and nowhere to seek help to....

Due to his unsightly wound, passers-by who walked past would quickly ran away from him, or turn a disgusted look at him. One passer-by even went up to him for no reason and frightened him away from his sleeping spot under a stationary car. How "kind" could a human being be..... If we were to be in this dog's shoe, have you ever think if he had chosen to become a stray? Did he choose to have a tumour on his back? Or does he deserve you people to frighten him like this?

2 days ago, we lost sight of the dog when trying to catch and bring him back to the clinic for assessment, thanks to that weird man who came out of nowhere to frighten him away. Today, after about 2 hours searching for him again, we finally found him. We immediately activated the vet to sedate him and bring him back to the clinic.

The dog was assessed to be more than 10yrs old. The tumour has grown very big. Some parts of the leg has small tumour too. Survival rate for this dog is low even if he is going through the chemotherapy treatment. Regrettably, we have to put him down to end his suffering.. We gave him a spot and lay him down under the soil where he would rest in peace, with no more tumour, no more pain... We had a heavy heart on our journey home...

Life is not easy and never have been easy as Stray. If we do not want to see more animals or rather more dogs and cats suffer, please do help to sterilise your own pet to prevent overpopulation of strays. When there is less animals on the road, there would be less suffering for them.

Please, play your part to help your own community ! Spay your pet now !

We have the choice to spay our pet BUT THEY HAVE NO CHOICE TO BECOME A STRAY!

Project Pack 40 (Fostering)

project 40 is now project 44 and hopefully the figure will not increase. 1 female already gave birth. there are a total of 25 females, abt 6 or more are pregnant, at least 20 needing medical attention, 10 of them critical. we now have the exact number from the person who has been feeding them. and they were not totally abandoned as was previously assumed. it was just unfortunate that the owners of the hse were forced to move and their new landlord did not permit any dog at all, not even 1.

they also unfortunately could not afford to provide medical attention to the dogs and made the mistake of not having spayed all the females earlier. and they did not know where or who to turn to for help. my attempt to reach them 2 yrs ago apparently also did not get to them.

as such all the dogs were left at their old hse but they have been feeding them daily, only thg there were too many of them and the one person feeding them could not manage to separate the weak to allow them to eat properly, thus the weak suffered and got progressively worse.

any way the good news is that we will start to spaying the pregnant ones and treating the critically sick ones by this sun. we will also be helping in the feeding daily to ensure that all the emaciated ones will get sufficient food with extra nutritional supplements added to their food.

but we desperately need foster homes for post spaying recovery. all that is needed is a clean and dry room / place for them to recover. there will be no medicating (unless infection sets in) but if kept dry and clean, there should be no infection. daily, the person who knows the dogs very well will also go to foster homes to help chk on the dogs and also let them out to pee and poo if kept in a room. food can also be provided upon request. before going for surgery, all dogs will be bathed and deticked / defleaed to ensure all dogs are clean prior to going to foster homes. after 2 weeks, the fully recovered dogs will be returned to site awaiting relocation.

post surgery recovery is easier to handle and if we have enuf foster homes, then our side can focus on the critically sick ones as these need a lot more care and are more difficult to manage. with sufficient foster homes, we will not need to delay taking in the critically sick ones while we commence the spaying for the females. if we manage to get 10 foster homes, each home can either take 2 dogs at a time meaning the fostering will ONLY be for 2 weeks. if each home takes only 1 dog at a time, then the fostering will be for 2 weeks + 2 weeks. then we will be able to spay all the females effectively within 1 mth and simultaneously take in the critically sick ones.

once all the females are spayed, if we can raise additional funds, we will also neuter all the males to make them less aggressive with each other and will not bully the weak that much.

we still require additional funds and dry food or anythg that any of u can donate or sponsor. keep them coming. thank you very much for helping these poor dogs !

Project Pack 40

How To Safely React To Stray Dogs

1. Step 1: Stand Still

   If a dog runs up to you, the best way to react is to stand still, hands by your side. Drop anything you are holding, as this may be what is attracting the dog to you. Don't run away as the dog may think this is a game, and start chasing you because RUNNING is a sign to a dog that triggers the instinct to chase. The best bet is to stand very still when meeting a stray dog and letting him or her smell you until they know you are safe to them. Don't shout or wave your arms as this may either encourage or frighten him. If you act bored and don't make eye contact, most dogs will lose interest quickly. Don’t squat down, as the dog may think you are picking up stones to throw at them. You will only endanger yourself.

2. Step 2: If the dog jumps up

   When a dog runs up to you, he may jump up. The best reaction in this situation is to turn away BUT NOT RUN AWAY. Just turn your body, your back facing the dog and don’t move! Avoid eye contact. Don't shout or push him down, as he may think this is part of a game and jump up again. Ignore the dog until he gets bored and walks away.

3. Step 3: If the dog knocks you over

   Larger dogs are capable of knocking people over. If this happens to you, curl up in a ball, keeping your head and arms tucked under your body. Stay in this position until he gets bored and leaves.
   Once the dog has lost interest, keep watching him BUT NOT STARING AT HIM while you slowly move away backwards. If he returns, repeat steps 1 to 3. 

However, strays will not attacked if we human beings do not provoke them in the first place! Living as strays is a tough life, they are just defensive and protective of themselves, just like any living things do. They may be scared, hungry or being ill-treated before. Usually, they are just as afraid of you or more afraid of you than you are of them.

So if  you meet a stray, stay calm and walk as per normal, don’t run and scream, avoid eye contact. Don’t provoke him by making “barking” sounds at them. These are the common things that Bruneian children and teenagers tend to do when meeting a stray. This will further provoke them come approaching to you.

SO DON’T DO IT, IF YOU DON’T WANT THE STRAY TO COME TO YOU AND DON’T BLAME IT ON THE STRAYS!

We hope the above information helps for those who do not know what to do when seeing a stray. We also hope that parents would use this information to educate their children instead of educating them that all dogs are evil.

Create a better living environment in Brunei for both the humans and the animals, WE NEED YOU TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!

CAS Volunteer Team