We are rescuing 40 adult dogs tomorrow (Klang Dog Pound)

The email that had been circulating reported that there were 40 dogs at the Klang Dog Pound so I had been negotiating for 40 places all week.  Now, it turned out that there are close to 100 dogs at the pound.  I cannot find places for 100 dogs.  Can you help, please?  Ask your friends to adopt from the pound. 

But we are going ahead with the rescue tomorrow.  The place that has agreed to take the dogs have specified a few conditions – the dogs must be healthy and examined by a vet before being brought in. 

On our part, we now have managed to get two vets to help us out tomorrow.  They will choose 40 dogs for us based on the criterion as per required.  It will be very sad for us, because we are unable to help all the dogs, but helping 40 is better than helping none, isn’t it?

We are also very grateful to YB Ms Hannah Yeoh (thanks to our friend, Bro Chim, who spoke for us), who helped us get a waiver on the reclaimation fee.  But I would have to write an appeal letter and see the officer concerned first thing tomorrow.  [However, the waiver was not granted when I went to see the officer, so we still had to pay – 15th Dec.]

We are very grateful to Bro Jeen Lim for letting us use his lorry for half a day tomorrow. 

We need to borrow cages – can you help, please?

After rescuing the 12 puppies and settling them at the vet’s, we went to three petfood shops in Subang Jaya and managed to purchase a total of 11 cages.  This was done at 5pm, and it was just too late to get their suppliers to send new cages. 

Amongst us, we can probably come up with about 7 cages. 

If anyone can lend us their cages (at least 3 ft long – these are all adult dogs), please bring your cages (with your name and contact no written clearly and tagged to the cages) to the Klang Dog Pound tomorrow morning and leave them with Mr Balu before 8.30am. 

Here’s the address: 
Pusat Kurungan Haiwan
Kawasan Perindustrian Bandar Sultan Sulaiman
North Port

We will be at the pound by 8.30am, pending how long it takes me to get approval for the fee waiver at MPK.

Here’s how you can help us:

1.  Please lend us your cages, if you can.  But remember to tag your names and contact number on it.  We have to return your cages to you after the rescue has been done.  Best to bring the foldable cages (3 ft long).  Don’t bring the fanciful ones. 

2.  We will be supporting the dogs for life in their new home – we need food donations or cash donations for this purpose (long term).

3.  We will be bringing a vet to do spaying-neutering for these 40 dogs when they are settled in their new home after a month (January 2010).  We need funds for this.  We do not want them to breed in their new home.  We will be separating the males and females until then, in two separate enclosures.    

4.  Depending on the health condition of the dogs, they may be vaccinated by the vets before we put them on board the lorry tomorrow (subject to advice of vets tomorrow).  If not, they still need this after we settle them in later.  We need funds for this, too. 

5.  We will be running a rehoming/adoption drive for all these 40 dogs after they have settled in their new shelter.  We need your help to find them homes.  More details later. 

6.  MDDB also needs funds for the medicals of the 12 puppies rescued today.  Eight have been tested positive for Parvo or Distemper – these need to be fostered in isolation.  Please help them with funds and fostering.   

As of now, we have enough human volunteers for tomorrow’s rescue work.

If you can help us with the above, please write to me directly.  

Thank you very much in advance. 
 
If you cannot help in the above, then please send us your blessings.

P.S.  We apologise for the last minute details, but we could not get any information all weekend, and I had to wait for the consent from the dogs’ new home before proceeding to plan for the rescue.  And tomorrow is the deadline.  Time is not on our side at all.