Ref: http://animalcare.my/2012/03/07/kellys-dog-are-up-for-adoption-ipoh/
I have friends in Ipoh, because Ipoh used to be my hometown before I moved my parents down here.
This is from a friend who visits Kelly’s shelter often:
The chicken head and neck, all ayam kampung, every day, Kelly goes in the early morning to central market to buy and take home, clean it, remove the beak and use charchoal to cook 2-3 hours,and the taste is very different, delicious, all her shelter dogs like to drink the soup. She insist ayam kampung,she doesn’t want any chicken from the market or supermarket, this is her daily duty. Her feeding work finishes at 12pm and she starts cleaning her shelter until 9 pm. Then she does her rounds to feed the stray dogs near the church and as i told you all have been spayed already, sponsored by one society whose name i cannot remember. Just now I told her through the phone not to pick up street dogs anymore, not to become a hoarder. Only then will people help you, and i told her that the vet can help her find adopters for her dog. Dr Chan help you more than i can say, but you must be good girls ,don’t pick up street dogs anymore because you cannot manage so many. Look after the ones you have. She said, you can go to my shelter any time to see my shelter dogs and check.
I think they must have some knowledge about the shelter managment as a guide line to them.
Yes, ever since the Kawan-and-Hoarder came into the scene, I had already enlisted the help of a friend to draw up guidelines for shelter management, an area which I have no knowledge of but my friend does. As soon as it is done, it will be published for the benefit of those who wish to start their own or better manage their existing shelters.
Let’s wait for that.
Meanwhile, since we have enough testimonies (from my friends and I have also spoken to a vet who treats Kelly’s dogs) that Kelly Tan takes very, very good care of her dogs, we are more than happy to extend our help to her and her dogs.
Our current “project”, so to speak, would be to help with the vaccinations and eventual spay-neuter of the 9 puppies dumped at her gates. The vet will also help to rehome them after they have been neutered.
And all said, courtesy makes a difference: http://animalcare.my/2012/03/08/a-thank-you-message-from-kelly-tan-from-ipoh/
It must be the teacher in me!
But don’t you agree that humanity would be such a pleasant institution when its members practise courtesy?
While Kelly does not have high education and cannot even speak English, she is extremely courteous and grateful. At the other end of the spectrum, we have (ahem…) the highly educated ones who can’t even manage a simple acknowledgement of “money received”, what more a “thank you”.
Education? Or, plain old attitude?
Forgive me for the rantings, I am still a teacher at heart.
Comments
8 responses to “What Kelly Tan does for her dogs”
What did Mother Theresa would say about Kelly Tan I wonder. And what if Kelly Tan is helping human beings (going around feeding them, taking home the sick ones etc. ), would we still have so much negative ideas about her good intention? She is saving lives! In fact she is providing services to her community by taking in all the strays … now that is a ONE IN A MILLION person with a BIG HEART! Let us cheer them!
My problem, and the only problem, I have with people like Kelly Tan is, I would like to know if they have a plan if they no longer about to care for the animals. Because if that happened, especially in places such as Malaysia, the animals would be KILLED. Therefore, IF WE REALLY care much about people like Kelly, Meiji, Imm etc, then give them a hand to look towards the future, how to manage a shelter etc. Unload some heavy loads from their shoulders whether is providing cash, food, management etc. … LET’s help them and not just on the fence as an onlooker.
Instead of telling them they are hoarders, TELL THEIR COMMUNITY what services they are providing SO THAT THE COMMUNITY no longer have to deal with strays. Point out to the community HOW AND WHY they should chip in to help these so called Hoarders!! Strays is the problem of a community. NOT from a single person. We are putting ‘blames’ on the wrong person. The community is at faults. SO, how is the community going to help these hoarders?
LET’s look at things from a positive angel. Negative energies suck our resources. When we look at things positive, we see possibilities. Appreciate what these people are doing for you, for me, and the community. Try, and you will find you can see a very different pictures. Here I am, in a rush, just point out one simple value of people like Kelly Tan … provides services to the community. Perhaps other readers of this blog can come up with even more ideas. Then let’s work on that … the positives. IF you start doing that, you will see a different light.
Hi Cindy, I think you might be mistaken here. We ARE helping Kelly Tan. We helped Kelly last year and we are helping her again this year. Kelly Tan is NOT the hoarder in the Kawan-and-Hoarder case. That is a different person.
Hello KY,
Thank you for pointing out my mistakes .. the used of the word ‘Hoarder’ in my comments. I have confused this post on Kelly Tan with the Hoarders (part 1-4). Totally different persons. Sorry Kelly!
The rest of my comments remains the same.
Kudos to Kelly Tan and her gracious efforts. Sometimes Dr. Chan, those who are so-called-educated are not EXACTLY educated, but for those who are not-so-educated, let us not be too quick to judge them as ignorant. Courtesy, I believe, is a quality that needs to be nurtured and in time, you will see the results through the person’s actions, which is reflected from the stemmed beliefs that they had inside them.
As for the hoarder’s case…well, I believe karma has a way of getting to those who had done wrong to others. Although we might have to endure the aftereffects of the troubles caused by such person right now, it also gives us a good lesson and reminder to be a better person (eventhough it might be in a painful way).
I agree, Akmar. As I always tell my students, they cannot call themselves “educated” until they have learnt how to say “good morning, “please” and “thank you” and “sorry I’m late”. I also tell them that education is not about having a string of A’s or degrees; it is about passing the “soul” of a society from one generation to another, and our “soul” certainly comprises courtesy more than a string of A’s!
As for the hoarder, we’re doing our utmost to “educate” (!) her. But what remains to be seen is if she is WILLING to be educated.
In Perakian Malay’s dialect, there is a word for such the attitude of the hoarder you mentioned: TENGIN (pronounced as ‘the-ngin’)..loosely translated as someone who acts smart, but in truth is totally ignorant,plus refusing to be corrected by others and putting the blame on the others for the shortcomings that they faced. Somewhat like ‘bodoh-sombong’..if you know what I mean..
Sorry for the ‘bodoh-sombong’ word… I don’t like using the derogatory word (‘bodoh’), so that’s why I used ‘tengin’.. pardon my language if you may, Dr. Chan…
No worries, Akmar. I understand the meaning of “bodoh-sombong”!