Category: News

  • A note to Facebookers

    For those of you who follow our stories from Facebook, please be informed that over the last few days, a few of our posts did not appear on our facebook wall.  I don’t know why that happened. As far as I could detect, these are the posts: http://animalcare.my/2011/11/30/bunny-goes-to-the-vets/ http://animalcare.my/2011/12/02/so-how-about-observing-veggie-friday-today/   I dont know how many…

  • Welcome to our new website!!

    Hi there, everyone! Here’s our new website, and I must begin by conveying my utmost thanks to Huey and Wah (of Geekyhost) for toiling through many, many hours with me in the past one week with the design of this website and everything that came with it.  It took Wah about 24 hours to import…

  • See you later, Alligator….(we’re migrating!)

    Hello folks, There will be no postings from now (Saturday, 1.00pm) until Monday (or earlier), as we are doing a migration from our Blogger to WordPress. This is all thanks to Huey and Wah, who have offered us free webhosting under Wah’s company, GeekyHost.  Huey has been working with me (or more accurately, she has…

  • PayPal charges a commission plus another fee

    Dear all, We thank everyone who has been donating to us, and after we set up a PayPal donation facility, some local donors have also started using PayPal without realising that it is a lot more cost-effective to just pay the RM2 interbank bank transfer (if you do not have an account with PBB) than…

  • Animal NGOs’ news available on iPhones!

    Great news from PetFinder.my: 20 NGOs’ blogs & news are now readily available at 1000s of people’s fingertips – more specifically, iPhone / iPod Touch users! PetFinder.my has launched a News & Blogs function in their iPhone app where people can easily browse through latest news from over 20 NGO sources in a streamlined mobile…

  • You can donate to us through PayPal now

    Hi Folks, You would have noticed on the right sidebar that we have a PayPal account now. For those of you who prefer to use PayPal (especially from overseas), you may donate through our PayPal account now. Our local bank account is, of course, still available to receive donations, as usual.   For tshirts, please…

  • Sourcing fosterers, taking responsibility, being respectful, etc.

    I have been receiving requests asking for help to source for fosterers for kittens, puppies, cats and dogs. Please be advised that we can only publicise your requests, and we cannot filter nor vet those who volunteer or respond to your requests.It remains the responsibility of the rescuer or the person who is requesting help to…

  • REVISED POLICIES (with immediate effect)

    To all rescuers/caregivers of stray and community animals who would like our financial assistance in sponsoring/subsidising the spay-neuter and medical treatment of your animals, kindly be informed that our policies have been revised to the following with immediate effect: The major changes are highlighted in yellow. REVISED POLICIES Who qualifies for our sponsorship/subsidy 1. Newly…

  • Amount subsidised by AnimalCare for medical cases, and other matters

    It has been brought to my attention that there are rescuers who apply to our fund to subsidise medical cases (which includes surgery), but at the same time, they also apply to other organisations for the same assistance. Some also source for funds through their personal facebook and twitter pages, blogs or websites as well.As…

  • We have THREE cat-traps to lend out

    Hi everyone, In line with promoting our ongoing One-Street CNRM, we now have THREE cat-traps to lend out to you folks who are game to use it.  Cathy uses the trap and there has been no mishaps so far. In fact, Cathy even bought one herself yesterday. But CP used it once and swears she’ll never use…

  • If you need our spay-neuter help, please send a photograph of the animal

    Spay-neuter is normally not an emergency case. My request to rescuers who ask for our spay-neuter help is to please send me a photograph of the animal, either by email or mms. This is because our accounts are audited and I need the photographs to account for each case done. Sometimes, by the time I finish work…

  • Petfinder.my launches its Medical Fund

    Great news, everyone!  Petfinder.my has launched its Medical Fund.Take a look: http://www.petfinder.my/medicalfund.htmNow, rescuers sourcing for funds for needy medical cases can go to Petfinder.my and apply to set up a Pet Profile.  Then donations will be given by the public.  This is really timely and will relieve NPOs (Non-Profit Organisation) like ourselves from having to work…

  • And…we’re on Twitter as well!

    I would really have to learn the ropes REAL fast now….It’s the same name in all three now – Blogger, Facebook and Twitter, we are animalcare.my  (At Twitter, it’s myanimalcareorg – no “dot”, it’s not allowed.)

  • We’re on Facebook

    I’m a total ignoramus when it comes to social networking services.  I only know how to blog.  But thanks to a kind friend, Bro Lim Kean-Joo, he has now created a facebook page for us.  It’s called animalcare.my (same name as our blog address).  For all of you who facebook, do take a look. Apparently,…

  • Petfinder.my’s new initiative

    Check these out:http://www.petfinder.my/blogs/http://www.petfinder.my/blogs/authors/4-AnimalCare/Many thanks to petfinder.my’s Andy Koh for doing this for the many animal welfare NGOs so that the general public can just go to petfinder.my’s website and get all the news under one roof.The portal will only have the most recent 500 postings from each blog.  It serves as a form of “tweetering”…