{"id":34639,"date":"2015-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/34639\/spca-collected-800-dogs\/"},"modified":"2015-09-18T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T07:39:00","slug":"spca-collected-800-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/19\/spca-collected-800-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"3 888 animals in kennels"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the SPCA Annual General Meeting, Senior Inspector Petro Oberholzer stated in her Managers Report that the past financial year “had been good.”<\/p>\n

She laid emphasis on the fact that they wouldn’t have survived if they did not have the support of the community by ways of donations.<\/p>\n

“Everybody who donated, are heroes. Without regular donations, we will not be able to function, and assist all the animals in our care.”<\/p>\n

She said that their statistics for this year are more or less the same as last year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Animals claimed this year were more than double compared to last year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 They admitted 3 888 animals into the kennels, either strays or surrendered.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Requests for euthanasia were double this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 They collected almost 800 animals, either unwanted or stray, from areas in and around Middelburg, and as far as Belfast.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Their outreach program was very successful this year. They sterilized and or neutered 427 animals and 63 were treated and also sterilized.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The SPCA homed less animals this year. More than 150 home inspections were done of which 41 were declined, due to inadequate fencing, or the animal just simply would not get a good home, or people just decided they don’t want the animal anymore.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More than 250 post home inspections were done, which enabled them to keep in touch with the animals they previously homed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 They have a feral cat program in place and quite a number of feral cats were sterilized and put back in their colonies.<\/p>\n

Kennel maintenance was done throughout the year. The outside kennels were made warmer for the Winter months and the B block kennels’ front and gates were redone with bigger gridding.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The SPCA is further very proud of their charity shop, which is open on a Friday. Insp Oberholzer thanked Nan Lucini for her hard work at the shop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Insp Oberholzer gave an overview of the work her staff does and also thanked the vets and their staff in town for their ongoing support and assistance.<\/p>\n