(IN)Visakha SPCA year-end message

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Report below with photos will be put on the web site shortly.

www.visakhaspca.org Many thanks for your interest,

 

To our dear friends,

Happy Holidays and an Auspicious and Healthy 2008 to you all.

 

Our heartfelt thanks for supporting and standing by us, especially in our times

of crisis. We are so grateful for your help and advice whenever we reach out for

it. Now all of our responsibilities have increased so much more than before

because of our active involvement in all the issues.

 

We have made many positive programs for the benefit of the animals a reality

this past year.

 

The most important one, perhaps, is the expansion of our Animal Birth Control

program for the street dogs. It has now has taken the form of three mobile camps

with the joint participation of the Greater Visakha Municipality Council and the

Animal Welfare Board of India. In just the past three months, we have spayed or

neutered over 4000 street dogs.

 

Our other achievements this past year include our Animal Birth Control program

for street cats and owned cats. Additionally, we now have two areas at the VSPCA

centre to keep our own cats healthy and happy. We have a new isolation

quarantine and air-conditioned operating theater just for cats for their own

birth control program.

 

 

 

We continue to promote local pet adoption.

 

http://www.visakhaspca.org/programs/adopt.php

 

 

 

" Chameli " waiting for a home of her own

 

The horses in Visakhapatnam can now look forward to our free medical camps and

the benefit of our awareness and education program for their owners. That is

something we are planning to implement permanently, as the horse population is

on the rise because of increased tourism.

 

We hope to build on progress made in year's past towards keeping the area

animals safe as we plan our natural disaster reduction programme.

 

We have documented the animal sacrifice

http://www.visakhaspca.org/issues/sacrifice.php and animal transport

http://www.visakhaspca.org/issues/transport.php issue as well as the continuing

abuse of cows in our local temple

http://www.visakhaspca.org/updates/2007-11-19/.

 

Our Awareness and Education campaign outreach to the schools has started. We

expect it to bring more visitors to our shelter. We are planning a new a

octagon-shaped house for our 78 free-ranging resident shelter dogs as not all

the visitors like 78 dogs running around! Other planned improvements to the

shelter include an innovative resting and quarantine area for small animals in a

nature-like habitat. This will be a charming area to house our rescued

rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks and geese.

 

We are commencing our sea turtle campaign for the 2007-2008 season, and we plan

to do it much more comprehensively this year. Our public awareness campaign to

halt the illegal trade of wild animals will target all marketplaces and related

fishing communities starting next week.

 

Following our successful campaign to protect the migratory birds at

Telenelipuram (the campaign is now in the hands of the local community), we are

now going to start another campaign in an unprotected area of wetlands from 60

kms southwest of our city, in response to a request from the Andhra Pradesh

Forest Department.

 

We raided an illegal exhibition and here is one of two foxes and rats recently

seized.

 

 

 

Pythons, civic cats, mongoose, porcupines, languor monkeys, star tortoises,

partridges, rabbits and guinea pigs

 

were also all being cruelly kept in boxes their whole lives until we raided the

operation. These animals will now have better lives at Visakha SPCA or go to

the zoo, where they may eventually be released.

 

 

 

All these good works have been made possible by your generosity and

understanding. This is just the beginning, and we are sure that in the years to

come we will be able to provide the best for the animals throughout our

coastline and our entire state.

 

However, we continue to struggle greatly with our daily operational expenses and

look forward to your ongoing support so we can make our crusade for the animals

a reality. We have one of the best animal shelters in India with over 1050

resident rescued animals.

 

It is your support that has made the difference and we greatly look forward to

your continued association to expand our activities and to make our crusade a

reality.

 

Ram the bull (along with many other animals) humbly requests a sponsor

http://www.visakhaspca.com/sponsor/

 

On behalf of all of us at Visakha SPCA,

 

Pradeep Kumar Nath, Founder and President

 

www.visakhaspca.org

 

http://www.visakhaspca.org/donate.php

 

In loving memory of the incomparable Tiger - an original Founder of VSPCA - his

spirit very much lives on!