CANINE LIFE SUPPORT - working for animal welfare in Sri Lanka

March 19, 2010

" Creating a safe and healthy living environment for man and dog "

`CANINE LIFE SUPPORT' working for animal welfare in Sri Lanka

Canine Life Support – a very small charity providing free health care and

surgical operations to street dogs & cats as well as pets of poor people in Sri

Lanka by way of mobile outreach clinics to rural and coastal areas.

ANNUAL REPORT 2009:

Every year, people die, as a result of rabies. Sri Lanka is a developing country

where the means to fight this deadly disease are not as readily available as

they are in other parts of the world. Rabies is a killer. Canine Life Support

works to fight rabies and to create a safe and healthy living environment for

man and dog in Sri Lanka.

CLS sterilize stray, community and owned dogs and vaccinate them against rabies

as well as other diseases. This is part of ongoing humane animal population

control and rabies eradication programmes that are country wide.

CLS run education projects to inform local people and kids in schools about

rabies, how to prevent dog bites, about animal welfare and responsible pet

ownership.

CLS work according to a protocol: Catch - Treat - Release. This means that they

catch the dogs, treat them (sterilization, vaccination and if necessary other

treatment) and then release the dogs back into the same area they were caught.

" We do not operate as a permanent shelter, because that seriously decreases the

number of dogs we can help " .

" Informing/educating people are one of our major goals. When people know how to

interact with animals and how to prevent confrontations with animals we will

decrease the number of bite incidents " .

PLEASE HELP CANINE LIFE SUPPORT ~ THANK YOU

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