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BARKING NEWS

1/27/2012 1:46:55 PM
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1/12/2012 6:49:43 PM
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Wooohooo help BarkingMad win up to R25 000 and 500 kg of Montego yummy food for our babies :) So BM Peeps I lay the challenge before you to please go to http://www.facebook.com/MontegoClassic?sk=app_162514840438400 vote and ask all your friends to vote for Barkingmad., It costs you nothing but 5 minutes of your time. Plus come on guys its MONTEGO our food angel :) So like the montego page,click on the click to give link on the left handside ( 6 icons below the wall icon) and VOTE FOR BARKING MAD :)  I can see our vet bill disappearing :) happy dance :)


1/12/2012 10:21:57 AM
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INFORMAL DOG WALK

ALL MONEY WILL GO TO BARKING MAD
DOG SHELTER
COME AND WALK WITH YOUR DOG(S)
IT CAN BE OFF LEAD IF SOCIABLE

On SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY, park by 8:00 and ready to walk by 8:15.
No need to book, just turn up.

At IRENE village market, park in the field on the right. A huge, very safe, clean, open area.

The walk is app. 1.5h to 2h. You can turn round and do less if you want to.

R20 per person, R10 per dog (all money to Barking Mad)

Take the N1 Highway (to Pietersburg / Polokwane). Follow the signs for Jan Smuts’ house.
Take the Botha Ave turn off (Centurion Area) M18. Turn towards Irene direction into Botha
Avenue - See green board. Keep going straight until you reach a Stop street intersection
by BP garage. Turn left into Nellmapius Road. Go through the tunnel under the railway line.
Take first right into Jan Smuts Ave. The road seems to split, but keep to the right. Drive
straight on, over a little bridge and you will find the parking area in the field on your right side.
See map below.

We are also selling Barking Mad T-shirts, calendars, cool drinks, crisps.

Bring, for your dog, water, water bowl, a lead (there is no stream!)don’t forget to do tick
prevention! For you bring, a hat, sun cream, trainers or boots (although the paths are very
good).

e mail: Charlotte.Brennan@wits.ac.za,

cell: 072 274 4100
11/15/2010 6:07:00 PM
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URGENT - HELP US FIND BENJAMIN (BUDDY)

He got lost in Noordheuwel Krugersdorp :( last wednesday this is very urgent
please help us find him :( 071 906 3700
4/28/2010 8:22:52 PM

Pet Limit Laws

Take the time to read these 2 blogs on the hopeful homeless website about the new pet limit laws. Its important for us all to be aware and know our rights on this matter.
 
http://hopeful.ws/2010/04/14/what-were-you-thinking/
http://hopeful.ws/2010/04/21/why-we-don%E2%80%99t-need-pet-limit-laws/
12/17/2009 1:38:19 PM
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Thank you so much for all your awesome donations to our vet bill :) We really do appreciate your help in covering the costs of our furry ones medical needs. We have manged to cut our vet bill in half and as you know we take in special need dogs to give them the best chance to survive their ordeals. Our vet bill sits at
R58 000
Please any small donation will help us greatly :)

ALL of the doggies we rescue need veterinary care. It roughly costs us R1000 as soon as we accept a rescue dog. With Delilah needing to have an eye operation our rescue and care of little Faith after hit and run last month we are really struggling with our vet costs :( Each month we hit new challenges head on and the woofderful team at Bluehills Vet always step up to the plate to help us no matter what. We have 105 dogs that need dewormed and treated for tick and flea prevention on a regular basis. Our costs add up VERY quickly and we need your help. Please could you make a donation of any amount to our vet bills. Bluehills Vet are very accommodating and help us when and where we need it.
Our vets banking details are

Bluehills vet
Standard Bank
Acc No: 201122413
Branch 001155
Ref: Client: BarkingMAD - 31832

If you would like to donate via credit card: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/donate/charity/barkingmaddogtown

We will be forever grateful for all donations to the vet bill that will allow us to continue the very important work we do :)
Please send me an email and let me know of your kind donation
laina@barkingmad.co.za
8/24/2009 4:50:58 PM
MEDIA STATEMENT
ISSUED ON MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009
CONTACT PERSON CHRISTINE KUCH on 011-907-3590

GIVEAWAY PETS – WARNINGS AND THE REALITY

The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) received the following message by e-mail from a colleague in Zimbabwe: -

“We are finding that adult dogs are coming into the country quite legally, and then being sent to the rural areas - for breeding or hunting.  These dogs are good quality animals.  Would it be at all possible for you to advise Rescue Centres and other animal welfare societies to send out bulletins to the public advising them not to sell or give their adult dogs to people they don’t know, should they be emigrating or wishing to hand over their dog for whatever reason.  In fact to be very careful who they sell puppies to.  I know it’s a hard one, but perhaps people are not aware that their pet is being sold on to people who cannot afford to look after them properly.”

This message comes shortly after a report in the Herald newspaper that “Notorious murderer and former psychiatric patient Trevor Nel has launched a “front company” that claims to find loving homes for abandoned dogs, when in reality he is training Alsatians to be vicious killers, used in brutal dog fights, while using smaller dogs as “bait”. For the past several weeks, he has placed an advert in The Herald‘s sister publication Weekend Post saying: “Call me if you are needing a good home for your Maltese or Fox Terrier or Alsation. Phone 078-6838268”.”

The NSPCA cannot emphasise sufficiently that people with dubious motives (to say the least) actively trawl the Internet, classified advertisements and other means of offering animals “free to a good home.” Investigations by the NSPCA revealed that brokers sourced dogs, undertaking to find them homes on plots, when in reality they were being sold as security dogs and transported to countries further north in Africa.

If anyone is unable to keep a pet, for whatever reason, please think carefully and consider not only all the options but the potential consequences of what option is being considered. Be realistic and act in the interest of the animal itself. Once it has been handed over or even “sold” there can be no turning back or legal redress if the animal finds its way to Zimbabwe or worse.

SPCAs will not turn away any animal being donated. Concerted efforts are made to find suitable and permanent homes for animals. Pre-home checks are undertaken, legal adoption agreements signed and all animals homed are sterilised.

The reality of what happens to giveaway pets is harsh but needs to be kept in mind.
 

EXPOSED

11/4/2009 11:16:55 AM
NEW SCAM - BE ALERT!!!
Please can you put on your web site the current scam on teacup terriers, they say that they have moved to Botswana and just need the airfare to ship the puppy over. Once you have dep the money, they need more money for quarantine, This is big, I lost R3000.00, and found another three operators on gum tree, all basically saying the same thing.

 

URGENT APPEALS

10/12/2011 2:55:46 PM
We have all come from all over, with no hope or any future and... now finally, we are living here at Uitsig Animal Rescue Centre.

There are lots and lots of us here, and we are all waiting for our forever homes.

It costs lots and lots and lots and lots of money every month to look after us all and we cost more money than these kind people have so we would like to ask if you could kindly sponsor one of us every month until we find our homes. We would be very very grateful if you could commit to a monthly amount, every cent helps, so that we can be looked after and have all the things we never had, like a full tummy, a safe soft bed, to go to the doctor if we need to...and all our injections and our baths so that we don't have ticks and fleas..!

The lady said that its very difficult every month to give us what we need because there is never more money but always a few of us that need that little bit of extra to help get big and strong again.

We don't have a family yet to pay for us so can you please please please help us?

If you would like to become a sponsor to an animal, please email heidi.uitsig@gmail.com
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7/28/2011 8:46:46 PM
I'm appealing to you all to please help me in collecting blankets for the baby baboons in the C.A.R.E Rehabilitation Centre, in Phalaborwa. I am a friend of the owner Irene Mckenzie, and she has asked my help in possibly collecting blankets for the new born baby baboons (please see attached pic). The little babies are freezing while we sit at home with our heaters and electric blankets :-(  Please help me if you can, looking for new or second hand blankets, must be machine washable please? If you have any or know of someone who has, please email me. Please pass this email on, as the more blankets we get the better for the little ones:-) If you would like to chat to Irene directly, please call her on 0836593727. Thanking you in advance:-) Candice Kempster
candyk@metroweb.co.za
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