Where BigMacs used to be served, animals are getting medicine.
I want to tell you about a unique McDonald’s. Not the food – what is happening inside it. In the earthquake zone in Caracas in Venezuela, a group of volunteer vets and doctors has turned a McDonald’s restaurant into a temporary animal clinic. Where the tables used to be, animals are receiving medical treatment, care […]
Please help this brave disabled dog get moving again
Brave, disabled Skippy urgently needs a doggy wheelchair. This joyful two-year-old greyhound mix has only his back legs fully functioning. Yet every morning, he wakes eager to greet his friends, visit the dogs in the rehabilitation kennels and explore the rolling lawns of our partner, Rural Animal Care (RAC), in Harare, Zimbabwe. Skippy desperately wants […]
They brought the building down on top of Cacique. He walked out alive.
When we met Cacique, he looked completely dazed. This little cat had survived Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes. His building did not. It was so badly damaged it had to be brought down deliberately, in a controlled demolition. Nobody believed anything could still be alive inside. Then, after the dust settled, he was found in the rubble […]
Dogs and cats in Ukraine trapped under Russian bombardment are running out of time
As you read this, animals are trapped in the town of Druzhkivka, just eight miles (13 kilometres) from some of the heaviest fighting in Ukraine. Their families have fled for their lives, leaving them behind with no food, no safety and death raining down from the sky. A town full of animals under constant attack. […]
Tanzania’s donkeys are running out of food, water and time
URGENT UPDATE: We still haven’t reached our goal to rush emergency relief to donkeys facing a DOUBLE disaster in Tanzania. Your gift today can help deliver the feed, water and vaccinations they desperately need to survive. Please help NOW. A devastating drought has left 1,200 working donkeys in the artisanal Mgusu gold-mining community starving, while […]
$1=$2! Your gift today will be doubled to help tropical island’s cats
We have some great news: a generous donor has offered to match every gift to help sterilize the homeless cats and dogs of La Digue – up to £5,000 ($6,700). So if you give today, your donation will be doubled. In Seychelles, beautiful but remote islands in the Indian Ocean, street animals are on their […]
700 animals are arriving — but their home isn’t finished
More than 700 rescued animals urgently need your help. Friend Animal Foundation (FAF), Zimbabwe’s largest no-kill animal rescue, is home to 450 dogs and puppies, 200 cats and kittens, and over 50 rescued farm animals. Every one of them has a sad story. Some were abandoned. Others were abused. Many arrived starving, injured or terrified. […]
600 aftershocks and the animals are still not safe
When the earth shook in Venezuela, buildings fell in seconds. Families ran for their lives. And dogs and cats were left trapped in the rubble. Some are buried under broken concrete. Some are limping through ruined streets. Some are crying out from collapsed homes, terrified, injured and alone. This is the hidden suffering after disaster. […]
You can help save donkeys from slaughter in Kenya
Emma and Ziggy were both heavily pregnant when traffickers seized them for the donkey skin trade in Kenya. Cramped into a truck and headed for slaughter, they – and their unborn foals – were mere hours away from death. But thanks to the compassion of supporters like you, their story did not end in tragedy. […]
Thousands of cats will be slaughtered in New Zealand – with prizes for who kills the most
Right now, in the rural farming community of North Canterbury, New Zealand, hunters are sharpening knives and loading rifles – ready for a weekend of blood-sport (10-12 July). Their target? Cats. As many as possible because for each cat they kill, they get a bounty. This is the North Canterbury hunting competition – an annual […]