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 own. Most of La Digue’s cats have no owners, receive no regular food and have no access to medical care. The animals get no help from the authorities, and islanders who would like to help are often unable to do so because they are poor.

There is no vet on La Digue. If someone has a sick or injured animal, they must make a sea journey to Mahé, the main island, but even once there, veterinary care is limited and very expensive. For many people on the island, it is simply out of reach.

Please don’t miss this chance to make twice the impact for animals in desperate need.

When Network for Animals sent a veterinary team to La Digue earlier this year, we promised to sterilize and treat 200 animals. We were told that would be every street animal on the tiny island.

On the tiny island of La Digue, dogs and cats roam in far greater numbers than anyone realized, living largely unseen and without the care they need. Source: NFA/Byron Seale

The need is far greater than anyone knew.

But when our team arrived on La Digue, we discovered something shocking. There were not 200 street dogs and cats – there were hundreds more.

The authorities had badly underestimated the scale of the problem. We found cat after cat hiding in a dense jungle. There has been a cat population explosion and now no one knows the true number.

We sterilized 209 animals, performed two life-saving emergency surgeries, treated sick dogs in the field and vaccinated them all against dangerous diseases.

We more than kept our promise. But we can’t turn away now that we know the truth about the suffering cats of La Digue. We have to go back to help them.

Whitey came to us during a sterilization campaign, where we discovered her babies had died in utero. Without surgery, she would have died within a couple of days. Source: NFA/Byron Seale

Our first campaign prevented a great deal of future suffering for La Digue’s cats. Every animal sterilized helped prevent more kittens from being born into a terrible life full of sickness and pain. Every vaccination helped protect vulnerable animals from disease. Every sick dog treated was spared needless suffering. Every emergency surgery gave an animal a second chance.

But we now know the truth that one campaign was only the beginning, we must not stop.

Our first campaign on La Digue changed lives. Every treatment, every surgery, every vaccination made a difference. Source: NFA/Byron Seale

The people of La Digue are pleading with us to help more cats.

Since our campaign, islanders have seen what NFA can do. And they are asking us to come back.

We cannot honestly say that one more mission will “finish the job.”

But we can make a much greater impact.

We can return with our veterinary team. We can sterilize more cats. We can vaccinate animals against disease. We can treat sick and injured dogs and cats. We can prevent suffering before it begins. We can help the animals with all they need, but only with your help.

Please help us prevent more kittens from being born into suffering.

Our first mission made a difference. With your support, our veterinary team can return to sterilize, vaccinate and treat even more animals in need. Source: NFA/Byron Seale

Any amount you give today will be doubled. It means that when we return to La Digue, we can sterilize more cats, vaccinate vulnerable animals and treat dogs and cats in urgent need.

Your gift today can do twice as much:

• twice the help for cats before more kittens are born
• twice the life-saving veterinary care
• twice the protection against disease
• twice the hope for animals with nowhere else to turn

 

Please give now while your donation can still be doubled.

Your donation will help cover veterinary staff, surgical equipment, humane cat traps, vaccines, medicines, transport, supplies and the difficult fieldwork needed to find and treat animals in challenging island terrain.

Please donate now and double your impact for the animals of La Digue.