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This is Ah Boy, taking in some Vit D in the mid day sun around Brighton Square. His bright green collar shows us that he has been neutered and vaccinated then returned, all part of our CNVR efforts working with sponsorship from the companies in that area. CNVR stands for Capture, Neuter, Vaccinate and Return.

This is the kind of happy picture everyone would like to see, not a posting telling you that six dogs are about to be euthanised at our shelter because of over crowding. But we had to give everyone a reality check. Most people think, “Fantastic! SSPCA is looking after 200 adults dogs! Great!” but you dont think of the physiclal stress on the animals as well as our Shelter Staff, not to mention the great financial burden of getting RM30,000 a month for running costs.

We have read many posts and received many messages about how heartless we are and all the other things we should be doing. So let us write it here again about all the things we do, everyday, to try and reduce the number of unwanted adult dogs at our shelter. Then maybe you will turn all that negative energy from you keyboard to positive energy and really help us to achieve our goals.

First let me remind you that tomorrow is our Shelter Open Day, and we will have more sheets of the two petitions we are collecting signatures for. One is for a call to the Sarawak Government to adopt the CNVR program as a state wide policy, and the other is to ban the consumption of dog meat in Sarawak. So please come to our Shelter and sign these petitions.

No one is sitting in a high chair at the shelter, playing russian roulette with the dogs lives. But we are not a No Kill shelter, there are actually very few No Kill shelters. Any animal that is brought in too sick or too injured, suffering in pain, is put to sleep. Any animal that tests positive for Distemper is put to sleep as this is international shelter protocol to prevent the whole shelter population from being infected. We don’t have a 14 day policy, which a lot of foreign shelters have, before we decide to euthanise an animal. Indeed, most of ‘residents’ have been with us for two to three years. But we are at a breaking point, we are bursting at our seams, and we need the people of Kuching to step up and help us!

Our shelter is open 7 days a week including public holidays. Public can come between 10am and 4pm to view any animals they wish to adopt. A lot of photos of the dogs have already been posted regularly on this page. We also hold off site adoption campaigns on Sundays, bringing puppies and kittens to public malls so that it is easier for viewing and adoption. Our volunteers sacrifice their weekends for this. Please let us know if you would like to join our adoption sub committee as we certainly need more people!

We have help numerous talks with public and government bodies, conducted workshops on humane dog capture and planning your CNVR program, conducted neutering campaigns with councils, school educational talks – all to create awareness about animal welfare and the importance of neutering you pets, because a lot of people allow their pets to roam the streets while the owners are at work.

We do have our own CNVR programs going, now some are sponsored by developers or businesses in the areas concerned, after we have meetings with the people and explain our rationale. We work with community feeders in these CNVR projects because if we don’t have anyone that can continue to care and feed these animals we cannot release them back to the area. We have had many a house owner complain to the councils if they are not happy with SSPCA releasing the animals back after they have been neutered. Come and register with us as a community feeder, so that we know which area you are in, and you will be the one to tell us how many stray dogs or cats there are in your area, how many puppies were just born, how many females are in your area. We even have neutering voucher lucky draws so that the registered feeder can also help us to get the animals neutered.

Most importantly, we are constantly lobbying to the government to adopt CNVR as a State policy, so that other councils through out Sarawak can work towards reducing the number of strays and free roaming animals there are.

So if you want to really help us, don’t berate us but take your fingers off the keyboards and put on your shoes and pull up your socks and come down and give us a hand!! We hope to see more of you at the shelter tomorrow!! Help find loving homes for each of these animals!

Source: https://www.facebook.com/SarawakSPCA/photos/a.176524749431.1..

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The Sarawak Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believes that animals, as living creatures, have value beyond economic measurement, and are entitled to legal, moral and ethical consideration and protection. The Sarawak SPCA's mission is to act as an advocate on behalf of animals and as an enforcer of their rights; to provide for the well-being of the animals of the State of Sarawak who are abandoned, injured, subjected to unfair or cruel treatment, or otherwise in need; to cultivate in the people of our community an awareness of the animals whose world we share; to promote a bond of mutual assistance between people and animals; and to instill respect for and appreciation of all living things.

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