Taken from another forum, the more people who can help the better......
Network For Animals:- (some may find it upsetting)
Dear Friend,
I'm writing to thank you for your support in helping me save over 3,000 dogs last year alone from the untold misery and suffering they would otherwise have experienced at the hands of the illegal dog traders in the Philippines. However, this success has brought with it a different set of problems, namely the danger of running out of facilities to look after the dogs properly.
When we rescue these poor creatures, most are close to death and in a truly horrifying state.
They will have suffered the trauma of being snatched from the streets and tied up, which in the Philippines means forcing their front legs behind their backs and then tied with wire.
Already petrified they will then have a rusty tin can, its edges jagged and cruelly sharp, forced over their soft mouths and noses to form a muzzle. This accomplished they will then be callously tossed into a pile of other poor dogs where they will lie, whimpering with fear, until finally being crammed into cagfes for transportation by lorries to the markets.
These vile traders have absolutely no pity or feelings of shame for the terror and suffereing that they have brought about. To them the dogs are merely a means to an end: money.
But thank God that not all of them get away with it. Thanks to your support our rescue teams, through countless hours of surveillance and undercover work, are able to apprehend some of the vehicles on the way to market.
The feling of absolute joy and euphoria at capturing the traders and saving their cargo of misery sadly lasts only a few minutes - until the tarpaulins are pulled back and the extent of the suffering can be seen.
Forced into cages some of the dogs will have been lucky enough to find themselves on the outer edges - pushed up against the bars where they would have managed to get enough air to breathe. Others who wer not so lucky will have found themselves crushed in the middle, there to die a slow, lingering death by suffocation.
Freed from their cages and the wires cut from their legs, they will be brought backk to our shelter where vets and nurses will tend to their injuries. Legs that have been dislocated by being forced behind their backs will be re-set. Bleeding muzzles will be cleaned and tended to and some with more serious problems will be operated on. All rescued dogs will be given rabies and distemper vaccinations, mange treatment and a de-ticking de-fleaing bath.
Caring for them takes love, dedication , money and shelters to look after them. We have lots of love, lots of dedicated people, but what we desperately need are more shelters with operating theatres, intensive care areas, and space to house the dogs until suitable homes can be found.
At the moment, thanks to help from friends like you, our success in saving these dogs has been truly remarkable but in some areas of the country, especially in the heartland of the dog meeat trade, we have no shelters at all. So that means we have to build them.
We can't fail these poor creatures now after all they've been through. And we won't.
We've bitten the bullet and decided to invest in a cpmpletely new dog shelter to be constructed at the BSU College of Veterinary Medicine in Baguio which wil serve as both a shelter for stray dogs as well as thosewe've rescued from traders.
This shelter will be the first of its kind in the Baguio region, which is right in the middle of the dog meat trade. this will enable us to do all of the thing we have up until now only dreamed about. But of course it is a major commitment and not one that we take lightly.
Even though many people involved in the project will be giving their time for free, it still amounts to a large sum of money. But when I htink of all the good that will come from it, I know I must find a way.
I know that with help from friends and other kind hearted peopole like you, we will build a shelter worthy of the poor animals that find themselves in need of it.
When the shelter is built, it's my intention to list in a 'Patron's book' to be housed there, all those who have helped and I would dearly love to add your name.
Please help me to do this for the animals that so desperately need it.
On behalf of the animals, once again, thnk you.
Brian Davies
Network for Animals founder.
I'm sorry for such a long post, but I really hope some of you here are able to help, every penny makes a difference!
Donations can be sent to br]
FAO Brian Davies
Network for Animals
PO Box 2955
Melksham
SN12 6YR
Registered no. 2565898
Website -
www.networkforanimals.orgThanks for looking
