One jab, just ONE every six months. Its that simple...
dear H,thank for your mail and the call, I hope you found a solution to the problem, although its not easy. AWPAs animal transit home is full to the brim with unfortunate pets who have been abandoned and overburdening them should be your last resort. the contact numbers you can try are
Mrs. Hemantha Jayatilake President AWPANo. 38, Nelson Place Colombo 06 Tel: 94-11-2587210
Mrs Y.Samarawickrama Hony. Secretary AWPANo. 294, Park Road,Colombo 05,email: sammy@eureka.lk
Ranjit Samarasinghe 53/19, Torrington Avenue,Colombo 7 email:ranjitksam@hotmail.com
Shiona Weerasekera 28, E.A.Cooray Mawatha,Colombo – 6 Tel 94-11-2360026 after 6.00pmEmail:shiona_r_w@yahoo.com
Pls consider taking the mother dog for a Depo jab once in six months - it costs about 150 /- to 200/ = and she wont conceive again( provided you make a note in your diary and continue it every six months for perhaps about 5 years ). You could invest in having her sterilized but that costs about Rs 3000/- and is not really worth it if she gets run over the next week or something.
I know Im being rather cold and practical but Im really fed up with the animals population at home although i do love them all. theres a fine line between having a few furry companions and being run over by the things and I think I have reached it.....meanwhile , my sympathies, I know the situation you are in.
I do wish citizens would take it upon themselves to keep their neighborhood bitches sterilized - if each Colombo human would invest about 400/- a year on sterilizing JUST one cat or dog in the neighborhood there would be no dog or cat problem.
But the dear sentimental local Buddhists (and Im one too , but Im a very nasty practical Buddhist -) insist that messing with someone's fertility is a crime; in a convoluted way perhaps it is, because we are messing with their right to suffer, which by the law of Karma they should be fully allowed to experience....Im personally accept them suffering as long as I dont have to watch it , thats my problem.
sorry i sound jaded, Im not one of those saints who find higher meaning in this sort of thing... watching stray canines walking around chewing holes in their maggoty skins and with their rotting gonads dragging behind them in the dust... is not my idea of Paradise Island!
Didnt someone famours say -a country is only as civilised as how it treats its animals- I guess this means we are a very, very backward race , contrary to our nationalistic sentiment...
all tha best with your kind efforts & keep me posted,then,
regards,
Chandrika
Dear Chandrika,
My name is H and I got your contact details from S, when I was asking around for details of a dog shelter around Colombo. There is a stray dog and her 6 puppies (1-month old) at our place. We have now more or less adopted the mother and can give away 1-2 of the puppies to neighbours. But don't know what to do about the rest. Do you know of a place where we can hand them over? They haven't been given any injections. It'll be great if you can help me with this.
Thanks,H
posted by aljuhara @ 12:58 AM
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Dear H,
raise the puppies till 1 month and give them rabis injection and put an advertisement in Silumina newspaper. I have given many stray cats and dogs by this method. There are many kind hearted people who come to take puppies and kittens.
Hey Bantu thanks for stepping by, and thanks ever so much for the valuable advise! I will indeed try that method!! -Iv got 3 beautiful white socked pups in the drain in front even today and was wondering what to do about them.I cant raise them but I can clean, and inoculate and pass on! the Silumina idea is great!
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