Our first spaying!

We are very proud to say that we have just completed our first spaying of a stray dog from the TTS/UNMC community, thus launching our TNR (trap-neuter-release) programme!

Blicky!

‘Blicky’, who recently gave birth to a litter of 7 puppies (originally 9, but 2 died shortly after their birth) who have been looked after and adopted out by an amazing group of UNMC students (more on this soon), was spayed this Wednesday, ensuring that she doesn’t contribute any further to the stray dog population in TTS/UNMC, and in Malaysia more generally. She has been returned to her existing territory within TTS (Edusquare) , and is being monitored to ensure that her healing process continues to go smoothly. She was also vaccinated against canine distemper and canine parvo virus, to ensure that she remains healthy and continues occupying her territory and thus prevents more non-spayed dogs from moving in and breeding. We have her marked with a collar/tag to indicate that she has been spayed, although we hope to move to ear-notching as a more permanent marker in future operations.

Her ‘boyfriend’, named ‘Puppy’ by the students in the area Blicky and he occupy, is very happy to have her back, even though we have blocked his ability to become a father to any more of her puppies! He was very upset when we took her to the vet. Blicky and Puppy are looked after and fed by the kind boss of the Edusquare guard team, and in return, they act as guard dogs for Edusquare community.

This spaying operation was made possible by the generous donations made by a number of UNMC staff – THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT! We currently have enough funding pledged for at least 6 more spaying operations, but we need more to make a real difference. If you would like to pledge money towards our TNR programme, please let us know – drop us a comment, or email us at unmcaw(at)gmail.com – and please spread the word about and support for us. We are currently taking pledges (promises of funding), and collecting money gradually/as we use it for operations, until we get a bank account sorted out for the group.

Related:

Blicky (Spay Profile)

Blicky’s Babies

Journal of assisting the strays.

Helping animals aren’t easy, for people to never volunteer before, they probably wouldn’t realize that a lot of efforts are required.

I personally amazed by our friends, both lecturers and students in Nottingham Malaysia through the very first step of Animal Welfare. With zero funding and very little knowledge of dog behavior, we manage to initiate a movement of ‘animal welfare‘, by planning to register under school of modern language and culture, initiated from students across different school under Nottingham, and supportive Lecturer Tessa, and some amazing people from different community aware of our project.

The movement started back in November last year from just a few students posting images and collaborating each other including me coordinating everyone, and come together to help a few dogs who being abused and injured horribly – Ruby, Scarface, Kokoro and within a few months, some of our international students stepped in and started to be more aware of the stray dog issue around their residential community, and amazingly built up a small scale shelter and give in time to take care of these newborn puppies with no funding.

These newborn puppies are still waiting to be adopted over here :

Pet-Finder-Profile

Google Location-Semenyih-Nottingham Malaysia

The group is having an amazing concept to approach and assist Animal Population control from the very bottom, Since both The Corporations and Government are inefficient, First, They don’t invest money and time to do Spaying Project, but keep on catching them and relocate and kill them. They can’t seem to understand the basic concept, dog gets to give birth and resulting a 4-8 puppies at once. They keep on catching which will not help to lower the population.

Therefore, we initiated a Spaying Project firstly from educational institutions and utilize the student force to impact neighborhood society. Although our school Management isn’t supportive in terms of what we are doing, but it is understandable that eventually university is still a kind of complex businesses. We welcome this project to be adopted by different school and society and through education institution, we impact the society around us.