Dog Saviors Projects
Veterinary Assistance
Veterinarians can be very expensive, and often only the pet owners with "discretionary" funds can afford to treat ailing pets. Many are not able to afford the costs of veterinary treatment, and as a result their pets do not receive the care they need. Our Veterinary Assistance Project will:
Veterinarians can be very expensive, and often only the pet owners with "discretionary" funds can afford to treat ailing pets. Many are not able to afford the costs of veterinary treatment, and as a result their pets do not receive the care they need. Our Veterinary Assistance Project will:
- Accept requests for financial assistance
- Manage specific giving campaigns
- Negotiate with veterinarians and veterinary clinics
- Preliminary phase budget $10,000. Ongoing budget $50,000+ per year, to help as many dogs as possible.
- Develop a registry of cooperating veterinarians who will discount costs for needy patients.
- Build shelters to care for the stray dog population of Lima, Peru.
- Educate the public about suffering of stray dogs, and about the benefits to society of having a healthy and cared-for dog population.
- Preliminary phase budget $20,000; Construction phase budget $50,000; Management phase budget $20,000 per year
- These people and dogs need our help -- In Peru there is very limited help, there is not much culture for animals within the government, they help the sick and the poor, but they are able to speak. The animals -- they cannot speak.
- Develop a rodenticide poisoning prevention educational program. For example, Bromethalin rodenticide toxicity, more commonly referred to as rat poisoning, occurs when a dog becomes exposed to the chemical bromethalin, a toxic substance that is found in a variety of rat and mice poisons.
- Even with protected bait stations, dogs may eat dead rodents and become poisoned. Bromethalin and other second generation rodenticides are poisonous to cats, dogs, horses, birds and wildlife.
- We will investigate, discuss and publish alternative rodent controls, and describe symptoms and treatment of rodenticide poisoning.
- Budget: $10,000
- One solution: Senestec ContraPest rat fertility control.
- Other options include sanitation, exclusion (seal the holes), mechanical (traps, monitors), biological (predators), to minimize lethal chemical methods.
- California Assembly Bill No. 1788 prohibits the use of the four major Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) awaiting re-introduction in the next legislative session (California Rodenticide Ban Dies in State Senate)
- Many dogs are returned to shelters when their adoptive owners are unable to deal with the dog's behavior.
- Abused and abandoned dogs can be highly stressed, and being housed in shelters does not rehabilitate them.
- New adoptive owners need to be trained in order to reduce the numbers of dogs repeatedly returned to shelters. New owners need to expect a period of adjustment, set boundaries, get on a schedule, and assume the new pet has no training.
- There are many educational resources available. We will publish links, reviews and analysis of various training programs to educate new adopters of rescue dogs.
- Budget: $10,000
- Avoid Returning a Dog to the Animal Shelter -- How to ask for help
- Returning a Rescue or Shelter Dog -- Prepare yourself to avoid returning a dog
- The 3-3-3 Rule -- Things you should do before adopting a rescue dog
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