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Multi-speciality Care for Pawsomes
Street dogs arrive with road trauma, tumours, mange and disease that often need soft-tissue or orthopaedic surgery and months of recovery. The dog kennel admits 85 to 100 patients at a time.
Overview
A ward for the ones that need months, not minutes
Every day the trust takes in dogs with severe wounds, illness and disease — road accidents, lipoma, tumours, cancer, haematoma, ascites, abscesses, tick fever, mange, flea allergies, and more besides, all of it from living on the street. Eating what is left in a bin gives them poor health and low immunity to go with it.
Many of these cases need surgery: soft tissue, orthopaedic, or something smaller. Depending on how the healing goes, a case can take more than a month to recover fully, and through all of it a patient needs monitoring, check-ups, dressing and bandaging, physiotherapy, round-the-clock medication and a balanced, nutritious diet. That is what the trust built its dog kennel for: 85 to 100 patients admitted and treated at a time. This project funds the treatment and welfare of those indoor stray dogs through the year.
- 85
- Patients admitted at a time, at least
- 100
- At full capacity
Challenge and solution
What puts a dog in the kennel, and what gets it out
The challenge
- Communities do not know enough about these animals, and the animals suffer for it.
- Health that deteriorates because nobody was paying attention.
- Cruelty that is rising, and myths that drive it.
- Natural habitat lost to urbanisation and new construction.
- Fatal road accidents, as the traffic keeps increasing.
What the kennel does
- Treats every homeless, ownerless stray that needs it.
- Admits the injured and diseased so they get close monitoring, regular treatment, physiotherapy and dressing rather than a single visit.
- Provides proper medication, a balanced diet and the care that makes recovery quick.
- Spreads awareness through the work itself.
Long-term impact
What a confined ward makes possible
Close monitoring in a confined treatment area improves a patient's health rapidly, and specialist staff can deal with a complication the moment it appears. Regular bandaging and medication heal a wound faster; pre- and post-surgery care makes the improvement something you can measure. Nothing seasonal or zoonotic spreads from one affected dog to a whole community. Healthy, happy dogs mean people and dogs can share a street without worrying about each other.
Healthy and happy dogs mean worry-free co-existence of humans and canines.
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