Please take note of our new banking details:

• CLAWS Capitec Bank
• Clanwilliam
• Acc number : 126 545 9728
• Branch : 47 00 10

Contact Number:

027 482 2397

Sterilisation Drive Monday 23 May - Wednesday 25 May 2011

We are doing a sterilisation drive next week and we desparately need some blankets and volunteers.It's a great way to see what we do.
Please let us know if you are keen. So far we have two coming up from Cape Town

Winners for the draw

First Prize goes to Andrew Torr

Second Prize  Paul Pretorius

Third Prize Sandy and Wayne Atrill

Lend a Hand :)

Clanwilliam Animal Welfare Society is Selling raffle tickets to fund a mass sterilisation drive that is taking place on 23 and 24 May.

CLAWS provides low-cost or free animal health and welfare services to the local community and farms in the greater Clanwilliam area.

Our mission is

* To reduce the number of suffering domestic animals in the greater Clanwilliam area.

* To achieve this by running clinics, vaccination programmers, mass-sterilisation drives and animal health and welfare education.

We have 3 great prizes to win; all you have to do is buy a raffle ticket for ONLY R10 to enter the draw that will take place on 26^th March.

The first Prize is two nights accommodation at Oudrif for two adults

Environmentally friendly lodge situated on the banks of the Doring River.

“At Oudrif there is always room for wonderment” New York Times

http://www.oudrif.co.za/

 

The second Prize is a one night stay at Boschkloof Swemgat for two adults

Boskloofswemgat is a beautiful small farm in the unspoiled Boschkloof Valley, situated on the banks of the Jan Dissels River with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.

www.boskloofswemgat.co.za

The third prize is R300 hair care at a local salon

The tickets are sold at R10 each

The draw will take place on 26^th March 2011; all winners will be contacted via a phone call and an e-mail.

Thank you and Good Luck

Jeanine Mitchell

Chairperson

For more information please visit us at

www.clanwilliamanimalwelfare.blogspot.com

clawsclanwilliam@gmail.com

027 482 2397

Clinic Day with Dr Dave

Hello All

I brought along some enthusiastic helpers to the clinic yesterday, Jacolien and Margie came to help with sorting and filling out books and making up a database of patients.

Margie although pregnant was still keen to wash dogs even with morning sickness that lasts the whole day!  Jacolien made great sandwiches for breakfast as Dr Dave and Samuel are always hungry and don’t seem to do breakfast on the run.  They both helped to clean before the end of the day.  Jacolien's Birthday today!

 She is 21 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOLIEN!

Ivan was a great help, he is very keen to work and he works hard! He helped Samuel to pack and unpack Dr Dave’s vehicle, washed and dipped dogs and helped to set up in the morning and pack up at the end of the day.

By 8am we had the clinic up and running, we’d cleaned and arrange it for surgery.

Thanks to Anna we have power as my lead was too short- we must buy a multiple socket plug as ours does not work anymore! Anna also came in later to help with the patients and phone the owners when they were ready to go home.

Tannie Betty supplied the much need power for lights and the aircon!

Without the Aircon from Lynn and Anton we would not have made the day as it was hot and humid!!  They also helped to get an extra table in for Dave so he has plenty of space to put things down on!

By the time Dr Dave arrived the building was ready, clean and cool.

Bill bought and installed a light for the clinic and Dr Dave was thrilled to have the biggest brightest cool light that we could find.  Bill also donated a small divider that was originally donated by Paddy Herbert for the surgery, now Dr Dave can have some privacy!  It looks great.

Riana did a good job with appointment and we only had one no-show which was filled up really quickly. The back up system works very well! It is great to have a full list it make the vets visits worth it!

Lizette arrived to lend a hand too; she was ready and full of energy to help where needed. Her interest and enthusiasm is great and contagious.  Lizette has also adopted the Peahen that was rescued from a small cage last week. She washed and dipped and showed no fear even when the pit bull’s really showed her they did not appreciate the dip being sprayed onto their bodies! BRAVO!

Cheryl donated a few garden chairs for the garden, now the patients can sit under the tree while their beloved pets can be washed and dried while they wait.  The heat gets to a few owners too and the shaded seat with a glass of cold water to revive them does wonders!

Cheryl originally wanted to adopt the peahen but as she is in town and the peahen would wonder in her nursery we soon learnt it would probably not work as they are know for rearranging gardens and perching on vehicles J

Mariette Dr Dave’s wife was efficient as always and works very hard at keeping Dr Dave’s papers and accounts in order.

She was very excited when Georgia arrived with their lunch! Georgia had put together a great picnic style lunch for the surgery team!  They loved it well done.  Mariette liked it so much she insisted on keeping the big box of goodies on her lap even for the drive home when most of it was enjoyed already!  Much to Dr Dave’s confusion as to why ‘women’ must have so many things on their laps and positioned around them wile in the passenger seat of a single cab!

Georgia is in the process of looking for a young keen community member to send for training as an SPCA inspector to work for us.

Our sign is up!

Lou came to bring in the rescue kitten from last year for his operation and put up the CLAWS sign outside the lodge for us!

Finally it’s up now people can see where we are, but we’ll need to do more work on bringing them in!

After a long day I arrived home at 7:30pm, I dropped off a few forgotten booklets from the clinic and three patients from a farm.

It felt good as we did well yesterday and I’m happy that we had so much help, I hope that in the next months to come we will have just as many keen honest  people to lend a hand! 

This month I managed not to break anything on Bill’s vehicle…

Thank you to all of the members you did well! 

Without you none of this would be possible!

 I look forward to working with you and reaching many animals and educating many people about them.  Have a great weekend!

We have booked the next sterilisation drive!

                                11 and 12 April 2011!

We are still collecting funds to pay for the drive and any donations will be welcome.

We sterilize 80 animals in two days and this in turn prevents about 9600 pups/kittens being born!

New Clinic!

The end of December we gave notice at our previous building to save funds to go towards the next sterilisation drive.

We don’t have a vet in Clanwilliam and the community cant help us pay the rent for the building of R1500 per month.

Well the Massonic Lodge jumped to our rescue and gave us a room with a bathroom and a kitchen attached to use for free!

All we had to do was fix it…



Carpets lifted now for the floor!


We lifted the carpets and painted the floors white! This caused some concern at first but it all made sense when it come to hygiene.

We put in security and cleaned up the premesis.

We now have a yard in which we can wash and dip the dogs when they arrive and this will make a huge difference in the general health and maintanace of the animals!

Every two weeks they can come for mange treatment, deworming and a wash and dip for R10.

Sending the dogs home clean makes a huge difference – and they feel great especially in this heat.  We wont be doing it in winter!

We even have a tree for the dogs to sit under while they are waiting for the vet to assist them.

The first day was challenging as the first day of most projects are…

We lights and aircon we not quite what we had hoped and we hope that we will be able to get it done before the vet come again on the 3^rd of March 2011.

It was so hot but we were really busy!

Then Mariaan from walked in needing treatment for her dog and announced that we have a storey in the local news paper!  YAY!

Here it is in the local lingo Afrikaans:

CLANWILLIAM:   CLAWS (Clanwilliam Animal Welfare Society)? het teen die einde van 2010 benoude oomblikke beleef toe hul dat hul nie oor die nodige fondse beskik om voort te gaan nie en heel moontlik hul deure sal moet sluit.   CLAWS is 'n welsynsorganisasie en hoofsaaklik afhanklik van skenkings. 

Dié laekoste organisasie kon nie langer hul huidige huurgeld van R1 500 per maand bekostig nie en het gevoel dat hul die geld beter kon aanwend met 'n eenmalige kliniek elke jaar.  Die kliniek was slegs een maal per maand oop en op die dae het daar nie genoeg fondse ingekom om die huurgeld vir die maand te dek nie.  Om die deure te sluit sou egter die groter deel van die gemeenskap benadeel omdat die meeste kliënte nie oor die nodige fondse beskik om elders na veeartse te gaan nie.  Dit sou ook beteken dat dit waarvoor die lede van CLAWS so geveg het verniet was en die dorp se diere weereens agteruit sou gaan.

'n Wonderwerk het intussen gebeur en die kliniek het 'n nuwe heenkome gevind in 'n gedeelte van die Massonic Lodge in Parkstraat, beter bekend as die Vrymesselaars en die gebou langs die Hervormde Kerkgebou.   Die gedeelte wat voortaan deur CLAWS gebruik gaan word, word gratis aan hul gegee en die organisasie het nou die geleentheid om fondse op te bou sodat hul 'n beter diens aan die gemeenskap kan lewer.

Die kliniek sal steeds die eerste Donderdag van elke maand oop wees.   Hul bied 'n laekoste diens ten bate van dieregesondheid en -welsyn aan die plaaslike gemeenskap en plase in die Clanwilliam omgewing.   Hier word sterilisasies en inentings gedoen en diere word vir interne en eksterne parasiete behandel.   Twee keer per maand bied die kliniek behandeling vir brandsiek honde aan en hul hou ook jaarliks een of twee massa sterilisasieveldtogte.   Daarbenewens bied hul ook jaarliks  'n massa inentingsprogram aan.   Lede van CLAWS besoek voorheen benadeelde gebiede in die dorp en plase om die algemene gesondhied en welsyn van diere in die gebiede na te gaan.

Dienste wat deur CLAWS aangebied word is in belang van die hele Clanwilliam gemeenskap en nie net vir die voorheen benadeelde gebiede nie.   Indien die organisasie in die toekoms beter vaar, sal die hele Clanwilliam by hul dienste baat.   Lede van CLAWS probeer van hul kant alles in hul vermoë doen om 'n beter lewe te gee aan elke dier in die omgewing.

'n Beroep word op die gemeenskap van Clanwilliam gedoen om die organisasie te ondersteun en by te dra waar hul kan.   Enige donasies of skenkings ten opsigte van honde en katkos, komberse en kosbakke sal waardeer word.

It has been great!

We also received a donation of R10 000 for our mobile clinic project from Mr Arthur Gillis! Thank you Mr Gillis you are a star!

Mr James Gurney has offered to kit the caravan for us once we purchase one.

There has also been a little bird whispering in my ear that the municipality has got some money to help CLAWS with…

Then we’ll be able to buy a caravan and do another sterilisation drive!

Amazing how things are coming together!