Jeannie

This is Jeannie, she is the dog that got me involved in CLAWS.
I found her on the road, hungry, covered in mange, open sores and looking for food.  I fed her and left town, but i couldn't get her out of my mind.
I took her home after finding her owners a week later, they did not want her anymore.
Her pups from the previous year that also lived at the house where she was were not able to be saved.  They were undernourished and sick with no sufficient shelter.
I brought her home and nursed her.
She got a uterine infection, we then rushed her to Piketberg for a historectomy to save her life.
She was pregnant and not strong enough to give birth, the pups that were still inside her had to be removed.  Unfortuantely Jeannie did not survive her depression after the operation.  She knew that her pups were gone. 
She was much loved and cared for in her final days,  We were told to give her one week, we gave her three.
She will be missed by us all here at Oudrif and Clanwilliam as she mothered many of the dogs in town.

She leaves behind a new start for the animal welfare society and a huge wake up call to the needs that are really out there that we do not always get to see.  To prevent the same thing happening again we run mass sterilization drives anually.