There, on the grassy edge of a winding path, a 3 month old puppy is tied to a post on a rusty chain. Her owner is sitting beside her on a tree stump, pounding laundry in a plastic bath. “Good morning!” The woman, looks up, frowning. No answer. “Can I ask why your...

There is an attack on two dogs at 2.00 am on a Sunday morning. The dogs are female Greyhounds, mother and daughter, living in a house in the notorious Elf Street, close to Lulu’s Tavern. The daughter, Rover, barely a year old, is deeply slashed on the side of her...

Two puppies are brought to our Thursday afternoon Outreach by a child of no more than six. The pups have a fever, inflamed eyes, a watery discharge from the nose and a yellow, jaundiced appearance to skin, gums and ears. We are flummoxed. The signs are confusing. The...

He works under cover of night when everyone is sleeping. Except the dogs. The dogs are on duty, outside, protecting family and property, as dogs do. Our message to dog owners is simple. Bring your dogs indoors at night where they are safe, where they will keep you...

Late in the afternoon we receive a desperate message from a man confined to a wheelchair, reduced to sitting looking through a road-facing window. He has been listening to a bird screaming all day. “There’s a Giant African Heron hanging upside down, high in a tree in...

She came slowly plodding to the field, a makeshift lead around her throat, both eyes so badly encrusted with scabs, she was almost blind. She was also heavily pregnant, belly bulging with unborn pups. The boy who led her is one we know; a young gap-toothed child...