A home sweet home for Sugar
A home sweet home for Sugar
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Little Sugar was brought into TEARS Animal Rescue with a horrific injury. She had been hit by a car and her leg was badly damaged. Known as a degloving injury there was a significant risk of her losing the leg. Sugar underwent numerous surgeries to repair the damaged tissue and skin before the healing process could begin.
TEARS pulled out all the stops for this little sugar-pie but there just wasn’t enough skin to completely close the wound. Also, she was a puppy when she arrived, so she wasn’t always gentle with her leg, reopening the awful wound many times. Treating the remaining wound as an open wound and diligently caring for her it was a long road to recovery. Finally, after many months her leg was healed, and Sugar was ready for her perfect forever-family.
That’s when the Palha family from Plumstead spotted little Sugar at an Adoption Day at Cavendish, and their daughter Zarah fell in love. Zarah had been begging for a dog of her own since she was 16.
“I finally got my own dog, Sugar, when I was 21,”
says Zarah. Her dad says that Sugar was the dog Zarah was meant to have and that’s why it took so long!
“Sugar is the best dog and my favourite person,”
says Zarah.
“She loves going on walks. She especially loves the green belt near our house, and she loves playing in water.”
The family also adopted Landon from TEARS and the two dogs are best friends.
“Sugar loves playing with her friend Landon,”
says Zarah. Now, these two lucky dogs live a wonderful life together with a family that loves them.
At first glance Sugar’s story seems tragic and filled with pain. However, dogs don’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. They just get on with it, don’t look back and certainly don’t complain. Every dog has a story, and with every story at TEARS there is hope. Are you waiting or looking for your Sugar? There is a story waiting for you to be part of its ending.
Sugar safe and loved
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Brave Sugar before being rescued
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TEARS website: www.tears.org.za
TEARS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TEARSAnimalRescue/
TEARS Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tearsanimalrescue/?hl=en.
Sugar and Landon
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ABOUT TEARS ANIMAL RESCUE:
TEARS is a pro-life, non-profit organisation established in 1999 (registered in terms of Section 18A of the Income Tax Act) whose core aim is to rescue, treat, rehabilitate, reunite, and rehome lost, abandoned, abused, and neglected companion animals and to educate pet owners and the youth living in the four under-resourced communities within which we operate.
We strive to meet the needs of the under-resourced communities in the Southern Peninsula by providing:
● free sterilisations and subsidised medical support that includes vaccinations, deworming, and parasite control
● access to two TEARS mobile clinics that offer primary healthcare and pet care support.
● Access to the TEARS Veterinary Clinic, offering veterinary care for vulnerable pets for almost any condition, illness, or injury at a welfare rate.
TEARS remains the only facility in the Cape Peninsula’s far South available seven days per week, including an after-hours mobile clinic service from 4.30pm to 7pm with limited veterinary care. TEARS treat the hundreds of animals who need treatment each month for various conditions, illnesses, and injuries.
Our experience enables us to manage the population control of companion animals in these areas, based on available funding, and to reduce the spread of zoonoses as a means of supporting community health and complying to the WHO’s One Health approach to the animal-human interface.
We are partnered with community-based NGOs and community leaders to support vulnerable pets and pet owners living in the four core communities we are mandated to serve. Our Programmes aim to bring about systemic change through strategic interventions based on community involvement and support. Implementing effective animal welfare solutions in high-density and low-income communities has been proven to positively impact human welfare by delivering health, environmental, economic, educational, and social benefits.
