TEARS Animal Rescue Appeals for Support for its Feed Hungry Pets Programme
TEARS Animal Rescue, the Cape Town-based animal rescue non-profit organisation (NPO), needs donations to support its Feed Hungry Pets Programme, which helps families who are struggling to feed their beloved pets. This unique programme provides supplemental feeding to assist families in low-income communities meet their responsibilities. It ensures that pets receive sufficient food and can remain in their homes with the people who love them.
When there’s barely enough to put food on the table, it’s often the dogs that go hungry. Cats are usually a bit more resourceful when left to fend for themselves, though scavenging and hunting is a risky business in urban areas. While neglect can take the form of deliberately not feeding an animal, there’s also the heartbreaking reality of families who love their pets but can no longer afford to feed for them.
Many find themselves in the awful position of having to surrender their animals. Giving up a beloved pet isn’t neglect—it’s sometimes the only option. These families turn to us for help. Pet food insecurity is the leading cause of surrender in low-income communities and TEARS is committed to supporting as many families as possible by keeping pets in loving homes through the Feed Hungry Pets Programme. This also helps to keep space at our shelter for truly neglected animals in desperate need of rescue, treatment, rehabilitation and care.
TEARS Operations Manager, Mandy Store, says, “We’re appealing to the public to help us assist these families and their pets. We all love our pets, so we can imagine how devastating it must be to give them up or watch them go hungry. Supplement feeding supports families who are really struggling and helps keep loved pets in loving homes.”
Now, we’re asking for your help. Your donations in support of our Feed Hungry Pets Programme will help us provide much-needed food for dogs and cats in need. Together we can keep families whole and companion animals happy and healthy.
Thank you for your support.
Those who are interested in donating to TEARS can click here or do so via the TEARS bank account:
Acc Name: TEARS
Bank: Standard Bank Blue Route
Current Bank Account: 072 062 886 / Branch No: 051001
Financial donations to TEARS are tax deductible, with donors receiving a Section 18A tax certificate.
TEARS website: www.tears.org.za
TEARS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TEARSAnimalRescue/
TEARS Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/tearsanimalrescue/?hl=en.
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.
