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Stichting ActieZwerfhonden kvk nr.: 243769620000 Postadres: Rietdijk 1 4316 AR Zonnemaire E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.actiezwerfhonden.nl Rekening:4011891 IBAN:NL62INGB 0004011891 BIC / SWIFT-Code: INGBNL2A

Dedicated to helping the stray and shelter ani-mals in Turkey through financing educational projects in schools, financing and organizing neutering cam-paigns amongst stray dogs and supporting the SHKD forest shelter in Istanbul

An empty pocket

I already informed you that our pockets are empty after paying for;

the neutering campaign in Cunda,

the surgery room equipment for Tatvan (to enable sterilizations), and

the large quantities of anesthetics, intestine medicine and eye drops

which will be used for coming neutering campaigns.

Nevertheless, we do want to continue organizing neutering campaigns and be

able to give a positive respond on the requests for help.

This means that we will have to raise funds more creatively, and need your

help more than ever!

There are a lot of organizations who place dogs in new homes, or help sick

dogs; beautiful initiatives, but spaying/neutering dogs is the only structural

and humane way to put a stop to growing stray dog populations and ending

animal suffering.

The StraydogsCampaign Foundation attacks this problem at the root and

would like to continue this, but we cannot do so without your practical and

financial support!


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Tatvan

As you know, Omer Atis (former veterinary technician of the SHKD) is now

working for the municipality of Tatvan.

He already managed to produce some small miracles. With his help the neigh-

boring municipality of Bitlis is spaying/neutering dogs again, after we organized

some campaigns there and trained some vets.

The municipality of Tatvan is also treating stray animals much better now.

Tatvan is building a spay/neuter centre, but they did not have the money for

necessary equipment.

The StraydogsCampaign Foundation donated the funds for the equipment,

thanks to your support.

The arrival of the equipment was celebrated as even the mayor was present

that day. It is inspiring to see how well Tatvan takes care of their (stray) ani-

mals; which shows a positive side of Turkey.

You can read the whole story, accompanied by the pictures, by clicking here.



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Stichting ActieZwerfhon-den kvk nr.: 243769620000 Postadres: Rietdijk 1 4316 AR Zonnemaire E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.actiezwerfhonden.nl Rekening:4011891 IBAN:NL62INGB 0004011891

Cunda

Our most recent neutering campaign was on the island (peninsula) of Cunda; we re-

ceived the request to spay/neuter the entire population of stray dogs and cats.

Originally this would concern 200 cats and 60 dogs. To make a long story short, Murat

and the rest of the team went to Cunda on March 21st feeling good and optimistic. A

special donor made it possible for us to organize this campaign by donating the re-

maining funds needed.

We received great news on the first day, over 100 animals had been spayed/

neutered!

The second day brought disappointing news; it seemed there were 500 cats on Cunda

instead of 200. Besides the fact that we did not have the funds for these extra

animals, we discovered that the space reserved for aftercare was not sufficient for

even 200 cats and they did not manage to catch enough cats.

However, the cats on Cunda are living a good life. The inhabitants of Cunda are living

of fishery and there is a lot left behind on the docks to feed the cats. The inhabitants

are not bothered by the cats, and the cats are not bothered by the inhabitants.

But it still is an unhealthy situation with such a huge population of cats on such a

small island. And, because of the abundance of food sources, the population is

growing. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for all 500 cats to be spayed/neutered

and we do not want to give up on this!

I will keep on fighting, and hope other people will do so too!

Murat and I are discussing on how to continue.

There are still about 350 cats waiting to be spayed/

neutered. The capacity for aftercare is around 75-100 cats.

We have 3 options:

1st option would be that Murat and Necdet will make 5 trips

to Cunda, each time spaying/neutering around 75 cats;

750 euro for medicine

100 euro fee for Necdet

180 euro plane tickets for Murat and Necdet

1.030 euro each trip makes a total of 5.150 euro

2nd option would be to use the maximum capacity and have

the volunteers find another place for the aftercare, so that

we will make 3 trips spaying/neutering 115 cats each time;

1.150 euro for medicine

100 euro fee for Necdet

180 euro plane tickets for Murat and Necdet

1.430 euro each trip makes a total of 4.290 euro


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Short news We have uploaded new photos to our Facebook page, taken in the Forest shelter.

There is a rumor circling the internet, stating that tics can be removed using

water and soap; do not try this!! You can read about removing tics by clicking

here.

Amending the Turkish animal law 5199 has been postponed until, at least, after

the elections in 2014. In the meantime we managed to convince the “Partij

voor de Dieren” (Dutch animal party) to express their malcontentedness

about the amendment to the Turkish prime minister.

The generous donation of AST Pharma, a quantity of medicine, has arrived in

Turkey. To everyone concerned; THANK YOU!

A child got bitten by a dog in the Sariyer neighborhood (Istanbul). Authorities

claim that investigation shows that the dog had rabies. This is usually the

start of a large scale massacre amongst dogs. How long will it take until peo-

ple realize that vaccinating dogs is much more efficient and the 20.000.000

euro given by the EU to Turkey to control rabies amongst dogs should have

been spent much more efficient…

Robyn from the US, paid a visit to the Forest shelter and wrote about her visit on

her weblog.

3rd option would be that a fellow organization has a trained vet available in the sur-

roundings of Cunda whom we could “borrow”; but I am still investing that option.

This would save us the travel expenses and the fee for Necdet, so that spaying/

neutering all remaining cats would cost around 3.500 euro.

No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing

because he only could do littlebecause he only could do little


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