Mercy Call

Forest Pups - An old man's worry
As many of us know, it has been raining for the past few weeks in Singapore. The wind and rains are particularly strong in the forested areas. One day, an 80 year old man was taking his routine walk when he heard a yelp – sounding like a piteous cry for help from a far distance. He was curious and began walking through the difficult wood to search for that cry. It resulted in 45 mins of tedious hunt in a heavily forested area, hurting himself through dead trees, snagged by pricky thorns, thick undergrowth and multilayered canopy dominated by large trees and accumulations of dead leaves and rotten wood.

The forest - where no man dares tread.

The kind old man finally saw a lonely mommy dog with her 8 pups trapped by dead logs in the dense forest. As there was no way for him to remove the logs, he went home and brought along a chisel, an axe and trowel to start removing the logs and making small pathway for the mommy and pups to walk. As he is old and did not have help, the old man spent one full day removing all the obstacles to rescue the family. He carried the pups and made a makeshift shelter for them to rest and went off to cook a simple meal for them to eat.

Hungry mommy

Mommy watching over her pups in the makeshift nursing room

Makeshift shelter, a boon during the rain

Nursing mommy and her remaining pups

As age is catching up, the old man suffered a terrible backache and fatigue; he was sick for many days and was unable to get out of bed. As he lived alone, there was no one to care for him, much less cook for the dogs. The mommy was hungry and started bringing her pups to the deep forest to search for food which resulted in 3 deaths as they were either starved to death or crushed by the falling dead trees.

Mommy carrys her pup

out in search of food

The old man carrying the pups back to safety - his daily routine as the pups are hungry and roam blindly for food.

The old man is pleading for kind souls who have the space and love at home to give the puppies a chance in life to call it their home as well. Right now we are trying to help him rehome them since they are very young and when time is right, we will have mommy sterilized, if we can get near enough her to catch her. Many have suggested to the old man to bring the pups to SPCA as there are so many others out there also looking for home, the chances for these to find one will be dim. We are as torn on how to help him but we will try this avenue first.

Spare a thought for the innocent Forest Pups
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If anyone is able to help and wishes to view and adopt the puppies, please call HP: 9765 9951 or email to alim0703@yahoo.com.sg.

These are the Forest Pups. There are now five left. Please note that these pups will grow into medium size thus they are not HDB approved breed

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Please Help Cat with Half Her Face Gone!!!
Open Appeals

http://www.catwelfare.org/node/2314

Lara was found with half her face missing, rotting and smelling very very awful. The smell was so bad that the vet had to put on vic's vapourub on her mask while in surgery and still the smell seeped through.

She was missing for 2 weeks before she appeared when the feeder went on her feeding rounds. She was very skinny and hungry, trying to eat, but was unable to as the pain must be terrible. Managed to trap her and sent her to the vet. She has been a cat at Little India for many years and was only recently sterelised about 2 months ago. Its not fair that she has to end up this way. Seeing that she is still trying to eat and has such strong surviving spirit, decided to bring her to the vet and see how it goes.

The vet had to do 2 surgeries to take off the dead skin on her face. Half of her nose is gone, her lower eyelid and some part of the mouth. After the first surgery, she began eating on her own the third day and has gone on from strength to strength. For the second surgery, the vet put a tube through her oesophagus directly to her stomach so she can be tube fed and her face wouldn't be dirtied which may cause further infections.

She would need multiple surgeries to reconstruct her face. Parts of it which do not have skin for the new tissue to grow will will be vulnerable to infections. She also need daily cleaning for her face, which she is tolerating quite well! She also needs to be indoor after this, so she would need a home too. So far the hospital bill is coming up to $1000 and she will still need to stay there for quite awhile. The vet estimate that she would need another $1000 at least and more for the reconstruction of her face.

I'm looking after many cats at the Little India area and has already brought many of them to the vet. If you could help with Lara's medical bill, or a home for her, please contact me at 9397 8890, or you can email me at vik_pet@ymail.com. I don't have regular email access so may be slow in my reply.

Lara is currently at Animal Docters, Ang Mo Kio Ave 4, Blk 108 #01-96 Tel: 6451 4531

Thank you.

Cat Welfare Society

DOGS for Adoption

Name: Babette

Gender: Sterilised Female

Age: 12 months

Cross Breed

Good and gentle with people, children and cats too

Babette is very outgoing, lovable and alert girl. She gets along well with cats and dogs alike, and enjoys a good game of 'catch-me-if-you can'.

A strong will to live, Babette is the only one in her litter of nine puppies to be rescued from the sandpile. 3 others have passed on due to malnutrition, the other surviving siblings including her mummy and daddy rely on stray feeders on their daily meals.
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