請對300條生命，伸出你的援手

About 300 stray dogs were rounded up by Pulau Ketam residents and deported
to an isolated island to fend for themselves.

Over half of them are already dead and the remaining ones may not live long.
A rescue mission is being mounted and your help is needed.

Please read the full story here

Updates here

The residents of Pulau Ketam sent some 300 stray dogs to exile on a remote island where the harsh conditions almost certainly guarantee a horrible death. Of the 300 dogs sent there, more than three-quarters are presumed to be already dead. I traveled to the island with Sabrina Yeap of Furry Friends Farm and managed to save only one dog on this reconnaissance trip. We did see several other starving and dying dogs along the mangrove shore.

I am mounting an urgent rescue mission to capture and transport the remaining survivors back to Sabrina's Furry Friends Farm animal shelter. But time is running out and there might be only skeletons and carcasses left to collect on our next trip. Boat hire is expensive there. It is a tourist area and it has already cost me a few hundred ringgit for boat hire alone, so far. The rescued dogs cannot be transported on the regular ferries.

Almost nobody will lift a finger to help without a fee. This is understandable. The locals are already shaking their heads in disbelief that there are outsiders who want to save the animals they so casually discarded. Instead of pointing fingers and antagonising them, we need their co-operation to help save the unfortunate creatures. In the process, we also hope to educate the islanders on better treatment of animals. It would be an impossible mission if we didn't win their hearts.

If you are unable to help directly, please help by forwarding this appeal to other compassionate folks who you feel might be able to make some monetary contributions.

Apart from boat hire, we need money to buy cages, to pay people to help catch them, to hire land transport to send the rescued animals to veterinary clinics, pay for vet fees, send the recovered ones to the shelter and to feed and house them for life. I can go on!

To donate or help, e-mail TV Smith at tvsmith@mycen.com.my or Sabrina Yeap at yeapwen@yahoo.com

Fellow bloggers, you can also help by embedding the appeal poster above to your blog and linking to http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue (this page)

We are aware it is a monumental task and appreciate all forms of support, assistance, suggestions, encouragement and your prayers.

Thank you and don't forget to view the pictures of the dogs in order to appreciate their plight.

Visit also Furry Friends Farm's Blog / Website

TV Smith

3rd May 2009

PS: You can follow the updates here

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看著照片中狗狗的眼神
我的心好痛.....

大家，請對這300條生命，伸出你的援手

捐款處：
Furry Friends Farm
CIMB：1457-000-1182-05-6
or issue a cheque to Furry Friends Farm and mail it to :
Furry Friends Farm
c/o Trimax Photocopy Enterprise
321, Jalan Mahkota
Taman Maluri
55100 Kuala Lumpur
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5/5寫
昨晚看這則新聞的時候
看到第一張照片，我已經忍不住，哭了
還是繼續看下去
到最後是哭得連電腦熒幕也成朦朧一片的那種

我想到在荒島上無助的看著我們的狗狗
我想到為了求生拼命游過大海想要回家的狗狗
我想到在饑寒交迫中走向死亡的狗狗

不只是遙遠孤島上的狗狗
我們身邊隨時都可以看到
在街道上，在市集內
在各種惡劣環境下掙扎著要生存下去的野狗

那些所謂的野狗
是怎么來的？
是不負責任狗主‘創造’出來的
放任家中不結扎的狗狗到外面去溜達
就等于在‘增加野狗數量’上‘幫了忙’

不結扎，放養，棄養
不負責任，不正確的養狗觀念
造成難以收拾，野狗為患的後果
當一手造成的禍患殃及自己的時候
狗，抓到荒島上去，問題解決
狗，抓到土坑里活埋，問題解決

一直都是這樣的
人造成的錯誤，總是由貓狗以它們的生命來扛