Animal Welfare Society Port Elizabeth

It is important to remember that animal welfare is the processes and steps taken to ensure a good quality of life for animals. It also means that steps need to be taken to prevent animal suffering or unsatisfactory living conditions. This term is commonly mistaken for animal rights, which is a completely different area. Animal rights means that animals have their own rights, including being able to live and prosper without the interference of human involvement. Animal welfare requires three states that maximize the animal’s quality of life – namely, the physical state, mental state, and naturalness.

Physical state is the health of the animal, and immediate care for beginning symptoms or injuries. The mental state of an animal includes the ability to live without being in fear or having any anxiety. The final state is naturalness, which is basically the ability of an animal to conduct their natural routines and to carry out the tasks that their natural instincts demand that they accomplish.

Click here to meet our staff members at Animal Welfare Society – Port Elizabeth

steps need to be taken to prevent animal suffering or living in unsatisfactory conditions

It is important to remember that animal welfare is the processes and steps taken to ensure a good quality of life for animals. It also means that steps need to be taken to prevent animal suffering or unsatisfactory living conditions. This term is commonly mistaken for animal rights, which is a completely different area. Animal rights means that animals have their own rights, including being able to live and prosper without the interference of human involvement. Animal welfare requires three states that maximize the animal’s quality of life – namely, the physical state, mental state, and naturalness.

Physical state is the health of the animal, and immediate care for beginning symptoms or injuries. The mental state of an animal includes the ability to live without being in fear or having any anxiety. The final state is naturalness, which is basically the ability of an animal to conduct their natural routines and to carry out the tasks that their natural instincts demand that they accomplish.

Click here to meet our staff members at Animal Welfare Society – Port Elizabeth

steps need to be taken to prevent animal suffering or living in unsatisfactory conditions

AWS was founded in 1971

and as a registered NPO, AWS also accepts the “Codes of Good Practice for South African Non-profit Organisations” as recommended by the Department of Social Development.

As an Open shelter, AWS is the only animal society in Port Elizabeth which operates as a pound, offering a safe place for all kinds of unwanted, lost or abandoned animals.

At our shelter in Victoria Drive, Walmer, we run catteries, kennels and also have facilities for livestock such as donkeys, horses, cattle, goats, and sheep; and other animals and birds. We have accepted any animal brought to our door, and also run a 24-hour service to deal with the many cases of cruelty and neglect which are reported to us.

We also provide a much needed facility in terms of an animal crematorium which is a direct benefit to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in terms of reducing landfill costs. We employ 3 full-time inspectors and our entire staff complement is 27, although we are privileged to enjoy the help of volunteers too.

What to do when you find a lost pet

Frequently we find people bringing in a dog or a cat that they found weeks or months before and decided to keep it, only to find that it’s not working out for them.

The tragedy of this is that the legitimate owners have often given up looking for their pet and are heartsore, assuming the worst has happened. It is therefore vital that should you find an animal and be willing to foster it until the owner can be traced, please advise us. All we require is a detailed description of the animal and where it was found as well as your contact details. Should we think we’ve found the owner then pet and owner can be reunited.

Our policy on stray animals

All animals found are logged in our system and advertised during the next 7 days. We usually hold the animal for 14 days to afford their owner the opportunity to claim the animal from us. After 7 days the animal legally becomes ours and we place the animal up for adoption.
The animal is kept for as long as possible during which time we do our utmost to rehome the pet.

The cost to provide on going primary health care in terms of dipping, inoculation, de-worming and sterilisation has eaten into much of our limited savings.

We believe that primary health care for animals, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, is of direct benefit to the owners of those animals and the broader community in which they live. Sick animals pose a real threat to the health and welfare of the human component of our community.

We reunite pet and owner!

Use “My School” Card to support the Animal Welfare Society

Originally the MySchool programme was exclusive to schools but recently the MyVillage MyPlanet alternatives were added to their list of organisations .

My Village organisations are charities that care for people and MyPlanet organisations care for animals and the planet.

The system is the same: one card that you can swipe whenever you shop at participating stores and every swipe will support your chosen beneficiary at no cost to you.

In order to become a supporter, you need to be registered with MySchool and select a charity to support.

You can register through MySchool website (www.myschool.co.za) or call their Service
Centre 0860 100 445 (Monday to Friday, between 08:00 and 17:00).

Remember to apply for a “My Village My Planet” card. Once you are registered, you can log onto their website and keep track of how much money you have raised!

You can swipe your card at any of these stores:

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Woolworths

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Engen

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Toys R US

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Reggies

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Waltons

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Supa Quick

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Bargain Books

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Crafty Arts

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Milky Lane

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Tiger Wheel & Tyre

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Wimpy

REGISTER TODAY AND HELP THE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY PE!

Club 100

meets every second Wednesday afternoon at 14:30 at the Laubscher Park East Hall in Walmer.

It’s a fun afternoon with tea and coffee and an interesting array of speakers and events and a chance to meet new friends.

For more information please contact our dedicated convener, Yvonne at

maby@telkomsa.net

Monies raised at Club 100 go towards pen facilities at the shelter.

If you have any free time please come and volunteer at the Home, we would love to see you. Our animals really benefit from having human interaction and you will have made a huge difference in their emotional and physical well being.

Make a Donation to our Bank Account. We receive 100% of what you donate.

FNB Walmer Branch
Branch Code: 211217
Account: 54590054423
Account name: The Animal Welfare Society PE

AWS

has been working in the field for decades, helping creatures that cannot help themselves.

We look after abandoned pets, heal sick animals in town, township and informal settlement, educate the youth, investigate reports of animal cruelty and help animals find new, loving forever homes.

We cannot however do it without you, the public’s involvement and help. Help us to help them.