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Cứu hộ, Chăm sóc và Phúc lợi động vật tại Việt Nam
‘Our Family’ Animal Rescue Group
O n 1st of July, 2015, our team was
formed and named as “Our Family“
with more than 20 members of all
ages. Our mission is to rescue the
stray animals not only in HCMC
but also in Vietnam as well as
to stop the dog meat trading as
soon as possible. We also want to
spread the love to more people in
Vietnam as well as let people from
other countries know that we are
also fighting against dog meat
trading. On the same date, we also
published our Facebook Fanpage
as a connection to all the dog
lovers in Vietnam and from other
countries.
On 23-24th of July of the same
year, we coordinated with ARC
and successfully rescued a dog
called ‘Lucky’ from Ben Tre
province with her mouth taped.
And ever since then, we received
more acknowledgement from the
society. Due to the great support
from the society, we are now keep
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moving on and trying to achieve
what we have been planning on
from the beginning. We also would
like to send our best appreciation
to ARC, especially Ms. Emma
Patterson, Ms. Elizabeth Homfray
and Dr. Nguyen Van Nghia from
Saigon Pet Clinic for supporting us
through all this months. Without
everyone’s great support, we would
not make it this far and successful.
Since our first day, every day, we
have to deal with hundreds of
messages in our inbox and via
our Fanpage. However, due to the
limit number of members as well
as our fund, we cannot rescue all
of the cases we received. We can
only help some of them and give
them a safe life at our Shelter. Our
shelter is smaller compared with
other group as it locates within the
city so we need to limit the number
of animals to avoid problems with
the neighbors as well as the local
people committee.
At our shelter, we have 2 shifts /
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day in term of cleaning, cooking
and feeding as well as taking
care of the animals if they are not
feeling well. At each shift, we will
need to clean the house in every
corner, the crates, cooking, feeding
trays have to be cleaned again.
Especially when there is a new
dog, we need to pay more attention
to his area in order to avoid any
illness spread to other dogs. Most
of the dogs and cats at the shelter
are vaccinated and sterilized before
available for adoption. Besides
taking care of them, we also need
to spend time to play with them so
that they will be closer to human
and ease their bad experience
with people. In general, it is a long
process from rescuing and taking
care of them until they are good
enough for adoption. In order
to choose a new loving home
for our animals, we also spend
at least a month to finalize and
finally send the animals to new
homes. We need to make sure if