Pretoria Animal Buddies

01/09/2026

TABBY 🌼

🥺 She is a little bit broken
She's a little bit sick

Thank you Glen Veterinary Clinic and staff 🫶 for fixing both
🦋

01/09/2026

DOG FEEDING 🐕‍🦺

I phoned up some tracking people on what advice they had, ideas or thoughts.
Got some great suggestions.
Some I can use, some I can't. But it was nice to chat and throw some ideas around

Alot of failures later and we are no closer to anything that could work to trap/catch her
One opportunity that failed before, could now be an option, purely because this structure has been a permanent fixture on the veld from the start of our project. The grass hut was built in the first week, more than 3 months ago, although something new/unfamiliar before, a area she was frightened off, it's now a structure that has been a constant fixture on the veld.
Not something new anymore
Not something to be frightened off

We also have to move her off the veld.
We had permission from the farmer to feed on the veld, but the farming season is starting soon.
The veld will be ploughed soon

We used a scent trail inbetween the food bowl and the grass hut while we slowly moved the food bowl towards the grass hut
This process alone took 3 weeks
Making sure she ate from the feeding station every day

Until we reached the grass hut
It's gone well.
And then on Friday I could place the food bowl centimetres inside the grass hut.
Not even inside
Just slightly underneath
Barely
Ya
Thursday - Off the grass she eats
Friday - On the grass she doesn't eat
Saturday - On the grass she doesn't eat
Sunday - Off the grass she eats
Monday - On the grass she doesn't eat
It's centimetres
But it's here where we will stay
Stubbornly
It's check mate
She must ultimately eat underneath/inside the grass hut
However long it takes now.
We can't use the farmer veld for the next 6 months from seeding to harvest
Keeping the food dry during summer rain season will become a problem

Our next aim is to feed here
For however long it takes her to trust the grass hut.
Hopefully she will use it as her den
While we built another grass hut as a cage offsite
A duplicate grass hut.
A cage

It's been another learning project
No two dog trapping has ever been the same for us
We learn
We adapt

31/08/2026

🌼 We have known amazing volunteers/supporters over the years
Some come and go
Some stay for awhile
But we always stay in touch
Like Buddies do

Today one of our Buddies needed our help
We could only say yes, because we knew Glen Veterinary Clinic would be there ☺️ always

The tragic aftermath of birth that most probably resulted in complications which was left untreated, has left this dog with infection.
Its not sure what's the truth in her storyline or what are lies
If there is any truth - she gave birth two weeks ago and two puppies died, with no real information on whether they died during birth, after birth, how they died or what happened.
If it's lies - she gave birth, no idea when, no idea where the puppies are, no idea what happened.
What we do know
You can smell the infection
It's that bad
She has been admitted so that she can be monitored for dehydration and to receive antibiotics for at least 2 - 3 days

Of course we said yes
It's what Buddies do
🐾

30/08/2026

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29/08/2026

MY LIFE

I have a life
I work full-time... ish..... not really
But I try
Work pays my salary

At work I have dogs.
No. Great Dane rescue has no part of the dogs at work. I have to get my working dogs off Facebook - Free to a good home dogs.
I don't qualify as an approved home 😁 to adopt from a rescue organisation, because my working dogs work, eat & play as outside dogs
They sleep where they want, which freaks Great Dane Rescue the f #$k out.

TNR traps are collected and dropped off at work
Kittens and puppies are surrendered at work
Some days work is so full of charity donations I can't get to work

But it's here that I try to focus on earning my income. Which is what from what I understand, some people think I earn from rescue 🙄

I work

My clients have over the years realised I only need to earn money by doing their hair.
They've heard it all
Every detail of my life
Thank Lord they've stuck around for years so that I could afford my very expensive hobby by volunteering my time and efforts for free to rescuing animals 😏

Recently a new client hair appointment collided with animal welfare
I hope to apologize to her the next time I see her again 😁

She was a granma
I remember that part of our conversation
No animal welfare talk
No rescuing
She loved her gran kids.
Two. A boy and girl.
She wanted look a little bit more modern
I could change granma into a modern version of being a granny 💇
I was waiting for a animal welfare buddy, who had to pick up documents
Up to here I remember granny and animal welfare
When my rescue buddy arrived ☺️ we got a chatting .....
ALOT OF SH/T IS HAPPING IN AW!!!!
Granma sat
ALOT MORE SH/T IS HAPPENING IN AW THAN WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!
Granma sat
I was invested (read investigating) my rescue buddy S**T HAPPENING IN AW!!!!
Granma got her hair done
I got ALOT of info
If I had a pen and no granma I draw you a flow chart with stickies 📑

And so my two world's collided
Granma was polite when she left
She said, she's happy being a granma and doesn't want to be us
I looked at her in the mirror
She wanted a new, more modern version of herself
I made her hair look like a b/tch 🤟
Granma hair was the best version of herself she'll ever be
Ain't no grannies in my chair
You buckle that sh/t up and rescue animals
I wonder if she'll come back

27/08/2026

TNR CATS - City of Tshwane

😁 ITS BRAGGING TIME

F3 FERAL FELINE FIX 🐈‍⬛ 71 Feral Cat Sterilizations done for August!!!!

Thank you National Sterilization Project 🫶 for your continued support

26/08/2026

We got your back Dolly 🫶

22/08/2026

CRUELTY AND NEGLECT

This is not called love
This is not caring
This is abuse
Years and years and years of neglect

This is what feeding and loving feral cats look like without Feral Cat Management
People who have no intention to be available when cats in their colony need veterinary care
When accountability becomes a responsibility - the cats all of sudden 'do not belong' to them. They just feed them.
They take no financial responsibility
They put in zero time and effort to TNR
They can never tell you how many cats they feed

They do tell you how much they love the cats
If they don't love/feed them who will take care of them?

Till death do them part
Agonising, painful, suffering death
All in the name of love, food and caring

Keeping unsterilized, untested feral cat colonies are NOT working cats

When one after the other, each feral cat under sedation on the sterilization table is tested positive for diseases, sick and malnourished.
Each cat examined has almost/no teeth left
Somewhere, someone is saying how much they loved these cats
How much they cared

Loving them to death is NOT feral cat management
🐈‍⬛

22/08/2026

22/08/2026

THANK YOU Tshwane SPCA Soshanguve animal shelter and Educentre NPC HAWS Hartbeespoort Animal Welfare Society

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A RESCUE THAT TOOK TEAMWORK, COURAGE AND COMPASSION

On Tuesday, 11 August 2026, a distressing call for help came from Hebron.

A donkey had fallen into a sewer drain and was trapped, frightened and completely unable to free himself. With no way out, this helpless animal desperately needed people to step in and save him.

The Tshwane SPCA Inspectorate responded, and with the assistance of The Haws and Soshanguve Animals Shelter, a careful rescue operation began.

Working together, the rescuers managed to safely free the donkey from the drain. What could so easily have ended in tragedy became a powerful reminder of what can happen when people come together for an animal in need.

After his rescue, the donkey was taken to the Tshwane SPCA, where he could receive the care and attention he needed after such a frightening ordeal.

For our Inspectorate, calls like this are part of a much bigger responsibility. Every day, animals are injured, trapped, abandoned or left with nowhere else to go. When that call for help comes, our Inspectors need to be able to get onto the road and respond.

Sometimes, we are an animal’s only hope.

We are asking the public to please help us keep the Tshwane SPCA Inspectorate on the road so they can continue rescuing animals in desperate situations, while also helping us care for the many animals who come through our doors every single day with nowhere else to turn.

Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us continue this lifesaving work.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in rescuing this donkey. You turned a terrifying situation into one of hope, safety and compassion.

BANKING DETAILS

Tshwane SPCA
FNB Cheque Account
Account: 561 6000 7452
Branch: 261550
Reference: Inspectorate

Please help us remain on the road and continue being there for the animals who need us most.