What we achieve, together
The TEARS Veterinary Hospital treats around 17,000 animals per year, and operates from Sunnydale, Cape Town providing a vital welfare service to the Southern Peninsula’s poorest communities as a means of providing veterinary treatment and rehabilitation support to injured, abandoned, abused and homeless companion animals.
TEARS currently operates with 3 vets and 7 Animal Welfare Assistants.
- An average of 1057 animals are rescued every month ~ being brought into the TEARS Veterinary Clinic for medical emergencies, admissions and/or treatments.
- An average of 500 animals are sterilised per month.
- An average of 350 animals are vaccinated, treated for ticks and fleas, and dewormed
- Veterinary care includes radiographs, diagnostics, surgery, and a variety of treatments to community pets and those animals rescued and admitted by the TEARS Mobile Clinic Teams.
One of the core aims of the clinic is to control the unwanted births of dogs and cats in low-income areas, and sterilisation of all treated animals is mandatory. In addition, all animals in our care are chipped, dewormed, treated for external parasites (ticks and fleas) and monitored by our expert team.
When processed, abandoned or surrendered animals are taken to our Kennel and Cattery Adoption Centres for rehabilitation and rehoming.
For the 2021/22 fiscal we are pleased to have increased sterilisations by 11%, vaccinations administered by 69%, and adoptions by 23%.
Our Veterinary and Community Outreach Goal for 2024/25 is to increase our impact footprint in the following three areas:
- Companion animal population control through sterilisations to reduce the number of kittens and puppies born into hardship;
- Animal vaccination programmes to prevent debilitating and often deadly animal-borne diseases spreading between animals or being transmitted to humans;
- Compassion and Pet Care Education, with a focus on marginalised youth as a means of inspiring a new generation and creating a kinder world.
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Sterilisation is the primary means of reducing overpopulated domestic animal populations and disease, and preventing animals being born into a life of suffering, neglect and starvation.
Vaccination prevents the spread of diseases such as rabies, parvovirus, and canine distemper virus in dogs; and feline enteritis, feline panleukopenia and feline respiratory disease, or snuffles, in cats.
Regular flea and tick dipping and deworming interventions hosted in communities improve the condition of animals but also reduces the spread of zoonoses (diseases transmitted from animals to humans) in densely populated communities where there is over-crowding and poor sanitation.
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