Animals in picked shelters require not suffer the winter season’s cold thanks to a blanket drive by 2 Sandringham locals. Tzipporah Berman and friend Tasha Smith have actually raised 434 blankets through a Winter Animal Blanket Drive they started at the end of May.
Berman said they did the drive in 2015 however this year they were going larger. She said they had actually provided 100 blankets to each shelter and the staying would go to the Sandton SPCA. The 4 rescue centres that received blankets are Woodrock Animal Rescue, Animal Allies, Dogs Trust and Underdogs South Africa Rehabilitation Centre.
“We got an amazing donation from Pimp my Pup who donated 15 blankets. Between using Wallet doc, Yoco machine and standing in front of Tiberius on Friday afternoons, we raised money for over 434 blankets. I went to Game in Rosebank and bought all their blankets and they had to get more from another one of their stores which was amazing,” Berman said.
Lee Romalho from Dogs Trust said they’re a shelter rehab centre and likewise do outreach in Diepsloot. “We get surrendered abused, neglected dogs from Diepsloot which we rehabilitate and rehome. We also go to Diepsloot every day and we medicate, feed, give shelter, blankets,” Romalho said.
She included that on a typical month, they feed about a lots of food to the dogs in between Diepsloot and their shelter. Romalho said they’re constantly in requirement of blankets, kennels and more.
She said, “We’re actually helping in another township called Ga-Rankuwa in Pretoria at the moment through a massive outreach. This is actually earmarked for that. We will have a sterilising drive on July 23. Our ethos is that each dog that is sterilized goes home with a kennel, bag and a blanket.”
Tiberius restaurant supervisor Dovie Binder said they were constantly happy to help in anything that involves animals and they enjoyed to help individuals too.
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