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February 2014

Greetings, friends. This month we are making a heart-felt request for your assistance
in helping the homeless and abandoned animals here in rural Bahia where we are
based.

Please consider making a donation towards the work we do for street dogs and cats and
abandoned kittens and puppies.

At this time we are asking specifically for assistance with:

1. Veterinary costs (totaling $500) for the spaying (sterilization/castration) of two
rescued kittens (more info below), and

2. Costs related to a daily feeding and caring program we have started for the street
dogs of the village (currently totaling $10 per day or $300 per month, but we would like
to expand this to help more animals – more info below).

1. Fauna and Miaowrio Lanza – veterinary costs 

Fauna and Miaowrio are brother and sister kittens who were abandoned in a box and
dumped in the middle of the village when they were around 3 or 4 weeks old, in October
last year. Edna came across them and took them home, hoping to find another home for
them at some point. 

They are now around 4 months old and both needing to be protected from unwanted
parenthood. The little female, who we named Fauna, has just been sterilised. The
costs for the surgery and post-op medicine came to around $250 (US dollars).
Veterinary work is expensive here in the rural areas of Brazil, where properly qualified
vets are rare and in demand, the nearest one being in the city of Seabra, two hours from
here by road.

Fauna (left) just after being spayed a few days ago and Miaowrio Lanza (right)
We will need to raise the same amount (around $250) to have her brother Miaowrio
Lanza castrated soon. (He was named Miaowrio Lanza because of his very strong voice and
his ability to hold a single note for an extraordinary length of time!

The reason it is important to have the dear boy castrated is that there are many unwanted
litters of kittens being born here, due to people not sterilising their female cats or
castrating their male cats. It would be unethical for us to contribute to that problem. Also,
uncastrated male cats tend to get into fights and get beaten up a lot, and they pick up
sexually transmitted diseases. A vet informed us that there are around 22 cat diseases in
this areas that are spread through sexual contact….

So it is important for Miaowrio to have the surgery in the next month or two, but in the
meantime Fauna has been spayed and is safe from an unwanted pregnancy! 
If you can spare a few dollars towards the vet costs for Fauna and Miaowrio, please
make a donation of your own choice at this link. Every small donation is a big help to us.
If we reach our total of $500 for the vet costs, any additional money paid for Fauna and
Miaowrio will be used towards their ongoing care. It’s looking as though they will remain
here with us, and the other four cats and two dogs, all of which we rescued when they
were kittens and puppies.

If you would like to make a regular monthly contribution towards ongoing costs of
feeding and caring for Fauna or Miaowrio or any of the other rescued cats and dogs in our
care, or  the street animals who are part of our outreach program, please send us a mail at
earthhealadmin [at] gmail [dot] com to arrange it. 

To make a once-off donation, please go to this link or if you do not wish to use PayPal to
make your donation, there are other payment options (scan down).

2. The street dogs feeding program

There are no animal help organizations in existence here, and although the plight of street
animals in this rural part of Bahia is not as bad as it is in the cities, The dogs and cats that
land up on the street due to abandonment or neglect have a tough time and most of them
are very thin and badly in need of care.

Since moving here two years ago, we have gotten into the habit of always going out with
some dry dog food in a packet, knowing we would inevitably run into a dog needing a
meal. More recently we started making a big pot of rice and veggies with bits of chicken
or meat in it for the 6 or 7 street dogs who are usually to be found in the village center. It
costs about $1 a day to provide a nutritious meal for one dog.

If we are able to raise some funds for this feeding project, we will be able to expand it to
include more homeless dogs, hopefully get some of the females spayed, and provide
them with some of the basic medications they need here e.g. anti-tick and flea
medication, de-wormer etc.

Please consider making a small regular monthly contribution or a once-off donation
to enable us to help them.

If you would like to make a regular monthly contribution towards ongoing costs of
feeding street dogs, please send us a mail at earthhealadmin [at] gmail [dot] com to
arrange it…

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