Horror Stories from Pulau Ketam

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi

Progress of the rescue via the updates here.

This is a very disturbing story that is happening in my country. Thank god for angels like Sabrina Yeap and TV Smith. And the rest of the folks who helped in the rescue mission.

Below is the article from Furry Friends Farm.

About 300 stray dogs were rounded up by Pulau Ketam residents and deported to an isolated island to fend for themselves.

Over half of them are already dead and the remaining ones may not live long. A rescue mission is being mounted and your help is needed. Please read the full story here.

The residents of Pulau Ketam sent some 300 stray dogs to exile on a remote island where the harsh conditions almost certainly guarantee a horrible death. Of the 300 dogs sent there, more than three-quarters are presumed to be already dead. I traveled to the island with Sabrina Yeap of Furry Friends Farm and managed to save only one dog on this reconnaissance trip.

We did see several other starving and dying dogs along the mangrove shore. I am mounting an urgent rescue mission to capture and transport the remaining survivors back to Sabrina's Furry Friends Farm animal shelter.

But time is running out and there might be only skeletons and carcasses left to collect on our next trip. Boat hire is expensive there. It is a tourist area and it has already cost me a few hundred ringgit for boat hire alone, so far. The rescued dogs cannot be transported on the regular ferries.

Almost nobody will lift a finger to help without a fee. This is understandable. The locals are already shaking their heads in disbelief that there are outsiders who want to save the animals they so casually discarded.

Instead of pointing fingers and antagonising them, we need their co-operation to help save the unfortunate creatures. In the process, we also hope to educate the islanders on better treatment of animals. It would be an impossible mission if we didn't win their hearts.

If you are unable to help directly, please help by forwarding this appeal to other compassionate folks who you feel might be able to make some monetary contributions.

Apart from boat hire, we need money to buy cages, to pay people to help catch them, to hire land transport to send the rescued animals to veterinary clinics, pay for vet fees, send the recovered ones to the shelter and to feed and house them for life. I can go on!

To donate or help, e-mail TV Smith at tvsmith@mycen.com.my or Sabrina Yeap at yeapwen@yahoo.com

Fellow bloggers, you can also help by embedding the appeal poster above to your blog and linking to http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue

We are aware it is a monumental task and appreciate all forms of support, assistance, suggestions, encouragement and your prayers.

Thank you and don't forget to view the pictures of the dogs in order to appreciate their plight.

TV Smith
3rd May 2009

Do you believe in angels?

Angels. I love angels even though i have never seen a real angel with white robe and flappy wings. But... i have angels.. every little step i take and every where i go. I am a lucky one :)

My angels come in many forms.

Mummy... my mummy has always been my angel... watching over our every little step when we were little. Picking us up when we fall... (and i do fall a lot) and taking care of us when we were sick. She's a different angel now..She guides my hands when i cook. She pops ideas in my head... on what to do. She sends me music in our aviary of a garden. Sometimes she sends a whole orchestra :) She looks out for me when i drive alone on long distance... keeping me awake and saving me each time i slip.

My sisters.. though we are all over the place... they never forget to call once in a while to catch up and see how we are coping back home. Everyone is busy with the lives and trying to make good of it. Sometimes we dwindle apart a bit.. but blood will always be thicker than water. They always come back to Piper's Kingdom if they cannot get me... hahhahahaa.. my sisters reads my blog... to know what our papa is up to.

The children in my life... all of them... keeps me in check and make me do silly things with them... so that i will always be a child inside and skip two steps ahead. Children makes you realise that life is not always tough.

My friends and colleagues who always stand by me in whatever i do. No matter how long i have been away... i can still jump back into the crowd with them and still not a miss a beat. Thats what real friends are.

My virtual world... i only started blogging last year.. and met some wonderful people like Emila, Nessa, Marzie, Diya, Ken, Cindy, Bain, Maria, TH to name a few... oh ya.. Spiffy.. hhahahha.. dear Spiffy that cracks me up with his posts... humour never lost with that dear ole man with the zit. Oh ya.. Aki too... my latest addition to my virtual world. These friends are like angels too. Sometimes we are just there for each other... somehow we connect. Even though we don't see each other. Like silent angels, they have somehow made my lonely nights here.. working away.. more enjoyable.

Stormy... in her/his faraway place... she/he has always been my ears for all my rants about life. (i still rant sometimes.. hehe)

My lil poo and pee... PP and Dommy.. what life would be like without them in my life.

My extended family who sends food and more food all the time to my house.

And my Papa... for all the craziness in his rocket driving... he has never falter to love and care for us. Aging slowly and surely, slowing down in some parts of him too. He mentions that everyday is a bonus to him.

So many many angels i have in my life. How not to be the luckiest person alive rite? So do you believe in angels now? Look around you. Angels are everywhere. Even the strangers that gives you a smile sometimes.



I have always been blessed with love everywhere i go.