YOU CAN SAVE A LIFE !

The first day I arrived in the Philippines in November 1998 is still very fresh in my mind and until now I cannot imagine how I got-by by being absolutely on my own; with no knowledge of the Filipino language and not knowing where I would sleep that night, a less determined soul would have backed-out. Don't ask me how I managed I just knew that I had to. Someone had to make an unswerving stand to help the thousand of dogs that were, and still are, being savagely killed for the dinner table.


Turning Filipino journalists who are true animal-lovers into investigators has worked very well over the years in fighting the wicked perpetrators of the dog-meat trade. Dozens of raids on illegal slaughterhouses, restaurants and markets selling dog meat have been successfully carried out, plus seizures of vehicles transporting dogs for slaughter, all of which resulted in many arrests and convictions and, of course, a thousand or more dogs being rescued, not least of all our Sweet being one of them. If Sweet were the only one to have been rescued, he would have made it all worthwhile.


Who would have thought that Sweet, the little mongrel dog I rescued from an illegal Philippine dog slaughterhouse just moments before he would have been brutally killed, will bag the "GRAND WINNER" honor in the 2004 Daily Mail contest beating the 8,000 other contenders for this title!

Sweet was only 4 months old when we rescued him, so thin and frightened and who wouldn't be, he had just watched 62 dogs being killed by being bashed over the head with a piece of wood. Their butchered bodies being stacked on top of his cage! There was no escape, his death was imminent, and his little body would have ended up on someone's dinner plate.

Sweet is the lucky one, he now has a good home living with my wife and I and Saffy, our cat. If Sweet is not the happiest dog in the world, I'd like to see a happier dog. Sadly in the Philippines, every week more than 2,000 of his kinds are tortured to death and end up on someone's dinner plate.

YOU can make a difference, let it be today! Help me bring about the demise of this wicked illegal trade in dogs for human consumption. Your donation, no matter how big or small, allows us to continue this fight. Our promise to you is - we will only spend your money in the Philippines to completely put an end to this evil dog-trade and rescue more dogs just like our Sweet.