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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.
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