Please donate however small to our Overseas Fund which is used to send supplies to help care for some of the poorest animals Wetnose has ever seen. Thank You for your kindness.

Your donation goes a long way to helping keep these smaller Rescue Centres going. Wetnose pay's off vets bills or buys equipment which is vital. Many Centres will have to close if more funding is not given. We all know who the big organisation are, please don't forget about the smaller ones who work just as hard. Thank You for your help.

Following the BBC’s Saving Planet Earth Programme WETNOSE has launched an “APPEAL” to save the Orphaned Orang-utans in Borneo.

"Some scientists suggest that up to a quarter of animal species could be extinct by 2050.  But it's not too late, you can be involved in Saving Planet Earth," says Sir David Attenborough, "If you are a child, this is your future. If you're a parent, it's your legacy. The time to act is now!"

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Gavin Gamby-Boulger (Wetnose Director) and vet Brian Stenson are back from their visit in Philippines last month seeing Charles Wartenberg who runs the International Wildlife Coalition Trust in Kent. www.iwctk9.co.uk

The visit was to help Charles run his Centre for 1,000 dogs and to rehabilitate some of the dogs that are stressed and that have been traumatised. Some of these dogs have been rescued from illegal dog slaughter houses and have seen dogs killed 3 or 4 feet away from them. The cages are silent, no scratching, no barking. The dogs are paralysed with fear. They need so much help.

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Read the shocking BBC report filmed in the Philippines shortly before Gavins visit. :-

'Dog meat traders'

"We're a country of dog lovers so it's shocking to find that some countries still have traders dealing in dog meat". Read More

“When visiting the beautiful Nepal, I came across the Monkey Temple or Swayambunath Stupa. This great Stoup is said to have been built around 250 B.C. It is a Buddhist temple occupied by lots of Monkeys and set high on a mountain accessed by about 400 steps.

As I was staying in Kathmandu I had been feeding street dogs when I could and had seen many sad sights and dogs suffering from different ailments and starvation. On reaching the top of the Monkey Temple I realised that many more street dogs occupied this site. About 15 were apparent, all but two or three suffering from severe mange and dehydration. Some scratched continuously but many just lay in the dust breathing heavily and with their barely covered ribs protruding.I felt many were near death. Read more

The Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre (KAT Centre) was first conceived after Jan Salter, the founder of KAT, went to visit ’Help in Suffering’ (HIS) in Jaipur, India.

Impressed with the way HIS had managed the difficult dog problem in Jaipur by implementing Animal Birth Control and Anti-rabies programmes, creating a rabies free dog friendly city, Jan came back to Nepal convinced that what had been achieved in Jaipur could also be done in Kathmandu.

The foundation was registered as non-profit, charitable animal welfare organisation in June 2003 and was formally opened on 9th May 2004. Wetnose recently send £350 to help with KAT centre work - Read all about the KAT centre on their new website: www.katcentre.org.np

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