Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment

by Suni-Ridge Sand Forest Park, Environmental Rehabilitation Centre
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment
Help Wildlife With Emergency Medical Treatment

Project Report | Jun 22, 2024
Animal suffering in rural areas

By Janet Anne Cuthbertson | Project leader

Ill donkey foal in rural area
Ill donkey foal in rural area

Although we focus mainly on medical help for wild animals if there is a need we encounter of any animal suffering we will do all we can to help it!

We recently encountered a baby donkey in the middle of the road near Hluhluwe Park. The little foal was in a terrible condition. It was fragile but trying to follow its mother and the little herd nearby. Donkeys in the area are not tame and will move away from human persons, so they are not groomed or treated for parasites by their owners who often don't even know where they are wandering.

The little foal was too weak to keep up with her mother or run from me when I tried to help her, so I gently held her shoulder and led her off the road. It was late afternoon and it was  difficult to help her as we did not have the necessary equipment with us. 

I was dreadfully disturbed and immediately alerted the local state vet department and them to please come out to help. I knew they would most probably not as we have been told before that they do not attend to donkeys as they don't have a mandate to work with donkeys in the rural area!  As expected they did not come out so I contacted the SPCA vet, but as it was dark already they could only travel the 100 km to reach our rural area the next day. 

Early in the morning our game guards and myself drove out to the rural area and began to search for the tiny foal. We asked the local rural people to assist us. Eventually just before the SPCA arrived, we found her but sadly she had lost her fight for life just a few minutes before we found her.

To our dismay, we saw another donkey foal grazing with its mother, but it was also in a terrible condition. We followed her and eventually managed to get near enough to slip a capture noose around her head. We examined her and treated her as far as possible. As she was still nursing on her mother we decided it would be too stressful to move her. With heavy hearts, we decided to leave her with her mother and prayed that the treatment would help. 

Following this we asked the SPCA to join us in a meeting with the community. We need to correlate to see if we could help them in any way to understand better how to care for their donkeys that wander around often without access to water or the correct nutrition. We were informed that they even graze poison parthenium plants a dangerous invasive weed growing in the rural area.   

We met the costs of the SPCA and their assistance. Without your support, this would not have been possible. Thank you for caring and for helping us to do the very best for the wild and any animal in critical need of care or medical attention! 

Sadly she died before we could get help to her
Sadly she died before we could get help to her
We were able to find and help another ill foal
We were able to find and help another ill foal
Treated with a capture noose over her neck
Treated with a capture noose over her neck
Foal with her mother after treatment
Foal with her mother after treatment
Assistance from SPCA
Assistance from SPCA
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Project Leader:
Janet cuthbertson
Hluhluwe , South Africa
$1,705 raised of $29,000 goal
 
108 donations
$27,295 to go
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