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KAPS is a 100% mobile, 100% volunteer animal welfare organisation taking help to animals in the impoverished communities of the rural Little Karoo - where vets are hundreds of km distant. Our aim is to improve the living standards of animals and provide a better quality of life.
We feed starving animals; inspect for cruelty and neglect; and rescue, rehabilitate and rehome. A priority is to reduce excessive breeding by providing free sterilisation. Our help is extended to all animals including the working horses and donkeys belonging to the rural poor.
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As a rural-based society we receive no support from within our impoverished catchment area, so we depend on the kindness of people from the big cities and overseas. Being 100% volunteer, we spend the minimum on admin. We own no premises and pay no salaries. We are run by a Management Committee and our workers are a network of volunteers based in 9 centres throughout the Little Karoo.
Our vehicles are on the road every day and we respond 24 hours a day to emergencies. Our no-kennel policy means that rescued animals are fostered in members' homes where they are socialised ready for adoption.
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| In 2004-5 KAPS extended into two new impoverished areas and treated and sterilised hundreds of animals, mostly dogs. We campaigned successfully to introduce animal control by-laws in Kannaland where no laws previously existed. We have also made tremendous progress helping the poor working horses and donkeys who endure such dreadful conditions. We rescued/rehabilitated a total of 12 horses and 20 donkeys, and recently undertook to remove a group of 13 farm donkeys (including foals and pregnant mares) that were unwanted and scheduled for slaughter. The mass rescue cost us thousands of rands, and will cost us thousands more before we eventually rehome them! |
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All the following are delivered free to the poor and needy:
- Feeding starving animals.Dipping and deworming to prevent disease.
- Inspecting door-to-door to implement the Animals Protection Act; prosecuting where necessary; confiscating and rehabilitating.
- Sterilising to prevent overpopulation.
- Mass clinics including care for working horses and donkeys.
- Educating both adults and children.
- Fostering and rehoming.
- We have started an outreach programme helping animals 500 km away in Aberdeen.
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| KAPS covers an area of some 5000 sq km in the Little Karoo (Western Cape) near Oudtshoorn. We concentrate on the impoverished communities around the following centres: Calitzdorp, Zoar, Amalienstein, Ladismith, Nissenville, Van Wyksdorp, Barrydale, Smitsville, Suurbraak, Slangrivier, Buffelsjagsrivier and Albertinia. |
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| KAPS has no formal affiliations but works closely with other animal welfare organisations (e.g. PDSA, SPCA, Slillbay Animal Protection, Animal Rescue Organisation, Horse Care Unit of the Cape SPCA, Beauty Without Cruelty, and the Humane Education Trust). |
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- To engender a sense of the innate value of animals and an awareness of their needs.
- To control the heedless breeding of animals which results in overpopulation, starvation and disease.
- To recruit enough helpers to cover our vast rural area.
- To gain sufficient ongoing support so that we can plan and budget ahead.
- To access occasional services of a veterinarian for free.
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All the following are free to the poor and needy:
- Since KAPS cannot afford its own paid veterinarian, our core services are basic healthcare and education, dipping/deworming, door-to-door inspection, and feeding the starving.
- We take in unwanted, lost, sick and injured animals and do our best to rehabiliitate and rehome them.
- We pay for animals to be sterilised, and for minor medical procedures including humanely putting to sleep.
- In emergency cases we transport animals hundreds of km to the nearest vet.
- We run mass healthcare clinics for working horses and donkeys, and arrange for repair and replacement of faulty bits and harnesses.
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