On We are still sterilizing as many dogs as we can. Please consider sponsoring a sterilization @₹3000 and with aftercare ₹6000.
Thank you.

Dear Supporters,

I hope you all are doing well and keeping healthy. Thank you all for your continued support and contributions!

This last month has been about emergency treatment. Dusty who we spayed, homed for a week and put back with her fishermen, developed a lump. It wasn't serious but unsupervised if the skin had been torn a very nasty infection could have developed very quickly.
We got her vet's attention and had her back at the beach house for another week. Here she is with her companion Ikru, back at the beach lump dissolved. We have vaccinated him which is why he has an illuminous collar on. The fishermen look after both of them very well and are happy for us to vaccinate and sterilize them. Once we can get Ikru accommodated in the hospital after being neutered, the hospital is being renovated, we shall have him done. He would not stay at the beach house. Meanwhile, next to Sanal's house, this old fellow has been dumped to die.  
Thankfully he has shelter as he's staying in a derelict house. We are feeding him daily he's almost totally blind, he was wormed this week and will be vaccinated as soon as we can afford it. Meanwhile, 2 dogs adopted over 5 years ago near Oldies lodgings have been deserted by their family who has moved. The boy Argentina is well, Brazila who we are calling Della had a tumor. She is in the beach house and has just had her second chemo So much more comfortable. The tumor had burst so the poor girl was constantly agitated by flies etc. She has one more chemo next week we hope to get her vaccinated soon too.
Meanwhile, we have been placing these water bowls and requesting people to keep them filled. It is VERY hot and we have another 2 months at least before the rains.
IMPORTANT: We are restructuring so our Milapp fundraisers will be shut down. We need people's expertise and skills in a whole range of things and we're asking all donors and supporters to get in touch please so we can keep you up-to-date. @cheraitails.

Regards,
Peshna & Cherai Tails

Hello All!

That was February. Gail was about, so the month was filled with many more smiles, and she gathered new supporters as she chatted and charmed her way amongst tourists on the beach.
 
This time she saved a life too.
Little Sophie could hardly move, Gail began to feed her twice a day and within three weeks she had been fully vaccinated, dewormed, defleaed and sterilized. Gail and Sanal visited the beach house and gave her post op care.
Sophie has been returned to her territory on the beach.

For the last 6 months or more homing dogs has grown increasingly difficult. We have always been fussy about adopters not tying up or caging dogs. This is still the 'norm' here but is changing. So many dogs adopted during the covid lockdowns are being dumped, Cherai beach is a favorite dumping ground, people tell themselves the dogs will be fine, the tourists rubbish will feed them.  In reality, they are mostly stoned or when lucky just threatened. Dogs live in territories that they guard fiercely against each other, their area of food supply. So dumped dogs are invaders, and few survive.

Sophie's area has a fishing community, who are not unkind to the strays. Dusty & other community dogs are quite healthy. We hope to sterilize and vaccinate the entire pack within that area. Today we are sterilizing Dusty she has had to go privately which adds ₹2000 for the travel but we can't book government vets we have to rely on them fitting is in and always subject to last-minute cancellations.


We are lucky to have a volunteer staying at the beach house for a week who'll be able to look after her post-op so we need to get it done NOW. So Worth it!  That's a minimum of 14 less pups a year, (2 litters). There will be more food and residents will be far more tolerant with Sophie and Dusty, we have the issue with dumping don't need breeding too!

So this month, Sophie, Dusty, Bubba & a community dog from Paravur, have been sterilized. They have all also been fully vaccinated as has a male dog in Sophie's and Dusty's area and Goldie.

For the last 2 months we have had Faith at the beach house.
Faith was dumped with a septic eye and a vaginal tumor. Her eye had to be removed and poor Faith had complications needed restitching and the infection took over a month to clear completely.  We had her spayed and fully vaccinated and Faith had chemo.  We couldn't put the poor girl out on the beach as she wasn't a stray and wouldn't have survived in a pack.

We got Faith a place in a sanctuary. Goldie and Brownie went too.  Goldie was adopted 3 years ago and suffered from reoccurring hours of very aggressive mange. We have had her in treatment 4  times. For the last year, we have provided her with daily meals and the adults in the family were not interested.  She is now healthy and we hope will have every chance of happiness.


Brownie was with us in the unit for far too long. He was adopted by a guy who was to build a surrounding wall 6 months ago and never did. We could not have him tied up for the rest of his life.

The sanctuary was in Thiruvilvamala it cost almost ₹6000 to get them there and Sanal kindly gave up his day to go with them.
Without Sanal giving up his time and being so kind, Faith would not have been helped, Sophie could not have been sterilized…very little would have happened. He has been amazing.
This month we also helped two of our volunteers . One has a dog with a horrific skin disease, the medicine for which cost ₹10,000 and Surya who has and does look after so many had to take a dog for emergency stitches to a hospital in angamally at night. That was ₹1700.
We also sent Obama to his forever sanctuary in Trivandrum which cost ₹8000. We are so so grateful he got this space 2 acres to run around in I shall share photos when i get them.
Red is an urgent case. I WILL NOT put her on the street to sift through rubbish, be stoned and be attacked by packs of dogs. She has had more than her fair share of that. She urgently needs a home the boarding is expensive and she's been there too long. PLEASE spread the word. We will send her any distance to a forever loving home.

At the ranch we have the builder in to tackle the rat problem which has gone haywire recently. We lost  a pup last year this time to a disease spread through rat urine and I have Bubba here it's scary.

Bubba needs a home too! He's BIG now.
And we have Rakhi so 3 URGENTLY need a home!

We are ₹27000 behind this month largely due to the travel costs and the 10,000 extra for medicine. We normally overspend by under 10,000.
At the moment we have 3 dogs who just need vaccines urgently on the beach, 2 who need vaccines and sterilization and we would like to neuter the male dog in Sophie's and Dusty's area.

THANK YOU …onwards!!!
Peshna.