We cannot let the dogs in Sally's care at the sanctuary and on the streets starve!

1. In Morocco, Sally has almost no kibble left to feed the 756 dogs in her sanctuary. They could starve!

“At the sanctuary, I’m now caring for 756 dogs, and their number has risen again. Over the past few weeks, I’ve had to take in dozens more as an emergency measure, to save them from being captured by the dog killers. But this influx has come at the worst possible time: I only have two or three days’ worth of kibble left!

I’ve already been rationing for two weeks, cutting everyone’s portions to make the little we have last longer. If I were feeding them normally, the bowls would have been empty long ago... And now I’ve reached a point where I simply can’t cut back any further. Reducing their portions again would mean starving them outright, and in a group, it’s always the weakest who collapse first.

Every day, I’m forced to make impossible calculations. I watch the stock disappear, knowing there’s nothing coming to replace it. The situation is critical, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that: it’s simply what I’m living through, here and now.”

2. Weakened by rationing, they can no longer fight back: pneumonia has already claimed the lives of two dogs.

“I can already see the effects on their bodies. They’re losing weight. I notice it day after day when I go to feed them, and a dog who doesn’t get enough to eat becomes weaker in every way. The worst part is that this weakness has come at the worst possible time: viral pneumonia has broken out at the sanctuary. Around thirty dogs have caught it, and we’ve already lost two...

A well-fed animal has so much more strength to fight illness. But now, my dogs, weakened by hunger, have almost no strength left to resist it. And I can’t even afford to protect them all anymore: because I don’t have the money, I can only treat some of them against parasites...

It’s a vicious cycle I can’t seem to escape: the less they eat, the sicker they get, and the less money I have left to treat them.”

3. On the streets, 120 identified dogs depend on her, and the summer culls are putting them in danger.

“On the streets, there are 120 dogs I’ve identified and feed every day, each in their own territory. They can’t find anything on their own. They rely on me and on the feeding round I do for them. And summer makes everything even harder: the city fills up with people, and as happens every year, we’re asked to remove the identified dogs from the nicer neighborhoods, the very dogs we had sterilized and vaccinated so they could live there peacefully.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had to take in 45 of these dogs as an emergency measure to save them from the culls! They’re the ones I’ve brought into the sanctuary recently, 45 more mouths to feed all at once, when I already didn’t have enough to fill the bowls...

Now, I have no room left to maneuver. An old dog like Ginger, almost blind and saved from the culls eight years ago, I can’t even bring her in anymore... She’s still outside, and all I can do is make sure she eats. I have no space left, nothing ahead of me, and yet I can’t let them die.”

4. At just four months old, Chico has no reserves to cope with going hungry.

“Chico is only four months old. Someone found him alone on a main road, a baby left to fend for himself among the cars... When he came into my care, he was covered in ticks, fleas and worms, like so many puppies born on the streets here.

I had him treated, vaccinated, identified and sterilized, like all our dogs. But the sanctuary is full, completely full, and I couldn’t keep him inside. All I could do was place him in an area with other identified dogs, where he’ll be a little safer. At four months old, this little one now depends on just one thing to grow: the food I bring him.

If the kibble runs out now, his growth will stop, his immune system will collapse, and a baby already weakened by his first weeks on the streets may not make it through... I saved him from the road. I can’t lose him because I don’t have enough to feed him.”

5. Crushed by debt, Sally has had to sacrifice medical care and is now struggling to fill the bowls.

“Financially, I can’t keep going like this. Every month, I’m short by nearly €10,000 just to cover the dogs’ essential needs, and I simply don’t have that money. Donations have dropped sharply. Many of the people who used to help us tell me they can no longer do so, with the cost of living rising everywhere.

Summer makes the bills even worse: because of the heat, my dogs drink enormous amounts of water, far more than during the rest of the year, and we constantly have to refill everyone’s bowls with fresh water. The bill is soaring at the exact moment when I have nothing left.

And because we lack both funds and food, I’ve even had to stop our sterilization and vaccination program. When you reach the point where you have to sacrifice that work, even though it’s essential, just to try to keep the bowls full, it means the breaking point has been reached.”

6. Sally is not asking for money, only kibble to stop the dogs from starving.

“I’ve given everything for these animals. I sold my house, my businesses, everything I owned, to create this sanctuary, because they needed it and no one else was going to do it. Today, I’m not asking for money: I’m only asking for kibble, enough to fill the bowls and stop my dogs from starving.

What keeps me going is them. Animals need us, and we have no right to give up on them: they deserve the whole world. When they run towards me, when I see the street dogs happy to see me arrive, I find a little strength to get through one more day. But strength doesn’t fill bowls. To feed them, here and now, I truly need someone to reach out and help.”

7. By taking action now, you can help Sally receive 2900 kilos of kibble. 

Animal Webaction has a logistics centre in Morocco, which allows us to intervene quickly and deliver kibble.

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9. In Morocco, donors are scarce, and there are no foundations or subsidies. It is very difficult to find funding for kibble, many dogs remain starving on the street!

If you know of a foundation or NGO that could help Sally, please invite them to contact us so that we can put them in touch.

If you represent an animal welfare foundation or NGO, please help Sally's dogs. Contact us and we will put you in touch!

If you would like to visit Sally's sanctuary to help her, or if you would like to directly send her some kibble or a cheque, please contact Sally via Facebook (note: direct help is made under your own responsibility).

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