1. In Morocco, Michèle has almost no kibble left to feed the 1,350 dogs at her shelter and her farm. They could starve to death!
"Right now we have 1,350 dogs to feed: 850 at the shelter, and 500 at the farm, at my own home. For all of them to eat their fill, I need sixteen tonnes of kibble a month. Sixteen tonnes! I say it out loud and I can hardly believe it myself, but that's what our days look like.
And I only have a few days of stock left. Not a week. A few days. We've already been rationing for a week, because I had no choice: either I cut the portions right away, or I'd have had nothing at all to give very soon. So we stretch it, we split it, we try to make sure nobody gets completely forgotten. It isn't a solution, it just buys us a few days.
The real problem is that our donations don't cover our needs, they never have. And food is the one thing nobody wants to fund: people give for an operation, for one specific rescue, never for bags of kibble... And yet, without the kibble, none of the rest is worth anything."
2. The dogs live in groups: with kibble running short, the strongest ones push the weakest away from the feeders.
"The fights have started. That's always the first sign, and it never lies. Our dogs live in groups, there's no other way with that many dogs. As long as there's enough kibble, everything stays calm, they don't fight over anything. But since we started rationing, it's the biggest ones who eat: they plant themselves in front of the feeders and they keep the others away. The weaker ones back off, they wait at a distance, and by the time the way is clear there's nothing left for them...
We watch every meal, for every group, every single day. You have to be there, standing right by the bowls, and we often have to pull the weakest ones out and feed them separately. It's always the same dogs who are at risk: Tam, who is blind and can't see his bowl. May, who had both hind legs amputated and can't run to the food. Henri, who has leishmaniasis...
If they aren't protected at every meal, those dogs get nothing. And once there's nothing left at all in the feeders, there'll be nothing left to watch over either: nobody can hold back a group of dogs that haven't eaten."
3. Zayn lost part of his skull in an accident: underfed, he'll never recover without kibble.
"Zayn is a male, about a year and a half old. He was hit in an accident and he lost part of his skull. The first time you see him, you wonder how a dog can survive something like that. He did survive. But his body carries all of it: he suffers from malnutrition, he's thin, and he's never had enough to properly build himself back up.
He's a very sweet dog, and a very frightened one. If you come towards him too quickly he freezes, as if he's waiting to be hit. He needs quiet, he needs time, and above all he needs to eat his fill every day. A dog his age, with an injury like that and the setback he's been carrying from the start, doesn't recover on half portions. He has no other way out than the kibble: it's the only thing that can still put weight and strength back on him. Today I have no way of guaranteeing him that, and it's unbearable."
4. With 518 more dogs since the spring, Michèle's budget has blown up: she can't afford the kibble anymore!
"This spring, we took in 518 dogs from the local pound, adults and puppies alike. They arrived riddled with parasites, painfully thin, in a terrible state of stress. Everything had to be done at once: settling them in, treating them, feeding them. They're a big part of why we're where we are today, with 1,350 dogs in our care.
When money runs short, you have to choose between treating and feeding, and it's an impossible choice. Over the past few months we've already had to put off spay and neuter surgeries for lack of funds, when those are the very thing that stops the number of dogs from growing further. And the sterilisation programme with the Agadir council is at a standstill. That was the only real long-term solution, and without it there will always be more dogs needing us.
Here in Morocco there are no local donors, no foundations, no subsidies for food. Everything depends on what comes in from outside, and this time, I have no margin left."
5. Michèle isn't asking for money, only for kibble so that the dogs don't starve to death.
"I was born in Morocco and I could never accept what's done to the street dogs here. So one day I made a decision there was no coming back from: save them all. That's how I ended up with hundreds of lives on my shoulders, without ever having planned for it...
My day starts at 6 in the morning and finishes after 9 at night, every day. I have good staff, most of them have been with me a long time and they know the dogs. But not one of my employees is in a position to take my place, not one, and that's what weighs on me most: everything comes back to me, the decisions, the emergencies, the suppliers, the constant search for money... At my age, with the health I have, I know perfectly well this can't hold forever.
What I'm asking for today is kibble, just enough to feed them, so I don't have to watch them waste away and fight each other."
6. By taking action now, you can help Michèle receive 7200 kilos of kibble for her dogs.
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8. In Morocco, donors are scarce, and there are no foundations or subsidies. It is very difficult to find funding for kibbles, many dogs remain starving on the street!
If you know of a foundation or NGO that could help Michele, please invite them to contact us so that we can put them in touch.
If you represent a Foundation or an NGO for animal protection, please help Michele's dogs, contact us and we will put you in touch!
If you want to come to Michele's shelter to help her or if you want to send her kibbles or a check directly, contact her via the shelter's Facebook page (note: direct help is under your own responsibility).
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