"Disclaimer"

We believe it's only appropriate, to say the least, to establish, hopefully, once-and-for-all where we stand in this constant campaign for a better treatment of animals, whether in captivity or footloose, domestic or wild.

ProjectJK was so forth started because we felt it was only necessary to document all of our welfare work on this blog to (a) serve as a mouthpiece of our animals (b) educate the public on the realities of the stray situation (c) platform what we do and our ideas to both existing and potential supporters in this one, same common cause that disparate special interest groups and societies are working towards. We still feel the same way.

In the course of this enriching yet treacherous journey, we've been met with blessings as well as misfortunes, the latter that hindered our work which stems from our simple intention of improving the lives of our animals.

We help a multitude of caregivers, fosters and strayfeeders but essentially, when we take time off and "conduct some groundwork", we "go on the road" with one caregiver who'd been taking care of street animals for more than half her life.

When we say "our team", there are essentially ONLY two of us. One a student and another, a working professional. Time to time, we are blessed with support from people who believe in our cause and who render us support financially, morally and physically. Yes, we rope in personal contacts such as close friends or friends of friends or friends of friends of friends, or even complete strangers, to, say, provide transport for our dogs for sterilisation or help in the bathing of dogs at a private shelter.

We are not a society, but a group of people who long for a better day for our animals. We contribute when we can, if our schedules permit or if an urgent matter needs to be attended to physically. Other times when we are not "on the road", we could be exchanging emails with potential adopters and supporters or just updating this blog from behind our screens.

Yet, we daresay we've been hounded by barrages of questions (and allegations) about our alleged "inefficiency", "carelessness" and what have you, of the terms that were thrown at or assigned to our work. It'd gone so far that we were "stealing" away supporters who "belong" to another group to ours, we were told. We do not know where lines were drawn and if lines could ever be drawn in this respect.

On another level, it'd gotten to a stage when we had to permanently block someone capable of so much groundless slanders in our emails. And it's times like this when we could legitimize all intended acts to wash our hands from animal welfare and rest on our laurels as individuals romanticizing that all animals are well, as long as we don't see them.

But, we don't.

If anything, we only want this to be as open as possible. Not something that shrouds a hodge-podge of snide remarks or badmouthing or disgruntlements brewing in the background of the picture.

And it's precisely what this blog is about -- to serve as a two-way communicative avenue between the public and ourselves. It is through such sharing that we can constructively move forward in this cause and the picture-perfectness of it is something that we will not be able to see in our lifetime.

This post is not intended to anyone but is a disclaimer of sorts to clear the air. Constructively.

Where humans are involved, it cannot be more compelling that our animals are simpler beings to treat and handle. Our caregiver remarks that "humans are worse". However loose this remark comes forth, it largely echoes a general sentiment agreed by a lot of people.

But there is definitely hope in humanity and humaneness in the treatment of animals still stands in the heart of hearts.