Dog Walkers needed

If you are willing to spare a few hours of your time each week to help walk a dog, pls email us at projectjkteam@yahoo.com.sg

We are building up a team of voluntary dog walkers who are able and confident of handling dogs of all sizes and characters, to offer a little measure of relief to dogs who have been seen perpetually chained or caged up in their homes.

We have worked with SPCA and AVA to investigate on cases of chained up/catched up dogs. Unfortunately, again, we do not have a set of regulations that look out for dogs in such conditions. The authorities do not have regulations on a dog being chained up 24 hours s day, so long as their 'basic needs are met' - basic needs herein refering to food, water, shelter.

With these 3 basic needs, a living being can survive, yes. But he/she might as well have died. Imagine a living being, born with the robustness and joy in life, eager to face the world and its adventures, but alas, totally imprisoned with nothing he/she can do to get free. And day after day, his life is in chains. Till the day he gives up his life and experiences for the first time, the sweet taste of freedom.

No one should live a life in chains. Let us not endure that.

A family cannot be charged even if they chained/cage their dog/pet up 24 hours a day, so long as the animal is feed and sheltered and in 'reasonably accepted conditions'. Because the authorities have not set any regulations, welfare societies like SPCA cannot do anything beyond visiting the family, educating them, giving them stern warnings if advice is not taken, showing them ways to improve the life of the animal. But beyond that, nothing much can be done. And no one can be watching this family round the clock to ensure they are making improvements.

While we wait for some positive changes to the legal side of this issue, we plan to speak with the families in question and offer to walk their dogs at a token donation towards stray work. This cannot be done for free else services like this from a kind heart will be taken for granted.

For now, if you live around Serangoon Garden area, please contact us if you can afford a couple of hours in a week to bring some joy to a chained up beagle. If you stay around Hougang area, pls contact us also as we have a dog owner who just had an operation and needs some help with her 2 huskies for the next 4 weeks till she recovers.