The City of Cape Town has allocated R625 302 for a mass sterilisation campaign of cats and dogs in Atlantis. The amount will cover the sterilisation of 1 436 cats and dogs. The City of Cape Town started to fund mass sterilisation in 2013. To date, it has made available nearly R2,2Read More

An illegal dog hunter will hopefully mend his ways. Wolutu Koti from Nomzamo in the Strand was recently found guilty in the Atlantis Magistrate’s court of hunting protected and unprotected wild animals with dogs and cruelty to animals. Punishment Koti was ordered to forfeit his 11 greyhounds to the SPCA.Read More

They were neglected and misused. But last week the Cape of Good Hope SPCA announced that a group of 11 adult greyhounds and 10 puppies are up for adoption to good homes. The greyhounds’ lives turned around on 10 July 2016 when an alert motorist noticed the pack of 11Read More

Nobody seems to know what happened to these poor ostriches. Do you? One of our readers photographed the remains of what looks like 10 ostriches in the veldt between Mamre and the R27. According to our reader, “The case was reported to the Atlantis Police Station and followed up withRead More

The post mortem report for a dog that was tortured to death in Manenberg by eight youths has been released by the Cape of Good Hope SPCA. According to the official state veterinarian’s autopsy, the dog, which has now been named Sam, suffered multiple grievous injuries at the hands ofRead More

The six alleged poachers who were recently found in possession of 11 distressed greyhounds and poached wildlife have denied that they are the owners of the greyhounds. The men appeared in Atlantis magistrate’s court yesterday. ‘Additional charge’ Cape of Good Hope SPCA spokesperson Tara McGovern tells Melkbos.net that the SPCARead More