Where art and paws meet
"We have a humanity that has forgotten its role as guardians of the planet and its animals. "
After the success of the first Love Paws concert held in 2017, the organisers of this great initiative thought it good to host another.
And on Saturday, 2 June, animal lovers met art lovers at the Nirox Sculpture Park in Kromdraai, to not only celebrate animal lives, but also to contribute to the quality thereof.
Love Paws 2 featured a fantastic line-up of SA’s top musicians – including Arno Carstens, Jesse Clegg, Ard Mathews from Just Jinjer fame, Prime Circle and the winner of the Voice 2017 SA, Craig Lucas.
Photo: Bianca Pindral.
The event raised money for two charities who work in the companion animal welfare sector – PawsRUs (SA) and 4Paws. Both organisations rescue and rehabilitate/ re-home abandoned and unwanted animals.
PawsRUs is a Midrand-based animal shelter that believes there is no doubt that all rescue organisations and shelters in SA can rescue companion animals until we are blue in the face – however, this will not address the underlying causes of the animal welfare problems in our country.
“We have a global society that has derailed from the basics of compassion and respect. We have a humanity that has forgotten its role as guardians of the planet and its animals. And there is a lot of general ignorance regarding key issues related to sterilisation, responsible pet ownership, re-homing animals, breed discrimination, dog-fighting and even cancer in pets.”
Photo: Bianca Pindral.
For more information about PawsRUs, visit their website at https://pawsrus.co.za/.
4Paws, by contrast, is a Diepsloot-based animal shelter whose mission is to improve the quality of life of underprivileged animals in urban surroundings, such as those in informal settlements, and feral cats.
For more information visit the 4Paws website at https://4ourpaws.org.za/.
There were other animal rescue organisations at the park as well, like Woodrock Animal Rescue, which is a nonprofit, pro-life, rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing shelter located in Hennops River.
Woodrock is the leading animal shelter in South Africa and believes that each animal deserves a loving, stable ‘forever home’.
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