TEARS - The Emma Animal Rescue Society

OPENING TIMES

DAILY

MONDAY-SUNDAY

(inc.public holidays)

8:30am to 4:30pm

ADOPTION HOURS

MONDAY-SUNDAY

(inc.public holidays)

10am to 3:30pm

PH: 021 785 4482

FAX: 021 785 4354

E-mail: tears@tears.org.za

Prospective owners are interviewed to ensure suitability, and each home is visited to confirm compliance with our conditions. TEARS is very proactive in finding homes by taking animals to craft markets, exhibitions and other venues. TEARS responds to calls from the public, throughout the Peninsula, when they encounter injured or abandoned animals requiring help.

TEARS is governed by a Board of 7 Directors which includes our Chairman. Three of the Directors are actively involved in the Management of our organisation. We employ a staff complement of 37 individuals, many of whom reside in our local disadvantaged communities.

On an average day we care for +-150 dogs and puppies and 120 cats and kittens at our shelter, providing them with food,water, shelter, veterinary care, exercise and positive interaction with people. We depend on our dedicated volunteers to asist with the many aspects of running our shelter and charity shops.

We strive to meet the needs of our underprivileged communities, namely Masiphumelele and Redhill Informal Settlements, and Ocean View and Mountain View Townships, by:

• providing primary health care such as vaccinations, deworming and internal parasite control;

• offering free sterilisations for the domestic animals;

• providing a scheduled, daily Mobile Clinic offering basic health care and food to the domestic animals;

• establishing an essential working relationship to protect the rights of the domestic animals and empowering and supporting through effective education, guidance and follow-up.The desperate need of the animals in the abovementioned areas has resulted in TEARS growing at a rate never anticipated.

• In July 2005 we established a registered clinic on our premises, complete with our own veterinarin, where we treat animals from disadvantaged communities for any illness, injury or condition.

WHAT WE DO

We exist to:

• lessen the suffering of abandoned, injured and abused dogs and cats by rescuing them, providing for their well being and placing them into loving homes;

• reduce the numbers of unwanted animals by providing free sterilisations in disadvantaged communities;

• provide humane education to the people to create an awareness of the moral and ethical responsibility we have towards the animals whose world we share.