HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015Woodrock will be doing a monthly newsletter updating our very valued followers on the progress and updates on our beautiful piece of heaven!
We have the most wonderful facilities, our standards are very high! Offering the very best opportunity for our animals in our care! Our staff are well trained and dedicated. The regular volunteers that come through to attend to the rehabilitation work, together with our staff, are a truly remarkable team!
Woodrock is almost completely funded directly by its founders. Over the last year we have had great support from our followers providing very welcome and much needed financial relief. We are very grateful to all of you who continue to support us! We are almost constantly repairing fencing, doors, handles and equipment.
The administration behind the scenes keeps us extremely busy! At Woodrock we are always brain storming and initiating unique ways to upgrade and improve the lives of our residents! We know we have set ourselves a high bar, particularly given that our founders work full-time to fund and support Woodrock.
Reflecting back over this year, we have achieved a great deal and are extremely proud of this! This year has been filled with memorable highs and (as life throws us curve balls) there have been many lows.
Our greatest achievement in 2014 has to be without a doubt being chosen to appear on SA heros! Woodrock together with SARAC felt extremely honored to receive a nomination of this magnitude! To work with 2 remarkable directors with the likes of Dominique and Geoff made it easy!
We continued to do our outreaches every 2 months. At these outreach programs Woodrock enforces our policy of educating the uninformed and upholding our sterilization "rampage".
Woodrock are in an area where one has to travel for medical attention. A day doesn't go by where a neighbor drives up the driveway needing attention. This will also advocate and uphold our greatest mission of all ... To sterilize!
Over the year we have sterilized hundreds of animals. Our rehoming of dogs, in our opinion was a struggle, owing to the fact that puppies are more in demand as opposed to adult dogs! WoodRock’s strength is to rescue rehabilitate and then rehome, which involves predominantly senior dogs.
We have continued to assist shelters who are less fortunate than ourselves and relish in their victories!
We continue to feed our neighbours pigs 3 times a week. Woodrock shares donations with other animal charities, and all the received help and donations that are not used by us, are paid forward and used to help others. Our book sales came to a halt, but we will be back in January! Mandela day was a great feat. Woodrock started a soccer team in the valley. With the help of amazing associate rescue groups, Boston terrier and supporters! We kitted (all 34 of them) with toggs!
In the spirit of upliftment, Woodrock donated a bicycle and riding gear to a wonderful older man, which understands our plight and mission and continues to feed the dogs and see to their needs in the valley.
As always "The show must go on!" We can never have a slow "off-day"! Woodrock tries, against all that life presents us with, to eradicate any form of cruelty!
The goat basher case was bitter sweet! Woodrock and Sarac put all efforts into having the perpetrator convicted. The costs financially were immense.
In all of this madness, sadness, apathy, desperation, heart-ache and soul searching, Woodrock has and always will fly the flag high for those that are unable to speak up for themselves! We will continue to be there for them!
We look forward to an Epic 2015!
Our much needed hydro pool will be launched in January!
In February we hope to start our funky cattery! So...watch this space!!
A project which is very close to the founders’ hearts is also commencing next year!
Our memory walk will be a dignified beautiful maze. Offering a quiet walk to visitors reflecting on the lost lives of their fur babies that have passed. In their memory we are hoping that visitors will leave a footprint in good faith, needed for the voiceless, homeless animals in our care.
Woodrock promises to uphold our motto "Acta non Verba"
taking action not just talking about intentions, we do it!!
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