Personal message

Wollies comes from humble beginnings. The initial purpose at Wollies was to sterilize as many animals as possible, way back in 2003 when this all started.

However, it did not end with the sterilization project. We became more and more involved, helping abandoned, neglected and abused animals and before we knew it, we had evolved into a full-scale operation which is known today as WOLLIES ANIMAL SHELTER.

Times were desperate, times were tough, but we persevered and managed to plough forward and eventually, on 29 May 2013 Wollies Animal Shelter opened its doors with only a handful of cats and dogs.  To date, Wollies has expanded to a safe haven for nearly 1 000 dogs and cats.  We are a pro-life, no-kill shelter.

We subsequently became registered as a non-profit, pro-life organisation that
does not receive any government funding.  Every cat and dog stays with us until they find their forever homes.  Life is what we offer them and we will never take these rights away.

We STRONGLY believe that if people are educated on the benefits of sterilization and if these costs were more affordable, then there would be fewer abandoned, abused and homeless animals.

When we started building our kennels we ensured that there was enough space for the dogs to run and play, as we place a couple of dogs together in each kennel run. This is not always easy but one has the advantage that these dogs are then socialised, which makes it a lot easier when they are adopted by a family who already has other dogs.

Volunteers from all walks of life have joined Wollies by sharing in our passion and burden and we love these animals unconditionally as if they were our own.  No organisation can be successful without hands and hearts of gold holding these beliefs together and paving the way forward for these fur babies.

This was by no means an easy feat, BUT as we enter the shelter today – the worries of the next meal are washed away as we are excitedly greeted by wagging tails & purring bodies.  This is when we know that the tears, the struggles, the battles and the constant disappointment, are all worth it at the end of the day!

The abandoned are happy, and although the shelter is just a “halfway stop” to their forever homes their roads are paved with love, care and food in the time that they spend with us and this final promise will always ring true:-

“You will never go hungry again!  Never need to be afraid again!  You will receive love and attention and have food every day.  You will have a warm bed to sleep in, never be given up on or thrown away.  We promise that you will be loved and cared for and that your new family keeps the promise we have given you”

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