South Africa, like many countries around the world, is struggling to balance the needs of the environment as well as the development and infrastructure needs of the people. The Western Cape (in the southern portion of the country) is the home of a unique Cape...
The world over, wild animals pose a challenge to humans, from elephants in the savannah to coyotes in suburbia. Greyton, a community of 11,000 people about 80 miles from Cape Town, is not exempt. Here we have our own set of problems shared by many...
One of the more important recent papers on the role of dogs in rabies transmission was the paper by Reece & Chawla (2006). It described the elimination of human rabies cases in the center of Jaipur due to a street dog sterilization and vaccination program...
As part of the World Rabies Day Awards celebration, Dr. Abdul-Jalil Mohammadzai (Dr. "Mo" of The Mayhew Home- Afghanistan) received the “Global Individual” award for his contributions to the prevention of rabies. Thumbs up to Dr. Mo!!...
[caption id="attachment_3280" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Members of the Monitoring team – Wilmohr Williams, Jirmaine Lewis, Bertrim Moses, Andrew White (Greyton Conservation Society) and Leefred Damons. Photo by K. Rowan[/caption]On the recent trip to Africa by WellBeing International, we had the privilege of meeting with the Field...
To date there have been three international dog population management conferences. The first was organized by Dr. Giovanna Massei in York (UK, 2012). The second and third have been organized by ICAM (the International Companion Animal Management Coalition) in Istanbul (Turkey, 2015) and most recently...
For more than two millennia, honey has been used by humans to treat wounds and skin infections. However, as modern medicine produced a variety of antiseptics and anti-microbials, the use of honey to treat wounds was largely lost to medicine. However, honey is still called...
A recent sterilization clinic held in Guapiles by our partner organization served a remarkable woman – 96-year old Ana Julia Espinoza. She walked three kilometers with her three cats to have them sterilized.For the past five years, our partner organization, the Costa Rican shelter Asociacion...
[caption id="attachment_1802" align="alignleft" width="487"] Bella at Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary[/caption]It is 5.30 in the morning and it sounds like the gates of hell have opened and the tortured demons are screaming from the midst of the inferno. Bella and ninety other pigs are ‘singing’ for...
WellBeing International is reaching out to engage with and support organizations that are implementing humane dog management projects around the globe. One of these is the Kabul Dog Project in Afghanistan that is run by Mayhew Afghanistan, a division of the Mayhew Home for Animals...
