Purposes

The Flicka Foundation is raising money to help SPCA in western region of Fiji to ensure a better enviroment, new homes and better lives to the street dogs in primarily this area,
 as well as help to keep the dog population down. The Flicka Foundation will donate funds to SPCA as I see fit for primarily the purposes of food, shelter, proper cages,


Instead of capture cages with meat hooks inside


                 

spaying, medications, cleaning agents and much, much more that I'm sure I will be aware of soon.

Of course there will be funds to provide aid to all these cats here as well. Trust me, they are as many, especially around the resorts.

The reason I concentrate to the western region is that the headquarters of SPCA is in Suva. They are to provide the same opportunity to the entire Fiji Islands but it is not really happening. I assume they have a big overpopulation of dogs there and spend a lot of their funds for that.

Here in the west, we have no shelter for adult dogs, only for cats and puppies.


Cat pens.



Puppie pen.

 We have no vetrinarian other than, on an average, once a month when Suva can send one.
All medications arrive to Fiji through Suva and the west SPCA are often without some of the medication for a good length of time.
It cost FJD$70,00 to spay a female dog. The males a little less.
A cat cost $35,00. I assume male cats are less as well.

The table is rather small to work on, not to mention the room itself, my latest puppy Cookie, on the left getting spayed.

Will post an update.
The common Fijian makes about FJD $2,00 /hour. They can't afford to spay their dogs. Less can they afford to travel to get their animals spayed.
There isn't enough time for a vetrinarian in one or 2 days to spay these pets if they all could make it.
Therefore we have all these street dogs in Fiji. Females get litter after litter. Fijians leave them in a box on the side of the road after about 6 weeks or drop them on beaches or homes close to white people. If they survive the streets they become the street dogs of Fiji, and have more puppies. It's endless!

It may be a dream but if most of the dogs can be spayed, in villages and other homes where the funds are lacking the population will get less.

There are 2 ways for Fijians to keep the population of street dogs/wild dogs down:
1. Drowning the puppies (or kittens).
2. Poison the wild dogs by putting out poisoned meat.  Very common.

The poison works very cruel and takes days to kill the dog. Not only the wild dogs die, the birds, the cats and the cared for dogs die as well.
There is no cleanup after dead dogs, weither by poison or other death. They are left to rott wherever they are. Side of the roads or beaches or elsewhere, appropriate or not.
It takes about 5-10 days, weather depending, for a large dog to "dissapear/decompose". But in the meantime they smell very bad and look even worse. It is beyond my understanding how these people can just stand by, actually right next to a dead cadaver, and pretend not noticing it.

We are in need of a full time vet here in the west not only to spay all these but also to patch them up after car accident etc. There are plenty of 3 legged dogs here in Fiji.



One just had a leg removed and the other got spayed.



A 3 legged dog operated a few days before this was taken.
 Had to stay in cage for the day.




A lot of these wonderful Street dogs in Fiji can be at good use for police, military as well as customs if only they had somebody to train the dogs with and for them. This is another way of using the assets of a lot of these wonderful street dogs.
In order to use these dogs for those purposes there is a need for a proper dog trainer as well.

So much can be done if only there was funds and an interest. I will do whatever I can to fulfill these needs and there are other people here who want to help but we need a center that is stocked with the necessary items to make a difference.