Statistics
For an average month
| Investigations | 130 |
| Visits to slaughterhouses country wide | 15 |
| Donkey Clinics in rural areas | Ongoing throughout the year |
| Calls to rescue and treat donkeys around Nairobi area | 8 per week |
| Number of dogs rehomed per month | 45 to 50 |
| Number of cats rehomed per month | 20 |
| Average number of dogs in the shelter | 120 |
| Average number of cats in the shelter | 50 |
| Average number of donkeys in shelter | 10 |
| Average number of dogs neutered | 40 bitches, 10 males |
| Average number of cats neutered | 25 to 30 females, 20 males |
| Average admission of dogs | 60 to 80 |
| Average admission of cats | 30 |
| Euthanasia dogs | 12 |
| Euthanasia cats | 5 |
NB Because of the rabies situation all dogs are kept for a minimum of one month’s quarantine unless the vaccination records are known. Many dogs are booked during this time.
Our Donkey Projects are
funded courtesy of:
Our Campaigns
Spay and Vaccination
Currently we are about to start a spay and vaccination campaign for dogs in Ongata Rongai where there has been an outbreak of rabies recently.
The staff will hire a resident to source bitches for us and they will be brought to our headquarters for sterilising and vaccination.
We will also vaccinate any male dogs in the area but only sterilise bitches due to financial constraints.
Sterilisation Campaign for Cats
We are also going to do a sterilisation campaign around some of the low cost housing estates where there is a problem with cats. We will be carrying out a feral cat scheme whereby all healthy adult cats will be neutered, vaccinated against rabies and returned.
The unhealthy cats will be removed and kittens rehomed. The cats will be returned because if they are removed, more unneutered cats will move in and the cycle will start all over again.
Humane Slaughter Programme
Our humane slaughter programme is ongoing and Inspector Benard Atsiaya visits slaughterhouses countrywide on a regular basis. We have made good inroads in that field and most of the busier slaughterhouses country wide are using captive bolt pistols to prestun cattle.
Donkey Project
Our Donkey project staff last year dewormed and treated over 85,000 donkeys country wide. We thank the Donkey Sanctuary of Devon for their continuous generous support.
KSPCA's Wycliffe Gwatemba on ' Donkey Work'
Future Projects
- The KSPCA would like to expand its spaying and vaccination project to try to stop the Government Veterinary Department from baiting dogs with strychnine in the lower income areas where dogs are free roaming though the majority have owners.
Strychnine poisoning is a very painful death and it is indiscriminant. We would combine it with a Care in the Community programme whereby our staff holds clinics to teach owners to care for their animals and to teach them about deworming and bathing and the importance of vaccination and population control. Also to understand what a dog needs from its owner to make it into a better pet.
- We would also when funds permit, like to repair and renovate our kennels and cattery.
- We also desperately need another trainee inspector.
Other projects:
Back to previous page
Top