Who Can Help Vulnerable Dogs In Kathmandu

Community Dog Welfare Kopan is a small organisation located in Payutar on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. The organization, founded by Kate Clendon, cares for vulnerable dogs in the Kopan area of Kathmandu, and sometimes further afield.

Kate, who together with her husband, Doug, and their small local team work tirelessly to rescue, treat and rehabilitate injured and sick dogs, provide care and shelter to homeless vulnerable dogs, rehome dogs wherever possible, offer hospice care, and provide education, vaccination, spaying, treatment and outreach programs in the local community. Their work is truly amazing, and, although underfunded, makes a huge difference not only to the dogs who are fortunate to come under Kate's care but also to the people in the surrounding Nepalese communities.

Over the past six years, since Community Dog Welfare Kopan was established and sheltered enclosures were built for dogs in care, Kate and her team have rescued, treated, rehabilitated many dogs in the Kopan area of Nepal, including 137 dogs who have been in long-term care; fully vaccinating over 800 dogs; and spaying / neutering 275 owned, rescued and community dogs. Kate has also assisted some dogs that were abandoned after last year's 6.8 magnitude earthquake, which devasted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nepalese people. Although Kate makes every attempt to relocate rehabilitated dogs to the community in which they were found, or to re-home dogs with caring families, sometimes this is not possible.

Nepal is a very poor country, made poorer by the devastating earthquake that rocked Kathmandu and surrounding districts in April 2015. The blockade of the border with India for 6 months from August 2015, caused further hardship for the people of Nepal. And although local people try their best to care for their own dogs, as well as homeless dogs living in the community, this is becoming increasingly difficult for many. Therefore, local people call on Community Dog Welfare and similar organizations when they find sick or injured dogs, or there is no one able to care for abandoned dogs.

Currently, there are forty-eight rescued and rehabilitated dogs, most of whom are healthy and well, residing in the Community Dog Welfare Kopan shelter that Kate runs from her home in Payutar, Kathmandu. All of these dogs have been either abandoned near the centre, or were sick or injured dogs rescued from the streets and rehabiliated at the centre. The dogs currently in Kate's care are those that could not be re-homed or relocated back into the community.

Twenty of the dogs currently in Kate's care already have sponsors, who pay for their ongoing care (food, routine vaccinations and deworming). However, the remaining twenty-eight dogs in the shelter need sponsors to cover the costs of their routine, ongoing care. Dogs like Pashu, who was found weak and frightened, huddled in a corner on the street, and suffering from acute, festering and bleeding fungal and mite infections covering her face, legs and chest. And proud red Pangri, who was found emaciated, suffering from severe malnutrition, pneumonia, dehydration and maggot-infested wounds. And Rikky, the miracle dog, who was found as a puppy suffering from mange, crippling malnutrition and severe tetanus, which made his body entirely rigid. And Suman, who had been hit by a motor bike and left for dead.

To meet the 28 lovable dogs, who have no sponsors and need your help, please view the sponsorship presentation - video or pdf - on our website at http://www.communitydogwelfarekopan.org/how-you-can-help/ .

For more information, contact Doug Clendon for more information - doug.clendon@gmail.com.

More info: communitydogwelfarekopan.org