Our daily stray feeding tours are a big and very important part of our rescue work. We currently feed and medically treat around 120 dogs daily. Moms with pups receive food twice a day. Feeding is such an important part not only to keep the dogs healthy but also to gain their trust. A trusting dog is way easier to catch for vaccinations, spay/neuter, microchip implantation for database registration. Happy Dogs with volunteer help covers about 60% of the island’s population. The feeding tours alone take around 4-6 hours daily.

Almost all strays living in the jungle, on the streets and beaches suffer from very common diseases and parasites. Treatments against scabies/ mange, fleas, lice and ticks and tick and mosquito borne illness such as blood parasites, heart worm etc are very common. Minor wounds such as from fights are cleaned, powdered with kill l to prevent flies laying their eggs in them and dressed to prevent maggot infestations.