Dear Friends,

Greetings of the season to you all! How to sum up a whole year of our works? For those who are interested, we've posted our 2008 year-end report on all our activites and the animals we have helped this past year.

Did you know that VSPCA has done animal birth control for over 65,000 dogs and cats since we began 12 years ago?

For those who have enjoyed our email report these past few years, please consider sending us a donation of any amount.

Great progress for our volunteer programme for the endangered sea turtles of the Bay of Bengal coastline in our state of Andhra Pradesh. We are finally receiving recognition from the local government. Pradeep Nath's 12 years of patrolling the beaches, oftentimes alone at night, against all odds in order to create a scientific census will now receive local support. Pradeep recently presented his findings to a local conference titled "Strategies for conservation of endangered/threatened marine macro fauna along the North Andhra Coast with special focus on Sea turtles, Dolphins, etc." For the first time our sea turtles have gotten the nod for a scheduled protection.

Recently we faced the extreme challenge of helping in the Orissa flood project. (See our photos here.)

Just this past month we intervened to rescue abused animals from an "animal welfare" group in nearby Kakinanda that Pradeep Nath has been trying to influence for years. The situation was horrendous, and one brave woman, Lisa Warden, a compassionate animal lover who is visiting India, rescued some of the animals (read an excerpt from Lisa's account of her experience here). We were happy to accept the suffering ones and save their lives in the nick of time. Please take a moment to watch our short video of the dogs who are now happy residents of our shelter.

For a lighter touch, see some of our puppies at play here, or watch a new short video of our cat shelter.

Two of the recently rescued dogs – James Blond and Trooper – are up for sponsorship. Did you know you can give a gift sponsorship? Just note in your contribution who you would like the photo and a holiday card to be sent to as a gift from you. Sorry, we cannot send plush toys at this time!

Your confidence in our works has allowed us to progress thus far but we must tell you that we need your support now more than ever. Please consider joining our humble but growing list of monthly supporters. If you're from the United States, the dollar is currently strong against the rupee, so your contribution will go very far! We are also pleased to announce that USA tax deductible donations may now also be sent through our representative in the USA. Please see our donation page for more information.

Sending you all a heartfelt wish for a better tomorrow, on behalf of Pradeep Nath and all at Visakha SPCA, and Eileen Weintraub (USA), Visakha SPCA volunteer for Global Outreach.

26-15-200 Main Road, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh 530001, India
Tel: 91-891-2716124 (office) 2001046 (shelter)
vspcadeep@yahoo.co.in
http://visakhaspca.org

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