My partner and I moved to Mauritius due to a work oppurtunity I was given in July 2022. We welcomed the opportunity with open arms and looked forward to a new adventure and to embracing the island with all we had. We do not have much and wanted to try create a better life for ourselves. As much as we loved the ocean life and beautiful nature that surrounded us, we could not help but be heartbroken at the state the stray dogs were living in.

We heard many stories of Expats coming to the island for a few years, adopting or bringing pets in, and then abandonining them outside their gates while they left onto their next adventure. Our constant staple we have on us is pet food, which we always stop and share with packs of strays as we drive around the island. I know my colleagues do the same, and I have seen many locals feed the strays and organize sterilisation drives.

The vets on the island are the true heroes, assisting often for nothing in return, and are at capacity at their clinics with the amount of strays they take in. It also makes it extremely difficult that 80 percent of the homes for rent in Mauritus are not pet friendly, so there is only so much we can do to house the strays we come accross. 

In September, 2023 we went to Mont Choisy beach for the day to enjoy the beach. Unbeknown to us, we fell pray to the most gorgeous stray puppies who had been dumped for dead on the beach. Which is a common occurance. We spent the whole day with them, feeding them and playing with them. It is safe to say that as much as we imprinted on them, they imprinted on us. We were there the next day, the next day and the next. Feeding them and checking in on them. They were in a terrible state. Covered in mange and on their last legs of parvo. We decided to leave our current unit and search the island far and wide to find a pet friendly place to be able to house them. This was a challenge in its own and the only place we could find was in a stranded and at a very high price. Our home barely has water, and often has power cuts, but we couldnt care less. We could take our babies home. We had been warned puppies often get poisoned on the beaches and we could not handle the thought. By the last time we visited them, the were chasing us to our car and chasing our car whilst we left into the busy road. Needless to say we needed to get them out of there and fast. 

We took them straight to the most wonderful vet we have gotten to know on the island. Sue from Animo in the Vale. And she got to work on saving these parvo, flea ridden puppies. She said they were days from not surviving and that they would not have lasted the week had they stayed on that beach. They stayed with Sue for three weeks and got agressive treatment for their parvo and mange. They were fattened up and treated like gold. We rushed to get them into our now pet friendly place and have been spoiling them ever since. 

Our life has suddenly taken a turn, and we need to return back to SA for health reasons. We will under no circumstances leave our precious Pixie and Bear behind, nor our cat Abbey who we brought along with us from SA. Hoever, due to the mass amount we have been paying in the one pet friendly home we could find and the cost of living we are struggling to put the money together to get our babies home. 

Any and all assistance howver small will be so greatly recieved and will be put straight to the cost of exporting our babies out of Mauritius and importing them into South Africa. We are desperate to get them home before Christmas, and to continue to give them the life all of these strays so deserve. 

With all my heart thank you, for any and all support offered.