PADS - Prince Albert Animal Welfare
This post is on a more serious note. We are extremely fortunate to have very kind volunteers in town who are part of our animal welfare team. Sadly animal cruelty is rife, and animals are underfed and uncared for. What poor Brenda is faced with daily is unthinkable and extremely traumatic. Very few people have dealt with this as long as she has. So a huge shoutout to her. As much as we try to educate people, very few were brought up to respect animals. Two people are paid to work for PADS, Elizma is at the container which sells small packets of food, keeps things like worm pills, and has a dip facility etc. The other is Brenda who is paid a stipend for a few hours of work a day. Her work is, however, never restricted to these hours as she is called out at all hours of the day and over weekends for which she is not paid. As much as we explain to people that she is not a vet and is limited in what she can do for the animals, people have ridiculous expectations of her and are ex
