Community Dog Welfare Centre, initially based in Paiyutar, Kapan, (and previously called Community Dog Welfare Kopan) was established to provide support and care for the street dogs in the area as well as help the owned dogs in the community. As numbers of dogs needing care and help grew, the centre was moved at the end of 2022 to Gokarneshwar. Funding requirements also grew leading to the setting up of fundraisers.
Results from the 1st Medical Fund (2019 & 2020)
During 2019 and 2020, the first Medical Contingency Fund raised $21,420 AUD ($20,508 after Gofundme fees) to treat 161 street dogs. All the available money had been spent plus an additional $3,534 (a total of $24,442) on veterinary treatment for medical conditions, sterilizations, and medical supplies for in-house treatments.
The Fund covered the sterilization of 47 dogs- 37 females and 10 males from the CDW Centre and the local community. Also 118 dogs received medical treatment under the Fund – 12 dogs received chemotherapy for Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour (CTVT); 8 dogs were treated for demodectic or sarcoptic mange; 48 dogs were treated for injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents or human abuse; and 50 dogs were treated for a range of other conditions (infections, under-nutrition, anemia, spondylitis, organ failure, poisoning and other). Please see the full accountability on the closing post of the previous Gofundme campaign- https://www.gofundme.com/f/medical-fund-for-vulnerable-street-dogs-in-nepal.
Results from the 2nd Medical Fund (2021 & 2022)
With many dogs requiring help in Kathmandu as people abandoned their pets to return to their villages in the advent of covid-19, Community Dog Welfare Centre (CDWC) required additional funds. The second Fund raised 10,604 AUD (9,756 AUD after Gofundme fees). Over 100 dogs received medical treatment ranging from vaccinations, sterilizations, treatment of broken bones and hospice care of older dying dogs.
During the first 6 months of 2021, we rescued 40 dogs, 38 in need of veterinary care and spent $4,545 AUD ($955 from donations and $3,590 from our personal savings) to treat these street dogs - two female dogs were sterilized, and we treated one case of CTVT, three with severe mange, 6 with bad injuries, 4 other external conditions, and 24 with other internal conditions- unfortunately including a number with diseases that could be prevented with vaccines such as rabies, parvo virus and distemper.
NEW Medical Contingency Fund
Now, with the coffers empty, Kate and Doug Clendon, an elderly New Zealand couple who run CDWC and who have dedicated the past 15 years of their lives to caring for Nepali street dogs, are urgently seeking to raise $20,000 AUD for a new Medical Contingency Fund, which will be used for the sterilization and medical treatment of rescued dogs over the next two years. This new DonorBox Campaign will help dogs needing urgent and ongoing medical treatment, such as:
Chetan
Chetan was picked up in Paika and taken straight to Animal Medical Centre where she tested positive for parvo. She was slow to recover and spent a week in isolation at AMC, before coming to our house for further care.
Friday
Friday was hurt in an accident with a bus. One leg had been badly dislocated and was protruding through the skin. She had a major operation to put the bone back in place with the help of two pins to fix it. Special thanks to Dr Sushil at the Animal Medical Centre!
Goldilocks
What a pathetic sight was sweet Goldie when a young Nepalese couple brought her to our centre. Her hairless grey skin, dry, scaly and sagging. Her scrawny body crowned only by a ruff of golden mane. A thin and uncomfortable little street dog. With proper medication, nutritious food and love, Goldie soon began to recover. Within two months, the majority of her fur had grown back and she was strong enough to be spayed. Goldie showed herself to be a sweet, lovable, playful dog full of energy and affection. It took a further 6 weeks of daily medication and treatment with coconut oil for most of the remainder of her beautiful, long golden coat to return.
Jilly
Jilly and her brother Jack both had parvo as young pups. We treated them both at our home under guidance from Dr Sushil at AMC. Both recovered fully, Jack was adopted and Jilly is still with us.
Josef
Josef was picked up in Naya Basti with the typical symptoms of distemper. Taken straight to AMC, he tested negative for distemper. However, the strong symptoms indicated he had been infected and was in recovery. Kept isolated at our centre, he gradually got worse and had to be euthanized.
Nicky
Nicky was found with a broken leg and also overweight. Animal Medical Centre carried out a major operation inserting a steel plate to hold the leg bone in place. He has been returned to the street and was welcomed back by the community.
Pinky
Pinky was found near our new centre with a clear pronounced TVT (Transmissible Canine Venereal Tumour) and she was started on chemotherapy treatment. Unfortunately, Pinky passed away before her treatment could be completed.
Puppy Rina
Puppy Rina was picked up in Besigaon with a significant tumour on his nose. Taken straight to AMC for a diagnosis, he was found to have Transmissible Canine Venereal Tumour. Chemo treatment nearly always works and is working well for Puppy, but affected his liver so we had to stop the chemo for a while. If he recovers, he can return to his street location.
Suri
Suri was found near Pashupatinath, and came to us as a malnourished hairless adult dog covered in sores. Suri recovered slowly but surely from her initial condition but was beset by numerous other illnesses over the years, including a debilitating physical condition called spondylitis. Suri was a fighter and overcame one downturn after another. But in the end, her age of over 14 years and a tumour on her lungs finally took her.
Sponsorship for Routine Care
For CDWC, although, we have restricted our work to the most serious cases in our own local Gokarneshwor area and we do try to return recovered dogs to the street if we know the community will care for them, we have had to take 30 newly rescued dogs into our Centre in the past two years, bringing the total of permanent residents to 160 dogs. The costs to CDWC of providing for food, shelter and basic health care for these dogs is more than $3,000 per month- that is $38,000 per year (this does not include the routine care of dogs who come into the Centre temporarily for treatment or recovery, nor the cost of sterilizations and medical treatment that we pay for from the Medical Contingency Fund!)
CDWC relies on the help of sponsors to enable us to cover the costs of routine care for the dogs in the CDW Centre. Remarkably, 86 of the resident dogs are already sponsored by kind people scattered all around the world- although quite a few sponsors have withdrawn during covid for financial reasons. Sponsors pay $20 USD per month ($25 AUD / NZD) to cover the costs of two nutritious meals per day, shelter, and routine deworming, defleaing and vaccinations for their sponsored dog.
Unfortunately, only 50% of the dogs in our care at the Centre are currently sponsored. We have an additional 80 dogs requiring sponsorship as soon as possible. If you can, please assist us to continue our current high level of care by sponsoring one of the beautiful dogs in the CDW Centre. Dogs like:
Jungly
Jungly was picked up in the nearby Jungle on 18 February 2023 clearly suffering from scabies. Now treated and vaccinated he is improving rapidly but needs a home or a sponsor.
Seru
Seru was rescued on 28 January 2023 from near Ram Mandir. He was suffering with a cut on his penis. He spent several days at the AMC vet clinic and has made a remarkable recovery. He needs a home or a sponsor.
Nymar
Nymar arrived on 14 June 2022. Two men brought him to or centre and said they had found him on the street, unable to walk. We took him straight to AMC and Dr Sushil said he had already seen the dog – the owners and brought him in! He had a calcium deficiency, and no other treatment needed. So Nymar is with us and is recovering well, now able to run around with the other dogs. He can’t go back to his previous “owners”, so he needs to be adopted or sponsored.
Jhunkiri
Jhunkiri was dumped at the centre with her siblings on 11 April 2023. As we had no idea where they came from, they could not be returned and have stayed in the shelter. Two have subsequently died, one has been adopted, and there are two remaining. They are now vaccinated and spayed, but need a home or sponsors.
You might also consider helping some of the long-term dogs in the Centre who still have no sponsor. You can see all the photos and stories of dogs needing sponsorship on the “Sponsorship” page of our website at https://communitydogwelfarecentre.org/our-dogs/sponsorships/ .
Once you have selected a dog for sponsorship, please contact us on so that we can allocate your selected dog and set up your regular sponsorship payments. We cannot set up sponsorship through the Donorbox campaign, which is for donations to the Medical Contingency Fund for sterilizations and the treatment of medical conditions.
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Thank you.
Kate, Doug, Ramesh, Furba, Saroj, Nyoman and Arjun the Team at CDWC.