The KACPAW organisation (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Protection) has got a new home at Udaperadeniya.

The University - Veterinary Department, gave the land. After clearing and fencing it we managed to construct some kennels, thanks to contributions by local and foreign animal lovers and associations. This cost us over a million rupees.

We are happy to state that we have saved the lives of almost 1000 animals since our inception found kind homes for almost eight to nine hundred dogs in all parts of the Island. These dogs were abandoned animals, thrown on the roads by cruel people. These dogs would have all been killed at the dog pound.

If animal lovers contribute another Million Rupees we could construct more shelters and would be able to accommodate all the animals that are eliminated in the Kandy Dog Pound at Gohagoda. At the moment there are seventy five dogs in the home and the place is over crowded.

While we run vaccination and sterilization clinics to control rabies - we believe the only way we can eliminate rabies is not by killing of these dogs that has been going on for almost the last 50 years, but through our program. At the Kandy Hospital itself millions of rupees is spent on giving anti-rabies injections to human beings, besides the money spent on eliminating the animals.

So, I strongly recommend to the Government, specially as this is a Buddhist country, that this senseless killing of dogs should be stopped and mass anti-rabies and sterilization clinics should be conducted throughout the whole island. I am sure this will give results in eliminating rabies in the island in a few years.

Dr. C. Godamunne
Member - KACPAW