On Sunday the 17th of March the Mdzananda Animal Clinic hosted its fourth annual Paws on the Promenade dog walk fundraiser in partnership with Vondi’s Holistic Pet Nutrition. The morning’s 5 km walk started at the Mouille Point lighthouse and extended to the Sea Point swimming pool and back. “Leading up to the event I was nervous that we wouldn’t have as good a turnout as in previous years due to the current economic state of the country. My worries were also enhanced when I woke up to cold and rainy weather. I thought that Capetonians surely wouldn’t come out to join the walk in such weather but supporters proved me wrong,” says Marcelle du Plessis, Fundraising and Communications Manager of
If you've been following our social media you would have read about a boy named Jinx. When I gave him the name I never thought his life would actually turn out to be jinxed. Jinx was handed over to us in December by his owner who no longer wanted him. He's a Staffie boy of around 5 years old. As he is a fighting breed we initially decided to keep him separate from the "stray pack" as our pack was very large and we didn't want to encourage and bad behaviour. He stayed in his own kennel for around a month. Jinx then went off to Oscar's Ark for the weekend. We were excited and hoped that he would get adopted BUT it didn't work out that well. He showed aggression to the other dogs and he ha
