Durban ‘no kill’ dog shelter fights to keep doors open
Nearly nine thousand people have signed a petition to keep the doors open at Durban South’s only no-kill animal shelter.
Founder Sauri Moodley says the shelter is self-funded and focuses on rescuing, rehabilitating, and re-homing abused and abandoned animals.
She says the shelter came under threat after a group of residents submitted a petition with around 70 signatures to the eThekwini metro police, calling for an investigation.
Moodley says the complaints, including noise and illegal dumping, are false and damaging.
" They've never really visited our shelter. They've never been a part of the work that we do. They have made false allegations about us, stating that, you know, we are an excessive noise nuisance, that we are illegally dumping faeces into the river.
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"They also make claims that our dogs are constantly escaping the property and running into the neighbouring properties, and it's an endangerment to their families."
She’s now calling on the public to support her and the dozens of animals that depend on the shelter for survival.
"Just write us letters of support for anybody who does feel that we are not a nuisance within the community, because these will be provided to the proper authorities, because we do have 46 lives on the property. If this place were to close, unfortunately, the situation is that these dogs would have nowhere to go."
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