Animals Asia Foundation

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“(Cont'd from page 2) As a result, these bears are able to live active, pain-free lives despite the cruelty they've suffered. We prepared 128 sets of medications a day at our Vietnam sanctuary to keep the bears pain-free and able to enjoy life. That's nearly 46,720 individual prescriptions over the year hidden in bananas, honey, fruit shakes and marshmallows. Our sick and elderly China bears devoured 120,000 marshmallows stuffed with vital medicine and pain relief. The bears at our China sanctuaries wolfed down nearly 380 metric tonnes of fruit, vegetables and dog kibble. That's nearly twice the weight of an average American house and every kilo had to be transported, chopped and hidden around the enclosure for the bears to forage. Our China vet team offered a hands-on course for vet graduates from the China Agricultural University. We're training five veterinary interns at our sanctuaries - four in Vietnam and one in China. Our Vietnamese interns will head up the care of the bears at our soon-to-be-built second sanctuary in Vietnam. Cat and Dog Welfare: After many years of lobbying by Animals Asia, dogs were taken off China's official livestock list. This will see millions of dogs saved from slaughter. We helped give 205 stray cats better lives by working with local animal welfare groups to provide trap, neuter, return (TNR) projects. Animals Asia now funds or advises 63 local animal welfare groups across China that rescue dogs and cats, operate shelters, run TNR projects for cats and lobby officials for better welfare for companion animals. We also bring these groups and the authorities together at our symposiums and conferences to promote more humane ways of managing cats and dogs at community level. Animals Asia continued to support animal shelters in Wuhan, China that were impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak. To date, we've given 6.3 tons of food, helping to feed 296 cats in five shelters. We've also provided 416 vaccines and 154 neuter surgeries for local cats and dogs. In four mainland Chinese cities - Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Nanning - and Hong Kong, our Dr Dog and Professor Paws animal-assisted therapy teams brought companionship and a new way of looking at dogs to over 4,600 people in 133 visits. Fifty of these visits were online due to social distancing restrictions in Hong Kong. We helped dogs and cats in three shelters in China and Vietnam when floods made their homes uninhabitable. We donated cat and dog beds and food and medical supplies. We installed fences, quarantine areas and sewage works, and we helped build fences, floors and enrichment areas with toys and play furniture at Lv Ye Mao Zong Stray Cat Yard and the Niao Shu Stray Dog Shelter in Guangxi, China - home to 28 cats and 21 dogs respectively. We also gave emergency support to the Quang Ninh Shelter in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, home to over 100 cats and 50 dogs. We provided 400kg of dried dog food over 120kg of dried cat food, flea and skin treatments, and treats. Captive Animal Welfare: Animals Asia brought a 46-year-old female elephant to sanctuary in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam. H'Plo had spent her life carrying tourists. Now she's part of our groundbreaking ethical elephant tours which were launched in partnership with Olsen Animal Trust. As a result, four elephants are no longer forced to spend their days chained up waiting to give rides to tourists. Instead they roam free in the forest while tourists observe them behaving naturally. Animals Asia helped treat koalas ravaged by bushfires in Australia. One of our veterinary nurses, Kat Donald, was seconded to a triage station, assessing the koalas and starting initial treatments. We trained over 1,600 animal managers and vets in animal welfare concepts. This means more humane care for animals in China and Vietnam. Animals Asia continues to support the enrichment program for three rescued elephants at the Dak Lak Elephant Conservation Centre in Vietnam. For Jun, Gold and Thang Kham, this”