At the moment 45 assistants are working for me here and we buy everything we need in local shops. They don’t understand that I’m also helping people. Some people appreciate the service, others say why don’t you help humans instead.

What does the local community think about your work here in the Clinic? It’s also a really important tool for us here at the clinic because our veterinary assistants can keep an eye out for dogs that need treatment. When our previous Tuk Tuk broke down, we really needed a new one to keep our daily feeding tours going. We heard you raised money for a tuk tuk for the daily feeding tour. We advertise on Facebook because it’s free. The money I get I spend directly on the animals. It’s not easy because we don’t have money for advertisements. So a lot that is invested in the clinic comes from your business?Īt the moment, it’s around 70% of our funding. I’m only here when they need me the most.

Yes, I have to run my business to get enough money for the project. Because I have to trust them when I’m in Germany. If they can’t handle dogs, they can’t stay with me. I observe how they treat animals, how they attach to them. How can you tell your staff really care about the dogs? They have a name for every stray dog!Īnyone who wants to work at the clinic has to love dogs! And loving them means looking after them. When I went on a feeding tour, it was amazing to see how passionate your staff are. That’s why we neuter seven days a week, all year long. The best way to do that was to help get the population down. The population was huge, and so many were in a really bad way. Altogether, we’ve neutered about 65,000 dogs over the last 10 year. We send teams out to the jungle to catch unneutered dogs. Outside we treat and feed another 1000 dogs and we neuter daily. How many dogs do you look after here now? That’s when I decided to buy this property and, step by step, I built the Dog Care Clinic. Once I got to about 10 or 15 dogs, my landlord kicked me out. I rented an apartment 500 meters from here and started to take in the neediest dogs - usually the eldest. When I saw the situation of the stray dogs here, I decided not to come back if I couldn’t help them. I came to Sri Lanka as a tourist with my son.

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