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Cat and Dog Welfare

overcoming fear

Our Professor Paws programme focuses on schools, with our
canine "professors" teaching children how to overcome their

fear of dogs and learn to interact with them safely. The
children graduate as Care Cadets, having gained a newfound
love for dogs.

The ultimate aim is to show the next generation that dogs, and
all animals, have physical and emotional needs, just like us.

‘At irst, some children were afraid

of the dogs. They could only watch,

because they were too nervous to

touch them. After a few visits,

these children learned to get along with

dogs gradually through playing games

together. Now the staff and children

here look forward

to seeing thedogs In 2015, we had over
270
’
every month.

registered therapy dogs in
Hong Kong and mainland Yau fung Sze
Our gentle 'professors' are exposing children to the concept Senior Teacher, Hong Kong
China, some rescued from the that animals have feelings just like us.
dog meat trade.

Lelly and muddie join the team
Pawprints

The rescue of a two-legged stray dog and her pup
Animals Asia’s volunteer
captured hearts across the world when she was rescued in dogs reached
China in 2014.
BRiNgiNg LoVe
22,000

To CHiNA...
Lelly was found with both her back legs missing after being people
abandoned by her owner and run over by a train. She and in Hong Kong and three
her puppies were living on the street and depending on the oNe LiCK AT A Time
mainland Chinese cites –
kindness of railway workers who fed her scraps.
Chengdu, Guangzhou and
Shenzhen.
Only one of her puppies survived. Lelly and her daughter
Muddie now live with our founder, Jill Robinson. Both Lelly and

Muddie became oficial Animals Asia Ambassadors in 2015.

Dr Dog visited
200

facilities and

reached over
14,000

people.

Professor Paws visited
126

schools
and reached over
8,000
Lelly, at right with daughter Muddie, and the team that

nursed them back to good health.
young people.

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