Send Vietnamese Rescues to Safety!
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After almost seven years of rescuing cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, hedgehogs, and ducks in Hoi An, Vietnam we unfortunately must close our shelter due to the lack of availability of consistent funding, reliable staff, and basic veterinary care in central Vietnam. Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue must close its doors and get our rescues out of Hoi An to Hanoi, Saigon, or abroad as soon as possible.
We know the costs may prevent many people from adopting our cats, so we would like to help lower the costs per export with this fund to encourage good pet owners to be able to offer a loving home to one of our rescues. The fund will help to keep the cost of adoption to $500 and no more. This is quite difficult given the many steps we take to export and the cost of each, but with some help in this fund, we can make our adoptions affordable and accessible to people around the world.
This is our separate fundraising campaign to help get our cats out of Hoi An to lower the cost of adoption for exports. While dogs are the main concern of “animal lovers” across the world due to media hype over the dog meat trade (which conveniently ignores the far greater danger to billions more animals every year globally for human consumption), cats have just as hard of a time as dogs in Vietnam- perhaps even worse. They are trapped, stolen, and sold to be shipped off for meat like dogs, but they are also subject to infectious disease, traffic accidents, neglect, cruelty, and an absence of competent vet care like all other animal species suffering in Vietnam. Our 25 rescued cats must get away from the shelter in Hoi An to have access to veterinary care and as they are all adults now, not kittens, it has been extremely difficult to help them get to good homes.
In seven years in Vietnam, I have seen very little progress in animal care facilities available to rescues and private clients. Service rarely improves and the lack of internationally trained vets able to train local vets to be fully self-sufficient is crippling as the Vietnamese veterinary education system is really rock bottom.
While we continue to push for veterinary training and mass sterilization work in Vietnam, we have gotten almost no support both from individual donors and from large organizations. People love individual rescues, and hate doing anything to build the vital infrastructure to make that possible. There is NO other way to responsibly rescue animals. Vets are the building block for ALL of this work and the rescue community, both organizations and donors, ignore this to the detriment of all the animals to whom we are responsible.
Once we have final gotten all our rescues to safety, we will finally be able to focus 100% on funding sterilization clinics and vegan education projects, and hopefully also adding international vets to university training programs for long term assignments. Sheltering is incredibly expensive and impossible without well-trained and equipped vets to manage the care of rescue cases.
Here is a cost breakdown of the export out of the Da Nang airport:
Export costs:
Crate for cat: $45
Vet certificate: $5
Car to airport: $12
Flight for cat (with flight volunteer): $25
Flight for human without volunteer: $150 round trip
Car to city or clinic in Hanoi or Saigon: $15
(Export internationally directly from Da Nang Airport vet certificate- $50, flight- $250-400)
Export internationally:
EU countries- $425 rabies vaccine, microchip, rabies titer blood test (90 days wait after blood test before export)
(North America does not require blood tests)
Boarding prior to flight (Hanoi or Saigon)- $15 per day
Export paperwork- $80-160 depending on city of export
Car to airport- $15
Flight for cat- $250-400 depending on airline and route
The total costs can range from $400 to $900 for international flights in the cargo hold, or $150 to Hanoi or Saigon.
Direct to UK flights must be cargo flights only and are usually up to double the costs of just flying into Paris, Brussels, or Amsterdam and taking the ferry across. We recommend mainland Europe flights only.
Please help us get these kitties to safety!
Thank you!
We know the costs may prevent many people from adopting our cats, so we would like to help lower the costs per export with this fund to encourage good pet owners to be able to offer a loving home to one of our rescues. The fund will help to keep the cost of adoption to $500 and no more. This is quite difficult given the many steps we take to export and the cost of each, but with some help in this fund, we can make our adoptions affordable and accessible to people around the world.
This is our separate fundraising campaign to help get our cats out of Hoi An to lower the cost of adoption for exports. While dogs are the main concern of “animal lovers” across the world due to media hype over the dog meat trade (which conveniently ignores the far greater danger to billions more animals every year globally for human consumption), cats have just as hard of a time as dogs in Vietnam- perhaps even worse. They are trapped, stolen, and sold to be shipped off for meat like dogs, but they are also subject to infectious disease, traffic accidents, neglect, cruelty, and an absence of competent vet care like all other animal species suffering in Vietnam. Our 25 rescued cats must get away from the shelter in Hoi An to have access to veterinary care and as they are all adults now, not kittens, it has been extremely difficult to help them get to good homes.
In seven years in Vietnam, I have seen very little progress in animal care facilities available to rescues and private clients. Service rarely improves and the lack of internationally trained vets able to train local vets to be fully self-sufficient is crippling as the Vietnamese veterinary education system is really rock bottom.
While we continue to push for veterinary training and mass sterilization work in Vietnam, we have gotten almost no support both from individual donors and from large organizations. People love individual rescues, and hate doing anything to build the vital infrastructure to make that possible. There is NO other way to responsibly rescue animals. Vets are the building block for ALL of this work and the rescue community, both organizations and donors, ignore this to the detriment of all the animals to whom we are responsible.
Once we have final gotten all our rescues to safety, we will finally be able to focus 100% on funding sterilization clinics and vegan education projects, and hopefully also adding international vets to university training programs for long term assignments. Sheltering is incredibly expensive and impossible without well-trained and equipped vets to manage the care of rescue cases.
Here is a cost breakdown of the export out of the Da Nang airport:
Export costs:
Crate for cat: $45
Vet certificate: $5
Car to airport: $12
Flight for cat (with flight volunteer): $25
Flight for human without volunteer: $150 round trip
Car to city or clinic in Hanoi or Saigon: $15
(Export internationally directly from Da Nang Airport vet certificate- $50, flight- $250-400)
Export internationally:
EU countries- $425 rabies vaccine, microchip, rabies titer blood test (90 days wait after blood test before export)
(North America does not require blood tests)
Boarding prior to flight (Hanoi or Saigon)- $15 per day
Export paperwork- $80-160 depending on city of export
Car to airport- $15
Flight for cat- $250-400 depending on airline and route
The total costs can range from $400 to $900 for international flights in the cargo hold, or $150 to Hanoi or Saigon.
Direct to UK flights must be cargo flights only and are usually up to double the costs of just flying into Paris, Brussels, or Amsterdam and taking the ferry across. We recommend mainland Europe flights only.
Please help us get these kitties to safety!
Thank you!
Organizer
Catherine Amie Besch
Organizer
Mobile, AL
