Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) - Durban and Pietermaritzburg
The Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) Durban and Pietermaritzburg, is located at Artesia Farm in Leckhampton Valley, 15 minutes outside Hillcrest and has been protecting and caring for animals since 1959. We rely entirely on the generosity and goodwill of the animal-loving public for financial support.
Animal Anti-Cruelty League Durban was founded in 1959 by Joyce Northend in Durban North. With a mere 8 shillings and sixpence, but supported by a small handful of enthusiastic volunteers, she started with her primary objective of sterilising domestic animals. Following her passionate and dedicated efforts, we have been caring for and protecting animals in the Greater Durban Area ever since, working mainly in informal settlements and in outlying, under-privileged areas.
In February 2012, the League’s two properties in residential Durban North were sold and the Branch relocated to its current beautiful location at Artesia Farm in Leckhampton Valley, 15 minutes outside Hillcrest. During 2014, AACL’s Pietermaritzburg Branch was closed and amalgamated with the Durban Branch, being ideally situated midway between Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
THE LEOPARD TREE CAFÉ: Our delightful Café is set in tranquil surrounds offering delicious light meals and refreshments. Children can enjoy the swimming pool, slides and swings on the jungle gyms and wide-open space to play in secure surrounds. The Café is also well suited to ladies’ tea groups, book club meetings, children’s birthday parties, baby showers and the like. Our Leopard Tree Café hours are: Tuesday to Saturday: 09:00 - 15:00 (We are closed on Mondays, Sundays & all Public Holidays)
Sterilisation is AACL’s priority, particularly in low income areas where the cost of the sterilisation is untenable. You might ask why? The sad reality is that without sterilisation, female dogs and cats will spend most of their lives bearing litters, until their bodies can no longer withstand the on-going demands of repeated pregnancies. Male dogs are often maimed or even killed in fights as packs pursue any female dog in heat. The end result is a score of unwanted puppies and kittens which are often underfed and neglected, and many die of hunger and disease. In addition to the suffering of these animals, they also pose a risk to people living in those communities as they carry and spread diseases – sadly, one specific risk can be deadly and occurs all too frequently – this is rabies.
It is for these reasons that the League’s Inspectors and Field Workers seek out problem areas on a daily basis, discuss the benefits of sterilisation with owners and secure agreement for them to collect animals for sterilisation and then return them to their owners. Every animal collected for sterilisation by the Animal Anti-Cruelty League is sutured with dissolvable stitches, vaccinated and inoculated against rabies.
Extensive sterilisation campaigns are undertaken whenever funding allows.
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Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) - Durban and Pietermaritzburg
The Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) Durban and Pietermaritzburg, is located at Artesia Farm in Leckhampton Valley, 15 minutes outside Hillcrest and has been protecting and caring for animals since 1959. We rely entirely on the generosity and goodwill of the animal-loving public for financial support.
Animal Anti-Cruelty League Durban was founded in 1959 by Joyce Northend in Durban North. With a mere 8 shillings and sixpence, but supported by a small handful of enthusiastic volunteers, she started with her primary objective of sterilising domestic animals. Following her passionate and dedicated efforts, we have been caring for and protecting animals in the Greater Durban Area ever since, working mainly in informal settlements and in outlying, under-privileged areas.
In February 2012, the League’s two properties in residential Durban North were sold and the Branch relocated to its current beautiful location at Artesia Farm in Leckhampton Valley, 15 minutes outside Hillcrest. During 2014, AACL’s Pietermaritzburg Branch was closed and amalgamated with the Durban Branch, being ideally situated midway between Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
THE LEOPARD TREE CAFÉ: Our delightful Café is set in tranquil surrounds offering delicious light meals and refreshments. Children can enjoy the swimming pool, slides and swings on the jungle gyms and wide-open space to play in secure surrounds. The Café is also well suited to ladies’ tea groups, book club meetings, children’s birthday parties, baby showers and the like. Our Leopard Tree Café hours are: Tuesday to Saturday: 09:00 - 15:00 (We are closed on Mondays, Sundays & all Public Holidays)
Sterilisation is AACL’s priority, particularly in low income areas where the cost of the sterilisation is untenable. You might ask why? The sad reality is that without sterilisation, female dogs and cats will spend most of their lives bearing litters, until their bodies can no longer withstand the on-going demands of repeated pregnancies. Male dogs are often maimed or even killed in fights as packs pursue any female dog in heat. The end result is a score of unwanted puppies and kittens which are often underfed and neglected, and many die of hunger and disease. In addition to the suffering of these animals, they also pose a risk to people living in those communities as they carry and spread diseases – sadly, one specific risk can be deadly and occurs all too frequently – this is rabies.
It is for these reasons that the League’s Inspectors and Field Workers seek out problem areas on a daily basis, discuss the benefits of sterilisation with owners and secure agreement for them to collect animals for sterilisation and then return them to their owners. Every animal collected for sterilisation by the Animal Anti-Cruelty League is sutured with dissolvable stitches, vaccinated and inoculated against rabies.
Extensive sterilisation campaigns are undertaken whenever funding allows.
