Little Steps Matter Foundation (2025)

01/03/2025

Changing lives together with you ❤️‍🩹

With so many suffering dogs and cats in Bali, we are committed to encourage and improve the health of as many animals as we possibly can to create safer communities.

While we feed and treat street dogs, we are also educating owners about their pets rights and welfare and we are supporting low income local families who need a helping hand to care for their animals.

Pak Fitri came to our Safe House to ask for help for one of his dogs. Milo is 3 years young and suffers from a severe skin infection that began to occur about a month ago. The itch was so intense that he scratched himself bleeding.

Milo was very shy towards us but with the good will of his owner who wants to make his life better, we were able to approach him.

We helped Pak Fitri and Milo by properly cleaning and disinfecting the wound, by giving a thoroughly bath and by providing the right medication for worms, hot spots, mange and a secondary fungal infection, all of which brought instant relief and will bring healing towards a full recovery over the next few weeks.

Furthermore we explained Pak Fitri that immune suppression is the cause for skin conditions like Milo’s and that with a better nutritious yet inexpensive diet, his immune systems and therefore his overall health will improve and stay steady in the future.

Once Milo has fully healed, we are planning to vaccinate and to neuter him which will complete his health package.

Our foundation is not only helping animals, we are helping people too, by reducing contagious diseases and overpopulation in their pets.

Please help us to fund these medical care cases by donating via the link in our bio or by sponsoring monthly through Patreon.

Your support is helping us to save their lives. 🙏🏻

26/02/2025

🚨 NEW RESCUE 🚨

Our team was asked for help to investigate a case of a caged dog who was kept in inhumane conditions. With only six months of age she is still just a puppy but lived in unimaginable misery.

Served as a toy for a child, she was thrown into a cage and left in front of the house by the main road once her family got bored of her. Here she was out of sight, out of mind and totally forgotten about.

As she grew bigger with each month of her young life, she outgrew that same cage. It caused her bones, muscles and ligaments not being able to form properly, leaving her legs deformed. She was so painfully emaciated as she was being fed and watered only the bare minimum, that it even forced her to eat her own f***s. She was kept with no bedding and no loving human interactions ever.

Since there are no enforceable animal welfare laws here in Bali, the only way to free her was to negotiate and convince the owner that she deserved better. If we had simply taken her without permission, it would have been us who were breaking the law.

In our first visit they were very reluctant to accept our education efforts and denied us to help. We had no choice but leaving her behind in the cage which broke all our hearts. It took another visit the next day and further persistent phone calls initiated by our team to convince the owner to surrender her into our care where she thankfully is now.

Freed from a miserable life in a too small cage, we hope soon she will also be free from pain and discomfort. First thing tomorrow morning she will see the vet. While we will work our absolute best on getting her health back, we desperately ask for your help to support her ongoing care and medical costs.

Donations for a new better life for this incredibly trusting little girl are so very gratefully received through the link in our bio.

The videos of her speak a thousand words of what her daily life must have been like. Yet it didn’t break her spirit nor her heart. She was given the name Kela by the family that neglected her but we would wish for her to begin her new life with a new name. Please help us to choose one that does her justice. 🙏🏻

25/02/2025

❤️ Thank you ❤️

We had a wonderful visit in the Safe House by our supporters Maria and Noel from Canada who we were so very looking forward to meet.

Besides lots of love and warm hugs, they also brought over a big bag of much needed supplies which were kindly donated and collected throughout their dog loving circle of work colleagues at the Toronto Police.

Especially the new toys and treats made all our rescues so incredibly happy. Please, in their name and ours, receive a huge thank you from all of us at LSM. 🥹🙏🏻

It has been an absolute pleasure to meet you and we are so grateful to have made friends for a life time.

We appreciate it so much to be welcoming all of you great dog lovers from around the world. Your time, love and generosity is what is allowing us to continue our mission in helping animals in need.

Spread the word... if you are coming to Bali too, planning to visit us and have a little spare room in your luggage, we are always in need of skin medication such as Bravecto, dewormer, toys, treats, towels, blankets, collars and leashes. 🐕

23/02/2025

🎉 The Little Steps Matter Dog Safe House is turning 3 🎉

The safe haven for our Bali Dogs is celebrating its third anniversary!

What was once an empty house, has turned into a soulful sanctuary with a peaceful home environmental flair for our rescues to heal and to love again.

It has been a place of hope for many unwanted dogs, where they experience care and happiness for the very first time. Here they have the opportunity to leave their sad past behind. They learn to trust and love human kind again, they are patiently awaiting adoption and those considered unadoptable live out the rest of their lives in safety with us.

None of this would have ever been possible without YOU, all our wonderful supporters. You are an integral part of the Dog Safe House.

You, who like, comment and share our posts. You, who are sending us supportive and encouraging messages when times are getting tough. You, who visit us giving so much love and attention to our rescues and bringing over much needed supplies. And you who support us from far.

THANK YOU for your trust in us! THANK YOU for saving so many lives with us!

We would like to recap throughout the years to the beginning of 2022 with the arrival of our rescue OG’s Ava, Joy, Danny, Lina, Luna and Benny until the creation of the safe haven it is today and for so many more dogs to come.

Celebrate our third anniversary with us and if you have met us and our dogs in person, please share your favorite memories of your visit to our Safe House in the comments below.

Much love from the entire Little Steps Matter family. ❤️

21/02/2025

Sterilization is key ❤️‍🩹

We are pleased to inform that yesterday we successfully spayed and neutered a total of 24 animals.

That includes alll pre registered dogs and cats who we introduced to you in our previous post plus additional pets who were brought to our sterilization facility directly by their owners.

9 female dogs, 5 male dogs, 7 female cats and 3 male cat are now looking towards a healthier and better future life.

Further more 22 rabies vaccines and 1 full vaccination were given.

The birth and the resulting suffer of many thousands of unwanted puppies and kittens could be prevented with what we call the kindest cut of all.

So thank you to all our wonderful supporters who sponsored a sterilization and allowed this important day to happen for the animals that were in most urgent need.

Fundraising for our spay and neuter events may be the least attractive in what we do which we can understand, but please know that it also has the biggest impact in saving lives here in Bali.

If you would like to be part of the most necessary mission too, then please contribute towards our sterilization program. It is and always will be the one and only sustainable way to prevent future suffering.

Click on the link in our bio for a one-time donation or sign up on our sterilization tier on Patreon for monthly support. 🙏🏻

19/02/2025

Sterilization sponsors needed 🙏🏻

Tomorrow we will be holding another important spay and neuter event with vet Ketut and his assistant vet Cendy.

A total of 17 animals were pre registered by us over the past couple of days, who will have the chance of a better life.

All those dogs and cats, many of who are owned by low income local families and others who are strays, are in urgent need to be sterilized to:

a) prevent further unwanted births and overpopulation.
b) protect them from suffering and diseases such as TVT cancer.
c) help improve their well-being and living conditions, as many animals are on chains in belief it keeps them from mating.

Each sterilization surgery will hereby cost us 25 USD. We are now in urgent need of sponsors to cover all 17 dogs and cats which will amount to a total of 425 USD.

Will you be able to help us help them?

To donate please click the link in our bio or see our donate highlight button and note ‘sterilization’ on your transfer.

From them all and us, thank you so much for your support. 🤍

18/02/2025

A life on a chain is not a life they deserve

It shouldn’t happen, but sadly it does. Chaining dogs is one of the biggest issues that we face in Bali.

When we go from house to house, registering animals for our sterilization events, we see them. Dogs spending their lives on a short chain.

While for us this sort of confinement is a cruel punishment, for many local owners here it is a belief to protect their pets; from getting lost, pregnant, hit on the road, poisoned or mistreated in any other way.

Unfortunately, most are not realizing how much their dogs are suffering. Given these poor living conditions, it is no surprise that those dogs oftentimes become aggressive, depressed, unsocial and sick.

Even if we wished we could just take away all of them, it wouldn’t always help if we did. People simply would get another one instead and repeat the same mistakes.

The most efficient way to help those neglected and misunderstood dogs is to work with the local communities and to educate about animal welfare and responsible pet ownership while also spay and neuter as many animals as we can to prevent future suffering.

That we discovered young Molly is now giving her the chance of a better and healthier future life within her family. We have registered her for our upcoming sterilization event to prevent her from reproducing, the reason why she is chained.

To put a stop to unwanted births, please sustain our sterilization program via the link in our bio. There is always more work to be done and we remain committed to focus on long-term solutions to animal suffering. 🙏🏻

15/02/2025

Why sterilization is the most important ‼️

Traditionally, homes in Bali are part of a compound composed of many houses that are shared with generations of extended family and therefore their individual animals.

The majority of those animals are not spayed and neutered as for many local communities the costs to do so are just out of reach compared to what they make monthly in income.

In return the dog and cat populations are forever raising and with it is the suffering. Without intervention, more and more puppies and kittens are born into homes that are simply not equipped to care for them all.

While we were going from house to house registering animals for our upcoming sterilization events, we walked into one of those compounds that houses five dogs, one of which is male, two young females and two mama dogs with one last surviving litter puppy each.

All of the dogs seemed to be in overall good conditions, are cared for and being treated kindly, only that they have worms and ticks and the pups show signs of a fungal skin infection. We have already medicated them accordingly.

Before the dogs continue to reproduce litter after litter of pups who won’t be making it all to adulthood, we most importantly registered the five adults for sterilization through our program.

This is a help we are able to offer low income families because of the support we are receiving from you, our wonderful dog loving community worldwide.

Spay and neutering is and forever will be the one and only most compassionate method in the prevention of unwanted births and the resulting suffering here in Bali.

If you are not part of this most important mission yet but would like to join, spread the word, donate towards our tiers on Patreon or make a one-time donation for the kindest cut of all via the link in our bio. 🙏🏻

12/02/2025

The Bali Dog 🐕

The Balinese are proud and dedicated people who preserve their unique culture, beliefs and traditions. But let us not forget another equally strong and ancient part of the islands cultural heritage, that is the Bali Dog.

Considered to be the possibly world’s oldest breed of dogs know to man with DNA dating back over 12,000 years, the Bali Dog belongs to Bali like its ricefields, volcanos, temples and beaches. Being a natural part of the island for thousands of years, they live in coexistence with the local communities.

It is a very beautiful, unique and fascinating breed that is treasured by many Balinese and Expats alike for their primal qualities and almost wolf-like appearance, but also for their loyalty and deep connection they can form to us humans. Best described as incredibly smart and strong they are excellent guard dogs, but with their loving and faithful personalities they also make trainable companions and absolutely wonderful pets.

Unfortunately the population of pure Bali Dogs has suffered a huge decline over the past decades as the dog meat trade (RW), crossbreeding with imported western breed dogs, mass culling, mass sterilizations, sicknesses and the general lack of appreciation for their breed are extreme threats to their survival nowadays.

Once the Bali Dogs are gone, they will be gone forever and we would like to highlight that their disappearance would be a tragic loss for the Balinese culture and to everyone who loves them. Our mission is it to save, to protect and to keep this incredibly special breed alive.

If your life has been enriched too by the love of a Bali Dog, please help us to cherish them and share your story in our comments below. ❤️

📸 our beautiful rescues photographed by the talented Magda

10/02/2025

💖🐶 DOG ADOPTION DAY 🐶💖
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT DEUS

Calling all dog lovers to save the date this Valentines weekend.

This upcoming Sunday, 16th of February from 9 am - 12 pm we will be .id 🙌🏻

We have beautiful rescues available for adoption who are hoping to find their forever families.

All our pups are happy and healthy, dewormed, flea and tick treated, fully vaccinated and sterilized if old enough.

Come and say hi. Cuddle and play with the pups or adopt unconditional love into your life.

When: February 16, 9 am - 12pm
Where: Deus Temple, Jalan Batu Mejan No. 8, Canggu, Bali

Tag a friend and share our event. We can’t wait to see you there! ♥️

09/02/2025

Helping people to help their animals thanks to your support ❤️‍🩹

While we were out on our street feeding tour, we were approached by a local couple who asked us for help for their dog.

With three years of age, poor little Coki suffered from a skin condition so severe that his entire body was nearly completely hairless from the intense itching.

Because of limited resources, his owners tried to cure Coki on their own with natural medicine in the best way they knew, but with no obvious effect. Luckily they then found us.

Coki was very shy towards us but with the good will of his family to make his life better, we were able to approach and help him.

We provided deworming and medication that will effectively heal his skin from mange and fungus over the next few weeks. We also showered him for an immediate topically relief and we handed over the medicated shampoo for his owners to continue the baths weekly for a faster recovery. His eye was lost in the past after he met with a spitting cobra, but we showed how to keep his eye socket clean. We furthermore educated them about an inexpensive yet nutritious diet for their dog.

Once Coki has fully healed, we want to vaccinate and neuter him for a better and healthier future life.

We already can’t wait to show you his complete transformation that all of you are being part of. Helping people who care for their animals but lacking the financial recourses to afford necessary vet treatment, is something we are very grateful to be able to do.

This is exactly where your donation goes.

Please continue to support us with a onetime donation through the link in our bio or join us on Patreon for a monthly sponsorship that brings needed help to dogs just like Coki, who are still out there suffering from the same curable condition.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being by our side to make this world a better place. 🙏🏻

07/02/2025

More sterilizations done ✅

Yesterday we were holding another sterilization event in collaboration with vet Ketut and his assistant vet Cendy .

A total of 19 animals were successfully sterilized:

Female Dogs: 10
Male Dogs: 1
Female Cats: 7
Male Cats: 1

We furthermore provided 16 rabies vaccinations.

This event made another huge impact improving animal welfare in slowing down the flow of unwanted puppies and kittens.

We want to thank all of you for helping us to make this day possible for the animals that were in urgent need to be sterilized.

Please continue to be part of our mission and contribute to a life saving cause for Bali‘s animals.

Therefore click on the link in our bio or sign up on our sterilization tier on Patreon for monthly sponsorship. 🙏🏻

05/02/2025

We need your help to sterilize more animals ❤️‍🩹

Did you know that 1 female dog and her offspring can produce up to 67.000 puppies in only 6 years?

And that 1 female cat and her offspring can produce up to 420.000 kittens in just 7 years?

To break this birth cycle and prevent more animals from suffering, we need to keep on sterilizing as many as we can. And we hope that with your help we can. 🙏🏻

Tomorrow we are holding another health day in which we pre registered 15 dogs and cats to be sterilized and vaccinated.

Each sterilization will hereby cost us 25,- USD. We are now in urgent need of sponsors to cover the 15 surgeries all of which amount to a total of 375,- USD.

Will you be able to help us help them?

To donate please click the link in our bio or see our donate highlight button and note ‘sterilization’ on your transfer.

From them all and us, thank you so much for your support. 🫶🏻

03/02/2025

Thank you for helping us help Piko 🤍

Finally brave Piko was allowed to leave the clinic post surgery and hospitalization care.

The amputation operation was a success. The wound now has less swelling, is dry and healing and Piko is already adapting very well to his new life on three legs.

He will require some further oral medication to prevent any infections on the surgery site and a follow up visit at the vets in the next week, all of which we will help him with.

Piko was so very happy to be welcomed back by Ari who kept him safe after his horrific accident and then decided to adopt him.

In the name of us and his new family, we would like to thank you for making Piko’s rescue, surgery and treatment possible.

We are forever grateful that with your support we are able to help them. 🙏🏻

29/01/2025

Thank you for saving Blacky’s life with us ❤️‍🩹

You may remember when the painful images of Blacky came up on our feed. We rescued him back in December with a hole in his head from the road side far from his home.

What had started as a bite wound from fighting, was left to deteriorate until it became infested with maggots eating away his flesh, causing him to run away in distress and pain.

This is a condition that is called myiasis. It brings unimaginable agony and will lead to death if untreated. We had to act quick and despite Blacky not being very cooperative because of the pain he was in, our team managed to safely catch, assess and to get him to the emergency clinic.

While still in recovery, we searched for his family and our persistence was rewarded with a heartwarming reunion of Blacky and his owner in the clinic right before Christmas.

Now, after two full months of intensive care treatment, Blacky has healed fully from the horrendous injury and was ready to leave the vets to return to his home.

As soon as he realized where he was he couldn’t stop whining out of happiness and excitement. He gifted us all the most joyful smile we had ever seen in him which was the best reward we could have wished for.

We have provided a nice upcycled tire bed, fresh towels for Blacky to sleep on, bowls, vitamins and special food and we of course will continue to watch out for him in the future during our street feeding tour, as we do with all animals that came into our care, to ensure that health and well being are maintained.

Blacky’s family was incredibly grateful for the support that has been given. Please, in their name and ours, to everyone who helped to save his life, kindly receive a huge THANK YOU from us all. This was only possible in togetherness with you. 🙏🏻

27/01/2025

🙏🏻 SPONSOR NEEDED FOR HOLLY 🙏🏻

Back in 2022 we saved Holly alongside her siblings Ruby and Flint at only five weeks of age after they were cruelly left to die in a cemetery.

With no one rushing to their aid and soothing their pain with comfort, they had lost trust in humans fully.

Secured in our care they were nurtured round-the-clock by our wonderful team and we hoped with our love they would no longer feel alone.

While all three have bonded closely with our girls in the Safe House, and even Flint being adopted by our team member Vani, it is especially Holly who still carries trauma not only on her soul but also on her body.

Due to the neglect and severe malnutrition they were found in and Holly being the weakest within the litter, also her health was compromised.

In September 2023 she had to undergo patella surgery on her back leg. She had strict rest for three months before her mobility was restored. Now the pain has returned and she will require a follow up operation very soon.

We expect Holly to be within our care for an extended period of time till we can find her forever home. And until then we are now looking for sponsors who can help her to live a safe and happy life in our Safe House with the needed medical attention.

We have opened Holly’s sponsorship tier in Patreon. We are in need of 4 sponsors who can share in her journey and help to maintain her health and well being. In return you will receive loads of love from her through exclusive content and updates.

To sponsor Holly, please click the link in our bio and find her tier in Patreon. We can only do it with your support.

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https://www.patreon.com/littlestepsmatter

Love,
Sabine and Team 🙏🏻❤️

25/01/2025

🚨 New Rescue 🚨
Can you help us help Piko?

One year old Piko has endured immense suffering already when a tragedy struck him at only such a young age.

After he must have been run over by a vehicle of a speeding driver who had no intention to break for him, he stumbled onto Ari’s property to look for help.

He had a stroke of luck when he found in her a kind and caring dog lover who didn’t ignore his pain and called us for medical assistance instead.

Once we arrived at their location it was immediately obvious to us that one of his back legs was severely fractured and an open wound on his ankle became infected. He needed urgent vital care.

At the clinic Piko had to be given a slight sedative in order for the vets to thoroughly examine him. An X-ray then confirmed our suspicions that his leg is so badly shattered that it sadly can’t be saved. He will require an amputation surgery to take away the pain.

His overall condition is good enough to have the vets operate on him asap. For this moment he is being given painkillers and antibiotics to help with the agony and to prevent infections.

We are now in urgent need of help to be able to cover his surgery and care costs at the that are estimated to amount to USD 500,-. 😔

After surgery and hospitalization care at the clinic a whole new life is ahead of Piko with Ari who is going to adopt him. A true blessing in disguise.

We are kindly asking you, to please send this young boy your love and if you can, support his vet bill with a donation. Click the link in our bio or find our highlight button to help us help Piko.

From our hearts to yours, thank you so much. 🙏🏻

24/01/2025

More sterilizations done thanks to your support ❤️‍🩹

We are pleased to inform that yesterday we successfully spayed and neutered the animals who we introduced to you in our previous post.

16 female dogs, 7 male dogs, 5 female cats and 1 male cat are now fixed and looking towards a healthier and better future life.

With this kindest cut of all, the birth and the resulting suffer of thousands of unwanted puppies and kittens could be prevented.

We are once again thankful to vet Ketut and his assistant vet Cendy for their tireless work, our team for their dedication and YOU, our wonderful supporters, for allowing this event for the animals to happen.

This is already our second sterilization day that we held this month alone, but there are many more requests for urgent help, that we hope to be able to fulfill.

Please continue to be part of our most necessary mission and contribute to a life saving cause for Bali‘s animals through sterilization. It is and always will be the one and only sustainable way to prevent future suffering.

Click on the link in our bio or sign up on our sterilization tier on Patreon for monthly support. 🙏🏻

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