The Stray Affairs

19/02/2025

[Odelia]

On Saturday we took in another rescue dog, Oliver's sister, Odelia. After taking in Oliver, Odelia has been wandering the roads in search of his brother. She has migrated from compound to compound, making it hard for our volunteers to find her. Occasionally she would show up during feeding time, but if not our volunteers would have to spend quite some time searching her past whereabouts only to find that she's migrated some where entirely new. We were worried as she is starting to move closer to bigger roads and would one day completely go missing or cross heavy traffic road junctions that could end up badly for her. Therefore we decided it was best for her to be taken off the streets.

Yesterday she had her first physical at the vet and she is generally healthy for a dog of 10 years old. However her blood panels showed that she was positive for tick fevers. We've started her on some treatment while we await a further test to confirm if it's an active or past illness.

She also had her first grooming session, possibly in her entire life, and as expected the water from rinsing her was so dirty.

She is currently being fostered. We're looking forward to the day where we can reunite Odelia with Oliver.

If you'd like to support our rescue work, do consider donate via our website!

16/02/2025

Valentines Day dinner for our stray dogs sponsored by

🐕: Thank you for filling our hearts and our bellies 💕

05/02/2025

[ Oliver Update Part I ]

Thank you everyone for sharing our last post, we have successfully found Oliver a fosterer and has since been discharged. The maggot wound in the front paw has been cleaned and stitched close. As the Medial Patella Luxation on his hind knee is an old injury and not causing him any discomfort other than a limp, we've decided not to operate to fix it. However he is severely arthritic and his joint hurts when he moves. Currently his pain is managed by a combination of pain meds but we are considering increasing the dosage or trying another combination to make him more comfortable.

We are now appealing for adopters! If you'd like to give this sweet boy a forever home, do drop us a DM!

01/02/2025

[Oliver 🐶]

Oliver is one of the stray dogs we feed every Saturday. Together with his sister Odelia, they were abandoned by the factory when they moved out due to land redevelopment. Lately the've just been hanging around outside their factory and wandering the streets waiting for feeders to come.

For a while we've noticed Oliver walking with a limp but never thought much about it as he still comes up to greet us and ask for food, last Saturday was no different. Until Tuesday, when our volunteers went down to feed the siblings, they noticed Oliver did not come to greet them but instead just lay on the grass. There's no visible injuries and Oliver was still eating the food our volunteers put in-front of him. They reported it to us and later another volunteer came down to check on him but he was no longer there. Therefore we assumed he was fine if he could get up and leave.

On Thursday we came down to check on him and there he was laying on the grass. He ate a bit of food when we brought it to him but didn't get up at all. Our volunteer sat with him to see if he will move on his own but he did not budge for 1.5 hrs thats when we decided to call RAR to do an on-site triage. The paramedic found his BP high, O2 low and the hind leg pulse shallow. He recommended we go to a vet and as it's midnight, we had to go through emergency. When Oliver was out of the ambulance, we found the peepad under him stained with blood.

At the vet, they conducted a full physical, blood tests and x-rays. The vet found a giant hole between his front paw toes infested with maggots and had to sedate him to remove them.

His blood test came back good and he's negative for tick fevers too.

However, the x-ray found he was arthritic and his right hind leg suffered a Grade 4 Medial Patella Luxation (MPL) meaning his knee cap has shifted out of place, which explains the limp. The vet explained MPL was not caused by traffic accident but progresses over time and his body has developed muscles to compensate which is why his leg is curved.

More updates to come as treatment is still on-going but we are in urgent need of a fosterer for Oliver. If you'd like to foster him, do drop us a DM 🙏

28/01/2025

Wishing everyone a 🧧 Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 on behalf of all of us at The Stray Affairs and on behalf of Baby Ramesh 🐈 our biggest derp who've yet to find his forever home.

19/01/2025

29/12/2024

[Christmas Distribution 🎄🎅🧑‍🎄 2024]

We had our annual Christmas Blessing Pack distribution to our migrant worker friends. These workers come to Singapore to work and earn a living so they can send money home, but they also go out of their way to feed, protect and nurture the stray animals that live in their factory. They keep us informed when the animals are sick/ injured so we can take them to the vet promptly and even help us to feed the daily medications some animals require. Therefore it was our pleasure to give them blessing packs of essential items such as Rice 🌾, Salt 🧂, biscuits 🍪, toothbrush 🪥 and more to help alleviate the cost of daily necessities. We hope more people are inspired by the dedication and kindness our migrant workers have to stray animals 🐾

Huge shoutout to Ms Anna and the folks from K. Buddhist Temple for sponsoring the essentials 🎁

25/12/2024

Last Saturday during feeding, a migrant worker had informed us that a female cat in his factory has just given birth to neonates. As this factory was a newly added to our feeding routes, we've yet to sterilise the cats in the compound. Mama had hidden her babies and was nursing them in a waste material bin, and we were worried that someone may throw heavy/hazardous materials in without realising there are cats inside. That night we asked the worker if we could rescue the mama and her 4 babies. However the worker mentioned that the boss provides them with some cat food to feed the cats in the factory and as such he needed to ask his boss for permission if we could take them in. The next day, the worker informed us that the boss has approved and we immediately went down within the hour to pick them up.

We sent them to the vet the next morning to make sure there is nothing wrong with mama and her babies and good news, they are all healthy! Mama is FIV/ FeLV negative and producing sufficient milk to feed her babies. Mama got a little panicky when she was separated from her babies to be examined by the vet, so she had to be examined with her babies in sight. How loving and protective of her 💕

However we faced another issue, which was finding a place for mama and her babies. We had taken them in without first finding a foster or a place for them to go, but we could not risk another day leaving them in the factory as it was absolutely unsafe and unsanitary. We didn't want to medically board them as it would be way too expensive. Our team spent the whole making calls and reaching out to as many people as possible hoping to find a fosterer for them. Fortunately, towards the end of the night we were about to give up when offered to take them in 😻 They made so many arrangements just to accommodate mama and her babies and we couldn't be more grateful! Our Christmas miracle indeed 🎄

We are appealing for donations to cover the cost of mama and her babies's medical examination. If you'd like to donate, do head to our website (link in bio).

** Appeal Closed : The cost of the vet bill have been received in its entirety **

24/12/2024

Thank you very much for your kind support. Food delivered to The Stray Affairs
The cats need food every day and that is made possible by our kid foreign workers who care for them at the end of the day. But they need food for the cats and dogs and this is made possible by everyone who came to support! thank you for making this possible!
Please continue to support this program at: https://ahasg.com/Support_Stray_affair.html

18/12/2024

Farewell Manja 🐶💕🌈

Manja is one of the longest dogs we've been feeding. She was affectionately known amongst our volunteers as the container dog as she enjoys hiding under the container room of her favourite migrant worker, Paleani. Towards the end of her chapter on the streets, her legs becoming weaker and would tremble which was inevitable due to her age. One day Paleani called to inform us that Manja could not stand at all. We immediately made arrangements to send Manja to the vet as well as find a place for her where she can live the rest of her life off the streets. Paleani and his kind friends helped us carry all 32KG of Manja into the car that day 💪

As Manja was unable to stand, she had to be flipped every few hours and cleaned up after as she could only relieve herself where she lay. This made finding a fosterer/adopter even harder and we were racking up thousands in hospitalisation bills 😥

Fortunately, by the kindness of OSCAS, they opened a space for Manja where she could be watched over and showered with love and care. Just last weekend, Manja crossed the rainbow bridge to doggy heaven 🌈. We are grateful that she passed having experienced love and care from the team at OSCAS, surrounded by food, warmth and a roof over her head as compared to passing under a container in a factory.

We hope more people would consider donating to AWGs like who constantly support independent rescuers and small groups like us 💕

15/12/2024

Year-end period is always a tricky time for us as most of our regular volunteers and guides are travelling ✈️ But stray feeding continues by hook or by crook and this week was no exception🥩 Last night 3 of our volunteers had to cover the entire north to western industrial estates of Singapore, a huge difference from our usual 10 volunteers each week 👥 POWER💪

Rain, shine or snow, stray feeding continues each week as our strays are counting and waiting on us 🐕🐈

28/11/2024

23/11/2024

The Stray Affairs recruits foreign workers to help them feed the animals within the worker's compound.
Feeding the cats and dogs raises workers' awareness of community animals. When their factory moves, the foreign workers look out for cats and dogs in their new compound.
They have asked for food to feed the cats! This is an amazing impact of The Stray Affairs efforts.
We are doing a food appeal for cat food to send to this new factory. Please support via: https://ahasg.com/Support_Stray_affair.html

You can also order via whastapp at: https://wa.me/p/8779517892095791/6581272723

19/11/2024

16/11/2024

Thank you to everyone who came to visit us at SPCA's Pawesome Pawty 😄 and HUGE thank you to SPCA for having us 😌

We hope we managed to educate more people on the distress and discomfort that our animals experience when confined in a cage for prolong periods of time. We've seen cases where the animal never leaves these cages for months on end 😣 These are actual cages sold commercially in pet stores and can also be purchased online as well. Can you imagine eating, sleeping, peeing and pooping in a space thats barely big enough to stretch your limbs? 😿

We were heartened to see so many people of all ages come and experience the cages, as well as take home memories with our selfie frame pledging kindness to stray animals 🐕🐈

Let's continue to push for more empathy and kindness towards our animals. To push for better welfare and be the voice that our animals need us to be. ✊✊

Huge thank you to Gold-D for sponsoring the goodie-bags at our booth as well 🛍️😻

16/11/2024

Hoorayyyy 🎉🥳🎊 The last of our two Disney brothers have been adopted 😻😻 Goofy and Pluto were rescued under our TNRM programme from a factory in the industrial estate that we feed every week. They were from a Mama cat's first batch of litters 😿 Since being rescued 6 months ago, they have both been through a few adoption drives and many more adoptions enquiries that eventually fall-through, but their patience have paid off and they have finally found their new forever home together 🏡

Thank you to Max and Siau Xi for opening your home and your heart to these two lovely boys 😌 We know you'll be fantastic pawrents to your new furkids 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

03/11/2024

Doing another appeal for The Stray Affairs as there was no response. The food is delivered to foreign workers who feed the cats on a daily basis. This ensures they have nutrition and to stay healthy. This month, we will send the food in memory of Ruby.
To support, please go to: https://ahasg.com/Support_Stray_affair.html