Rustplaas Dog Shelter NPC

22/01/2025

We’d love to hear your thoughts about Rustplaas Dog Shelter! Please leave us your feedback here: https://forms.gle/iSRL3LJtD2u3mnPB7

16/01/2025

We now have a website. 🌐

Visit https://rustplaasdogshelter.framer.website to read more about us.

Rustplaas serves as a sanctuary - a safe haven for stray, injured, and abused dogs that have nowhere else to go. We are located in Mkhondo (Piet Retief), Mpumalanga.

16/01/2025

Your contribution will help us feed the injured, abused and abandoned dogs that now call Rustplaas home.
We thank you sincerely for your help! 🐶🦴🐾

03/01/2025

Baie honger baba hondjies.

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'n Besige dag vir ons Rustplaas volunteers wat hierdie 4 baba hondjies vandag gehelp red het. Hulle was bietjie gebad, gevoer en pensies gevryf. Ons soek nog na die ma en sal uitkyk vir haar in die komende dae. Maar intussen gaan ons die hondjies met die bottel moet voer elke paar ure. 🍼🐶
Enige donasies welkom vir Puppy melk of hulp om hulle te help grootmaak, of vaste puppy kos vir die toekoms. 🙏 Dan as hulle oud genoeg is sal ons goeie huise vir hulle moet vind.

DONASIES:
Rustplaas Dog Shelter
Absa Spaar Rekening
Rek nr.: 9203 1507 34
Tak kode: 632005
Verwysing: Puppies

03/01/2025

'n Besige dag vir ons Rustplaas volunteers wat hierdie 4 baba hondjies vandag gehelp red het. Hulle was bietjie gebad, gevoer en pensies gevryf. Ons soek nog na die ma en sal uitkyk vir haar in die komende dae. Maar intussen gaan ons die hondjies met die bottel moet voer elke paar ure. 🍼🐶
Enige donasies welkom vir Puppy melk of hulp om hulle te help grootmaak, of vaste puppy kos vir die toekoms. 🙏 Dan as hulle oud genoeg is sal ons goeie huise vir hulle moet vind.

DONASIES:
Rustplaas Dog Shelter
Absa Spaar Rekening
Rek nr.: 9203 1507 34
Tak kode: 632005
Verwysing: Puppies

19/11/2024

Is Your Dog Scared Of Thunderstorms & Fireworks? 🐕⛈🧨🎆
Get your dog a calming supplement.

30/09/2024

Hondsdolheid / Rabies / Ama-Rabi

Verpligte gratis entig van honde en katte
Compulsory free vaccination of dogs and cats
Ukugoma kwamahala okuphoqelekile kwezinja nama ikati

12/09/2024

I STILL NEEDED MY MOM - THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING PUPS TOO YOUNG
The early life experiences of pups are so vitally important and extend through to adulthood, influencing physical, emotional, mental and social development.
There are still so many “breeders” that allow pups to be taken away at 6 weeks. Uninformed people just accept this “tradition” without question and are often unprepared for the fall out this may cause. Just because a pup may no longer depend on mom for food, doesn’t mean they are ready to leave the security of their family unit and are ready to cope emotionally in a new home. A 6-week-old pup is still reliant on mom and littermates to learn appropriate play behaviour, impulse control, tolerance to frustration, bite inhibition, self-confidence and develop social skills that will help them become well-adjusted adults.
Scott and Fuller’s influential 1965 book about the social development of dogs recommended that 6 to 8 weeks was the best time to remove a pup from mom and littermates. The “ideal time” in this context was the best time for the human’s benefit and not the dogs (usually financial benefit). Thankfully, through science-based evidence, we have learnt so much about dog behaviour and development since then and our focus has changed to what is best for the dog, not the person. Research shows that waiting until a pup is at least 8 weeks is far less likely to result in any emotional trauma and resulting behavioural challenges.
We live in a broken world where having to care for or rescue pups much younger than 8 weeks is often unavoidable due to various circumstances. In these cases, we do the best we can for them. This post is not about this kind of situation, it’s about spreading knowledge, creating understanding and encouraging people not to support breeders that allow their pups to leave before at least 8 weeks.

18/08/2024

Please be vigilant! Criminals are busy again.
Many beloved pets have been poisoned this weekend. Keep your dogs inside if you can, and be aware of who is in your area and who is watching your home.

Where Every Dog Has Its Day
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We serve as a sanctuary - a safe haven for stray, injured, and abused dogs that have nowhere else to go.

NPC Reg: 2023/103263/08

07/06/2024

16/05/2024

BEHAVIOUR REDEFINED

Behaviour is neither good or bad, behaviour is communication and an expression of emotion.

When we think of bad behaviour, our natural human response is to fix it, stop it from happening or suppress it as quickly as we can, so it doesn’t happen again, especially when it comes to dogs.

When we redefine behaviour and look at it as a form of communication, as an emotional response or expression, it helps to change the way we think about and react to it.

Think about a child that is acting out at school. Maybe throwing tantrums, bullying other children, cheating, fighting or displaying some other type of “bad” behaviour.

A teacher or parent wouldn’t just label that child as “bad” or just a child that is badly behaved. The reason for the behaviour would be looked into so it could be understood and addressed.

Bad behaviour is very often a cry for help that should never be ignored.

If we do this for children, why do we not do it for dogs?

Dogs are also sentient beings with a range of feelings and emotions and their behaviour is a form of communication.

“Bad” behaviour can provide us with important information as to what we need to address.

Looking at “bad behaviour” from a different perspective, helps us to acknowledge that a dog is struggling and provides an opportunity to investigate and address the root of the behaviour.

16/05/2024

🥳RAFFLE SOLD OUT🥳

Baie dankie aan elkeen dit word opreg wardeer 🙏🏻🤩 proof of payments kan aan Louis of Mariana gestuur word. Julle is meer as welkom om ook op group julle proof of payments te stuur. Sodra alle betaalings gedoen is sal raffle gespin word 🥳🥳 ons laat weet sodra ons spin.

Baie dankie aan Ophelia en Louis Du Preez wat hul woonstel in St Lucia beskikbaar gestel het om Rustplaas Dog Shelter te help om fondse in te samel. Ons ooreenkoms met Ophelia is dat ons een maal per maand so raffle kan doen. As julle nou nog een wil doen, sal ons net eers met Ophelia moet gesels.

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Fondse insameling vir hondekos vir Rustplaas Dog Shelter deur die verkope van lootjie (raffle) kaartjies:

Hallo. Louis Fourie hier. Weens n ernstige tekort aan fondse om droë hondekos te koop, en n tekort aan hondekos borge, loot ons hierdie kaartjies teen R100-00 per kaartjie.
Die persoon wat die wenkaartjie trek wen n naweek in St Lucia op in n vakansiewoonstel. Daar kan 4 volwassenes en 2 kinders slaap. Daar is n swembad, braaiplek en dit is by die see.
Die trekking sal op 'n WhatsApp groep gedoen word met n elektroniese "spin the wheel."
Daar sal 100 kaartjies beskikbaar wees. Kies jou nommer of nommers en ons sal jou naam op die lys by jou nommer intik.
Die raffle sal op 31 Mei 2024 om 24:00 gesluit word.
Alle inskrywingsgelde moet streng voor 11:30 op 1 Junie 2024 betaal word want die trekking (spin the wheel) gaan om 12:00 gedoen word.
Diegene wie nog nie teen 11:30 betaal het nie, se name sal verwyder word voor die trekking plaasvind. So asb, betaal betyds. Ons kan nie ander inskrywings laat wag vir die wat nog nie betaal het nie. Dit is regverdig.
So koop n kaartjie en ondersteun Rustplaas se hondekinders asb.

Die inskrywingsgelde kan deur eft inbetaal word. Gebruik "Raffle 1" en jou naam/voorletetters en van as verwysing asb. Plaas asb bewys van betaling op die groep met jou nommers wat jy gekies het. Dan kan ons alles "dubbel check".

Kontak my vir meer inligting, of om by die groep aan te sluit:
083 308 0729 (Louis), 082 821 5006 (Mariana)
Groep skakel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FbMkYyJ1NOc8yOx2Cv6p6H

12/04/2024

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