ForeTheBoys embraced the rain to lend a helping hand at the Benoni SPCA on March 17 with the aid of volunteers.
One of the ForeTheBoys golf school’s social responsibility projects for the year is ‘ForeThePaws’, which is the building of a new puppy isolation clinic at its Lakefield premises.
The construction of new puppy kennels at the Benoni SPCA started on March 13.
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On the day the participants cleaned kennels, fed animals, chopped down and removed trees, tidied the livestock area and storerooms.
ForeTheBoys chairperson Tim Smit said the clinic will be separate from the rest of the SPCA facility in order to protect the puppies from contracting any canine diseases from the other mature puppies.
“Each individual kennel will be well ventilated for the hot summer months and heated during winter,” said Smit.
There will be a total of six kennels built valued at R100 000, which various sponsors, together with the boys, made possible.
“The aim of the ‘puppy nursery’ is to keep the puppies healthy and help more of them find a home.”
Smit said the ForeThePaws project is one of their ways of trying to make a difference in the community.
ForeTheBoys is a collective of social golfers and businessmen who have come together to create a golf school that not only fosters and promotes family, friendship and business, but also prioritises the development and growth of the community, said the chairperson.
“What started as a social golf school focusing on its members has morphed into a socially responsible golf school that aims to uplift the community at every opportunity.
“We are not here for the headlines: we are here to make a difference.”
The social golfers also host the golf school’s annual charity golf day with and for the benefit of the Daveyton Golf Club and to assist the Barcelona Crèche in Daveyton.
The Benoni SPCA’s manager, Vicky Finnemore, said the ForeTheBoys golf school raised funds to build the six kennels.
In January, Finnemore said: “We plan on providing a highly sterile environment for puppies aged six weeks and older.”
She explained that the kennels are needed as puppies are extremely susceptible to diseases and can easily be infected in normal kennels because they are not vaccinated.
“We will have three kennels on each side of the building with an entrance and pathway in the middle. We will also have a bathing station,” she said.
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