Elderly woman reunited with her two dogs
Through the efforts of the Kloof and Highway SPCA, Elizabeth received a fence around her yard to ensure her dogs were safe when they returned home.
WITH the help and determination of caring individuals, Elizabeth Mazeka was able to keep her beloved pooches, Two Dogs.
On 26 May an elderly woman, Elizabeth Mazeka, arrived at the Kloof and Highway SPCA with her two well-cared for male Africanis dogs.
Elizabeth explained, with great sadness, that she could no longer keep the dogs as they had chased her neighbours’ chickens and threats were made to harm the dogs if they were not removed.
Not wanting to put them in harm’s way, she asked her employer to provide transport the SPCA. “Elizabeth did not want to give them away to anyone as she was concerned that someone would not be able to provide for and love them as she had done,” said Lisa Gadd, PR and outreach officer at the Kloof and Highway SPCA.
She agreed to sign them over into the care of the Kloof and Highway SPCA to be re-homed. She completed the paper work and helped the staff collect the dogs from the car and when it came to leave, the tears welled up in her eyes. “The staff tried to coax the dogs from reception to the kennels but they would not move,” said Lisa.
Elizabeth said the dogs’ names were Two Dogs and with that she turned and left – reluctant and heartbroken. Two Dogs stared anxiously out the reception door windows as their owner walked away. Lisa said the SPCA staff were devastated and in tears watching the devotion between the dogs and their owner. “The staff knew that they would do whatever they could to reunite Elizabeth and her dogs as this was not just any love story and Sarah van Heerden, the operations manager, immediately contacted supporters to help.”
Two Dogs’ and their story quickly became known to all the staff at the NPO and two donors came forward to help, Guy Murray from Container Conversions and Erika Velissariou.
An inspection was done at Elizabeth’s home to see if it could be fenced and Justus van Rees from Green Dot Fencing was contacted to do the fencing. “The inspection was done and everyone was so overjoyed – and it touched all our hearts even more to see how elated and overjoyed Elizabeth was when she heard the good news that Two Dogs could be returned home,” said Lisa.
Two Dogss were reunited with Elizabeth in the newly fenced in yard on Thursday, 7 July. “There was much excitement in the air as Two Dogs Two Dogs jumped from the vehicle and ran to their home and playfully greeted Elizabeth while running in circles around her feet. Elizabeth said that Two Dogs are her companions, her friends, a very special part of her family and she talks to them as she would her children.
Barbara Patrick said, “Without the caring staff at the Kloof and Highway SPCA, Guy Murray, Erika Velissariou, Justus van Rees and his staff, Elizabeth and Two Dogs would not have had their happy ending.”
