What you can do to help us

We're just new and we hope that we’ll grow as more people come to know about us. The first way you can help is by spreading the word!
If you hear of an animal that needs help or a home, tell us! If you know someone who wants a new pet, tell them about us – together, inshallah, we can help each other and the animals who need us too. There are also some specific ways to help:

1. Foster an Animal in Need

Do you have room in your home and life to take temporary care of one of our animals in need? We would like to have a pool of animal carers available to take in animals in urgent situations. Even if you can offer a spare bathroom for a litter of kittens or a yard an abandoned dog could lodge in for a few days we would appreciate your help – and so would they. Learn more about foster care here.

2. Promote Responsible Animal Care

Many residential compounds are a hive of un-owned street cats and regularly have animals abandoned when owners finish their contracts. Most compounds don’t even have anyone to run an efficient pet register to keep track of animals – let alone help them. If you would like to improve things where you live, contact us, we can help you help your community and the animals who live there. It only takes one person to make a real difference.

3. Compassionate Cat Control

The most humane way to control the hundreds of unwanted street cats it not culling with Pest Control but by controlling their breeding. Did you know most residential compounds cull about 100 cats a year? Care to make a difference? Visit www.CompoundCats.com to learn more about the Compound Cats, the problems and solutions and ask us how to start Trap-Neuter-Return for the cats where you live.

4. Donations

Working within the laws of the kingdom, we are not a charity nor NGO - just a network of likeminded individuals who work to help animals in need. As such, our work is non-profit. However we do appreciate assistance for the veterinary services, transport & taxi fairs and animal supplies we need to help animals we care for. If you can provide donations or gifts, they can be given to your local volunteer or to one of our animal doctors.
Any offers can be sent to help@openpaws.org

5. Other Gifts

There are plenty of things that people throw away which we can use directly for our work: from old news papers and blankets, old pet boxes or even expired hospital supplies. Things which may otherwise look like trash, ask us, we may be able to make use of them!

Some volunteers raise funds for their charitable work with second-hand sales, raffles, cake stalls etc. If you have household items which you no longer need or want, gifts you could donate as raffle prizes etc, contact us with details and we may be able to put those things to good use.

Perhaps you don’t have time to be involved directly but you could lend a driver or storage space to our volunteers. If you can think of anything that might be useful, ask us. Even if we can’t use it immediately we’ll keep your kind thoughts in mind.