Mayhew International works to promote companion animal welfare and the humane management of homeless cats and dogs through a network of community animal care initiatives. Our work with vets interested in this area of animal welfare has a special significance for international development, benefiting communities in developing countries, many of whom rely on their animals for support.
- We advocate neutering as the most humane method of dealing with the overpopulation of companion animals.
- We offer information and advice on the setting up and running of sterilisation programmes.
- We collaborate with other welfare organisations and university veterinary faculties to provide low-cost veterinary services for local communities.
- We work with governments and local authorities in an advisory capacity to improve companion animal welfare conditions under their jurisdiction.
- We offer training for overseas veterinary personnel and animal welfare organisations.
Our work stretches from neighbouring European countries to places as far afield as Russia, Afghanistan, India and Peru.
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Mayhew International is now a collaborative member of the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH) and will be assisting with the aid efforts in the region with other animal welfare organisations. We have come together so that all animal welfare organisations involved in response efforts can work together and make sure we get aid to as many animals, and in as short a time, as possible.
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12th July 2010 - Mayhew International's CEO, Caroline Yates, will be trekking up to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in October to fundraise for out work abroad. If you are keen to sponsor her please follow this link. Thank you! 11th July 2010 - The Mayhew International Fundraising Lunch was organised and hosted by Angela Humphrys at the house of Cheryl & Jules Burns. Nearly £3000 was raised for the work of Mayhew International and a lovely time was had by all, with gorgeous weather, delicious food and drink and Russian-flavoured entertainment by Bibs Ekkel & Vanya Podzhopnikov 30th June 2010 - After the Haiti disaster on the 12th Jan 2010 it has not only been humanitarian organisations working in country. Animal welfare organisations came together to act as a collaboration named ARCH to help both the animal and the human population. Mayhew International is a part of ARCH and has raised over 3.5k so far to help the projects on the ground. This video, available on the link to our homepage above, shows the phenomenal work achieved so far to vaccinate and treat the animals left after the disaster, some of the are the only family some young children have left. Amazing work. 27th June 2010 - Mayhew International's chief Vet and one Vet Nurse will be leaving for Peru in early JUly to work at a shelter in Colan near Piura training vets and animal handlers on surgical and welfare practices, including spay and neuter techniques. We will bring your diary entries and pix when we can 25th June 2010 - Mayhew International has made a 400kg donation of dog food to SOS for Serbian Animals. This food will be well received as normally the dogs there live every day on soaked bread and sometimes the supporters of the charity would go and beg things from the slaughterhouse which they would boil to poor over the bread to make it taste better. For once now, the animals under their care will have proper nutritious dog food to eat. 23rd June 2010 - We have been informed that HOPE in India managed to sterilise 276 animals in June, which is excellent considering the 45 degree heat. Since April 2010, they have now managed to sterilise 832 animals. A fantastic effort! 21st June 2010 - We have received reports from Baghdad that 42,000 stray dogs have been killed, averaging 2,400 a day since their dog control programme was recommenced this month. The budget for this campaign is 35 million dinars (equalling around £25000) to fund the 20 shotgun-wielding squads out to hunt down the capital's strays. 19th June 2010 - Mayhew International supports HOPE and Animal Trust in India. Here the sterilisation team consistently has to beg local community groups for the use of spare land to base their neutering project from. In these images you can see their new camp close to the Railway Station where the feral dogs are brought to before being sterilised and then returned back to their point of capture. It is a tough job they do but it is very worthwhile as the population of stray animals continues to fall and their welfare is dramatically improving. 17th June 2010 - By the end of April, ARCH in Haiti, of which Mayhew International is a member, treated nearly 15,000 animals. Planned activities during the coming months include: continuing mobile street clinics six days a week, replenishing vaccines, setting up dog survey protocols, refresher training of teams to ensure quality, getting the mobile clinic permanently on the road and complete the fitting out of the vehicle 15th June 2010 - We are working with other aid agencies to address the approach being adopted by the Sofia authorities to control their stray dog welfare issue. 12th June 2010 - In Haiti, a total of 20,214 animals have been treated by the Mobile Veterinary Clinic now since emergency aid was offered to the animals of the earthquake stricken country 11th June 2010 - Mayhew International is supporting the adoption of neutered, vaccinated stray dogs in Afghanistan. Although still in its infancy, the programme has the chance to outreach to the wider community on the value of adopting a stray animal 10th June 2010 - We support HOPE and Animal Trust in India. They are taking steps to improve the welfare of the animals under their care by investing in the construction of new detachable kennels, humane dog traps and protective gloves for handling. 9th June 2010 - Mayhew International is sponsoring the TNR Vaccination Programme in Bheemili, India where 1900 dogs are planning to be vaccinated and neutered before being returned to where they were caught. A fantastic programme for the region run by VSPCA who have taken these images of the commencement of their programme delayed by cyclones and intense summer heat 8th June 2010 - Mayhew International Summer Supplement is now available online by clicking here. 1st June 2010 - Link to the Morocco Trek Information is now available online here. 25th May 2010 - Up for a challenge? Why not join The Mayhew on a trip to Morocco up Jebel Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains to raise money for our animal welfare work abroad (5-11th Sept). If you would like more information please contact us at chris@mayhewanimalhome.org 24th May 2010 - Mayhew International is supporting our former International Veterinary Training Student Mariam Chkhikvishvili, who has helped found the Homeless Pets Help Organisation in her home country of Georgia. Here she performs flank surgery, vaccinates stray animals against rabies and educates on responsible pet ownership 23rd May 2010 - Mayhew International was visited by the Japanese Anti-Vivisection Association who were informed about humane education and community outreach 22nd May 2010 - Before cyclone LAILA causing localised flooding and 46 degree heat, the TNR programme in Bheemili, which Mayhew International is funding has carried out 311 sterilisations between 15 April and 20 May. There is a target of a further 700 operations by mid June! 21st May 2010 - The next issue of the Mayhew International newsletter will be out very shortly. To make sure you received it, please sign up to be a Friend of Mayhew International! Thanks 20th May 2010 - Having just got some great photos from Bheemili in India and the TNR & rabies vaccination programme we are sponsoring there, the team in India are on alert as Cyclone LAILA is heading their way and they could well be hit with gale forces winds reaching 75 miles per hour and torrential rain over the next 48 hours. We will stay in touch with them if possible and hope our project will not be too severely affected. 7th May 2010 - Mayhew International will be attending the Humane Society Expo in Nashville, USA from May 12-15. 6th May 2010 - Two years of deliberation on the stray issue in Bucharest has resulted in a draft law advocating culling as the preferred method of stray animal control. Mayhew International will contact Bucharest City Government to advise on sustainable humane solutions to their stray issue problem 30th April - 5th May 2010 - Mayhew International is in Moscow under the invite of the city government to perform a sterilisation masterclass for the municipal shelter veterinarians 25th April 2010 - Miharu has now left us and we have updated her page here highlighting the work she has done during her training. Please read about it here 24th April 2010 - Miharu Yamaji, our Japanese veterinary surgeon who has been training with us for the last month (extended due to the volcanic ash air issues!), has finally managed to organise a flight and return back to Japan this evening! We are all delighted for her that she can finally go home back to her family 23rd April 2010 - Mayhew International invited veterinary nurse students from different universities in Norway and Denmark, who are all in their second year of study to visit our animal welfare centre. They came here to get a better understanding of how a small animal welfare centre which has veterinary services on site functions as there are no provisions ...for this in their countries. They were, of course, very impressed with our facilities and particularly our cattery which they liked very much. 22nd April 2010 - We donated 360kg worth of top quality dog food to The Foundation for the Protection of Community Dogs in Oradea, Romania. We know how much this food is needed and how well it will be appreciated in this part of the world. 21st April 2010 - Mayhew International was the starting point for 'London Delhi by Road', which is a charity event that will travel through 15 countries starting from London in April 2010 to reach New Delhi, India in 7 weeks. The journey is in aid of an animal charity in India called Friendicoes SECA . They also hope to raise awareness among people in countries en route on how they can look after their animals better and spread the message that cruelty to animals is not acceptable. 20th April 2010 - HOPE and Animal Trust, whose veterinarian we sponsor, have neutered 262 dogs in March out of their temporary railway station veterinary clinic which is a fantastic effort - especially as anti-rabies vaccines are given to all of the animals. 19th April 2010 - Update from Timothy Lim, a Malaysian vet, who attended the International Veterinary Training Programme in 2009. Read about his progress here 18th April 2010 - Many of you are aware that Ranchi, India is a difficult place to work in rescuing animals due to people and law and order problems. However, for the first time in the history of Jharkhand with the support of administration - Police, Municipal Corporation and forestry department, we were able to destroy the illegal animal trade and take the custody of few animals. DFO and Asst. Conservator of Forest also ceased about 300 exotic birds trade. It is the biggest rescue effort initiated by our group. Every year in the summer, HOPE and Animal Trust try to clear the illegal animal trade to stop the animal torture or provide assistance to the shop keepers for the sake of animals. But todays move made history in Jharkhand. Thanks to all the Police Department - Forest Department and Ranchi Municipal Corporation and in particular HOPE and Animal Trust for their dedicated work. 15th April 2010 - We have received an update from Daiga Rozensteine, from Latvia, who attended out International Veterinary Training Programme, in 2009. Read about it here 4th April 2010 - Update on the training for Miharu Yamaji here from the Japan Cat Network for veterinary training. The surgical team have been reiterating to Miharu the importance of understanding asepsis - being free from disease-causing contaminants. Here she is taught how to maintain good hygienic in the operating theatre. 3rd April 2010 - ARCH’s mobile clinic offers primary vet attention in the streets of Port au Prince. Ten year old Kenny brought his dog Vito, who had an infection. “It has been sick for a long time, but I don’t know any vets and don’t have any money to take it to one”, said Kenny. ARCH gave the dog antibiotics and vitamins. Now there i...s the mobile clinic, there can be two lines of people waiting: one outside for dogs, aggressive animals and farm animals, and one inside for cats and wounded animals. 2nd April 2010 - Mayhew International has been helping to advise Japanese animal welfare charities on the use of haltis and stop-pull harnesses for their dogs in their shelters. 1st April 2010 - Update on the work by the local vet team hired by ARCH. We treated 189 animals in Lilavois in Port au Prince recently; mainly dogs and goats, but also pigs, chickens, cows, ducks and cats. They focused on deworming, vaccination and vitamin supplies. People are coming from everywhere, bringing their animals. It’s clear ...that a lot of these animals have never been treated by vets before. For further news please go to our News Page 
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Mayhew International would like to thank Angela, Cheryl and Jules and to everyone who attended and gave so generously.