The reality of snaring
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 09 2008 | By: zimbabwewilddogs
Hi guys,
Rosemary here again. Apologies for not introducing you to Lindsay before press-ganging her into writing blogs. She is a Zimbabwean girl who is training to be a pilot but is kindly covering the wild dog project for me for a couple of weeks while I have been guiding in Tanzania. I’ll be back in Zim next week to take over from her again.
Due to slow connection speeds in the Save Valley at the moment, Lindsay asked if I would post some pictures of the snared dogs she has talked about in the previous blogs. It doesn’t make nice viewing I’m afraid, but I think it’s important to show the reality of the consequences of snaring.
Fortunately Lindsay was able to remove the snare from the first dog and here are a couple of photos from that operation:
And finally the snare was removed (the blue colour is the antiseptic wound spray!):
As Lindsay said, these dogs are incredibly resilient, so hopefully he will survive. Let’s hope we can get the other one darted soon too and that neck snare removed.
Over to Lindsay again until I’m back next week,
Rosemary
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4 Responses to “The reality of snaring”
paula, on 10 Sep 2008
Oh my god, this is awful! Thanks Lindsay for your blogs. Can we see a photo of Lindsay - in the field? We are raising funds for wildlife rescues on the Kashmiri blog - check it out and let us know if you have any veterinary emergencies that need help.
Abdulaziz Abdalla, on 11 Sep 2008
I am involved with Friends of Tsavo and currently focusing on snaring in the Tsavo National Park. The next issue of our newsletter is on the effects of snaring and where I can obtain photographs to highlight this scourge it helps blow the alarm. May I use this of the hunting dog and will send you a copy once published
zimbabwewilddogs, on 18 Sep 2008
Hi Abdulaziz,
Please feel free to use the photo of the wild dogs. Please just credit Lindsay Wells - it is her photo. If you want me to email it to you, please email me on rosemary@africanwildlifeconservationfund.org
Good luck with your work. It sounds very valuable.
Rosemary
zimbabwewilddogs, on 18 Sep 2008
Hi Paula,
Will post a photo of Lindsay in the next blog. And I’ll check out the Kashmiri website for the wildlife rescue info. At the moment we have several trained people in the conservancy who can help with darting and treating injured dogs. They aren’t vets though, so this might be something to look into. The problem with getting external help here is simply the timing issue. An emergency is just that, and with current infrastructure in Zim it’s not always easy (or financially possible) to get people down here at short notice. But thanks for that info, and I’ll have a look at the blog,
Rosemary
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