This incredible 4 minute video will give you an inside understanding of who and what the Ark Animal Centre is, and how you can get involved and help make a difference 🙂
Click this link to view it: https://youtu.be/sovmFsna_NI
Big thank you to the following people who made this video possible:
Eilidh Goosen
Rick Joaquim of Duck Rabbit Studios
Andrew John Lonie
Kasmario Fankis
C.A. Van Aswegen of FiX Post Production
Adam Lomas & Brian Mullany of Fireball Productions
Ark Animal Centre is hosting another great golf day on the 6 May 2014 at Dainfern Golf Course! All proceeds will go towards building the shelters maternity ward.
R2800 per 4 ball. Includes dinner. BOOK NOW by emailing Charmaine at jemima.ellis@gmail.com
We are looking for prize and tee sponsors. Should you be interested in getting involved please email Candice at candice@arkanimalcentre.co.za
Awesome new pet supplies and boutique human shop launched this past weekend at Ark! Our own blog will follow shortly! ❤
Launching with bang! This past weekend The Sequin Stylist – Pooch Boutique & #Smoothies (Freezocinno Bar) opened with massive success. Officially now a blog to brand name “The Sequin Stylist.”
Enlighten yourself to a world of dog loving, fashion obsessed individuals at the SS Boutique as you sip on one of the delicious #Smoothies signature Freezocinno (Chocolate, Coffee or Mocha) sodas, coffee, hot chocolate + much more guaranteed to have you feeling great from the inside out. Whilst shopping for both yourself and your pooch, accessories, apparel, collars and leads as well as designer ranges and lots lots more.
Visit “The Sequin Stylist” store and enjoy the out of town experience. Situated on the Ark Animal Centre premises in Chartwell. Spend the day or just for a quick pop-in for a takeaway and some puppy love SS & #Smoothies welcomes you.
The Sequin Stylist – Pooch Boutique…
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FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!
After a good 2 years of working on becoming a member of the fabulous Woolworths MyPlanet programme, we are very proud to say that Joburg’s puppy rescue shelter, Ark Animal Centre is now officially a beneficiary!!! Woohoo!!!
To support us you can either:
The success of the programme depends on the number of times you swipe your card. Supporters can use their cards at a range of national, regional and local retail partners on the MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet system. Some of the national partners include Woolworths, Engen QuickShops, Waltons, SupaQuick, kalahari.com, Jack’s Paint, Toys R Us, Reggie’s, Altech Netstar, Club Travel, MySchool Travel, Toner Town and many more. To view a more comprehensive list of local business partners click here.
You can raise funds for your favourite school or charity without costing you a cent, and you can use one card at many different stores. There are 12 national partners and over 2000 partner stores where you can use your card across the country. Cardholders can take advantage of exclusive discounts and special offers. For example, you are automatically part of WRewards from Woolworths (which includes 10% or more off on up to 200 items in their stores and other benefits), you get R40 off every GetAhead or MathPro educational software item that you buy, and you get exclusive discounts on vehicle recovery from Altech Netstar. You will receive a monthly email statement showing exactly how much your beneficiary has raised.
Apply now and help us make a difference in our puppies lives ♥
For more information visit www.myschool.co.za
Come meet your new best friend!
Our address is 17 Howard Avenue, Millgate (Chartwell for GPS’s)
Our operating hours are:
Monday – Sunday: 10am – 3:30pm.
Tuesdays and Thursdays: CLOSED
Please see map below to orientate yourselves:
We are very pleased to announce that Ark Animal Centre – the Puppy Rescue Shelter is official a registered non-profit organisation (NPO). 🙂 After 15 months of waiting it finally came through!
We are very excited as this opens many more doors and opportunities for Ark to grow and continue saving the puppies & dogs of SA. Our much anticipated NPO number is: 2012-171809-08
What is an NPO, non-profit organisation? A Non-Profit Organisation exists solely to provide programs and services that are of public benefit such as the promotion of social welfare, economic development, religion, charity, education or research. Earnings may not benefit individuals or stake-holders. It is known as a Section 21 company. Answer from Entrepreneur Mag.
Below are the ethical and responsible behaviour for NPO’s based on Department of Social Development Codes of Good Practice for South African Non-profit Organisations:
• Honesty: Honest people are truthful, sincere, forthright, straightforward, frank and
candid. They do not cheat, steal, lie, deceive or act deviously. NPO staff and volunteers
should be scrupulously honesty in their dealings with donors, beneficiaries,
employees, volunteers, governing body members, the public and the authorities.
• Integrity: People and organisations with integrity are principled, honourable and
upright. They are courageous and act on convictions. They will fight for their beliefs
and will not adopt an “ends justify the means” philosophy that ignores principle, or is
expedient at the expense of principle. NPO staff and members respect the integrity of
the mission established by their governing body.
• Promise keeping: People worthy of trust keep promises, fulfil commitments,
abide by the spirit as well as the letter of an agreement. They do not interpret
agreements in an unreasonably technical or legalistic manner to rationalise noncompliance or to create justifications for escaping their commitments.
• Fidelity/loyalty: People worthy of trust demonstrate fidelity and loyalty to
other people and to organisations by friendship in adversity, support, and devotion to
duty. They do not use or disclose information that is learned in confidence for
personal or professional advantage. Staff and governing body members should
safeguard their ability to make independent professional judgements by scrupulously
avoiding undue influence and conflicts of interest.
• Fairness: Fair people manifest a commitment to justice, the equal treatment of
individuals, and tolerance for and acceptance of diversity. They are open-minded,
willing to admit they are wrong, and, where appropriate, change their positions and
beliefs. They do not overreach or take undue advantage of another’s mistakes or
difficulties.
• Caring for others: Concern for the well-being of others manifests itself in
compassion, giving, kindness , and serving. It requires that one attempts to help those
in need and avoids harming others.
• Respect for others: Ethical people demonstrate respect for human dignity,
privacy, and the right to self-determination of all competent adults. They are
courteous and decent. They provide others with the information they need to make
informed decisions about their own lives.
• Transparency: Staff should provide as much relevant information to the public as is
reasonably possible to permit intelligent assessment of goals, means, and results as
they relate to the organisation’s mission.
• Responsible citizenship: Responsible citizenship involves lawfulness,
participation, social consciousness, and public service. NPOs must be especially
careful to obey all relevant regulations and laws.
• Pursuit of excellence: Ethical people are concerned with the quality of
their work. They pursue excellence and are diligent, reliable, industrious and
committed.
• Accountability: Ethical people accept responsibility for their decisions, for the
foreseeable consequences of their actions and failures to act, for setting an example to
others and for providing feedback to donors and sponsors on how funds were utilised.
• Safeguard public trust: NPO governance, leaders, staff and volunteers have special
obligations to lead by example, to safeguard and advance the integrity and reputation of
all organisations that depend on voluntary support and public trust, to avoid even the
appearance of impropriety, and to take whatever actions are necessary to correct or prevent the inappropriate conduct of others.
SMS ‘Donate FOOD’ to 48949 & help feed the hungry and homeless dogs in SA! R10 per sms. All SA networks.
Naughty, shy or aggressive dogs?? Read on…this article is for you!
Paws-n-All Puppy Socialisation and Dog Training Academy was founded in 2009 after Nicola Dee van Ass qualified as a certified dog and puppy trainer through ThinkingPets.
After having received certificates in puppy socialisation, puppy training, adult dog training, one-on-one dog training consultations as well as obedience and clicker training,
the first Paws-n-All school was opened in Boskruin, Johannesburg.
Paws-n-All moved to the Fourways / Lonehill area at the end of 2010 and has trained many puppies and dogs in the area.
Our training methods revolve around positive reinforcement training (rewarding the good behaviour and ignoring the bad) and through this method of dog training, we have been able to achieve obedience in puppies and dogs while keeping them happy.
In most of our training we use clickers and treats as this enables fast, positive learning in dogs and puppies.
We do a lot of puppy socialisation as it is very important to get puppies used to different situations, sounds, objects and other animals at as young an age as possible.
Every dog is seen and treated as an individual and is never forced to be in a situation that it is not comfortable with.
If a dog cannot handle being around other dogs, we work in one-on-one classes until the dog is happy to move forward.
WE work with each puppy or dog individually in class (although there are many group exercises) and because we do not have more than a total of 6 dogs or puppies in a class, we are able to give each student the proper attention required for them to learn and progress.
There is no age limit or breed requirement need to join the classes, but because of the method of training we use, choke chains, shock collars, prong collars, shouting and physical punishment is NOT permitted in any of our classes.
Contact Details:
Nicola van Ass
Cell: 083 309 0400
Tel: 011 705 2595
Fax: 086 606 7502
paws-n-all@hotmail.com / www.paws-n-all.co.za
Fees are R120 per class
If a second dog or puppy is enrolled from the same family, the cost is R100 per class for that dog.
A once-off registration fee of R100 is required
One-on-One classes are R170 per class.
R20 from every client per class is donated to Ark Animal Centre.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
♥ Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….
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♥ Ark Animal Centre ♥
Specialists in puppies and small breed dogs
Ark is a non-profit, no-suffer centre. Ark rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes abandoned, abused and neglected puppies and dogs. Wecare for them physically and emotionally in a caring, loving, non-institutionalised environment.
All our puppies are homed to approved, well suited homes and sterilisation is mandatory.
Ark’s main focus is education and awareness. Our aim is to createawareness and adjust the public’s perception of their responsibilities to animals. If education, legislation and welfare unite, we can alter the future of all animals in South Africa.
Where do our puppies and dog’s come from?
We get our animals from all over Gauteng. Some from other shelters who have no space or cannot handle a problematic puppy or dog. Some are literally from the side of the road, a few make their way to us all the way from the Vaal Triangle, and often we get those late night calls, “I found a puppy on the highway,” “I rescued a dog from the guy trying to sell him on the side of the road” etc. We get a lot of new born babies (bottle feeders) that come in, either from vets or that are surrendered to us by families whose dog had puppies. We then care for those puppies and home them when they are about 8 weeks old. We also make sure we sterilise the mommy dog of the puppies.
In the end if we have space, we will take them – we do not discriminate. If Ark can help we will go to the ends of the earth and do our best to make a difference to that dog’s life. Any dog that is in need of help is worth our time.
Our Animals:
We take great pride in every dog and puppy that comes to us. We welcome them into the Ark family and even once they are homed, still consider them as extended family.
We spend time in capturing the best possible picture of our animals to promote them on Facebook, Twitter and our website. A good picture is where our responsibility starts, from there we do home checks on possible homes and once we have met the new parents, been to their future house and seen the kind of lifestyle we will be homing them into and are satisfied only then do we give them their Proudly South African Ark Baby bandana and send them off to their eagerly awaiting new family.
While in our care, they are kept in sheltered runs, furnished with plastic beds and warm blankets, with access to shaded grass area’s for them to run and play in with their friends. We feed them Montego puppy small bite, as we specialise in puppies and small breed dogs. They get fed twice a day and are given treats at least once a week. Our shelter is cleaned out and F10’ed everyday as hygiene and cleanliness is one of our top priorities next to the animals happiness.
Every Saturday is “Ark Saturday’s” where volunteers come around to play, walk and socialise with our animals. They get bathed and dipped when necessary and also have a weekly puppy training lesson with Nicola van As from Thinking Pets. Below are pictures from a usual Saturday spent at Ark.
The Ark Team:
Our team consists of Tracy, our amazing Manager. She knows each dog by name and spends time daily loving, cuddling and playing with our animals. She drives around all day fetching rescues, doing home checks and making sure each dog is sterilised and happy in their new home. Candice, is our Social Media and Fundraising lady, she promotes our dogs on every social media platform, networks with other shelters, creates awareness through fundraisers and campaigns and makes sure the Ark brand is kept alive.
Lynne, Kristen, Cara, Nicola and Fiona are all dedicated volunteers with a passion for animals some do not understand. From training our dogs, to creating fundraisers, rescuing dogs from less than cosy environments and assisting with the enormous amounts of admin and paperwork – we are all animal lovers working towards a common goal, and with a passion that runs through our blood we make an exceptional team and look forward to the years to come and the animal we will save.
Contact Ark Animal Centre:
Email: info@arkanimalcentre.co.za
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArkAnimalCentre
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ArkAnimalCentre
Website: www.arkanimalcentre.co.za
Call: 082 334 7596
Address: 122 Summit Road, Midrand JHB. GPS: 25°55’25.23″S 28° 2’28.76″E
♥ Love Your Country, Love Your Animals ♥
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