Mayhew Annual Report - 2012

The Mayhew Animal Home

how we make a difference for animals and our community

Past achievements and future goals—

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3www.themayhew.org2 The Mayhew

Thank you to all the staff, students, volunteers, supporters and stakeholders who have enabled The Mayhew to weather the challenges faced during 2011 and 2012, and provided us with the much-needed funds and support to help more animals than ever via our broad range of preventative health and welfare initia-tives and re-homing programmes.

We are committed to getting the message about responsible pet ownership out there. In doing so, The Mayhew has been able to rehome more than 1000 animals in the last two years, neuter more than 4150 animals — including a record number of feral cats — and expand our Community Animal Care pro-grammes to help more animals and their carers in need. In addition, Mayhew International has been sharing the knowledge and expertise of our veterinary team far and wide.

There is no denying the challenges are very real — the demands on both our clinic and re-homing services are huge and our Animal Welfare Officers could well be working 24 hours a day — but there are also real rewards.

The Mayhew is delighted that our TheraPaws project has taken off so well, bring-ing the comfort and stimulation of animal interaction to the elderly in London, and, of course, every successful adoption, every welfare case treated and reha-bilitated, and every person convinced to neuter their pet makes it all worthwhile.

Our work is far from over and the coming years will no doubt throw up yet more challenges, but with your help The Mayhew will be there, limiting unnecessary suffering where we can.

Caroline Yates, CEO

“Luckily, most of The Mayhew cats find their forever homes relatively quickly after arriv-ing with us, but some may spend weeks in care while they wait for their forever home. Often these “long-stayers” can naturally begin to show signs of boredom, frustra-tion and lethargy, which can, in some cases, lead to aggression and even depression. Behavioural stimulation is therefore vital in maintaining the health and well-being of the cats in our cattery.”

Joanna Puzzo Cat Welfare Co-ordinator

“Coordinating The Mayhew’s foster care scheme means I get to see first-hand just how beneficial foster placements are for these dogs. The foster carers I work with are just wonderful. They give up so much of their time and commit to welcoming a dog into their home 24–7. This provides the dogs with temporary respite from the kennel environment and enables them to relax and alleviate anxiety they may have felt at the rescue centre. The generosity of these foster carers means we can place more dogs into temporary homes, mean-ing we can bring more stray and unwanted dogs into our kennels. The dogs that benefit from foster care are also able to relax more and reveal more about their personality and needs, which often enables us to also find them a home much quicker.”

Wendy Henry Dog Foster Co-ordinator

Rescuing and RehomingA message from our CEO

Over the last two years The Mayhew has found loving, forever homes for over 400 dogs, 700 cats and 31 rabbits.

We have expanded our Foster Care programme since 2011 and have been able to place 157 dogs into foster homes over the last two years. This has allowed us to free up more kennel space for new arrivals and provide them with a secure environment to feel comfortable in whilst we find them a new home.

The Mayhew remains committed to best practices in animal welfare and the highest standards of animal accommodation. We now have a dedicated Cat Welfare Co-ordinator to maintain the best environment and stimulus for our feline residents.

After a major fundraising appeal throughout 2011, The Mayhew was able to raise its target of £125,000 to renovate the Cattery roof in order to provide better protection and ventilation, as well as improved drainage for the facilities.

Keeping the facilities in top condition for our animals is very important to us. As a result of a grant in summer 2012 we were able to renovate the roof of our main kennel block and install better insulation and lighting.

The Mayhew has a contract with the London Borough of Brent Council to take in the borough’s stray dogs, and the number admitted is rising due to the current overpopulation crisis. Throughout 2012 The Mayhew dealt with 136 strays from the Brent borough.

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Ko was one of the most dramatic cases admitted to The Mayhew over the last two years.

This elderly Akita was brought into our Community Veterinary Clinic on the 10th May 2011 with what appeared, to the untrained eye, to be burns and open sores all over her body.

Our vets quickly ascertained that she was suffering from an extreme case of chronic mange which had caused her to scratch and open sores all over her body. She had to have weekly baths to treat the mange and regular skin scrapes to monitor the condition. Ko’s treatment took ten months in total before we were able to find her a new home.

The Mayhew is committed to giving every animal a second chance. As recovery for Ko was achievable our vet and animal care staff dedicated themselves to getting her back to full health and finding her a new home. This particular case cost The Mayhew over £3,000 and underlines why we rely on the public to enable us to continue saving innocent victims like Ko, regardless of how long it may take them to recover.

One of the main functions of The Mayhew Animal Home is to operate as a model rescue and rehoming centre for dogs, cats and rabbits. The rescue home has been on the same site since 1886, and 2011 saw us celebrate our 125th anniversary, sharing the news of our charity and our extensive reach into the community through our veterinary schemes and many outreach programmes.

Excellent standards of animal welfare and accommodation are at the core of The Mayhew’s work and we pride ourselves on the facilities for our dogs, cats and rabbits. Grants from charitable trusts in 2012 allowed us to renovate areas of our Cattery and Kennels so that we can maintain those standards.

The Mayhew will not expand capacity for re-homing on site; our main objectives are to address the root causes of animal overpopulation by promoting neutering and responsible pet ownership. We are committed to a better future for companion animal welfare and will continue to expand and promote our low cost, free services provided by our Community Vet Clinic.

The Mayhew is funded solely by public donations. It costs us approximately £3400 a day to keep the centre operational. External events and fundraisers are an essential way of raising funds for our work, and The Mayhew ran, or took part in, over 50 events this year. Raising awareness of our rescue work and the message of neutering and responsible ownership is vital if we are to combat the spiralling problem of pet overpopulation in London and across the UK.

Case Study : KoRescuing and Rehoming Community Vet Clinic

The Mayhew’s vet team comprises ten members of staff, including four dedicated vets, who carry out procedures on thousands of cats, dogs and rabbits — in and out patients — every year.

There are three vet nurses in the clinic team and two students on-site; the Mayhew’s Community Vet Clinic is a registered training centre for veterinary nurses, with two vet nurses qualifying in 2011.

Since the Mayhew Community Vet Clinic was renovated in 2006, improvements and additions have continued. The Clinic has many facilities, including a digital X-ray and in-house diagnostics. A new Diathermy was acquired in 2012.

A new hospital ward was finished in May 2012 to provide accommodation for animals in need of longer term care, with separate cat and dog pre and postoperative care wards for our daily in and out patients. This has expanded our capability to care for animals with long term health problems.

“Certainly the most valuable initiative we run here via the Community Vet Clinic is our Free Bull Breed Neutering scheme. We are the only charity in the UK offering these ap-pointments to all owners, irrespective of fi-nancial circumstances or location. This is of huge benefit to the hundreds of people who book appointments for their dogs every year.

The pet overpopulation crisis is dramati-cally affecting charities, like The Mayhew. By taking this proactive approach to reduce the numbers of unwanted lit-ters we are directly tackling the problem, while continuing to campaign and raise awareness of responsible pet ownership through other streams of our work.”

Gen Wilkinson Mayhew Vet



Community Vet Clinic

A significant part of The Mayhew’s work is invested in our Community Vet services. With financial times getting tougher we are seeing even more pet owners in desperate need of our help.

The Mayhew’s Community Vet Clinic offers services in the following areas:

• Free neutering for Bull Breeds via our own charity scheme. This is unique in the UK, as The Mayhew provides this service to all pet owners irrespective of financial circumstances or location.

• Low cost neutering for dogs and cats, starting at around 9 weeks for kittens and 12 weeks for dogs; The Mayhew is an advocate of early-age neutering.

• Free neutering for cats through the subsidised C4 scheme, a London-wide animal charity collaboration to provide free neutering to pet owners most in need.

• Low cost vaccinations for all dog and cat owners at a twice weekly clinic.

• General health, weight and dietary advice at our weekly Nurses Clinics, where owners can also have their pet microchipped and treated for fleas and worms.

The team in The Mayhew’s Community Vet Clinic sees over 10,000 animals a year through the various services it provides. These animals may be in The Mayhew’s care or out-patients.

Over the last six years the neutering procedures completed by our team have doubled, with a steady rise year-on-year. In 2011, 2009 procedures were carried out, rising to 2150 in 2012, with 829 carried out under the Free Bull Breed initiative.

Attendance for the twice-weekly vaccination clinics has continued to rise, with 3462 pet owners receiving low-cost vaccinations for their dogs or cats over the last two years.

Community and Education Projects

“It is a unique and exciting opportunity to be able to extend The Mayhew’s work into the community and enrich the lives of these people through interaction with the animals in our care.

We know that the results of these visits pro-duce tangible improvements in the lives of the residents; encouraging mobility, lessen-ing loneliness and feelings of isolation and reducing depression and stress.

Animals can provide valuable companion-ship and presence in our lives and, while the animals in our care have no homes of their own, they are able to enjoy the company of the residents and make a very real differ-ence to hundreds of elderly Londoners who may not have anyone else in their lives.”

Stephanie Hall Animal Visits Co-ordinator

“The need for our community programmes is greater than ever. Every month we respond to increasing enquiries for help; this may be for direct animal emergency rescues, or from community groups who wish us to attend and promote animal welfare and impart information about dog safety and responsible pet ownership.

The expansion of our services has enabled us to help a great number of animals and people, but this rising demand also reveals to us how vital it is we are able to remain in this position to help.”

Zoe Hubbard Managing Animal Welfare Officer

The Mayhew’s Community Animal Care programmes include: Pet Refuge; Homeless Community Support; Trap, Neuter and Return (TNR) for feral cats; Animal Phobias; Animal Hoarding and TheraPaws.

In collaboration with Brent Council, our Animal Welfare Officers are part of the Local Education and Advisory Dog Scheme (LEADS). This initiative is designed to promote responsible dog ownership in the borough and reduce the numbers of abandoned, misused and mistreated dogs. Our Animal Welfare Officers run pet ownership workshops in local parks to provide free microchipping and to engage with the community on dog-related issues.

Over the last two years 39 animals have been temporarily fostered through our Pet Refuge scheme.

The Homeless Community Support scheme has now expanded to 10 hostels across London.

Every three months our Animal Welfare team visits seven Travellers’ sites across London to provide health checks and advice for the animals in their care.

As a result of a £75,000 grant from the City of London’s City Bridge Trust, we were able to launch our TheraPaws scheme — an initiative to enrich the lives of elderly Londoners.


“I want to thank Dr. Ursula and Dr. Ingrid and congratulate them for the magnificent job they did here at the Antenor Orrego Pri-vate University teaching neutering in female cats, dogs and bitches.

We all thought it was a spectacular course, innovative and they taught us and showed us the importance of the asepsis before surgery; they taught us better surgery techniques than what we are used to seeing here in Peru.“

Student Antenor Orrego Private University, Peru


Community and Education Projects

The Mayhew Animal Welfare Officers’ (AWOs) roles are dedicated to those Community Animal Care projects which are at the core of The Mayhew’s work.

When the strapline for the charity was conceived in 1886, the mes-sage was that The Mayhew would serve to ‘help both animals and their carers’. 125 years later we are still committed to that ethos and our AWOs help thousands of animals each year.

The majority of today’s animal welfare problems are intertwined with social issues and our AWOs must address these through their programmes in order to have a successful impact.

By working closely with the London Borough of Brent, our AWOs host awareness raising events, promoting responsible pet ownership and also attend BARK patrols — a collaboration of the local council, RSPCA, Metropolitan police and Brent Housing Association working together against the mistreatment and anti-social misuse of dogs.

Our team also work further afield, visiting homeless centres across the capital and working with the dog-owning homeless population, providing health checks, neutering and vaccination provision, food, leads and collars, and advice and assistance.

The Mayhew’s Pet Refuge scheme provides a vital lifeline to pet owners who have nowhere else to turn in distressing personal cir-cumstances. By expanding our team of foster carers we have been able to place more animals into temporary homes via Pet Refuge whilst their owners, for example, receive hospital treatment or seek rehabilitation for addiction.

Our Trap Neuter and Return (TNR) scheme for feral cats may seem to have little social links, but our AWOs receive many enquiries from

communities seeking help with the health of their local feral cat populations. By expanding our resources and facilities for neutering feral cats at The Mayhew, our TNR scheme has tripled over the last three years, with 324 cats successfully TNR-ed by the end of 2012. This is a significant number which will help ensure the health of the animals themselves by controlling and containing feral populations, reducing the number of abandoned and injured kitten litters.

Since 2007 The Mayhew has visited residential care homes in London taking some of our homeless animals to visit and provide comfort and interaction for the residents. The demand for these visits has increased year-on-year, and in 2012 a grant enabled our charity to create a dedicated scheme — entitled TheraPaws — to en-rich the lives of the elderly and those with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Now with a team of 45 volunteers, TheraPaws visits 17 residential homes, from bi-weekly to once a month, to the benefit of hundreds of residents.

Mayhew International

Over the last two years Mayhew International has streamlined where it gives support to focus on two main areas:

• Veterinary training

• Animal Birth Control and Anti-Rabies vaccination programmes, combining initiatives for raising community awareness and education around street animal issues and rabies prevention.

Mayhew International has consolidated its work in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Peru and Russia, working with local groups and activists that have similar approaches to how The Mayhew operates in the UK.

In India, we have developed long-standing relationships with two charitable organisations: HOPE & Animal Trust in Ranchi, Jharkhand and VSPCA in Andra Pradesh.

With support for core costs from Mayhew International, HOPE & Animal Trust neutered and vaccinated 4090 dogs in 2011 and doubled that number in 2012, neutering 9976 dogs. Combined with the recruitment of an Education Officer and funding towards a multi-purpose vehicle, HOPE now has a comprehensive programme for the region and is getting support from the local municipality and residents.

In November 2012, The Mayhew’s Chief Vet visited HOPE to provide some train-ing and advice on their pre and postoperative care facilities.

Together with VSPCA, Mayhew International has funded the ABC (animal birth control) and ARV (anti rabies vaccine) programmes in a number of rural villages in the region, as well as assisting with vital equipment. VSPCA also suffered long-term damage to its shelter and Kindness Farm in November 2012 due to severe flooding. Mayhew International was able to assist with emergency relief funds thanks to the generosity of our supporters.

“ … our TNR (Trap, Neuter and Return) scheme has tripled over the last three years, with 324 cats successfully TNR-ed by the end of 2012 . ”



In Nepal, Mayhew International has worked with Animal Nepal, funding core costs to enable the organisation to have the vets and surgical supplies needed to respond to the hundreds of sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats in the Kathmandu region. Our support was augmented in 2012 to start a mobile response team and to pro-duce printed educational materials for the local communities.

September 2011 saw The Mayhew vet team visit Animal Nepal and hold workshops for the vet teams not only from Animal Nepal, but other NGOs working on animal welfare issues as well. Bringing the organisations to-gether so that they can collaborate and share is vital in having greater impact in improving animal welfare conditions in this country.

Mayhew International has been working in Afghanistan and Moscow for more than 10 years now — both challenging places to work in and both facing major animal welfare is-sues with street and stray animals.

In Afghanistan, Mayhew International has focused on veterinary training for both Kabul University Veterinary Faculty and more recently with Nowzad Dogs. We are also working with various city and federal

ministries on the stray dog and rabies issues prevalent in Kabul.

In Moscow, we are now seeing more cover-age of animal welfare issues in the media and more people speaking out, but it is still an uphill struggle to establish programmes that will provide long-term results and sustainable solutions. Mayhew International will continue to support efforts to get animal welfare legislation on the books in Rus-sia, and we will offer advice and assistance on best practice for dog and cat popula-tion control. At a grassroots level, Mayhew International will assist with neutering the many animals that are held in small, private shelters, are involved in hoarding cases, and belong to those on severely limited incomes. In 2012 we provided veterinary training for two Russian vets who assist with neuter-ing of homeless animals in the city, and we established contacts with local Russian charitable organisations that are working to improve conditions and standards for the unwanted animals in Moscow.

The Mayhew’s veterinary team at our London based Community Clinic is highly experi-enced in neutering, shelter medicine and care of welfare cases. With this in mind, Mayhew International wants to share this expertise

Mayhew International Money raised in 2011–2012

Money raised by The Mayhew Animal Home

Money raised by Mayhew International

with those less fortunate than us, and to encourage the veterinary profession in de-veloping countries to get more involved with the animal welfare needs that face them.

The International Vet Training Programme now comprises two areas: the opportunity for individual vets to spend time at our Community Clinic here in London and take back what they have learnt, adapting it to their own circumstances. Also, in recent years, The Mayhew’s vet team has trav-elled to countries where we support animal welfare initiatives in order to provide on-site training for both the NGOs and, very impor-tantly, the local veterinary training colleges and universities.

In the last two years we have had three vets visit our facilities in London; one from Tan-zania and two from Russia. The Mayhew’s vet team has also travelled to Afghanistan, Nepal, Peru and India, where we have reached out to more than 200 vets and vet students to not only give them clinical train-ing adapted to their particular environment but also encourage an interest in animal welfare. This lays the foundations for closer collaboration between veterinary training bodies and charities involved in animal welfare, leaving a lasting legacy.

£1,451,125

£79,185

£2,248,745

£79,217

2011

2011

2012

2012

legacies56%

donations18%

donations28%

donations49%

donations57%

trading sales 2%

trading sales 3% trading sales 2%

trading sales 1%

Assisi 4% Assisi 2%events 3%

events 6% events 2%

events 3%

trusts 7%

trusts42%

trusts39%

trusts 5%

total raised 2011

total raised 2011

total raised 2012

total raised 2012

legacies71%


Thank you to —

Marchig Animal Welfare Trust The Rufford Foundation Shuman Animal Welfare Trust Persula Foundation The Mrs D.M. France-Hayhurst Charitable Trust

The Mayhew Animal Home Trenmar Gardens Kensal Green London NW10 6BJ

main reception tel : 020 8969 0178 donations tel : 020 8968 2446 web : www.themayhew.org email : [email protected]

Twitter : @themayhew Facebook : www.facebook.com/themayhew and www.facebook.com/mayhewinternational

Registered charity 1077588 Company limited by guarantee 3837732

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Mayhew Annual Report - 2012