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22/08/2026

This Thank You Post Is So Overdue ! ๐Ÿ™

It has been two months already since our beautiful Hermine was returned to us after being in a home for four years. And I honestly feel so bad that it has taken me this long to write this post.

Dearest Nesh, please accept my sincerest apologies for this very late thank you.
Nesh contacted me after he was notified by another kind animal lover about Hermineโ€™s situation. Without hesitation, he offered his help. He went to visit Hermine at the kennels, spent time with her and helped us network her. He even asked what our dogs needed.
Just two days later, I received the most beautiful videos and photos of all our dogs at the private boarding kennel. Nesh and his family had visited with a boot full of goodies every single dog spoiling them with treats and toys and giving them lots of love, attention and playtime. ๐Ÿถโค๏ธ

And that still wasnโ€™t allโ€ฆ

A week later, I managed to get Hermine into Oscarโ€™s Woof Project. Nesh went all the way to the Waterfront to visit the adoption pop-ups, spend time with Hermine and check how she was doing.
Through all his incredible kindness and dedication, Nesh was there to witness something very special: Hermine found her forever home ! ๐Ÿฅนโค๏ธ
He even met Hermineโ€™s new owner and throughout the entire journey, kept me updated and informed.

Nesh, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being so incredibly kind, supportive and for always going the extra mile. People like you make such a difference to rescue animals and the people fighting for them every day.

We are incredibly grateful for everything you did for Hermine โ€” and for all our other dogs too. โค๏ธ

I still owe you that coffee ! โ˜•๐Ÿ˜‰

We honestly wish there were more people like you in this world. And once again, I am so sorry this thank-you post is so late ! ๐Ÿ™ˆ

With huge gratitude,
Bettina & the whole SHARF team ๐Ÿพโค๏ธ

21/08/2026

๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง ๐—ฃ๐—ข๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ ๐—˜๐—ก๐——๐—ฆ ๐—ช๐—œ๐—ง๐—› ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ง.

A new study from the ๐—จ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—จ๐—–๐—ง tested 102 free-ranging caracals from across greater Cape Town and found anticoagulant rodenticides in 78% of them.

Anticoagulant rodenticides are simply a type of rat poison that stops blood from clotting.

That does ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ mean rat poison killed 78% of the caracals. It means these poisons were found in their bodies; which still tells us that exposure is incredibly widespread.

And it wasnโ€™t always just one poison. More than half of all the caracals tested had ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป in their systems. Some had as many as six different compounds.

Older caracals also tended to have higher levels, suggesting repeated exposure over time.

So why are we sharing caracal research on a rat rescue page? Because this is exactly why we keep talking about how we manage rats.

Rat poison doesnโ€™t necessarily stay with the rat it was intended for. Once it enters the environment, other animals can be exposed too. And the route isnโ€™t necessarily as simple as a caracal eating a poisoned rat; poison can move further through a food web than that.

Food, rubbish, shelter and access are what bring rats in. Wherever possible, dealing with those things and choosing non-poison methods is a much safer place to start.

And please be careful with claims like โ€œ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ-๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ปโ€ or โ€œ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ดโ€. Different poisons carry different levels of risk, but โ€œlower riskโ€ is not the same thing as โ€œno riskโ€. If something is designed to poison an animal, we need to think beyond the animal we intended to target.

We spend a lot of time asking people to consider the rat in situations like this. This research is a pretty stark reminder that safer rat control matters for everything else sharing that environment too.

๐˜ฝ๐™š ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™.

๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฒ: this is not our research. We are sharing the findings because they are relevant to the work we do and the conversations we have around rodent control. And while this particular study looked at ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€, the concern doesnโ€™t end with caracals. The researchers note that these findings may reflect what is happening more broadly through food webs in urban and agricultural areas in southern Africa; with other predators, including ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜€, potentially exposed too.

The study was conducted by Gabriella R.M. Leighton, Jacqueline M. Bishop, Pablo Camarero, Rafael Mateo and Laurel E.K. Serieys through the ๐—จ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ / ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป, with collaborating institutions.
๐˜›๐˜ฐ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด: ๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ
๐—˜๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ

๐Ÿ˜ป SAVE THIS DATE๐Ÿ˜ปITS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN๐ŸถSHARF & UNCORKED PRESENT:FRANSCHHOEK'S  GOT TALENT SEASON THREEWatch th...
20/08/2026

๐Ÿ˜ป SAVE THIS DATE๐Ÿ˜ป

ITS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN๐Ÿถ

SHARF & UNCORKED PRESENT:

FRANSCHHOEK'S GOT TALENT SEASON THREE

Watch this space for more info, and start planning those attire's as we are going GREAT GATSBY๐Ÿ˜ป

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐ŸšจWe are in URGENT NEED OF 8KG BAGS OF DOG FOOD FOR OUR STERIE DOGS AND 2KG BAGS FOR OUR CATS.Kindly drop food in ...
19/08/2026

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ
We are in URGENT NEED OF 8KG BAGS OF DOG FOOD FOR OUR STERIE DOGS AND 2KG BAGS FOR OUR CATS.

Kindly drop food in our Pick and Pay Food bin in town.

Much appreciated

Team SHARF ๐Ÿ’•

18/08/2026

The last two days has been two of the most emotionally draining days for Team SHARF (and believe me, we face many soul crushing circumstances on a daily basis)

We can not give the detail or photos yet as we are perusing this case, but last night we dug up a dog brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave. A dog we said we will not rest till we found her.... And we didโ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜ญ

As soon as we can, we, SHARF, will give more info. โš ๏ธโš ๏ธโš ๏ธโš ๏ธ

18/08/2026

โš ๏ธโš ๏ธ UPDATE: THE ADDED VIDEO IS NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS AS IT SHOWS THE DEAD BODIES OF THE ANIMALSโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ

โ“ WHY SHOW IT.... BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF SOMETHING HAS BREATH AND A HEARTBEAT IT FEELS PAIN, TORTURE, AGONY, FEAR & DEATH JUST AS HUMANS WOULD DOโ€ผ๏ธ JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ANIMALS AND CANT TALK DOES NOT MEAN THEY FEEL TRAUMA LESSER THAN HUMANS AND SUFFER LESSER THAN A HUMAN WOULD IN FLAMES, HIT BY CARS, STABBED WITH KNIFES, CHOPPED WITH PANGAS, SHOT WITH RUBBER BULLETS AND ANY OTHER INJURIES HUMAN INFLICTEDโ€ผ๏ธ

๐Ÿ’” For those who actually LOVE AND CHERISH THE LIFE'S OF ANIMALS, WHO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS.... THIS IS DEEPLY TRAUMATIZING, THIS MATTERS....

๐Ÿ˜ญ The devastation did not stop here.... Today the bodies of the rest of the animals got found... All deceased.... Why..... Because some human decided to set the Wendy purposefully alightโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ

SEVEN (7) animals paid the price with their life's๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ’” Crawling underneath the blazing Wendy, trying to HIDE from the inferno... Not realizing it's their CHAMBER OF TORTUROUS NERVE MELTING DEATH....

While anger and rage mixed with tears and heartbrokeness burn through our vains we softly whisper RIP Bella, Layla, Roxy (whom we just recently steried), Luna and Max (puppies), Kietsie (mom cat) & Ginger (kitten).... Run in the wind, play in the eternal sun where pain will never lay a finger on you ever again๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜ญ and humans won't have a right to call you "just an animal"

๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธ MAY JUSTICE PREVAIL NOT ONLY FOR THE HUMANS BUT FOR THESE MURDERED ANIMALS TOOโ€ผ๏ธ

It's ALWAYS EASY TO SAY "NO ANIMALS INVOLVED".... You must be a DEAF person not to have heard their agonizing cries, saying "no animals involved", you must be ONE OF THOSE BEINGS WHO THINKS THAT ANIMALS MEANS NOTHINGโ€ผ๏ธ

HERE IS THE VIDEO PROOF OF YOUR "NO ANIMALS INVOLVED" STATEMENTโ€ผ๏ธ

Sunday 16 August 2026
๐Ÿ˜” Another devastating structure fire with brutally painful losses. Losses my heart struggle to deal with. 3 x animals already found burnt to death in one of the structures. Their screams rising above the noise of flames, smoke and fire trucks. 4 more animals are still not accounted for, still searching for them.... 4 Blue drum kennels melted to nothing, 3 drums in the front yard survived together with the mommy dog and 2 other dogs. All 3 will be sterilised as soon as they are fattened up. We delivered food so long and will later take new drums, blankets and bowls. The trauma of this fire is tangible, it vibrates in the echos of the debris and our hearts are shattered. ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”

16/08/2026

๐Ÿ˜” Another devastating structure fire with brutally painful losses. Losses my heart struggle to deal with. 3 x animals already found burnt to death in one of the structures. Their screams rising above the noise of flames, smoke and fire trucks. 4 more animals are still not accounted for, still searching for them.... 4 Blue drum kennels melted to nothing, 3 drums in the front yard survived together with the mommy dog and 2 other dogs. All 3 will be sterilised as soon as they are fattened up. We delivered food so long and will later take new drums, blankets and bowls. The trauma of this fire is tangible, it vibrates in the echos of the debris and our hearts are shattered. ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ’”

15/08/2026

On 13 August we got called to the structure fire in Groendal. Devastating as it always is, these two dogs and their kennel-drums survived. But all other stuff burnt or melted. We will be taking food, bowls and blankets to them today.

Both dogs have been treated for shock and smoke and are in good state. No burn wounds to any part of their bodies.

๐Ÿถ ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿถ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿถ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿถ๐ŸŒธ

So Freddie took it on him to build a super duper 5 star hotel suite for Gracey in her new camp. And she just loves the w...
12/08/2026

So Freddie took it on him to build a super duper 5 star hotel suite for Gracey in her new camp. And she just loves the warmth of the carpeted walls and coziness of her shelter. Thank you Freddie, we'll done๐Ÿ˜

12/08/2026

โŒ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿฆด Why Bones are not food for your dog.
Please, do not feed bones. It only caused damage.

21h00 call out. Luckily Layla did not sustain any injuries. And this bone could be removed ourselves without veterinary intervention.

Most bones need surgery because of the way they get stuck in throats or intestines.

Please... ๐ŸšซโŒ๐Ÿฆด
IT IS NOT FOOD

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