Hi all LYN members...

I will be organizing a rescue operation of the dogs in Pulau Ketam, due to the urgency, I had suggested to be held this weekend, or if not possible, next weekend... I had proposed this to se7en as a LYN project, and i yet to get response from him, but anyhow, i will carry this on as a sole, pure voluntarily basis event.

Due to the serious nature of the case at the moment, i will rush back to Klang from KK today and i will be forming a group of volunteers of my own to start a rescue mission.

My main intention here is to start with Pulau Ketam itself first, as i believe, the root of the problem started from the island itself, we will try to capture as many dogs as possible over there so that to prevent any next round of dogs sending to the abandoned island again.

I'm on the midst of contacting TV Smith and Sabrina Yeap (http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue/index.html) on how we can assist and help them on their mission. Be assured that I will do my best to assist them.

As for LYN members who wish to volunteer themselves for this cause, PLEASE be minded that this is strictly on volunteer basis, and this event is gonna be extremely physical endurance and tiring stuff, so im not gonna responsible for your safety, injuries, etc that might would happen during the course of this event.

I would not accept any donations in form of cash, please donate directly to mycen.com.my and any contributions in form of equipments (dog cages, dog foods, drinks for volunteers, ropes, and others stuff that deem fit) would be very much welcomed!

Peeps, this is solely on voluntarily basis, no pays, no salary.... please bring your own water, money for foods....

I would appeal to all members on humanitarian grounds to help out this good cause!!

SOLELY SERIOUS STUFF HERE, NO SPAMMING, NO TROLLING

"SAD-Mission Team"

Team Leader : adrianck

Asst. Team Leader : Anne (Non-LYN)

Secretary : Vacant

Vice Secretary : chibi_tenko

Treasurer cum Logisitics : Yukaeshi

Head of Media : A-D-Photographer

Head of Communications : dadarouch

Team Members : espanda90, Kaven, panasonic88, choongster, XII,
andromedia,


My Contacts- msn- adran_ck@hotmail.com, email: adrianck@gmail.com, hp- 0122726777

SAD-Mission Team email: sad.mission.team@gmail.com

Whoever wishes to visit FFF, either for a visit or volunteering, please contact dadarouch or me first before getting directions to FFF.

Links for more details:

http://furryfriendsfarm2006.blogspot.com/

http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue/updates.html

http://birdstalkingtoo.blogspot.com/

http://dog-rescue-campaign.blogspot.com/

http://pitch.pummkin.net/

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UPDATE SECTION

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--- UPDATED --- 23th June 2009 ~Meeting proceedings rules & regulations~

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:: General rules ::

1. When Adrian ( Team Leader ) types, no one else must type.
2. only ONE person talks at a time.
3. Questions maybe asked after ALL the agendas are presented.
4. Refrain from giving personal opinions during the agenda presentation. You may do so during the QnA after that.
5. Settle disputes out of the group chat.
6. No c*ck talking or jokes during the meeting. Light moments can be done afterwards.

:: Welcoming new members ::

1. Adrian introduces.
2. All say hi.
3. Flirting, buaya-ing are NOT allowed in the group chat. Do it all by adding him/her on ur contact list.
4. Basic introduction :-
- Name
- Where you from
- Position in team ( team members only )
5. Proceed with discussion.

:: Posting tips ::

To ensure only one person talks at a time, I suggest this:

1. Before typing, type and send "T". This is to inform the others to stop typing and wait.
2. If clash happens, the earliest sender will have priority, followed by the next.

:: Vote calling ::

1. Follow the above rule to get everyone's attention.
2. Call the vote.
3. The rest can ONLY post "Y" for yes, "N" for no and "TBC" for to be confirmed.
4. Normal discussion will resume after the vote caller is done with the voting.


Those who disobey this rules shall be stripped and fed to the fishes.


Sincerely,

dadarouch

p.s any ideas or comments on this rules can be done by messaging me privately tru MSN.

Sincerely,

dadarouch
SAD-Mission Team Head of Communications
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This post has been edited by adrianck: Jul 17 2012, 08:36 PM

this is not a problem, most important is we could gather back as many dogs back as possible... and then i will arrange to where to send to...

be assured that these all dogs saved WOULD NOT BE PUT TO SLEEP.....

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 8 2009, 09:42 AM

thanks for all your concern n interest!!

so far, a handful had shown their interest to volunteer... i really appreciate that....

so i will decide whether doing it this week or next... as i need a amount of volunteers....

i havent rcv any reply from Sabrina nor TV smith yet... but the secretariat will inform them and will decide by tonite...so keep finger crossed that if we can work together, i try to split our volunteers to 2 groups, 1 to the abandon island n 1 to pulau ketam....

stay tuned... i will keep u guys posted.

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Added on May 8, 2009, 8:05 pmbtw, those who wanna know more, can pm me for msn... i will be online from 9.45pm onwards... n will keep u all posted faster.... tks...

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 8 2009, 08:05 PM

hi all....

i had got TV smith reply midnight yesterday where i had dozz off due to my tiredness...

apparently, TV smith advise to survey the island 1st instead of just go in there and make the mission.

here is the content of his email:

Hi Adrian,

For the remaining dogs on the island, I advise you take a survey first
and coordinate with us. You can catch them but they need to be
properly transported and sent to vets before going to the shelter.
Need to work with the village head on this. They have agree to put the
deportation on hold until a solution is found. Don't know how much is
true. Also might be easier to get the guy who caught the earlier batch
to help out. Maybe you guys can then go again to monitor the manner it
is done and see if it is harmful to the dogs.

Go visit, identify the areas, inquire with the villagers respectfully.
Then organise a proper capture. You can't just walk in one Sunday and
hope to do this. Thanks for the effort and kind thoughts though.


Cheers,

Terrence V Smith
Malaysia Central
www.mycen.com.my

so, im thinking and taking his advise.... n here i postpone our mission to next weekend, and for this weekend, tomoro, i plan for a survey on pulau ketam, talk to the villager, the village headman n discuss what we could do....

so, anybody wanna join this weekend trip.... please do inform me.... but this not gonna a holiday trip.... after the island visit, we will sit down n discuss what we could do, and plan for next weekend mission.

this might time some of your time, but all for the name of volunteering as well as saving lives of the living beings....

goldfries,

u wanna support the mission?

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Added on May 9, 2009, 3:24 pmok... now i had sort out things... let me give a short brief of what we gonna do tommorow:

9am- arrive at P. Ketam Jetty
10am- Arrive at Pulau Ketam, do survey, talk to village headman.
1pm- lunch
2pm- continue survey at island
4pm- gather n discuss of next contingent plan for next weekend
6pm- arrive at klang n dismiss

if anyone whom has better agenda to add in, ideas, suggestions, opinions, etc... are really most welcome

for those who wanna join in tommorow expeditions, please pm or post your confirmation here

i know its kinda rushing but i dun really had any better options, as doing it on weekday would not convenient to everyone of u.



This post has been edited by adrianck: May 9 2009, 03:24 PM

we will start from pulau ketam itself 1st

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Added on May 9, 2009, 6:53 pmi willl take some time to study how many stray will be still there in pulau ketam itself... try grab as many as we can from there, and send to the animal shelter...

as i mention earlier, prevention is better than cure.... nobody will put money on the guarantee that after this tragic incident, the pulau ketam folks would not send the dogs to there again....

i still awaiting for tv smith reply whether can we tumpang sabrina to visit pulau tengah.... help out if i could...

but anyway, i will definately start from pulau ketam, due to the current situation and time issue.

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 9 2009, 06:53 PM

hi kaven...

yes, we are doing whatever we can to save the dogs... reduce populations, neuter them... any possible ways to help...i have arrangements with SPCA n PAWS.. they willingly to take in whatever i could get... there might be more soon.. as some LYN members had pm-ed me to offer other animal shelter as well.

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Added on May 9, 2009, 10:18 pmi still yet to receive any reply from any volunteers who wishes to join me tommorow.... please do confirm asap....

i will be there whether any volunteers coming or not... just tht its better if we can go in a group....

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 9 2009, 10:50 PM

ok, there are some changes for tomoro schedule....

12pm- arrive at P. Ketam Jetty
1pm- Arrive at Pulau Ketam, do survey, talk to village headman.
2pm- lunch
3pm- continue survey at island
4pm- gather n discuss of next contingency plan for next weekend
6pm- arrive at klang n dismiss

if there is any volunteer wanna come last minute... pls do call me at 012-2726777 1st...

so far, i have 2 volunteers will be with me tomoro.... so more volunteers will be welcome, as doing survey, talking to the locals there, would not be an easy task, nevertheless, if there is none, i will do my best and cover the place as much as i could...

tq...

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 12 2009, 12:36 PM

this cant be sure as we do not know the amount of strays around pulau ketam now... thats y the survey is important.... we will not know how many dogs are still there in pulau ketam ....tv smith n sabrina is concentrating at pulau tengah and if they require our help, hen we see what we can do... probably after pulau ketam, we may rent a boat and go to pulau tengah as well....

this all i cant confirm until when i survey pulau ketam first. i dont wanna rush into anything b4 i have full survey, full info and so on....

that is y i kept mentioning tht the survey is an important element....

btw, my lastest update we have 5 volunteers include me for this trip.... so should be adequate for today mission...

LYN'ers, please pray for us and hope this mission will be a successful ones.

thanks A-D-Photographer.....

i will post my findings later tonite and A-D will help me post wats our finding today as well....

ok.... for updates, please refer to A-D-Photographer post n pictures as well as his blog... im really kinda tired to write anything longer.... please all do forgive me as im very exhausted for the day

pictures and write ups: http://joyce-tedoen.com/recon-trip-1-sever...ral-more-to-go/

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 10 2009, 11:50 PM

Hi all....

I wish to update u guys, and before that... i would like to emphasize here again that this thread is solely for our pulau ketam mission, so i have no aganda with tv smith nor sabrina team, as i do not wish to disturb their concentration on saving the remaining dogs at pulau tengah....

Its not that my wish not to involve, but i think its better for us to do our own deeds and lets all pray for the mission of tv smith n sabrina, ok?

Ok, for yesterday expedition, im very grateful to A-D-Photographer, whom is volunteering in taking the whole journey's story n mission, dadarouch, a friend of mine, whom never fails me when it comes to volunteer jobs... n kaven n her friends (both r non-LYN) whom interested to join although they google and find out our thread here.

We arrive at pulau ketam at about 1.30pm, and straight my first task is to look for the village headman, Mr. Cha.

Got him and we spoke for around 20 mins, from the introduction, the issues of the stray dogs there, what kind of assistant that they could provide to us, and other matters.

Apparently, when this issue being highlighted on the press, media were pointing the fingers towards them... this is understood, as not many willing to get to know and understand the life of this village in depth and great length b4 the summary and conclusion comes up.

I get to know more information from the village headman, and what from i could observe and summarize here is that, the villagers had no choice but to use the last resort as even the authorities had not taken any action, prevention and so on.... this has been repeated several times, till when.... were left with no other options or alternative, only when the last resort being drawn up.

From here, i strongly against any finger pointing whom are to blame and so on... as if i or anyone else being put into that shoes, would do so. Why? because nobody wanna cares or give a damn about it, when only tragic happens, only all the things being blown up only all the hoo-hahs happens.

So, after all the introduction and get to understand all the issues and problems, then i put in my agenda and motive of being there... as Mr. Cha was abit skeptical of my intention at first, after all my explainations at length and so on, he finally accept my good intention there.

So, i ask the permission to have a survey on every corner of the island, he gracefully please do so, do help us on this disturbing issue, and do get feedback from the villagers as well. According to him, the villagers would be very welcome our good intention there.

So, 5 of us started our survey at great length, and we manage to spoke one or two of the villagers, and true to what Mr. Cha said, the villagers r kind of glad that we come to get the stray dogs out from the island, and as my bad memory doesn't down me, i spoke to an old lady (or Ah Chim as we call in our local dialect), praising us for getting the strays out, as it being nuisance and a long-standing problem for them.

So, we find our way to the end of western side of the island, in where we we condemn as Ground Zero, which later on i found out is the rubbish dump site, which is the favourite spot for the strays to stay.

Here, we could find anything that u could think of at a rubbish dump site, and i almost puked smelling the nice fragrance of the place, and at the same site here too, we could heard the strays barking far into the swamp jungles, in which we concluded is their hot-spot.

After another few minutes walking around, and a short rest at a junction of a path, we carry on to another side of pulau ketam.

Frankly by this hour, i started to felt the effect of haven't taking my breakfast or lunch as well, in which i totally forgotten about it at all b4 coming in to the island

But i insist to move on and discover the eastern side on the island, in which we found out that majority here are residential area for the villagers here, as well as a small river flowing cutting the 2 lands, and fishermen and boats could be seen here.... and this is where i excitedly found out this, i couldn't help myself to post this:



Please note this ain't photoshop edited or camera trick ok?
ot long after, my body couldn't take it anymore, and the group seen that i had weaken down, and we decided that would be our end of the survey...

I had assume to my knowledge that we had covered 3/4 of the island (which indeed is true after joyce had sent me this map below)



After a short rest having drinks, and some casual chit chat among 5 of us, we proceed to meet Mr. Cha to discuss what he could help us out and he did offer us to transport any strays that we could manage to get through a boat which ships daily essentials and stuffs from mainland to the island, and he had gave the owner of the boat to discuss the price who send the strays to the main island. Indeed, a very useful help to us as we been scratching our heads out on the cost to hire a whole boat to transport them, which in turn, would be very costly to us as volunteers.

Mr Cha requested that whether i could furnish him with a simple letter in chinese which stated that we r an independent group of volunteers wishing to assist to rescue strays on the island, and transport them to the main island. In the letter we should state that we need full corporation from the islander as well as village headman to assist us in our mission.

Here, i need anyone who could write a simple letter in chinese to them... although im chinese-ed, but im not good in writing a letter in chinese, so i could send u a english or malay written and help me to translate it. Please...................

After the short discussion with Mr Cha, we proceed to take our trip back, and last night i really cant discuss much with those volunteers for ideas, as im really run out of steam soon when i reach home, i couldn't sleep last night, as i kept thinking, what i need to do, planning and so on for next week mission... my head kept spinning.....

That's the end of my write-up, and i wish to again forward my gratefulness to A-D-Photographer aka Joyce, dadarouch aka Louis, Kaven n her friend, for yesterday trip.

we will have another brain storming session again tonight with all the volunteers.

Thanks.

Adrian

"Save A Dog" Pulau Ketam Dog Rescue Campaign

Let's workout something if u n your team would be there....

u can anytime msn me n then we could discuss further, and if permits, we combine up and work as a team here.

good luck in your mission then

please be noted that we will have a online discussion of our coming mission later TONIGHT @ 9pm....

we will setting up a protemp working committee as im not able to handle everything here, lets be more transparent, work accuracy in our planning.

those interested can add me on msn @ adran_ck@hotmail.com...

ok...latest updates....

we had concluded our meeting moments ago, the working committee has been set up.

details and info will be up by tommorow, all of them was very tired, and have gone offline.

meanwhile, i have a volunteer at pulau ketam staying overnight whom will constantly updates me of his findings from morning till this moments.

will compile also and post it up tommorow too.

please be patient while everything compiles up

good morning!

before i got post up yesterday meeting outcome, below are the findings of one of the volunteers whom stay back at pulau ketam overnight:

1) 17 different strays spotted since yesterday morning. possible hot site has been marked. identified 2 hot spot of the strays favorite ground. Ran off on the sight of human presence.

2)Night catch/mission are impossible, due to poor lightning and the risk of falling off from the platform are there.Strays senses human presence will ran off even from distances, a couple of fierce strays howled. Proof that there are in groups, possibly huge numbers, eg. at least 10-20. Stopped exploring as midnight approached.

3) Tidewaves didnt reach the inner part of the island, info from the locals stated it would be at random, whether high, medium or low tides. Strays dont always come out on the platform, but they do howl alot during the nights.

4) Went under the slits at around noon time. Very smelly and dirty as well. Found one dead puppy, lying on the muds, cant do much but to just leave it there as too deep into the below the slits.

Pictures will be updated as soon as possible. Many thanks to Joyce for his contribution here

12.47pm
Updates here: http://joyce-tedoen.com/house-to-house-underground/

This post has been edited by adrianck: May 12 2009, 12:47 PM

sorry, i didnt notice my less number, i had fixed it... and again my number 012-2726777.

you are free to join in... i will update here on daily basis for sure, and contact me directly thru phone is only on very urgent matters.

thank u for all your supports and interest here.

"Save A Dog" Pulau Ketam Dog Rescue Campaign

--- UPDATED --- 11th May 2009 ~ Online Discussion ~

Committee Members
(Kindly note that voting process were used to vote for the seats, and emphasize here is that the position is not permanently based, and subject for review from time to time)

Team Leader :Adrian

Assistant Team Leader :Anne

Secretary :Joyce

Treasurer :Adrian (for the time being until suitable / any interested
volunteer to take over)

Head of Logistics :Joni

Head of Media & Comm :Joyce

Assistant Media &Comm :Louis

Team Member : Ming, Edmund, Kaven (non-LYN), Celine.

*Note* : Those whom i miss out or interested to be part of this team, please pm or msn me,
i will include you.

A brief job scope of the above positions:

Team Leader: In charge of overall operation and oversee missions carried out

Assistant Team Leader: To assist and to stand in for Team Leader is he’s not available

Secretary cum Media & Communications: Post information and updates of the mission

Logistics: Arrange equipments for missions conducted

Treasurer: Keep records of donations from the public

Please note that we do not accept monetary donations. Those who wish to donate money can donate to Sabrina’s Furry Friends Farm (FFF) or Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better (MDDB).

The Pulau Ketam dogs’ well being is important to us but utmost priority will be given to puppies, sick, old and pregnant dogs. Anyone here who knows where we can temporarily board the rescued dogs, please either reply to this thread or PM Adrian.

Agenda for this weekend

Although the initial plan was to start the rescue mission ASAP this weekend, we realized that at the moment we are still lacking of information such where the rescued dogs are to be sheltered and how to go about ‘catching’ the strays in Pulau Ketam. Careful preparation and planning is required, that is why we plan to pay a visit to Sabrina’s farm to discuss about boarding the rescued dogs at her place and perhaps discuss with her on the best method to ‘catch’ the strays.

16th May 2009 (Saturday)
Activity: Ice-breaking cum brief discussion with the LYN Dog Rescue Mission members.
Time: 9pm
Location: SS2, PJ (exact location TBA)

17th May 2009 (Sunday)
Activity: Pay a visit to FFF and discuss with Sabrina for next weekend’s excursion to Pulau Ketam
Time: 12pm-5pm
Location: Furry Friends Farm

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Special thanks to Celine for helping out to write the minutes.

thanks dadarouch....

on a note, sorry n apologize if i cant pay every attention on every one of your message, wishing to volunteers, etc...

since the working committee had set up, please every related to each issue, do refer to the respective person-in-charge....

i would like to concentrate of my side n overall issue...

somehow i still can be contacted though....

hope those reading this will understand my situation

tq