Guangzhou Rescue Animals

Animal Action Guangzhou is based in China, but we are truly an international organization with volunteers around the world. This GoFundMe page is based in Australia -- please consider the conversion rate while donating.

For example: $1.00 AUD = $0.70 USD

Thank you so much for supporting our mission and for being a part of the solution! 

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Our story began in June 2017 (see below for the full story) but we now take in trauma cases around the city in addition to meat truck and slaughter house dogs.  AAGZ has come so far in the last 18 months. We have rescued well over 200 hundred cats and dogs in Guangzhou and around China. Many of these were rehabilitated and rehomed (adopted in China and also overseas). 

We continue to fundraise because this will not end soon unfortunately. We need funds to pay for the basics: rent, electricity, water, refuse pickup, dog/cat food, medicine, medical treatments, and on and on. Taking care of one animal is work, but taking care of 60+ is a full time job. However we only run on volunteers. No one gets paid in this organisation. Your donations are used only for our rescues. We have an amazing following around the globe and a core set of volunteers that assist at the shelter monthly, weekly or even daily, whilst still having a full time job and families. 
Please continue to support us and our cause. We do believe China will change their way of thinking and we want to be a part of that change. 

Our Story
This gofundme is not for one animal. It is not for one bill that we have to pay for one sick dog. By donating to this cause you are helping more than 30 dogs, and if we reach our goal, many many more animals along the way. By donating to this cause you are helping dogs of the meat truck stop on June 19. Any funds coming in go directly to our vet clinic to pay for our bills that have racked up over the past 12 weeks. Here is the story of how we came to be and why we desperately need funds...

Late on the night of June 19 2017 a truck filled with over 1200 dogs and cats was apprehended on a highway outside of the city. It was Chinese that stopped the truck. They were the ones that were able to get the animals handed over and find a safe spot for them. Foreigners played a very small role in the entire rescue operation, but the role we did play is still going on and we are still working towards helping many of those animals. 

When the truck finally stopped, volunteers gathered and quickly unloaded it and set up a make-shift rescue site. This sounds much easier than it was. With 1200+ dogs and cat, supplies were needed, mainly cages, food and water. Luckily amazing people had these donations coming in strong. Another issue was illnesses. Many of these dogs were sick with distemper and parvo. Both difficult to treat at the best of times, in these times it was brutal. But the vet stations were set up, we had volunteers, technicians and vets all around doing whatever they could.

The most difficult part was looking around and seeing a thousand dogs suffering. The suffering was different for every dog. Some were healthy and just sad. Some were pets that had been looked after and just had some scrapes and bruises. Others were deathly ill from disease. Most were severely dehydrated and starving. And that was all I could address-food and water. And that’s what I did. Every dog got a smile and a little pep talk. I wanted every dog I came into contact with know that humans were not all evil and that if they didn’t make it at least they knew what love was. Many dogs saw me cry, several times over.

It was not fair that we were only able to save the dogs that we did. It wasn’t fair that we had to walk away from so many dogs, it wasn’t fair that so many dogs didn’t even make it off the truck and it wasn’t fair that those dogs had to experience so much evil. But when we focused so much on the negative, we weren’t able to focus on the positive, that we did save dogs, that we were able to get more than 50 dogs off site into safe environments, all on our own. Those 50 dogs are now spread around China being cared for and looked after and now searching for their forever homes.

We, a random grouping of expats in Guangzhou, took responsibility for 25 of those dogs and came together to form Animal Action Guanzghou. We have also continued to rescue animals around the city, adding to our vet bills and caretaking. After three months of care for mild to severe injuries, illnesses (distemper and parvo) and even common colds, our vet bills are massive. We attempt to pay off through local fundraisers in Guangzhou but we cannot keep up, and there is always another hurt animal needing our care. Please help us pay off our debt to our amazing vet and raise money for other animals needing our help, whilst also preparing for next year's influx of dogs into Guangzhou.