To the Supporters and Volunteers of the Lucky Lucy Foundation

No, I don’t have mange. I am not skinny. I am not sick. But that does not mean that I am not hurting. I am so scared being here. I am not sure what is going to happen next. When will these people abandon me too? What are they going to do to me? They look at me with kindness and in my heart I know I can trust them, but I am not ready yet. I need a few days to settle in.

All I long for is to be loved and to be a part of a forever family that will treat me like a living being, not just a piece of property that can be discarded when no longer needed.

Please keep Andy in your hearts and send healing thoughts his way. He needs lots of love right now.

Odie on the other hand might not have a lot of hair due to mange, but he sure has a softness in his eyes. Isn’t he just the most handsome boy you’ve ever seen?

They will walk the road to recovery with us by their side. Never to be alone again. Never will they be abandoned or know that horrible feeling of being unloved. They are family and family stick together.

Please keep them in your hearts and send healing thoughts their way. They will need a lot of it!

Please email us at adoption@luckylucy.org should you want more information or just come and meet him on a Saturday or Sunday from 09:00 – 14:00.

There we were happily collecting our little shop mini’s, racing to see who could complete their collections first. And then the promotion ended! And our collections were incomplete! Now who can live with an incomplete
collection of the cutest groceries ever?

At the office we started to collect everyone’s doubles and helped one another complete our collections.  

In the public domain, WhatsApp groups were started to swop out mini’s. Facebook pages were started to swop out mini’s. People even started to sell minis on FB. And desperate parents were buying them.

Then the idea was born, let’s swop the Checkers mini groceries for dog or cat food with people who want to complete their collections.

But we needed stock of the mini’s and a lot of it. We begged, pleaded and even bribed to collect mini’s. We emailed everyone we knew; friends, teachers and colleagues. We posted on Facebook.

When the news of the initiative went out people gladly donated their extra mini’s or incomplete collections for this great cause. Children from Durbanville Primary and Gene Louw primary brought in their extra mini’s. It was heart-warming to say the least. But the more we searched for mini’s the more requests we received for mini’s. The demand always exceeded the supply. We even got requests for Pick ‘n Pay animal cards!

Spreadsheets were setup to keep track of all the mini’s requested and mini’s received. Deliveries and pickups were done almost every day for two and a half months! Children’s bedrooms were filled, storing all the food collected; a lot of work and serious commitment to the cause.

What a success this turned out to be. All expectations exceeded. People were so generous because they knew it was for a good cause.

Then the day came to wrap things up, tally up the amount collected and deliver the food to our charity. We chose the The Lucky Lucy Foundation to donate all the food to. The Lucky Lucy Foundation is a Non-Profit, Pro-life, Pro-Quality of Life organization that tries to relieve the plight of severely neglected and abused township and street animals.

A tremendous amount of 560 kgs of cat and dog food was collected – an estimated value of R13500. Cash of R2350 was also donated and that went towards the foundations vet bills.

It took a mind boggling 1000 minis to achieve this.

I am sharing this story with you and Happy Tails because I wanted to share my excitement about the success of this initiative and to say thank you to my friend Jani Van Niekerk for thinking up this initiative and spending hours of her time for this great cause. And to her family who had to give up their space at home to store all the food.