Mandurah junior councillors have highlighted K9’s efforts and presented the dog rescue group with $5000.
A group of young councillors join with Mandurah major Rhys Williams to present K9 representatives with a cheque last week.
The rescue group is a not for profit organisation that saves, cares for and rehomes dogs.
Currently, they have around 30 dogs in their kennels and more in foster care.
The vast majority of the dogs come from local government dog pounds, a drive for the City of Mandurah’s support for the organisation.
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Mr Williams commended the groups work.
“Carol and her team of volunteers put in countless hours and often open up their houses to take care dogs that have not been cared for or are sometimes simply lost with no home,” he said.
Junior council mayor Elizabeth Eppen-VanDerAa said the support was in align with the council’s 2018 project focus of animal advocacy.
“This year the focus of the junior council is on animal advocacy and we encourage anyone who is looking for a dog to make their first port of call the K9 Dog Rescue kennels,” he said.
K9 president Carol Carter thanked the City of Mandurah for the contribution.
“Our vision is to renovate our old kennel blocks and this money will help us with this,” Ms Carter said.
“Every year we look after 350 to 400 dogs and our vet bill alone is $120,000 a year.
“We are a not for profit so we depend on donations.”
Leonie Mischewski who both volunteers and works for K9 said they worked well with the City of Mandurah rangers.
“Most of our dogs come from the local pound and they’re great at giving accurate assessments of the dogs which helps us with training and rehoming them,” Ms Mischewski said.
For more information on K9 and the dogs they have available you can consult their website at k9dogrescue.org.au.