Except perhaps for a farm in the Karoo
A dog may be a person's"best friend" but for homeless people, there are almost no shelters that will take them and their four-legged companions.
Everyone who lives on the farm gets three meals a day and has access to the internet. It's free to stay and everything is paid for. The residents do farm work, gardening, woodworking, cooking and all the house chores that come with looking after a home with over 40 of dogs roaming freely. Living here also means you shower once a day and sit together at a table for meals.
Most of the people who have come to live here, have been referred by the SPCA or shelters."Our attitude is they got a reference to us, we'll give them a chance, but it's on our rules," said Duncan. Killa says that the shelters are too expensive and he isn't interested in going to a place he knows nothing about. At 51 years old, Killa has been homeless for more than half his life and has stayed in numerous places across the peninsula.
Strydom reached out to Groundup after Killa received a compliance notice from the Law Enforcements Displaced Peoples Unit. Worried that he might be forced to move, she said that they need to find a solution where he isn't separated from his dogs. Strydom said that the fact that he has managed to look after his dogs shows that he is"able to care and take care". She says that taking the dog away from him would just make things worse. They're a family, she explained.
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