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SRI LANKA

Our veterinary hospital is in Sri Lanka and this is where most of the action takes place. Hit us up if you would like to make an appointment or report a sick or injured street animal to us.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

We are a veterinary hospital, not a shelter. We do not admit healthy animals.

We provide veterinary care for animals between Matara and Tangalle. There may be exceptions, see here for advice.

As one of the only veterinary hospitals on the island, we are often inundated. Please be mindful and patient.

Email or phone is the best method of contact for all animal-related enquiries.

Please read our FAQs to see if your question is answered there; it will help our tired and overworked brains a lot!

WECare Hospital, 179a Kuruduwaththa Rd, Matara, Sri Lanka

Contact us

Report an animal in need
help@wecareworldwide.org.uk

General Enquiries
info@wecareworldwide.org.uk

Call Us
+94 (0)41 225 9390

WECare Hospital,
179A Kurunduwatta Road,
Thekkawatta, Kapugama,
Devinuwara, Southern Province,
Sri Lanka

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United Kingdom

As a UK registered charity, our Head Office (that makes us sound posh- it’s only one person really, haha!) is in the North of England. Feel free to drop us a line with any fundraising ideas or if you would like to help in any way- we need as much support as possible!

 

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+44 (0)1697 351889

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info@wecareworldwide.org.uk

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Dora the explorer waiting for her staff house girls outside the clinic 😍 ⚠️GRAPHIC IMAGES ON SLIDES 2,3,4⚠️ We found Dora as a pup at one of our neutering clinics four years ago with a huge maggot wound, which probably began as a dog fight or wild boar attack wound. We whisked her away to sort the wound out, which involved lots of maggot picking, bandage changes and some surgery. Dora was rehomed with a lovely family but a year or so later we were heartbroken to see Dora turn up at our door again, having been involved in a road traffic accident 🥺 She was paralysed and in horrendous pain, unable to weight-bear. We were utterly devastated. But after lots and lots of love, care and physio, Dora veeeeeery slowly regained the ability to walk. It was a long process and worth every second of it as Dora now runs around with the best of 'em 🏃🏻‍♀️ She used to live up the road at the volunteer house, which we won't have anymore, so now she mostly lives at the new staff house (in a nearby neighbourhood), but can be found wandering the streets, hanging out at other local households and playing with her street dog mates outside the clinic. Dora is one of our sponsor dogs - help fund her care by heading to bit.ly/sponsor-street-dogs 🙏🏼 ~ ~ ~ ~ #sponsoradog #dog #dogsofinstagram #doglife #doglovers #dogstagram #dogoftheday #dogs #doglover #instadog #dogsofinstaworld #dogs_of_instagram #animalrescue #animalwelfare #vet #vetmed #veterinary #veterinarian #vetlyfe #vetlife #veterinarymedicine #surfsrilanka #wecare #srilanka #streetvet #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka
⚠️GRAPHIC IMAGES⚠️ It's *drum roll* #TransformationTuesday, babies! Sudda came in on the 8th April, a pet dog who was rushed in by his owner after being attacked by a wild boar 🐗⚡ Poor thing was in a bit of state and Dr Janey discovered he had an open fracture in his left humerus. Check out that X-ray - ouch! We cleaned him up and bandaged the damaged leg, doing an ultrasound scan to check for internal bleeding (none, thankfully 🙏🏼) before getting him comfy in a kennel, ready for amputation surgery when he was stable enough for anaesthesia. Luckily, he started perking up and lapping milk, even doing little tail wags 💔 Sudda’s amputation took place a couple of days later, along with a lil snip snip castration (very important to help population control ✂️). Now, usually when a dog comes in, we’ll do a full admit procedure including endo/ecto (flea/tick/lice/wormer), vaccines and a full health check, but we don’t do it straight away on emergencies like Sudda, for obvious reasons – we wait until they’re more stable. So, Sudda’s owner loves Sudda with all his heart but doesn’t have much money – so we agreed to cover the costs of treatment. This is all thanks to one of our private donors who contributes monthly, specifically to help pay for veterinary care for local pet owners who (genuinely...'cos we have had some chancers) can’t afford it 🥳 Thank you, thank you, thank you! The average monthly salary round our ends is the equivalent of £100, so many dog owners love their animals but can’t afford proper veterinary care. If you want to donate to cover the cost of locals’ veterinary treatment, please do get in touch! 🙏🏼 ~ ~ ~ ~ #WECareTransformationTuesday #amputeedog #tripawsofinstagram #tripawdsofinstagram #puppy #puppylove #puppylife #puppydog #puppylover #puppyrescue #puppygram #puppyoftheday #puppyofinstagram #puppystagram #animalrescue #animalwelfare #vet #vetmed #veterinary #veterinarian #vetlyfe #vetlife #veterinarymedicine #srilanka #streetvet #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka
Happy Monday from Maya and her big gob ☀️ Maya is one of our resident dogs who's struggling to find a home - to help us out with her costs, you can become one of her sponsors for £10/month. Head to 👉bit.ly/sponsor-street-dogs👈 ~ ~ ~ ~ #dog #dogsofinstagram #doglife #doglovers #dogstagram #dogoftheday #dogs #doglover #instadog #dogsofinstaworld #dogs_of_instagram #animalrescue #animalwelfare #vet #vetmed #veterinary #srilanka #streetvet #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka
Just found out our supporters have raised £102.66 for us in the last 30 days via @easyfundraising, which might not sound a lot but it's money they've raised for FREE just from online shopping! For a limited time if you sign up at bit.ly/easywecare you'll get a £5 shopping voucher and we'll get an extra £5 donation - kerching! We actually use Easyfundraising ourselves and it's super helpful 'cos a pop-up appears when you're on an eligible retail website - all you have to do is click a link which generates a donation when you make your purchase. The donation varies but is a percentage of your total spent. We thought we were being angels by making a 60p donation from a @bootsuk order, then saw that someone had made £19.02 for us, and someone else had made £13.35, which is epic! (Guys, what did you buy?!) Sorry if we sound like a broken record, but this is SUCH an easy way of raising money for us, at no extra cost to you - all you need to do is sign up! Sign up at 👉bit.ly/wecareeasy👈 and we'll get an extra £5 donation when you start earning 💪 (UK only, sorry) ~ ~ ~ ~ #easyfundraising #fundraiser #fundraising #fundraise #fundraisers #fundraisingideas #lankalivin #streetdogs #travelsrilanka #lankalife #puppiesinparadise #vet #vetmed #veterinary #surfsrilanka #srilanka #streetvet #srilankanstreetdogs #vetschool #charity #vetnurse #charitysrilanka #animalwelfare #animalrescue

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