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Each year, more than 200,000 healthy dogs and cats are euthanised in Australia, due to overcrowding in shelters that simply can’t cope with the number of animals being abandoned and surrendered on a daily basis.
It’s a tragic cycle that ex-vet nurse Marisa Debattista and the volunteers at Second Chance Animal Rescue (SCAR) are determined to break.
As well as rescuing, fostering and re-homing as many condemned cats and dogs as they can, they run community outreach programs, offering free de-sexing, vet services and pet food to disadvantaged owners in the hope of preventing many animals from being abandoned in the first place.