Tree Of Life For Animals

In 2012 we want to turn our one Tree of Life into a forest by extending our current hospital site and making the additional land a true sanctuary to our life long shelter animals - horses, donkeys, cows, goats. Animals like Ramu, Toffee, Dimpu and Patrick.
For £25 you can sponsor a 3.6 x 3.6m plot [...]

Jo Pilc was one of our nurturing volunteers in 2009 and thanks to her and her friends and colleagues we were able to build Dave, our blind resident from Kennel E13, a personal run. Now he can enjoy some freedom without feeling the need to attack anything in his path.

Dave with Sharda in his very [...]

It’s been a month since TOLFA celebrated its 6th birthday.
Rachel has achieved a tremendous amount since she started with just a few acres of uncultivated land. We now have kennels for over 100 dogs, a cattle shade for dozens of cows, donkeys and goats, large and small animal theatres, an office, a puppy house, a [...]

Made possible by a generous grant from the Betty and Bernard Davidson Charitable Trust…….our new quarantine block.

Our new quarantine kennels
At TOLFA we have many dogs coming to us that are suffering from a disease that is contagious such as distemper virus and canine infectious hepatitis. Before all these dogs would have to be housed [...]

I went back to TOLFA for the first time in 2 years in October 2011 and it looks amazing. It has changed so much in 2 years but it is unrecognisable from when I worked there in 2006-2007. In those days there were only 40 kennels, 2 operating theatres, the small large animal shelter, and [...]

For 4 years, TOLFA never had the finances to be able to afford its own rescue vehicle and had to rely on a vehicle hired on a contract basis. All that changed when we received the most incredible news that we had been awarded grants from The Marchig Trust, World Society for the Protection [...]

With 24 hours before D-Day, Indian Trustees, Deepak and Kamoo came to the hospital to discuss final arrangements for TOLFA’s Rabies Awareness Campaign Day.
Despite the office now having an actual desk and 6 chairs, in true eclectic TOLFA style, the meeting had to take place in the Cattle Shade as Dr Ashok [...]

Building of the 4 staff quarters began 3 years ago, shortly after our land was purchased but due to planning permission problems and the funds being diverted into more urgent hospital buildings, the quarters lay unfinished.

The staff quarters half finished

TOLFA now has it’s very own film that shows who we are, where we are and more importantly what we do.
Get to meet our staff, see our hospital and experience the work we do and the animals we treat.
It was through the efforts of several dedicated and creative people that made this promotional video happen, [...]

We are proud to say that our shelter continues to develop and currently comprises of large and small animal operating theatres, a block of 40 kennels for dogs on the sterilisation and rabies vaccination programme, 60 kennels for sick and injured dogs, a comfortable puppy house for 12, an office, staff housing for 3 familes [...]