Doggy style yoga
FLEX IT: Try downward dog pose in De Waal Park for good cause FLEX IT: Try downward dog pose in De Waal Park for good cause
A Khayelitsha animal clinic is inviting Capetonians to try doggy yoga in the hopes of helping homeless hondjies find their forever homes.
On Saturday, 27 October, the Mdzananda Animal Clinic will host a yoga class with a difference in De Waal Park in Vredehoek.
Fundraising and communications manager, Marcelle du Plessis, says the idea for their first ever Downward-Facing-Adopt-A-Dog event was conceptualised last month after the clinic saw an influx of homeless dogs.
“Our animal hospital serves up to 700 Khayelitsha pets per month through consultations; hospitalisation; surgery including sterilisation, general and orthopaedic; mobile clinics, and an animal ambulance,” she says.
“Our outside runs were dedicated to patients for exercise but they have now been taken over by our strays and converted into a stray unit.
“We can house up to 20 stray dogs and 20 stray cats at a time. Sometimes we go over this limit making the facility very crowded.”
She says as the clinic is based in Khayelitsha, many people are too scared to visit and this makes it difficult for them to find homes for pets.
The yoga class will start at 11.30am and participants should take a yoga mat and a towel along.
Marcelle adds: “De Waal Park is dog-friendly so on the day we will have the dogs moving between people doing yoga where they sniff, lick and interact with people in the hopes of finding them, new owners. The one-hour gentle flow class will be guided by Tombstone Pete’s live acoustic music.”
Entry to the yoga class is donation based and all funds raised will go to the clinic.