Make your love and passion for animals live on

from Tawl Tails - Winter - 2020

AWLQ’s Emergency Boarding Program is recruiting foster carers

Leaving a gift in your Will to Animal Welfare League Queensland will create a lasting legacy and is a touching way to make your love and passion for animals live on.

Every year Animal Welfare League Queensland provides more than 10,000 abandoned and homeless animals somewhere safe and warm to stay. Animal Welfare League Queensland promises to never euthanise a sociable, healthy or treatable animal in our care – as a result we have one of the lowest euthanasia rates in Australia for a shelter of our size.

Close to 4,000 animals are reunited with their family and more than 6,300 are rehomed every year - providing them a second chance at life in a loving home.

We will always keep this promise but we can’t sustain it on our own.

When you leave a gift in your Will to AWLQ, you are leaving a lasting legacy that speaks of empathy and a passion for creating a brighter future for animals in need. Through our Community Vet Clinics, Animal Welfare League Queensland works to keep animals and their families together by providing financial support for urgent and emergency treatments - no matter their owner’s financial circumstances. Your lasting legacy will ensure that no animal will suffer in pain just because their owner is unable to afford treatment. Now in its 16th year of operation, our National Desexing Network works with communities throughout Australia to desex more than 23,000 animals every year. Your lasting legacy will help prevent unwanted litters, and ultimately pain and suffering for thousands of unwanted animals. Our Golden Hearts™ Seniors Pet Support Program provides support for pet owners aged 65+ with free emergency foster care of their pets when they go into hospital, discounted vet help for their pets, and assistance with their pets should they ever have to transition into care.

If you would like more information on how you can leave a Lasting Legacy in your Will - please visit awlqld.com.au/bequests or call 5509 9099.

We will always keep our promise but we can’t sustain it on our own.

Maureen's Lasting Legacy

My late husband Barry and I have always loved animals our entire life.

I can’t really recall a time when we didn’t own a pet, until my 18 year old

cat Simba sadly passed away recently.

It was heart-breaking to lose her as

she was my constant companion after losing my Barry.

I was just so lonely, and then I saw two bonded Burmese brothers, Milo and Coco, who were looking for a new home at AWLQ’s Gold Coast Animal Rehoming Centre. They were just so beautiful and loving. I only really wanted one cat but how could I resist these two faces?

It’s hard to understand how beautiful animals like Milo and Coco can end up in a shelter in the first place, but thankfully any that do come into care with Animal Welfare League Queensland have a second chance at life. It is vital that all of us in society help to support charities.

Since 1959 AWLQ has made amazing advances in the welfare of animals and also work hard with people to keep people and pets united. I think what sets AWLQ apart is their promise to never euthanise a healthy, sociable or treatable animal in their care. I had made a decision to help AWLQ keep that promise by leaving a Gift in my Will to them. As they receive no government funding for their important and life changing welfare work, I know AWLQ desperately needs this money to keep their doors open for generations to come. I hope this will be my Lasting Legacy.

For a confidential chat please call 5509 9099 or email bequests@awlqld.com.au for more information.

Maureen's beloved companions Coco and Milo

Lasting Legacy

Leaving a small gift in your Will ensures a future for animals in need.

CREATING a brighter future for animals in need

Since its inception in 1959, Animal Welfare League Queensland has been embracing a brighter future for animals in need. For sixty years we have worked tirelessly to raise the value of animals in society so that the intrinsic needs of each species are recognized, respected and met.

Key achievements include:

Creating innovative animal rehoming campaigns and working with the community to increase adoptions.

Opening Queensland’s first community vet clinic, making essential vet care services accessible to all pet owners.

Working with the community and councils to end pet overpopulation by making desexing more accessible and affordable.

Providing seniors with peace of mind and support they need to enjoy the many benefits of animal companionship.

Reducing euthanasia rates within our animal rehoming centres to some of the lowest in

Australia and working with other shelters and pounds to achieve the same results.

Implementing and keeping our promise to never euthanise a healthy, sociable or treatable animal in our care.

Welcoming two eminent Australians as our Patrons – The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG and Ita Buttrose AC, OBE. Our focus now progresses to Creating a brighter future for animals in need and we are excited to launch our four pillars which include advocacy and strategic, animal rehoming, community support and community vet clinics.

These pillars form the foundation of our continued commitment to animals in need, keeping people and their pets together and most importantly creating lasting changes for animals in our society through cutting edge initiatives.

The meaning behind creating: 1.To produce or bring about by a course of action or behaviour. 2.To cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative.