Doggy Tales: Victoria Eisermann – model and celebrity charity founder climbs Mount Kilimanjaro
West Sussex based Victoria Eisermann, model and celebrity charity co-founder of K-9 Angels, has just returned from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, in order to raise awareness and funds to spay and neuter dogs.
The charity K9 Angels, was founded in 2011 and has since rehomed over 800 dogs, spayed 3,000 dogs and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to build a shelter that now houses 110 dogs.
Despite having a slipped disc, Victoria completed the climb in five gruelling days, taking a further day and a half to descend. She suffered badly with heat stroke and was violently sick. She also split open her lip, fell over numerous times hurting herself badly and bruised her hips from sleeping on the floor (where the temperature plummeted to minus 20 degrees at night). Aside from her injuries it was extremely difficult to breathe with just 50% oxygen at the top of the mountain.
I thought of saving puppies with every step I took, the climb is the hardest thing I have ever done
In spite of all that she bravely soldiered on saying: “I thought of saving puppies with every step I took. This climb is the hardest thing I have ever done.”
She added: “I’m determined to help as many dogs as possible. My target is to raise a minimum £10,000, double what I raised last year.”
So why is spaying so crucial? It is the single most important thing that we can do to save dogs from all the suffering and death that their overpopulation causes. Spaying and neutering are routine, affordable surgeries that can prevent thousands of animals from being born, only to suffer and struggle to survive on the streets, be abused by cruel or neglectful people, or be euthanised in animal shelters for lack of a loving home. It is estimated that there are over 100,000 homeless dogs in the UK, two million stray dogs in Bucharest and Romania and 6,000 in Cyprus.
So far Victoria has raised £2,000, if she was to raise just £5,000 that would mean 300 female dogs could be spayed, which would prevent approximately 20,100,000 unwanted puppies.
If you wish to donate to this amazing cause please visit: www.uk.virginmoneygiving.com/VictoriaEisermann
