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Away from the beaches and lagoons for which the seaside town of Plettenberg Bay is famous, at 8am on a Saturday morning in the industrial area, crowds of people gather with their dogs that run around playing, barking, and causing a ruckus alongside their owners who are queueing down the street.
It is overcast and cold, so to keep them warm, the smaller pups are held by their owners, squeezed against their chests, or cuddled under their coats. All these pet owners, many of them children, are waiting for assistance for themselves and their pets.
For more than three years, volunteers who go by the name Muddy Pooches, have been distributing pet food, human food and animal assistance to local communities.
It started in 2017, when…