RSPCA Animal Care Assistant Vanessa Cox is taking on the gruelling Isle of Wight Challenge to raise vital funds for ongoing work to provide emergency treatment for animals.
Vanessa, 35, will be walking 106 kilometres around the Island between April 30 and May 1 to support the services that saved the life of plucky husky Maya whose story prompted an emergency IW RSPCA appeal last December.
Following a collision with another dog while out walking, a then 6-month-old Maya underwent an emergency amputation, suffered a ruptured artery and survived four blood transfusions before, against the odds, fighting her way back to health.
The cost of her treatment was around £12,500 and was funded by the Island’s RSPCA branch’s Maya Christmas Campaign.
But funding expensive emergency treatment is a year-round task, and that’s where Vanessa is — literally — stepping in.
Vanessa’s forthcoming walk, part of the Ultra Challenge Series, will take her along the southern cliffs of the Island, past the Needles and up to Cowes for a half-way stop.
She will then head to Ryde, Bembridge and Culver Down before the final stretch to Chale.
Full-time animal care assistant Vanessa, who hails from Newport, said:
“It is going to be hard work but will be worth every step if we raise a lot of money to support the emergency medical work carried out by the Island’s RSPCA.”
“Maya’s case was a particularly inspirational. She has such a wonderful character despite all she has gone through.
“But every year the local branch has to find thousands of pounds to give the animals who arrive in our care — some very poorly indeed — every chance possible."
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