Animal lovers in Egypt understand how dire the situation for stray cats and dogs has become. The stray animal population continues to grow exponentially despite individual and collective animal welfare efforts, such as animal shelters and Trap-Neuter/Spay-Return (TNR) programs. As of 2020, the stray dog population in Egypt is said to have reached 15 million. For that reason, animal rescuers always encourage others to spay/neuter their pets and adopt rather than shop to help these voiceless souls who often end up abandoned, tortured, or run over by cars – especially in overcrowded cities like Cairo and Alexandria. The problem is that the adoption process has always been done on an informal basis through social media posts published by individual accounts or through animal shelter or pet adoption Facebook pages due to a lack of formalized platforms dedicated to this purpose. Noticing this gap, Leaf Animals, Egypt’s first animal adoption website, has been launched to help formalize and organize this process. It was founded by animal lovers Amina El Shazly and Tanya El Kashef. “We had been involved in animal welfare and rescue for some time as individuals, but we wanted…
