The Senior Knitting Ducks at the Durbanville Library spent some time making a terrific pack of toys for TOP Dogs therapy dogs!
Durbanville South Africa Durbanville (13 January 2025) — The knitting crew who come together weekly for yarn-led adventurers in Durbanville made a pack of terrific toys recently! Affectionately known as the Senior Knitting Ducks, the knitters in question warmed both the hearts of dogs and humans alike.
At their local hang-out, the Durbanville Library, the assignment was to create dogs big and small for the TOP Dogs team.
TOP Dogs (Touch Our Pets Therapy Dogs) is a non-profit working in Cape Town and other parts of the country. For just shy of 20 years, the organisation has been on a mission to bring a little joy, a lot of help and many moments of relief to adults and children alike through different programmes.
These programmes included Animal Assisted Activities (like visiting hospitals or shelters), Animal Educational Programmes (which help children grow in their literacy levels by reading to the animals) and Animal Assisted Therapy (where a dog and a professional, like a social worker, work together to help people on various journeys of healing).
Heartwarmingly, this is not the first time that the Senior Knitting Ducks have worked their magic on wool for the organisation. At the handover, doggo Louis was present to inspect all the new goodies along with his handlers, where sniffs of approval were rightly given.
The Durbanville Library is no stranger to knitting efforts for wonderful causes. As one of Cape Town’s oldest libraries (120 years, at that), the library has familiarised itself with numerous community efforts. True to this call to the community, the Knitting Duck Club (founded by Gail Leask) celebrated its first anniversary by knitting 2,000 beanies for Beanies 4 Babies.
As for Little Knitting Ducks, young knitters are carefully learning all the skills to become masters one day. Hopefully, they will follow in the footsteps of the seniors not just in talent but also in kindness.
Sources: Durbanville Library
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