PEACEAnimals Shares Video About Their Free Mobile Spay & Neuter Clinic Gretchen DeWitt - PEACEAnimals | |
June 23, 2014 |
PEACEAnimals Free Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. (Gretchen Dewitt)
Thursday, June 19th, marked PEACEAnimals´ first anniversary. Troy Valens, co-owner of Sea Monkey, treated the team, star volunteers and board members that were in town to dinner on the beach.
Brischa and Ted Borchgrevink brought "Negro," a ten-year old Pit Bull that had been at the Acopio for a year. He´s now waiting for a flight to his new home in Canada. Paulina Stettner brought the beautiful male Belgian Shepherd she had found on the streets in colonia Ramblases. The sad story is that the owner left his two dogs locked up in his office, which he abandoned. One of the dogs died of starvation, but the Belgian Shepherd somehow escaped.
He is now neutered, being treated for mange and for adoption. At sunset, the sky had a greenish tinge. Two hours later, we were running barefoot in an enormous downpour to our cars. Numbers of sterilizations for the year will be published after I receive a report from Dr. Poli. It has been a great year for the clinics.
Pitillal, where our Free Mobile Spay & Neuter Clinic visited last week, is a bustling municipality of Puerto Vallarta that seems like a separate town. The main plaza, across from the pretty brick church, is almost completely devoid of trees, and in the heat and humidity, devoid of people.
The clinic took place in the grass-covered courtyard of the delegación (government office where births are recorded, visas applied for, etc.) at the southeast corner of the plaza.
Even with several fans aimed at the vet team, volunteers and animals, it was very hot under the red Kiosko plastic tarp.
Sterilizations at Pitillal clinic - June 18-21: Male dogs - 11; Female dogs - 34; Male cats - 30; Female cats - 49 TOTAL: 124
Plus pregnancies terminated for the following: 1 cat with 3 fetuses; 1 dog with 3 fetuses; 1 dog with 4 fetuses
Donations at Pitillal clinic: 2,210 pesos
The clinic in Pitillal was paid for with a generous grant from the Summerlee Foundation.
To read more about the Clinics, adoptions, needs and photos, visit Gretchen's Blog.
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