April 16-17, 2011
This was our fourth sterilization campaign in Veracruz. People formed lines early Saturday morning, despite being told the team would be arriving after 5pm on Saturday.
Clinic was set up in less than 30 minutes and all stations prepared. 100 animals were sterilized, vaccinated, dewormed, sprayed against fleas and ticks, had their ears cleaned and injected with vitamins in six hours.
On Sunday people started arriving at 6am. 101 animals were sterilized and treated in five hours.
Dr. Lissette, Dr. Raquel, Dr. Gloria, Dr. Augusto, Dr. Darrell, Dr. Jess and Dr. Susan from Worldwide Veterinary Service from UK and senior vet student Ernesto from the University of Panama
Piera, board member of Spay Panama's Animals Yes, USA came down with her sister Lucy and friend Nicole to join local volunteers from Spay/Panama : Alberto, Yelitsa (senior vet student from the University of Panama), Rebeca, Daniel, Dioselina, Melanie and from Los Angeles de los Animales: Karina, Hirakel, Osvaldo, David, Peggy, and two other volunteers
Dr. Marleni assisted in the post-op station
Results:
201 animals sterilized:
187 dogs
(155 females and 32 males)
14 cats
(10 females and 4 males)
By sterilizing 155 female dogs, we have avoided 10,385,000 puppies to be born in the next six years.
By sterilizing 10 female cats, we have avoided 4,200,000 kittens to be born in the next seven years.
To breakeven, we must collect $25 per dog and $12 per cat. We should have collected $4,843.00. Instead we collected $1,159.70 + $845 from Savannah volunteers' dog wash for a total of $2,004.70 or 42%, not including transportation and food.
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721 animals sterilized to date in Veracruz