SPAY DAY 2010

Spay Day is an annual campaign of the Humane Society International and the Humane Society of the United States to inspire people to save animal lives by spaying or neutering pets and street animals.

Organizations from Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, United States, Venezuela, American Samoa, Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, The Philippines, Azerbaijan, France, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine joined forces to celebrate Spay Day in February 2010.

In Panama, this was a historic and successful event, the Health Ministry of the Panamanian Government, the group Los Angeles de los Animales and Fundacion Spay/Panama coordinated our resources and efforts to sterilize 148 dogs and 22 cats.  The event took place at the Nuevo Progreso School in Tierra Prometida
on February 28, 2010.


         
From early morning, animals and guardians waited in line
       
   
 


 


Working together to reduce the number of unwanted animals
 

 




The Health Ministry contributed with the transportation of the equipment, donated gauze, gloves, distilled water for autoclave, syringes, betadine and rabies vaccines; in addition the Health Ministry promoted the event throughout the community and was in charge of the logistics at the school.  Los Angeles de los Animales provided transportation for part of the Spay/Panama staff and collected surgical supplies and $365.  The donations in the collection box at the event total $54.37, the equivalent of $0.32 per animal.  Spay Panama's Animals Yes, USA donated the sutures and surgical needles.
Unico got 553 votes in the photo contest.

Together we can make a difference