As a result of successful series organized by the Health Ministry as part of the preventive medicine campaign, yet one more spay/neutering day was realized by Spay/Panamá and the volunteers of Los Angeles de los Animales. The Angeles also brought feral cats they had trapped.
The Lions Club was also an organizer and provided lunch.
Left: registration for our first dog of the day. Right: a cute dog waiting to be weighed.
Left: waiting until the cat falls asleep. Right: preparation for the operation and tattoo.
26 dogs and 12 cats were sterilized in Panama Viejo. In total 725 animals have been sterilized with the coordination of the Regional Office of San Miguelito.
Taxis! Right: preparing operating trays.
Left: A brief period with no animals in the prep or post-op stations, so the volunteers were exchanging views. All dogs over 3 months of age received a vaccine against rabies.
Right: the veterinarians at Spay/Panama have been trained to spay/neuter newborn puppies and kittens, however, the death rate can be higher and this is not acceptable to the organization, therefore, we have set ourselves a minimum of 6 weeks old. As these puppies were seven days old they were dewormed only.
All animals had their ears cleaned, and were sprayed for fleas and ticks before waking up.
The Spay Panama team was represented through veterinarians: Dra. Letty de Guajardo, Dra. Raquel Fuster, Dra. Gloria Fonseca, and Dr. Augusto Barragán with the help of the following assistants: Los Angeles de los Animales, Ginny and Ligia (Universidad de Panama), Alberto, Marlen, Rebeca, Daniel, Etelka, Sandra, Sylvie, Pat and Nelson of the Crossroads Christian Academy.
A total of $69 was collected or the equivalent of $1.82 per animal and because of electrical problems at the Sara Sotillo School, two fans were damaged beyond repair and 3 cordless clippers are not working and will be sent for repair. Help us to put a stop to the overpopulation causing a large number of animals to roam homeless, hungry and sick by clicking here.