ANOTHER 83 ANIMALS BELONGING TO LOW INCOME FAMILIES OR STRAYS SPAYED/NEUTERED THIS NOVEMBER.
- THE LAST STAGE OF OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM “SHARING THE WORLD WITH THE ANIMALS” FOR 2010.
- IT’S RAINING KITTIES AND PUPPIES.
- COSTA RICA’S ORGANIZATIONS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP THE VICTIMS OF THE NOVEMBER DISASTER.
In November, besides the regular castrations in the Jaco and Herradura clinics, we also had two “mini-clinics” in very poor areas of our county – one in “parcelas” in Herradura and one in the “precario” called “Hole”, where we were able to fix additional 25 animals.
Thank you to Dr. Wendy Villialobos and Dr. Diego Solano from Jaco and Dr. Yessenia Alpizar from Herradura for providing low cost surgeries for strays and for animals belonging to low income families. We spayed/neutered all together 75 animals and sponsored another 8 from the Tarcoles area.
The clinics were sponsored by: Linda Look from the USA, Pat Hundley from Jaco, Sylvia van Baekel from Herradura, Lauren Tomlinson from Florida, (guest at the Jim Hogan surf Camp), Jennifer Clark from Canada, Nancy Lebo from Herradura, Olga Ureña from Jaco and Elena Lamiquiz from Jaco. Thank you for this contribution!
We finished our education program for this year with an animal competition at the Herradura school on November 21st. Our Thank You goes to all sponsors of the wonderful prizes for the winners and for participants: PURINA Costa Rica, Marriott Los Suenos, DayStar – Jaco, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica – Jaco, Farmacia Sofia – Jaco, Kartwheels Boutique – Erin & Christian Diaz – Jaco, Farmacia Jaco, and magazines “Pets y mas” and “Mucho gusto”. A special thank you also goes out to Angela Maria and Johnny from the Art School “Mire vea” in Jaco for joining us at this event, offering an art class and an art competition to the kids and painting faces, so that in the end we had some cat and butterfly-faced kids running around. And of course, a huge THANK YOU goes to Luz Pineda, for both organizing this event as well as for being in charge of this education program during the entire year. What we focused on this year was teaching our younger members of the community the concept of responsibility and respect for all manner of life – both animal and persons alike.
It’s raining kitties and puppies.
Foster homes needed badly!!!! Please open your home to one of our furry friends and you will get lots of love in return. (We will supply food and medication if needed)
After all the recent rains and floods, our county was visited by 2 different organizations and one group of volunteers from the Central Valley, bringing food to our area for animals belonging to families that were affected by the floods. A HUGE thank you goes out to Adriana Barrantes, Natali Arrieta, Laura Alpizar, Johnny Serrano and Justin Denyer. This group of individuals came down on Saturday bringing 100 Kilos of dog chow, 22 Kilos of puppy chow, 30 Kilos of chicken concentrate and 8 Kilos of cat chow. All these goods were distributed in the Tarcoles area, where the people suffered the most. It’s amazing what a little group of people can do in only one day!
Rescate Animal was also helping in the same area – Dr. Laura Loaiza came together with a group of volunteers, checking up on the animals and distributing food for them. Thanks a lot to Rescate Animal for this great work.
On Sunday, we received a group of volunteers from ANPA. After visiting Playa Azul, the volunteers concentrated their efforts on Jaco, specifically on the 2 “precarios” called Hole and Copey, and on Pueblo Nuevo in Las Monas, which was the most affected part of Jaco. ANPA left the people about 500 kilos of food, bowls, blankets, de-worming medicine and magazines. Two officers from our Municipal Police joined us and helped to distribute the goods. Thank you so much Vanessa, Andrea, Angie, Alexis, Elvin, Alexandra and Carlos, all from ANPA, for helping us!!!
Update Provided By: Katja Bader from McKee Jaco
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