May Accomplishments

Panajachel — The month of May flew by with a continuous flurry of animals in need, humane ed classes, meetings and emails with other animal organizations, our monthly clinic coordination and a visit from Max Brandt, World Society for Protection of Animals Latin American Society Member Manager. It’s been exciting, challenging and busy!

We are working on our application to become a Society Member of WSPA and I (Selaine) attended a workshop in Guatemala City on Sunday that focused on fund raising and media relations. Max was happy to learn about our working relationship with the University San Carlos and expressed interest in helping us expand our education program. There are a number of joint project ideas under consideration, but one thing is sure, the synergy between Healthy Pets, the University, McKee Project in Costa Rica and WSPA is strong and beneficial to all.

Advertising for the May Sterilization Clinic brought in another 27 animals to Zoo Mascota for operations. Others too young for surgeries were vaccinated and given a schedule for repeat vaccinations as well as an appointment for the June clinic for sterilization. This puts the total number of sterilization for Healthy Pets at well over 500!

Our database is filling up with all kinds of good information for follow-up home visits and future contact when routine vet care is due. Great work, Ezzie!

The team for May included University San Carlos instructor, Dra. Portillo and five vet students:

Jose Luis Benard
Jose Francisco Torres
Julio Gabriel Perez Orchild
Ligid Mercedes Jacobo
Gerardo Samuel Toledo

as well as Dr. Miguel, Juan, Elisabeth, Ismael, Jonathan, Ezzie, Selaine and Patti our Healthy Pets team.

Humane education classes continue to be held every Wednesday at Centro, a public elementary school in Panajachel. Here’s the latest video of Marilena with her exponential population growth chart behind her. Can’t wait to see what’s next, Mari!

The kids jumping for joy and yelling Marilena’s name.

May brought new homes for 6 lucky pups and 2 adults! We hugged and kissed goodbye Tina, Dokie, Pia, Dottie, Cookie, Daisy, Sombra and Domino.

New adoption flyers go up tomorrow for Lil Boy, Missy, Tigre, Gia, Isis, Cleo, Pepa and Koala. Here’s a look at some of the sweeties we have with us today. Osa’s picture is included to show how cute she is and to say that she is slated to be adopted this week. Unfortunately, the weather has not been cooperating for the caretakers to make from the City to pick her up!

The Jucanya Rehab house was used for only one month. It simply wasn’t the right neighborhood for us, so we are looking at other possibilities. In the meantime, most of our adoptable puppies are boarding at Zoo Mascota.

Don’t forget, if you are visiting and have your heart stolen by one of our pets, puppies and kittens can be flown under your seat as carry-on with most airlines.

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