Your Donation Dollars at Work

This past weekend in San Jose, the Spay the Strays Group worked in conjunction with Spay Panama for our annual Blitz.  It ran from about 4:30pm on Saturday to 8:00 and then on Sunday from 7:30am until 5:00pm.  In those 13 hours we operated on 307 dogs and cats.  Although we received $830 in donations (average $2.70 per animal) from pet owners, our total bill is $7,142.00.  A huge undertaking like this could not have been paid for without the sponsor of the donor match last year as well as all of our valued supporters who contributed so generously!   To handle this Blitz, Spay Panama brought 25 persons from the City who slept in sleeping bags on site.  Our own 34 volunteers supplemented them in three long, hot, dirty shifts proving that it really does take a village!  We owe all of them a debt of gratitude.  From the Altos area we had: Lidia DeConto, TC McVey, Bob Miller, Gary Kwilos, Geri Bachman, Deb and Dave Billing, Terry Phipps, Tracy Nowak and her daughter Arika, and Dusty (who really doesn’t have a choice…).  The volunteers from the beach area were: Ruth and Charlie King, Jimbo, Rob Condit, Greg and Diane Stewart, Max Poirier, Sheila Scott, Barb Williams, Kassy Ajax, Linda Mannell,  Rene Schafer, Fredrika Hurley, Anne-Marie LaCombe, Paula Lopez Leon, Pam and Corinna Frangione, Gisele, Pascale, Thad, and Anick Marceau, Yocheved Morgan, and Yassyr Valdespino. (Hopefully, I left no one out…)

Spay the Strays will hold smaller clinics throughout our region in the upcoming months using Dr. Alexis Escruceria and Dr. Jorge Velez.  Your help will be needed as we continue our fight to stop the misery of unwanted dogs and cats.  Donations can be made by sending an email to spaythestrayspanama@yahoo.com.  If you do not yet have one of Spay Panama’s 2012 calendars featuring American and Panamanian holidays, they are available by emailing us or at Mailboxes, ETC (MBE) in Coronado, VETS in Coronado and the Playacommunity office in Coronado.  The cost is only $7.00 and all proceeds go to our mission.  And, we also make dog biscuits in either large or small size in one pound bags for $4.00.
 
Thank you for your continued support which is vital!  Please see photos of the event below.
Mary Rhodes, Barb Schlottke and Adele Doane