Animal Welfare Peru Project #54004

Help spay & neuter 2000 stray animals in Peru

by Stray Animal Project

Project Report | May 10, 2022
125 animals were fixed in Piura and Arequipa, Peru

By Karina Canales | Stray Animal Project Co-Founder & CEO

The successes captured in this report demonstrate how the support of people like you make a lasting difference in the lives of homeless animals. And yet, we all know there is so much more work to be done.

Thanks to your donations on this platform, we were able to neuter/spay 125 more animals in different campaigns organized over the last two months in Arequipa (South of Peru) and Piura (North of Peru).

We continue to focus on animals that otherwise won't be fixed: animals from low-income families, shelters, and strays.

Although more than half of our surgeries are for stray animals, we also love helping caring pet owners who are not able to afford spay/neuter surgeries at a veterinarian hospital. Their love for their pets and lack of resources force them to be creative, usually bring their animals in laundry baskets or boxes instead of a pet carrier (See picture)

In the future, we want to expand to more areas of Peru outside of Lima. Lima has ~30% of Peru’s population and therefore a high concentration of stray animals, but that centralization is the reason that stray animals outside Lima barely receive any help. This is why your help is so critical to continue helping other areas of Peru.

As a next step we would love to expand in the Andes of Peru. We identified some provinces like Carhuaz, Huaraz where neuter & spay campaigns are nonexistent and hundreds of animals are reproducing uncontrollably on the streets, causing more pain and suffering. We hope we can count on you to make this possible.

Your support played a big part in our success. Together in 2022, we will achieve our goal of neutering/spaying many more animals and expanding to other cities in Peru. With woofs and purrs of gratitude

Pet owner bringing his cat to our neuter campaign

Links:

Our instagram page to get frequent updates of our mission

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Jan 11, 2022
We helped hundreds of strays animals thanks to you

By Karina Canales | Stray Animal Project Co-Founder & CEO

First of all, THANK YOU for supporting our mission and caring about the animals in Peru!

Thanks to your donations on this platform we were able to neuter/spay 291 animals in different campaigns organized the last two months in Lima, Piura, and Arequipa in Peru.

In Lima we continued our efforts in different areas such as San Juan de Miraflores, a very poor and huge area with a high overpopulation of animals. Some of our neuter/spay campaigns were at the top of mountains where the poorest people live and asked for help to neuter the stray animals in their neighborhoods.

Additionally, we expanded our TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release) program focused on feral cats. We’ve had 8 campaigns and neutered/spayed a total of 111 feral cats with your donations. We will continue working on expanding this program that is so vital to control the overpopulation of stray cats.

We also expanded to Majes, Arequipa (south of Peru) and Piura (North of Peru) where we neutered/spayed 67 stray animals in Oct-Nov. This is very important because some regions in Peru recently had an outbreak of rabies due to the overpopulation of stray animals and the lack of vaccination. The government has restarted vaccination efforts, and vaccinated all of the animals we were able to spay and neuter.

Long-term impact: Different associations calculate the number of puppies and kittens that one female's offspring can produce. These calculations vary but even taking the most conservative one we are excited to report that with your donations so far we have prevented over 1.2M animals from being born and suffering on the streets in the next 7 years.

Thanks to donors like you we have been able to neuter/spay over 6300 animals to date: strays, rescues from shelters and pets from low-income families who wouldn’t have been able to afford the surgery otherwise. YOU are making a difference and we can’t thank you enough.

Thank you so much for your support. The Stray Animal Project team, volunteers, and the stray animals in Peru are thankful for you

A beautiful kitty from one of the TNR campaigns

Happy dog in one of our campaigns - Ventanilla

Links:

Our instagram page to get frequent updates of our mission

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