Using Animal Care to Promote Empathy in Children

On a Community Spay day, every animal is given a medical check. This includes a general medical check, de-wormers, rabies vaccinations & manage treatment if necessary, as well as treating any other obvious ailments.
The medical check is also used to determine if an animal is healthy enough to be operated on. It is telling that in our 2014 Community Spay Day, people needed to be convinced about the operation. But this time, 123 animals were registered for operations and 90 for medical wellness checks. This represents a significant shift in people’s attitude towards having an animal sterilized.
Unfortunately, many of the animals are not healthy enough for the operation. Also under the conditions of a community spay day, 50 is about the maximum number of operations that can be done in a day. So we exceeded our target in that 54 animals were sterilized. 

At community level word has spread about the spay days.  We recently were given permission by Ludzibini to carry out a spay day.  What I found interesting about our meeting with the Inner Council is that they all had specific questions about the spay day, indicating that they had heard from people in the other areas where we have done a spay day.  We are hoping to do the Ludzibini Spay Day by end of August, pending funding for the medicines, so thank you for your support.