Animal Welfare: Managing Stray Cats and Dogs

Dear Supporters,

During the summer “kitten season” has a spike, so we keep on creating awareness on the importance of sterilizing, doing TNR (trap, neuter, and return) with rabies vaccine for stray cats, and also on how rescue those in need without hurting them: avoiding stealing kittens from queens.

Coco’s started 10 years ago, and we continue our work in the Riviera Maya sterilizing dogs and cats, educating the people in responsible companion animals’ guardianship and empowering the community so people can be responsible for their own rescues, to increase animal welfare and improving the community’s quality of life. 

Coco’s continues to improve so we can offer the best to these animals so we can save lives and improve animal welfare, your support is very important to keep up the work.

In the last 3 months, Coco’s did 1,147 sterilization surgeries at the Clinic in Playa del Carmen, preventing unwanted animals that are doomed to life on the street. 

We also were able to help 319 dogs and 512 cats and their humans (rescuers or adopter) through the Rescuer Support Program (You Can be a Hero).

Through our rehoming programs, we helped 38 animals to find their forever homes.

We visited underserved communities and gave preventive medicine to 420 animals, thus helping the community’s health by keeping pets dewormed and free of fleas and ticks.

Since March, we've hosted two soon to be vets from Mexico City, they are learning by working with us, and under the medical team wing applying all they learn at school in real life. The most important vet school in México is free, so in order to get your degree you have to “work for free” doing the Social Service for 6 months either with the government or with a non-profit like us.

We continue “spaying it forward” training vets on the quick spay technique, and expanding this sharing of knowledge to other areas, such as responsible rescue, and responsible guardianship of companion animals.

What's next?

Wait for the great news in the next report, right now we are fundraising to do a Free Spay and Neuter Clinic for November, we will do 1000 surgeries in four days. Volunteers have signed up and we will have wonderful veterinarians coming to help from all over: Mexicali, Mérida, Cozumel, Mexico City, USA and Canada. 

Thanks to your support we continue improving through the community 

With Gratitude,

Coco's