Update Jaco McKee Neuter Clinic

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Update Jaco McKee Neuter Clinic
By Explore Costa Rica.com contributor
Feb 18, 2010, 07:53

Update Jaco McKee Neuter Clinic

SPAY-NEUTER COMPETITION IN JACO CLINIC held during the week of January 18 - 23 was a big success. We attended to 25 kids and their families, providing not only the surgery, but also distributing all kinds of flyers made especially for this event while addressing the most important problems in our area. All the kids received many wonderful prizes, from school kits, dog and cat chow and animal magazines, to certificates for a free consultation at the Jaco clinic, valid for the entire year 2010.

A huge THANK YOU goes to Dra. Wendy Villalobos and Dr. Alejandro Madriz and all the staff at the Plaza Boulevard clinic in Jaco for their excellent work and assistance during this week. A very special THANKS also to PURINA for donating 75 bags of dog and puppy chow for this event, as well as other activities we are planning for the months of February and March. And to our friends from “Pets y mas” magazine for providing (once again) so many free magazines for all the kids and their families. And of course, to Mrs. Linda Look from the USA, who had the original idea for this great activity, and also sponsored it!

Besides the 25 pets in the competition, we were able to have spayed/neutered other 33 animals, so all together we reached a number of 58 in January.

CASTRATION WEEK FOR STRAYS AND PETS BELONGING TO LOW INCOME FAMILIES will take place during the week of February 2nd to February 7th. If you know of any animals with no owners, or animal owners who cannot afford even the very low special price we offer in our monthly clinics, please contact me for an appointment. Please consider that pet owners who qualify for this surgery have no transportation possibilities either, and will need somebody’s help in order to bring their animals in.

KIDS SUPPORT ANIMALS IN NEED. Joshua Thomas (10 years old) and his cousin Daniela Zamora (11 years old) from Herradura decided to go into business and make some money for a computer they both want to purchase. Joshua’s mom Laura prepared some of the yummy tuna dip she is famous for, and the two young entrepreneurs went out and hit the streets for a door-to-door-sale. Turns out the kids were very successful, the sale went great, after they paid the mom back for her expenses, they had 42,000 colones left! They decided that they will donate c18,000 ($32.) to the animals in need, (both are big time animal lovers) and split the balance of 24,000 colones 50/50 – Way to go Joshua, Daniela and Laura!

OUR ACCIDENT ANIMALS AT THE UNIVERSITY CLINIC. December was a month of accidents, so now January is a month of vet bills for them. Patchi – the nice hunting dog with a broken hip was sponsored by Meg Burns, and Jovi the beautiful Jack Russell mix, by Sheila Flanagan – both from Esterillos. Thank you so much for your generosity! Now we have left Sasha the Dalmatian. Sasha’s already been adopted by a very nice family from the southern zone of Costa Rica, and they will also take care of the surgery to remove the pin, but her main bill is still outstanding. So is the bill for Pluton, a great dog which had to have a front paw amputated. The owner is a young costarican man who really cares about his dog, and has already paid a lot of money to different vets for all kinds of different surgeries, trying to save Pluton’s paw. He also paid for the transportation to the university clinic. Now there is still an outstanding bill of 113,000 colones (about $200). We would like to offer Pluton’s owner to pay us half of this amount in payments, and are now looking for a sponsor for the other half. Navidad, a beautiful young female was hit by a car on the main street on Christmas Eve. She is now called Peanut and is back in Jaco, but still in rehabilitation. She needs to go back to the University Clinic in 3 weeks, so there is still no bill, but we would like to start looking for sponsors and for a new home for her. If somebody would like to sponsor or part-sponsor one of these puppies, please contact me at 2-643-4012 or info@mckee-jaco.com

BUDDY STORY NOW ONLINE. We have so many animal stories — some of them with, others without a happy ending. You will love this one. Check it out under
http://www.mckee-jaco.com/casehistories.htm.

If you have a similar experience you’d like to share with us, please send us your story — there is a link to the form on the bottom of the “Case Histories” page.