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Beyond Rescue: The Power of Spay and Neuter to Transform Communities
A little tail peaking out from the corner, two dogs rooting through the trash, a dog napping by the side of a road, and a terrified puppy trying to cross a busy street. Roaming dogs are a fact of life in many neighborhoods in Bogotá, Colombia. In a city where some communities have more than 1,231 strays per square mile, it can feel like the streets are overrun with strays–and they are.
Spay & Neuter’s Power is Exponential
One stray will give birth to 12 puppies in a year–she and her puppies will have at least 132 strays in just 4 years, 984 strays in 6 years, and by the time the decade is over they will have added 54,816 strays to streets. This painful math highlights a profound truth: we can’t rescue our way out of this stray dog crisis.
Screwworms’ Terrible Toll
A small fly, the iridescent blue-green of a hummingbird, packs a nasty surprise.If flies can be considered beautiful, you just might think that of the Cochliomyia Hominivorax. Unlike the housefly, its body is an iridescent blue-green reminiscent of a hummingbird. But it carries a deadly secret:...
Horse Health is Public Health
Imagine a life where every drop of water for your family, your cooking, and your cleaning depends on your horse.Families' Livelihoods Depend On Their Working Horses Without their horses, countless families in Nicaragua couldn’t feed their families–they depend on them to pick up recyclables, pull...
Dog Bite Awareness Saves Lives in Liberia
A class on dog bite prevention and rabies awareness, builds bridges between people and dogs and saves human and animal lives.A Real Danger In the US we rarely think about rabies–in a nation of 340 million, there are only about 400 human cases a year, most caused by bat bites. In contrast, in...
