In 10 years your single donation of $22 will have kept 54,816 strays off the street.

Double Your Impact

All Donations will be matched through September 15th thanks to a generous gift from Peter Lamandia –which means your donation of $22 will keep 109,632 strays off the street!*

Spay and neuter

Unleashing the Exponential Impact of $22

Infographic showing how spaying or neutering one dog can prevent 18 strays in 2 years, 132 strays in 4 years, 984 strays in 6 years, 7,334 strays in 8 years, and 54,816 strays in 10 years.

Because of the match your donation is even more powerful.

One Donation of $22 will spay 2 dogs.

In 2 years that is ⤳ 36 dogs kept off the street.

In 4 years that’s ⤳ 264 dogs.

In 6 years ⤳ 1,986.

In 8 years ⤳ 14,688.

In 10 years ⤳ 109,632.

In 12 years… well, you get the picture.

Go Beyond Rescue

8 MILLION

That is the number of animals Global Strays has kept off the street through its Spay and Neuter programs in Colombia and Nicaragua.

OVERBURDENED COMMUNITIES
In many communities even the most loving pet owners simply cannot afford to spay or neuter their pets. Because pets often roam free, these pets further contribut to the stray population.

A CRUEL LIFE
During their short lives, most strays will rarely have enough to eat, be attacked by disease and parasites, face physical abuse, and die before they are five years old.

THE $22 SOLUTION
Spay/ Neuter programs stop animal suffering before it starts, and are shockingly cost-effective. Because of the matching donation, you can double the impact of your gift–through September 15th, just $22 will keep 109,632 (54,816 x2) strays off the street.

Strays in Colombia, Nicaragua and other countries often have miserable lives, and struggle to survive. Global Strays goes beyond rescue to stop suffering before it starts.

Stop the Suffering

Give now and Go Beyond Rescue
to fight animal suffering at its root.

Can you think of a more powerful action
you can take to end animal suffering?

Spay/Neuter Programs

About Our Spay and Neuter Clinics

Most dogs in Nicaragua are free roaming, whether pets or strays. Because of this spay nd neuter programs are crucial if we are going to end suffering of strays.

Granada, Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s stray dogs don’t just face hunger and violence on the streets, since 2024 they face deadly screwworm infections too. That is one more reason why Spay/Neuter programs are so critical. Global Strays runs spay neuter programs alongside their working horse clinics to make sure dogs don’t suffer just because their owners can’t afford vet care.

Sometimes even the most loving owners cannot afford vet care for their pets--including spay and neuter services.

Bogotá, Colombia

With 1,231 stray dogs per square mile in some neighborhoods, Bogotá’s dogs face a crisis of epidemic proportions. That is why Global Strays works to end animal suffering by offering spay/neuter clinics in underserved neighborhoods. Global Strays supports pet owners with Spay/Neuter they could never otherwise afford, stopping neglect and abandonment before it starts.

With approximately 7 million stray dogs in the countries we work in alone, our efforts saving individual dogs will never be enough. That is why we focus on going Beyond Rescue.

I Want to Tackle the Root of Animal Suffering

The Details

Exponential Impact Calculations

*Just in case you are wondering about how we came to this estimate: after careful deliberation, we chose the most conservative estimate at every step to make sure that we never overestimate the impact of your donation. For our calculations, we estimate that each dog has two litters of six dogs each every year, but that only four of those twelve puppies survive into adulthood. We are also estimating that each dog only has litters for two years in their lifetime (Stray dogs live between 3 and 5 years, by choosing the lower limit, these dogs only have two reproductive years, instead of 4.) Finally, we did not calculate how many more puppies a male dog might sire as these numbers, while much higher, are much more difficult to estimate accurately.

The Match

From August 15th through September 15th, every dollar up to $15,000 will be matched through a generous gift from Peter Lamandia, doubling the impact of your donation.

Learn how we go beyond rescue

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.

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