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Judy Sacco replied to Amigos de Animales's discussion 'Pets Needing Homes'
Pearl was abandoned and found by tourists. They fed her while they were here, but they had to leave. Pearl is not adjusting to her new home. She is not used to being penned and needs a place to run free. She is an old dog and very friendly. She ju...
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We are moving back to the U.S. and need a good home for our (2) dogs. We have (1) male, 2yrs., English Shepherd- "Chester", and (1) female, 2yrs., English Lab- "Maddie". We need to find a home before December 25th. Please call or email me if you a...
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This page in Boquete, Panama is maintained by Fran Hogan. The Amigos de Animales here in Boquete is the organization behind Spay Neuter Clinics held in the Boquete area. We are a volunteer-only organization and details of our group and activities can be found on our website at http://www.fadab.org

We always welcome any and all who want to join and help with our projects, fundraising or other activities. If you are interested, send an email to franagain@fastmail.fm
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a new website for dogs and cats in need of a home

http://animalesamigo.webs.com/

In addition to our regular website (www.fadab.org), we now have a site specific to the issue of finding homes for dogs and cats in the Boquete area.

If you have information about a dog or cat needing a home, please let us know! A photo, preferably showing all of the animal, especially their face and eyes, and some information will help find them a home. Information like their name, if they've been neute… Continue

Posted on July 9, 2009 at 6:58am — 2 Comments

Amigos de Animales

FUNDRAISING T-SHIRTS ARE FINALLY HERE!

A limited supply of two different designs celebrating Amigos de Animales de Boquete are available now..... $12 each. Available in sizes M thru XXLG. Contact Ruby at 6671-3021 or Fran at franagain@mac.com to arrange for yours or for further information if you need it.

(A larger picture of each of the shirts is in our PHOTOS section also.)

Get your fashionable t-shirt soon and know that you're contributing to our spay-neuter projects!

See us also at… Continue

Posted on December 11, 2007 at 11:50am —

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At 7:57pm on May 14, 2009, Sean Cooper said…
thanks for the information. It may not have worked out so well. Not that I would not have checked it out. There is not that many places to choose from here and we are lucky to have someone like howling success.
At 7:28am on April 8, 2009, jim seltzer said…
thank you, Fran for trying to help with locating the dog for us.
hopefully, soon we will "meet her".
OLIVIA and JIM
At 8:21pm on January 30, 2009, Howling Success K9 Services said…
I am new to the area and do not know if you "keep" or house dogs for adoption ( i was the director of a shelter and have assisted in designing shelters ) and always offer my services free of charge to any rescue organization or shelter for behavioral issues or training to further adoption. If I can help you in any way please let me know.
At 10:21am on June 23, 2008, Dr. Craig Werner said…
Thanks. We will probably become involved with AdA when we get to living there. We used to train service dogs for the handicapped so we're very "Perro Friendly".
At 1:08pm on January 17, 2008, Arthur said…
I have thought about opening a branch in Boquete, but since our staff has alot of work attending potencial customers daily, that idea has been delayed. We also have an awesome website that has recently been added the address is www.panamahorizons.net our company is affiliated with the Ipat. I would appreciate if you can give me your opionion about this new site. We are also accepting reservations from any part in Chiriqui.
I´ll be waiting for your reply
Arthur E. Montes Owner and Manager.
At 9:58am on December 31, 2007, Sieg Pedde said…
Looks like you are providing a needed a service in the community. Good for you!
At 10:11am on December 6, 2007, Ursula Kiener Ford said…
I love the clinic idea. Way to go!
I was looking for strays to give them my leftover food in Boquete last weekend and I couldn't find one when before you could find millions.
Thanks :)
At 2:56pm on November 20, 2007, Nixia Guerra said…
Good job Congratulations for the last clinic, this always
help the people and our community, because the pets are really appreciated by the people here.
Keep continue this great activity,
Nixia Guerra
Attorney of FADAB
At 10:37am on November 9, 2007, Paul Saban said…
The forthcoming Spay and Neuter Clinic. We have here at Paradise Gardens, several large and medium size animal carry boxes which we will happily lend you if you need them. Please call us on 6615 6618 if you need them
At 8:21am on November 9, 2007, Amigos de Animales said…
To clarify and correct some of the information in the first introductory post regarding the origination of the Spay/Neuter clinics, the following has been generously provided by Judy Sacco....

Mocha, my cat, got very sick, so I called the local vet, Chely Castillo. She spoke no English at the time, and I spoke very little Spanish. It’s a long story, but briefly, we took him to David (the big town 30 miles away) to get blood work and X-rays to find out what was wrong with him. Neither Chely nor the vet in David had an X-ray machine, vacutainers for blood, or a blood analyzer. But Chely did have a friend at a local human hospital, so we snuck Mocha into the X-ray suite and spread him out on the table, one of us at each end. I have a nice picture of the bones of my arm. We got the vacutainers at another human hospital and took the blood to the hospital lab. All this took 6 hours of traveling back and forth, but the David vet diagnosed him correctly. It was Erlichia, a rickettsial infection from a tick bite. I gave him antibiotics, and he recovered in two days. The best part of the whole episode was making acquaintance with Chely. She played a big part in the adventures to follow.

I was also feeding a feral cat who kept having kittens. I was determined to get her tame enough so I could catch her and get her fixed. But by the time I accomplished that, I found there were too many problems in getting her sterilized. None of the vets used disposable sutures on the outside, and I would have to remove the stitches. Hardly an option with a wild cat. While I was trying to figure out what to do, she had another litter. I could see a future drowning in cats.

As things often happen just when they are supposed to, Mary Howard arrived from the U.S. with supplies donated by a vet in Florida. She had a dream of helping the animals of Boquete and upgrading the veterinary services here. She brought syringes, disposable sutures, anesthesia, and even a blood analyzer. At the same time I found Spay/Panama on the web, an organization based in Panama City that goes all over the country doing low-cost spay/neuter clinics. With visions of tidal waves of kittens in my mind, I realized it was time to act. I didn’t know Jennie Allen, but I read in the Bajareque Times that she was an animal lover and dog trainer, so I called her and proposed we use Mary’s supplies and Spay/Panama’s services to do a spay/neuter clinic in Boquete. There were so many street dogs, wild cats, and poor people who couldn’t afford to have their animals sterilized, we knew this was badly needed. So we gathered a small group - me, Jennie, Mary, Chely, and Maria Boyd, animal lover and all-around community doer – and planned the first clinic for June 2005.

We didn’t really know how to do a clinic (our first mistake – deciding to go it alone and not use Spay/Panama). It was chaotic, confusing, and nerve-wracking, but we did manage to sterilize 26 animals, including my wild mama cat and one of her kittens. Three vets did the surgeries, and an American vet tech, Suzanne Gardner, administered the anesthesia. Many volunteers showed up and helped with everything from animal handling to kitten warming. We had no fancy squeeze cages like we do now – my mama cat escaped and was tackled by an animal handler with big gloves. After much enraged yowling and flailing claws, she was subdued by anesthesia, and I took my first breath in 5 hours.

After the first clinic, a dynamic and dedicated volunteer, Ruby McKenzie (who wasn’t daunted by the June clinic chaos), took the lead in organizing subsequent clinics. She donated a lot of her own money for equipment and supplies, making it possible to make the clinics much bigger. She also formed a foundation for fundraising, Fundación Amigos de Animales Boquete (www.fadab.org). We finally brought in Spay/Panama to do a clinic, and they sterilized 165 animals in two days. We were impressed, but we learned well from them; now we do 150 animals in just one day. We have recruited a lot more vets, including several visiting American vets who have brought in drugs and supplies, participated in the surgeries, and provided training in the use of spay hooks and anesthesia. By now we have sterilized more than 1,000 cats and dogs. When you walk around town you rarely see roaming, starving dogs anymore.

Probably the most gratifying trend has been the increased involvement of the local community. Only a couple of Panamanians brought their animals to the first clinic. The rest belonged to gringos (Americans, Europeans, Canadians). After a year, only about 10% of the animals at the clinics belonged to gringos, and a lot of Panamanians had begun working as volunteers.

Nobody is turned away from the clinics for inability to pay, The sterilization expense is covered by generous donations, money we have raised by various events, and time freely given by many volunteers. Most people do pay though, because we charge very little and it is a good deal. Besides sterilization, the the animals receive rabies vaccine, de-parasitizing, vitamin shots, and antibiotics.

The clinics have become so popular that Amigos is branching out beyond Boquete and holding clinics in surrounding communities. When I look at what we’ve done, I think it’s pretty amazing how my need to sterilize one prolific cat started it all.

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