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Cancún Spay-a-Thon Reaches Hundreds of Dogs and Cats

PETA Latino has come through for animals in Mexico! The group’s commitment to hosting spay-a-thons to help end Cancún’s homeless-animal crisis has resulted in free spay/neuter surgeries for 2,752 dogs and cats—the latest event reaching 460 animals in just two days!

Over a recent weekend, an elementary school in Cancún was full of energetic “new students”: Hundreds of cats, dogs, volunteers, partner veterinarians, and workers from partner shelters attended the event. And the actual students weren’t left out, either! When they learned the importance of spaying and neutering and that their school was going to be turned into a temporary surgical center for animals, the schoolchildren wanted to participate. They made informative posters to relay the spay-a-thon’s dates and times as well as important information on pre- and post-operative care. Local shop owners proudly displayed them in their store windows to help promote the free clinic. Mayor Ana Patricia Peralta also supported the work, stopping by to present PETA Latino with a certificate of appreciation.

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Local rescuers and residents brought in many patients, and teams hit the streets to scoop up animals without homes for sterilization and vaccination, preventing thousands of unwanted animal births. Several of the dogs and cats were also fitted for new collars and received relief from uncomfortable flea infestations.

woman with white dog in harness waits with others in chairs for spay/neuter Cancun event for dogs and cats

While waiting for the patients, participants munched on delicious vegan burritos and read free copies of PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s book Un Mundo de Amor Para los Animals (A World of Love for Animals), and children enjoyed the free activity books.

group of people at March 2023 cancun spay neuter event

Did You Know?

In just one year, an unspayed cat can give birth to 12 kittens and an unspayed dog can give birth to 16 puppies! Mexico ranks first in Latin America for the largest number of stray dogs, with nearly 500,000 who are abandoned each year. They can produce millions of unwanted animals throughout the country, who are then left to struggle to survive after being born on the streets. Sterilizations and vaccinations aren’t widely affordable, so these free clinics are vital to ending homelessness.

How You Can Help Dogs and Cats

High-volume, free or low-cost clinics help end generation after generation of suffering, as fewer unsterilized dogs and cats means fewer animals born on the streets—especially in communities that don’t have the resources to care for them. You can help support groups like PETA Latino and its partners that are changing the lives of homeless and vulnerable animals by giving to the Global Compassion Fund today.

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PETA Dubs Iditarod Winner Ryan Redington a Real Loser

Below, please find a statement from PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in response to Ryan Redington’s winning the 2023 Iditarod today:

Crossing the Iditarod’s finish line first makes Ryan Redington this year’s biggest loser in PETA’s eyes. Eight dogs had to be pulled from the race after Redington pushed them beyond the breaking point, including Wildfire, who was predictably seen favoring the leg broken by the snowmobile that had hit him last year. Only six dogs were left to drag Redington to the finish, with reports that he yanked on and physically pulled the visibly exhausted dogs to the White Mountain checkpoint, and he’ll thank them all by chaining them back up outside like old bicycles at his kennel. The Iditarod needs to end, and with the race losing sponsors left and right, musher enrollment at an all-time low, and the Iron Dog snowmobile race and the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational growing in popularity, that end is coming.

So far, more than 150 dogs have been pulled from this year’s race. Among other incidents, a musher fell asleep on the trail, allowing his dog team to run off by themselves. Cue Health and Greenbrook TMS recently dropped their Iditarod sponsorships after hearing from PETA and over 40,000 of the group’s supporters. More details about the 2023 Iditarod are available here.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA Statement: Bill to Protect Yellowstone Bear World From State Scrutiny Will Hurt Workers, Animals

Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler in response to Sen. Van Burtenshaw’s newly introduced bill (S1084), lobbied by bear-breeding operation Yellowstone Bear World, which would effectively eliminate state regulations for exhibitors licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), an agency with fewer than 200 Animal Welfare Act inspectors for over 10,000 licensees and registrants. The proposal follows the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s recent decision to fine Yellowstone Bear World over $6,000 after a PETA complaint from an undercover investigation detailed how the facility exposes employees to potential attacks from bears and hazardous bear sprays without proper training or protocols:

Endangerment is the name of the game at Yellowstone Bear World, both for the vulnerable cubs who are taken from their mothers and the employees who are at risk of injuries or even death in the workplace. This exploitative business is trying to remove itself from scrutiny from state authorities by lobbying for a law to exempt it from being held accountable for its recklessness.

PETA’s investigator also documented cubs often biting, scratching, and bruising workers, and the exposé shows bears desperately trying to suckle from workers’ chins and arms because they’re deprived of the opportunity to nurse. When the cubs are nearly 5 months old—according to the USDA, an age at which they’re too large and strong to be used for direct contact with the public—Yellowstone Bear World uses them in bottle-feeding encounters.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA Demands Renewed Animal Test Ban Amid Army’s ‘Havana Syndrome’ Probe

PETA is calling for a renewed ban on weapon-wounding experiments on animals in a letter today to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth amid reports that the Army is conducting and planning cruel radio frequency radiation tests on animals in order to study Havana syndrome, even though five U.S. intelligence agencies found no link between such directed energy weapons and the disease.

The Army had banned the use of weapons to wound animals for medical research, development, testing, or evaluation, but the decision was quietly reversed in 2020.

But now, an ongoing, $750,000 taxpayer-funded brain injury experiment blasts ferrets with radio waves for hours daily, and there is a reported plan to expose monkeys to pulsed microwave radiation.

“The intelligence community has rejected the idea that directed energy weapons are behind Havana syndrome, yet the Army is bombarding animals with radiation anyway,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on Secretary Austin and Secretary Wormuth to end these gruesome experiments and reinstate the ban on all weapon-wounding tests on animals.”

PETA supporters are putting pressure on the military to enact a ban, and PETA also urges the Army to respond to its September appeal for public disclosure of at least one confirmed classified protocol for weapon-wounding testing on dogs, cats, monkeys, or marine animals.

These efforts cap decades of PETA campaigns against weapon-wounding tests on animals. In 1983, PETA exposed and successfully campaigned to shut down a U.S. Department of Defense laboratory in which dogs, goats, and other animals were shot with high-powered weapons, resulting in the first-ever permanent ban on the shooting of dogs and cats in wound labs. In 2005, the Army issued Regulation 40-33, which prohibited the use of dogs, cats, nonhuman primates, and marine mammals in “[r]esearch conducted for development of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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