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PETA Latino Hosts Weekend Spay/Neuter Event in Cancún

More than 170 dogs and cats won’t be contributing to Mexico’s deadly homeless-animal overpopulation crisis, thanks to a massively successful two-day spay/neuter event hosted by PETA Latino in Cancún. The Spay-a-Thon took place in the neighborhood of Colonia El Pedregal at a local elementary school and was the fourth of six clinics PETA Latino has organized in the area this year.

The Spay/Neuter Event in Cancún Had Some Pawsome Vistors

Some notable guests came to cheer on the PETA Latino and local shelter staffers and veterinarians: Mayor Ana Patricia Peralta, who visited the clinic and presented the host shelter with a brand-new truck to help transport animals in need, and Erika Fernandez, a popular actor, presenter, and founder of the rescue organization Amor Sin Raza.

 

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While the animals underwent their spay/neuter surgeries, their families were given free vegan burritos and free copies of the bilingual children’s activity book All About Animals/Todo Sobre los Animales.

Attendees were also offered flea prevention and mange medication for their animal companions, and many learned about the danger of chaining them outside, thanks to conversations with staffers. Here are some of the animals who were sterilized at the event:

Why Should You Have Your Animal Companion Spayed or Neutered?

Unlike humans, dogs and cats can’t do their own family planning. It’s up to their guardians to make the responsible choice to have them spayed or neutered in order to help curb the companion animal overpopulation crisis. However, sometimes resources aren’t accessible or even available. That’s why PETA Latino is working to reduce the number of homeless animals and help care for dogs and cats in need.

How Spay/Neuter Clinics Help Mitigate the Homeless-Animal Crisis

In just one year, an unspayed cat can give birth to 12 kittens and an unspayed dog can give birth to 16 puppies, which means that PETA Latino’s Cancún event may have prevented the birth of more than 2,000 animals in the next 12 months alone. On any given day in the U.S., there are roughly 70 million homeless companion animals struggling to survive. The number of homeless dogs and cats around the world is almost unfathomable.

Funding for temporary sterilization clinics like PETA Latino’s in Cancún helps reduce the suffering of animals for generations, as fewer unsterilized dogs and cats means fewer animals born into communities that don’t have the resources to care for them. You can help support groups like PETA Latino that are changing the lives of homeless and vulnerable animals by giving to PETA’s Global Compassion Fund today:

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‘Hell on Wheels’ Is Coming: Squawking Chicken Truck to Ruffle Feathers in Jacksonville

Local diners just might think twice about chowing down on fried chicken after they see—and hear—“Hell on Wheels,” PETA’s new guerilla-marketing campaign featuring a life-size chicken transport truck covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to a slaughterhouse, complete with actual recorded sounds of the birds’ cries and a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan. The truck will make stops at The Southern Grill and J Lemon Pepper Fish & Chicken and circle Love Grove Elementary School, Boles Middle School, and The Covenant School of Jacksonville on Thursday and Friday as part of the group’s national tour.

“Behind every barbecued wing or bucket of fried chicken is a once-living, sensitive individual who was crammed onto a truck for a terrifying, miserable journey to their death,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck is an appeal to anyone who eats chicken to remember that the meat industry is cruel to birds and that the kindest meal is a vegan one.”

Birds killed for their flesh are bred to grow such unnaturally large upper bodies that their legs often become crippled under the weight. They’re trucked through all weather extremes, sometimes over hundreds of miles and without any food or water, to slaughterhouses, where their throats are slit—often while they’re still conscious.

The “Hell on Wheels” tour previously staked out chicken restaurants in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Upcoming stops on the tour include Tallahassee, Florida; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and New Orleans, Louisiana; and Houston and San Antonio, Texas.

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

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