The Humane Society of Dominica has launched its “Spay and Neuter, Start the Culture!” campaign featuring a catchy music video produced by the Humane Youth Group. The music video aims at raising awareness about spaying and neutering as a means of humanely controlling stray animal populations in Dominica.
In collaboration with various communities and local authorities, the 2014‐2015 “Spay and Neuter, Start the Culture!” campaign also includes an organized program to catch, spay/neuter and release strays in various locales throughout 2015. In the cadre of this program, participating village councils will be able to select a determined number of strays in their locality for which the Humane Society of Dominica, through its fund raising efforts, will pay spay/neuter surgeries and micro‐chipping. After recuperating from the surgery, the animals will then be released back in the village vicinity sporting a distinctive collar for easy identification. All stakeholders will be able to see the program in action when spotting one of collared animals, now ambassadors for spaying/neutering as the most humane, long‐term solution for seriously reducing stray populations.
To raise the necessary funds for the campaign, the Humane Society of Dominica will be holding various events, including a fund raising Happy Hour featuring DJs Dr. Miguel Labadie and DJ KoKo Killer on Wednesday, October 22 starting at 5pm as well as a Doggie Wash on Saturday, November 8, from 9am to 5pm. Both events will take place at the Humane Society’s headquarter, in the courtyard of Melrose House on Hodges Lane. In addition to fund raising events, t‐shirts, tank tops and totes will also be available against donations. The goal of the various events is to raise EC $20,000.00 in order to spay/neuter some 100 animals in 2015.
The Humane Society of Dominica is proud to have secured two important sponsors for the campaign: international dog food manufacturer Roberts, maker of Roberts Chicken & Rice Dog Food, Vitapet Dog Food and Vitapet Puppy Food and Archipelago, local purveyor of the Red Oak dog food brands Red Oak Premium and Red Oak Maintenance. These sponsorships highlight the importance of spaying and neutering as a recognized means of controlling stray animal populations and that this campaign will be a great step in humanely addressing an issue that affects all communities in Dominica.
The Humane Society of Dominica is a non‐profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the humane care and treatment of all creatures, great and small and to advocate animal welfare, environmental consciousness and sustainability in order to further the bond between people, animals and our earth.
View Humane society music video below.
I didn’t want animals because i can barely feed myself. it started with one sorrowful looking cat that turned up in my yard and I threw scraps for it.. In quick time she gained weight and lost her scabs, Soon enough she brought me 4 kittens. Now cat food is a regular budget item. She had another litter within a few months. I have managed to find homes for those but am thinking of spaying. While trying to make up my mind one from the first litter seem to be pregnant and eats more than the other 4. Will somebody please advise or rescue me?
Very good!! I work for an Animal Shelter and we have had free spay/neuter events and I am telling you it helps! Alot of people brought in their animals to get them fixed. We also need to educate about heartworms and mange. Keep your animals vacinated and give them their daily heart worm medication!
correction MONTHLY heartworm medication
good stuff
To the Humane Society of Dominica, thank you, thank you, thank you. I believe this is a great movement.
Very good project.
This is a course of action we should have followed years ago. In fact, a similar programme was introduced with great publicity when Cecil Joseph was Mayor of Roseau but soon ceased when the money ran out.
One thing I don’t understand though. After neutering the dogs they will still be free to roam about the city in menacing packs, rummaging through garbage, messing up the place. Perhaps it would be more humane by putting them to sleep and out of misery.
Gandhi said that the measure of a nations’ greatness is in how it treats its’ animals. DA is not known for treating the animals nor the humans very well. The native Dominican dogs are used to fending for themselves, even if they had an owner previously. Non-native dogs in DA have it much worse if they were abandoned by their owner as they were used to being cared for. They usually starve to death. I find that many people in DA have no compassion for animals and no problem in trying to poison them. There is also little compassion for the poor. If there was an area set aside to house all of these vagrant animals, that would be the solution along with spaying and neutering them. Otherwise, compared to other countries, the stray dogs of this island seem to do just fine with the food that people throw out of which there is no shortage. If you don’t want them in your garbage can, secure it so that it doesn’t get turned over. Unless homes can be found for the strays, they should be allowed to roam freely as long as they are not posing a serious threat to people, and I haven’t seen any that to be the case. There are much more important problems on this island than dogs going through garbage and causing a mess. That can be cleaned up. When you have people dumping poison in the waterways and polluting the lands, that is a far more serious problem than the dogs.