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Funds collected help support PATA's free spay/neuter clinics
Chris Newbold and Her Calgary Team
Jane and Michelle; Amber, lucky raffle winner
PATA's Dra. Gaby prepping
one of her smaller patients
Chris spent over 60 hours creating a quilt to raffle off to raise money for PATA. Then she turned the project over to Canada Post workers, Jane and Michelle, who sold $1,000 worth of raffle tickets (incredible!). Amber was the lucky winner of the quilt, and PATA is the lucky recipient of the donations.
Chris is using some of the money to buy surgery instruments. Working with donated instruments, our vets have had to use whatever hodge-podge we could find. We only had one set of very small tools to operate on the kitties and small puppies. With the Calgary groups' generous help, the vets will be able to safely spay the littler pets.
John and Susan LeCoq
Susan said, "I own a house in Club Santiago, but I have not been there for 16 years...I was so saddened to see the starving dogs. I brought two dogs home from the beach in 1982, adored both, and they had long, happy lives with me. My daughter, Andrea, brought two dogs home a year ago.
"I am very impressed with what you are doing, and admire you. If I go back to Manzanillo, I will find you and hug you."
Tim and Mary Dee from Minnesota
A street
dog waits for surgery
in a newly donated crate
These two donated two very large shipping crates, and assorted smaller ones. The large ones were put into service the very first day they arrived, at a mobile mini-clinic.
It's critical to have large crates for the street dogs because most have never been restrained and need a safe place to wait for surgery.
