2/25/06 The Last Day of Puppy Angels

Look at that board! That is a list of all the animals that were sterilized today; 36 animals spayed or neutered today for a grand total of 124 in just 4 days! That was a gigantic effort and, thanks to the well oiled machine of Puppy Angels, it was a monumental success. Every single animal that walked in walked out to their appreciative owners. Educating the people on this island about how to take good care of their animals is a slow process (like a glacier at times) but the fact that so many animals were brought into this clinic is a testament that some people are getting the message. By sterilizing so many animals this week, we have helped to alleviate the suffering of not only these animals but also many unwanted litters of puppies and kittens in the future.

And if that wasn’t enough to make me feel good, look who came back! He doesn’t have his eyelid sutured shut as I had predicted back on 9 December but the eye is still in the socket.

To refresh your memory see the photo to your left. This pompek was attacked but his larger house mate causing his left eye to pop out of the orbit (proptosis). I placed the globe back into the orbit and sutured the lids together. He came in for a one week recheck but never came back the following week to have the sutures removed but I presume that the owner did that himself. There is a large area of pigment and scarring on the center of the cornea so I’m not sure how visual he is out the eye but it still moves in synch with the right eye. Best of all though, he is comfortable and cosmetically he is still a good looking dog!