Improvements Taking Place in Vallarta's Animal Shelter Adriana Riestra - PV Mirror
go to original October 29, 2012

To all my clients and friends, as most of you know I am a crazy animal lover.

A couple of months ago, a group of friends and I decided that it was time we did something to help out our local animal shelter. It has been practically abandoned for years and the animals there were living in very poor conditions.

It was the perfect timing since the administration was changing and the horrible people who were running it were going to be kicked out.

We now have two lovely ladies that are veterinarians who are working crazy hard to get the place back in shape, and one person who helps out with cleaning and maintenance, as well as all the support from our lovely Cuqui who most of you know.

Cuqui Name will now be in charge of the Centro de Acopio animal. We are very happy and we are sure she will do a great job!!!

We have also started working on the recollection of materials to build more cages. We hope to be able to accommodate up to 55 dogs, including puppies. Based on Melissa’s experience, we brought the number up to 60 cats, and we have already considered spaces for quarantines. Hopefully this will help AngeliCat and all the other associations that need more space for our furry friends.

We put together a project to remodel and add better animal accommodation. It includes the following:

• We are fixing and painting all the existing cages.
• We are adding 4 new areas for cats.
• We are adding an area for puppies.
• We are creating an area for the grooming of the animals.
 

You can help by purchasing a t-shirt

The total cost of the project is 367,000 pesos. We have been going to sell used clothes to the Mojoneras market, as well as selling T-shirts specially made for the cause for 120 pesos and bracelets for 20 pesos.

Thank you to Ricardo Farkas of Vallarta Adventures, who has always been so generous to causes relating to animals.

You may contribute to the cause by donating clothes or purchasing a t-shirt or a bracelet.

Above are some pictures of the work we have done these past weeks. This help goes directly to the reconstruction of the shelter, but we still need a lot of help for the care of the pets.

We are desperately seeking donations of cat or dog food as well as cat litter. We also need medicines since, at the moment, all we have are medicines from 2008!!!

We would also love to have some volunteers. At this point the place is still in pretty bad shape but we are working on that and would love to have some volunteers help out giving some love to the cats and walking and loving the dogs. They spend practically all day in cages because we do not have enough helping hands!!!

I know at this point it is all very informal, but we do intend to create a plan of volunteers and other ways to help, it is just like I said before: too much work and not enough people so we are trying to do as much as we can with the little we have.

I do not want to have another month go by and simply because we have not had the time to create a formal volunteer project and have the animals caged for such long periods of time.

If you wish to go visit the animal shelter, please call me, Adriana Riestra, at 044 (322) 429-8115.

We also have some beautiful animals for adoptions. If you wish to adopt, you may do so simply by donating food.

All help is welcome. Thank you!!

From Heather Wilson: "This is the opportunity we have waited seven years for! We've had many 'false starts' along the way, when we thought we could help the animals by providing food and meds or giving them attention, etc. And some very good people have stepped up to the plate to try to do these things over the years, just to be frustrated. Well, NOW IS OUR CHANCE!"

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