OSPA Cabo Verde Cats and Dogs

YOUR SUPPORT IS CRUCIAL

Your support will mean that the level of animal welfare and community awareness is dramatically increased in the following ways:- 

• The health and well being of the animals on Sal, Cape Verde will be much improved.

• Better care and support will be available for the free roaming community animals.

• The local people can be made more aware of the responsibilities connected to owning a pet and they will have the information and tools to correctly care for their animals.

• The overpopulation of free roaming dogs will be more controlled, meaning less unwanted pregnancies, less complaints from local people/businesses, better hygienic conditions of the streets due to less dogs and cats.

BENEFITS

The benefits are that the dogs/cats lives will improve through neutering, which improves overall health, less unwanted pregnancies and puppies/kittens and better fed animals who are stronger against illnesses. 

It helps stop unnecessary suffering of the animals through ignorance, indifference, starvation, abuse, illness or injury.

Local people benefit from education on how to care for animals/pets in the correct way by the support they are given with food, veterinary care for neutered dogs and tools i.e. collars/leads etc provided for families who would struggle to afford it otherwise. They are helped to understand the importance of neutering.

Local businesses and hotels and those using them benefit because the community dogs (ie those still living feral on the streets) that have been neutered will protect their territory from new (unneutered) dogs to enter, meaning no new puppies born in that area for as long as the 'original' dogs live. In the long run this will reduce the overall number of dogs around, therefore less disturbance (noise/fights) caused by dogs chasing females in heat, the area will have better hygiene levels, the same amount of food resources to have to be divided over less mouths means less fights.

The local public authorities benefit: because neutering, in the long run, will reduce the overall number of dogs around, therefore less disturbance (noise/fights) caused by dogs chasing females in heat, less complaints from local people, businesses and tourists, better hygiene in and around the streets, the same amount of food resources to have to be divided over less mouths meaning less fights and less reports of unwanted behaviour and dog attacks which the local authorities have to be called out to deal with.