The Antonio Haghenbeck y de la Lama Foundation assigned a team of veterinary doctors to this Sterilization Center that will have the capacity to care for thousands of street dogs and cats.
Mexico City, February 21 (However).- The Antonio Haghenbeck y de la Lama Foundation, a Private Assistance Institution whose corporate purpose is to promote animal well-being, will celebrate its 40th anniversary with the opening of the First Sterilization Center exclusively for Community Animals in Street Situation and Brachycephalic. This center will be located in Iztapalapa, it will have inhaled anesthesia and the capacity to care for 5,000 dogs and cats.
Carmela Rivero, president of the Antonio Haghenbeck Foundation and the Lama IAP, pointed out that the Center will begin operating as of March 1, additionally they seek to make this Center the pilot so that each mayor’s office can implement its own. “With our advice and human and material resources, we are seeking to stop the unrestrained reproduction of dogs and cats, as is now happening in Mexico City,” said Rivero.
The Antonio Haghenbeck y de la Lama Foundation assigned a team of veterinary doctors to this Center (San Rafael Atlixco Avenue number 178, in the Colonia Leyes de Reforma, First Section, Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office), in addition, the Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office committed to attending to the process postoperative and to locate and capture the street animals that will be sterilized.
The work of the Antonio Haghenbeck y de la Lama Foundation stands out for its work of caring for and helping dogs and cats. Among its options, they have support to rescue, sterilize, rehabilitate and find homes for the animals; to which this Sterilization Center now joins. The Foundation created by Don Antonio Haghenbeck in 1984 aims to alleviate the pain of animals in the face of the callous cruelty and indifference that unfortunately still prevails in the country.
Sterilization work has been one of the Foundation’s priority programs for almost 30 years, to date there have been more than 560 thousand sterilizations, which translates into preventing the birth of several million animals and contributing to stopping health problems. that its overpopulation entails.
During the commemorative event for the four decades of the Foundation, the only ambulance that attends animal emergencies in Mexico City was exhibited; To request any service, people can call 55 52193611 or contact www.fah.com.mx
The only ambulance that attends animal emergencies. Photo: Courtesy
