It has been a few months since we communicated with you and we apologize for that. Our all-volunteer staff has been very busy with aging parents, new grandchildren and assisting with animal sterilization clinics.
In this edition we think you will find some practical information along with a couple of stories about how we have assisted animal welfare programs in Manzanillo.
10 Foods Poisonous to Pets
Posted on Care2 by: Megan Zehnder
 We all know that pets aren’t supposed to have people food. But let’s
face it, sometimes, it happens…something falls on the floor when you’re
cooking dinner, and Buddy is quickly there, vacuuming up the crumbs, or
Felix steels something off the plate when you aren’t looking…
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PATA 5-Day Sterilization Clinic
Person  as Ayudando a Todos los Animales (PATA) held a very successful 5th annual multi-day MASH style sterilization clinic where 286 animals were sterilized using the complete sterilization process. Friends of PATA "sponsored" one day of the clinic by committing to the funding of 60 animals at $22 USD each. Thanks to very generous donations of material received by PATA, the Friends of PATA funds actually sterilized about 110 animals! Many times people will ask why should we worry about animals when there is so much human suffering around? Controlling the population of animals on the street directly affects the health of the community. Therefore animal welfare programs are actually public health programs, they are just executed through animals.
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Top 10 Dog and Cat Videos of 2009
Friends of PATA Video Program
This year a donor provided funds to allow Friends of PATA to take advantage of  a product donation of 2 Flip Video Cameras at a fraction of retail. This allows us to loan cameras to Manzanillo animal welfare programs to create videos showcasing their programs. PATA was the first to do so and their first two videos can be seen by clicking on the following 2 links. Video of one day of the 5-day clinicVideo of a one-day mini clinic in Centro Manzanillo
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