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Cartago to build ¢75 million center to care for street dogs

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November 4th, 2015 (ICR News) With an initial investment of ¢75 million, the Municipality of Cartago will begin the construction of a care center for stray dogs this month.

 

“The center will be pioneering in this field, attended by a veterinarian and volunteers; we will also provide educational seminars, especially for children, on how they should treat these animals,” Cartago mayor Rolando Rodriguez said in a statement.

 

The center will accommodate 120 stray dogs at a time that will be collected in special animal control vehicles and brought to the center.

 

There, the animals will receive veterinary care and will be castrated.  The dogs will then be cared for and fed until healthy and ready for adoption to a loving new home.

 

The mayor said that construction of the center would begin this month and that the center should be operating by February.

 

The center is being constructed on land owned by the municipality.

 

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  • Ga boy!

    That is absolutely too much money to spend on a facility for stray dogs. This country needs so many other things that are more important. Spend the money protecting the people and providing safe roads for the people. Costa Rica needs more Police and better roads. There is a lot different ways to help the people. I just don’t think you should spend 75 million dollars on a doggy day care.

    • http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams

      It’s not 75 million dollars, it is 75 million colones (note the ¢ symbol, not the $ symbol). About $140,000 US dollars.

      • Yeims

        I believe this is still too much money to spend on a program that essentially addresses the symptoms but not the problem.

        • http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams

          That may or may not be true, I really don’t have an opinion on the matter, I just needed to be clear that no one is spending the same amount of money on a dog shelter that a major hospital for humans could be built :) $75 million is more than the entire annual budget of the muni there I am sure, so I just had to make that clear for the commenter above you. Best — Tim

          • Yeims

            Right! My point is that this is not a dog problem, but rather a human problem. I believe every potential dog owner should see the segment that aired a few months ago, about a psychologist who treated his newborn puppy as if it were a human baby. The dog is being billed as the “most intelligent” dog in the world. He has a vocabulary of 1,200 words and can distinguish between a noun and a verb. Ironically enough, dogs are our best friends but we really know very little about them. Here, they rarely receive training of any kind and are not assigned any responsibilities at all, although they can excel in many things and are much happier when they participate as active family members.

          • http://insidecostarica.com/ Timothy Williams

            I agree, and I saw the same segment/documentary, it was amazing. Unfortunately, for some people in this country a dog is little more than a living, breathing alarm system tied up in front of their house. That attitude has begun to drastically change amongst Ticos though over the last 6 years or so in my opinion, and many, many more Ticos are now seeings dogs for the amazing creatures they are and the attitudes of Costa Ricans towards their dogs, and dogs in general have changed significantly in recent years, in my opinion. Granted, this might not apply universally throughout the country, but in general, the Tico attitude about dogs is changing. I now know many Ticos that allow their dogs inside their homes, and to sleep in their homes – something that was very uncommon just 10 or 12 years ago. Hopefully the progress continues.

        • Elsa Mery Soto Muñoz

          Obviously you do not know much about controlling animal population or did not read the article. This programs aims to neuter and spay these homeless companion animals, which will reduce the number of cats and dogs on the streets.

  • Mark Nelson

    Sign me up to volunteer

  • cariblanca

    Man I can’t believe the comments. I run a small underfunded, under donated castration program here in Costa Rica. We have spent decades teaching and trying to change the Costa Rican culture towards animals. YOU ARE WELCOME! In order to reduce the overpopulation of street animals 70% of the animal population needs to be castrated or it will reverse once stopped. We used to do it for free. Now we charge a nominal fee; this places a value on the animal and people are more willing to “invest” in it. They start to look after it, bath it, feed it, invite it into the home and most importantly take it to a veterinary when it becomes ill. Before they would kick it to the street and get a new cute puppy. In order to change the problem in Costa Rica there are many different angles that have to be addressed. Such as education to the younger population, education to older population, castration to control the population, showing examples, etc. I think that the Mayor of Cartago should be given an award. He is trying to address some of these issues. Now if all Mayors followed his example the situation can change. Congratulations to this Mayor for initiating such a program. I look forward to helping in anyway that I can

  • cariblanca

    Please search out programs in your neighbourhood and donate your time and/or money to such programs. These poor animals need all the help they can get. In Puntarenas there is APRAP (Asociacion Por Rescate Animal Puntarenas) We are on facebook

  • Elsa Mery Soto Muñoz

    This is absolutely outstanding!! So proud of my beloved homeland and Cartago, hometown of my maternal grandparents. Giving homeless animals a shelter, and treating and neutering them for a future home shows how much society’s concern for our companion animals has grown. Kudos to Costa Rica!!

    • cariblanca

      “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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