Sterilization

Our mission to address pet overpopulation

Amigos de los Animales focuses on helping pet owners control their pets’ fertility by offering low-cost sterilization services to the Guanajuato community. On December 10 we sterilized 79 animals at our 23rd campaign of the year, achieving a total of 1,440 sterilizations during 2023. Read more
October was one of our busiest months

During October our volunteers participated in Fundación Corazón Animal’s annual Run with Your Dog event, we began displaying new educational messages on the backs of two city buses, our team sterilized 73 dogs and cats a two campaigns, and two of our volunteers organized three educational events for children and gave two interviews on local TV Channel 8. Read more
November was busy too

Amigos volunteers prepared lots of delicious foods for our Christmas Market, to be held on December 3 in Plaza Allende. Our veterinarians and volunteers sterilized 138 animals and entertained children with stories and coloring books at two sterilization campaigns. November 28 was Giving Tuesday. Read more
September was a busy campaign month

We sterilized 215 animals at three sites during September. Read more
Another milestone: we sterilized our 24,000th case in August

We registered our 24,000th sterilization case on August 20 at a campaign in the village of Valenciana. In recognition of this important event, we presented an award to a rescued female dog named Vacilic and her guardians. Altogether, we sterilized 147 dogs and cats in August, and two of our regular volunteers received their degrees in veterinary medicine during the month. Read more
An extraordinarily loyal friend of Amigos: Mariana Gómez Grobet

Mariana Gómez Grobet has been supporting Amigos since 2002, when she was a teenager. She’s one of our most loyal friends, even though she has not lived in Guanajuato for more than two decades. Read more
117 animals were sterilized at two campaigns in July

During July we conducted two sterilization campaigns—in San José de Cervera and Santa Teresa, sterilizing a total of 117 animals. Read more
Snapshot of a campaign volunteer—Beth

Beth Lozano describes her experience as a volunteer at our sterilization campaigns. Read more
Snapshot of a campaign volunteer—Rosemarie

Rosemarie Conde, a regular volunteer at our sterilization campaigns, describes her first experience and her observations about the campaigns. Read more
75 animals sterilized in San José de Cervera on June 11

On June 11 we sterilized 75 animals—58 dogs and 17 cats—in the village of San José de Cervera. It was our 11th campaign in that community and our third one in the past three years. Read more