Sterilisation Centre for Dogs & Cats
in Italy
Lega Pro Animale
Via Mario Tommaso
Castel Volturno, Campania 81030
Italy
ph: 0823 859552
fax: 0823 859552
alt: 347 1976643
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One of our supporters has kindly sent a Youtube clip made by her 12-year old granddaughter about the plight of the street cats in Abruzzo, Italy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Ny-ieSs5g
Winnie, the cat mentioned at the end of the video, was adopted by the girl's grandmother.
Dear supporters and animal lovers,
the price for gas is increasing on a daily basis, people are stressed by preparations for Christmas, bad weather– we thought eventually to remain without cats on our last “spay day”of the year 2011 on December 17. Over 200 stray cats were booked for free spaying/neutering at the Spay and Neuter Centre of LEGA PRO ANIMALE in Castel Volturno (southern Italy). 155 were caught and brought in – not the worst case!
The “spay team” worked– with a short break for lunch – from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with success, as always:
-53 tom cats in the next year will not cause 15.000 pregnancies. Male cats are polygamy and do“it” even with several female cats in one day
-102 female cats in the next years will not have any more litters. 4 litters a year per cat with an average 4 kittens per litter sums up to over 1600 kittens that are prevented from being born to struggle the traffic and diseases. And the Spring litter would be pregnant already in Autumn … here are the pictures from the day.
These figures are giving me the strength to continue. Maybe one day there will not be stray dogs and stray cats anymore, no more dead “pets” decaying along the streets. Even after all these long years I cannot get used to it!
My biggest desire for 2012? I wished that all Italian vets would spay/neuter more dogs and cats in order that only the number of puppies and kittens will be born to responsible owners who are waiting for them.
I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a wonderful NEW YEAR 2012.
Dorothea Friz, DVM
CATS, CATS AND MORE CATS...
It’s early morning, Friday 18th November 2011. Where are we? People are appearing with all sorts of boxes – some cat boxes, some cat traps, even soft bags with holes in for air. TODAY IS SPAY DAY.
At the reception, the staff are waiting to receive and help register all the cats to be neutered. Inside, the veterinary staff and volunteers move purposefully going about their various jobs with a calm professionalism.
To the fresh eyes of the newest volunteers it was a great experience watching all the frenetic activity from the more experienced team of professionals and volunteers. We were given jobs in the post-operative stage when, like a conveyer belt, the vets brought us the operated cats and it was our job to untie them from the trays that were holding them securely during their operation.
The unconscious cats were carefully checked to make sure that they were breathing correctly and set in a recovery position with their heads to one side and their tongues hanging out of their mouths. Heated pads were placed under them, and once back inside their cages, they were covered with a warm blanket. Their cages were also covered to reduce any stress and then they were moved to the recovery room where some dedicated volunteers carefully observed the safe recovery of the animals.
The five vets were kept busy from 9 o’clock through to 6 o’clock with just a short break in the middle of the day for a welcome lunch prepared by more loyal volunteers. In addition to the hearty meal, the workers were constantly encouraged throughout the day with coffee accompanied by cakes made by Dottore Friz and Maria, a volunteer from the British NATO community.
To our great delight, by the end of the day the vets neutered 119 female cats and 56 males. How fantastic is that!
The tired and happy team of professionals and volunteers felt more than satisfied with their successful day. Now it was time to relax. HELP!!!! An escapee! A clever cat had recovered and opened its cage, and was causing mayhem. The clever rogue cat was chased by the team and triumphantly returned to his cage amidst the cheers and laughter of the onlookers.
CLICK HERE to see more pictures taken on the day.
As new volunteers, we would like to thank Dorothea Friz and her loyal team who made us feel so welcome.
Julie and Elisabeth, British Volunteers
PLEASE HELP WITH A DONATION TO ENABLE THE NEXT S/N EVENT. AISPA will double any single donation over £250!
WORLD ANIMAL SPAY DAY
To celebrate WORLD ANIMAL DAY (October 4th), LEGA PRO ANIMALE offered another “SPAY DAY” (free spaying/neutering of stray cats). After the memo was put on the homepage within 10 days cat care takers from all over the Region of Campania in southern Italy made appointments for over 200 animals. And this time nearly all of them arrived: 205 cats were caught, but only 204 were operated, because one of the females showed a big scar on the belly and probably she was already spayed, even if there was no tattoo (there is a law in the Region of Campania that prescribes to tattoo the letter “S” close to the incision for all dogs and cats in order to not open animals twice).
133 female and 71 male (a big number of them under the age of 4 month!) now do not proliferate anymore; they will not contribute anymore to the big stray problem. We never should forget that a female cat can have up to 4 litters a year with up to 8 kittens in only one litter and one male can get pregnant around 300 female cats in only one year. With only one “spay day” the birth of over 20.000 kittens can be avoided in the following year.
And everybody asked when the next spay day will be, because there are still thousands of cats in the streets that need neutering.The LPA “spay team” wants to thank all donators from all over the world to have enabled the October spay day and hopes that the next one can take place as soon as possible. Pictures from the Spay Day.
SPAY DAY No 27, ANOTHER HOT ONE!
September 2011
Friday the 2nd of September 2011 the 27th “spay day” took place in the spay and neuter centre of LEGA PRO ANIMALE in southern Italy. Normally this animal protection organisation specialised in resolving the stray animal problem offers once monthly one of these days, where cat care takers from all over the Region of Campania can catch stray cats to get them neutered free of charge, but in the month of August there was no such event. It had been simply too hot and some of the volunteers have been on holiday. But even the 2nd of September made most of the participants sweating: the temperature reached 30 ° centigrade!
Nevertheless 135 cats have been caught by 64 different care takers and transported to Castel Volturno in the province ofCaserta. All the cats have been altered and picked up the next morning to be released at their feeding points. This time there were many very young cats: 30 % of the cats were aged under 4 months and another 41 % from 5 to 12 months. In total 85 female were spayed and therefore are not going to produce a litter in the coming year. If we think of only 3 kittens in a litter (and experience shows that this is a very low estimate!) over 250 will not be in danger of cars and contracting diseases living in the streets anymore.
This time the event had been sponsored by the Foundation of Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V. inGermany. A BIG THANK YOU for this generous support. Even if there are many volunteers helping during the “spay days” and therefore the cost per surgery is drastically reduced, without financial resources we cannot do anything!
LEGA PRO ANIMALE thanks everybody who will contribute with small or large amounts to this very important preventive measurement. SEE PICTURES TAKEN ON THE DAY.
August 2011
A HOT SPAY DAY
July 2011
The 15th of July was one of the hottest days of the year 2011. Nevertheless, the vets and volunteers of LEGA PRO ANIMALE, along with 52 different care takers of stray cats persisted and did their best: 124 cats were neutered (97 female and 27 male). The cats were caught in several provinces of the Campania Region and taken to the Spay and Neuter Centre in Castel Volturno. The LEGA PRO ANIMALE “spay team” was very well organized and from 8 o’clock in the morning until 6 p.m. (with a short lunch break) animals were prepared, neutered and taken care of after surgery. The next morning, they were picked up and released at their feeding points. A green spot tattooed in one ear identifies the animals from a distance as already being neutered.
This “hot” day would not have been possible without the support of three wonderful sponsors. The British animal protection organization AISPA (The Anglo-Italian Society for the Protection of Animals) based in London had a very good idea; they spread the word saying if an individual would give a minimum sum of £ 250,00 they would double it. Mrs. Margaret Jones immediately cooperated and thanks to AISPA her donation was doubled up to £ 500,00. Then, Mrs. Marina Lesona Fasano, a year long Italian benefactor of LEGA PRO ANIMALE donated another Euro 1.000,00. She is author of several philosophy books; one of which is of special importance. “Le Orme dell’Amore”, is an overview of what philosophers of the past were thinking about animals. The warmest thanks to all of them!
Neutering is not only important for strays. Homeless cats or their ancestors certainly were once household pets, a family member on 4 paws. If an unsterilized cat is confined in an apartment, there will not be a long lasting problem. However, “intact” male and female cats soon convince even the biggest opponents to castration to make an appointment with the vet’s clinic, because the unpleasant smell of a tom cat and the unhappy screams of a female cat in heat quickly change their minds. But too often cats are allowed to roam and breed freely, and in this case it will quickly become problem: 4 litters a year, 3-5 kittens in each (sometimes 8-9) and those cute little kittens at the age of only 5 months can then become pregnant themselves! A couple of the kittens could possibly be re-homed, but what about the others? And, do you really think a female cat is happy being pregnant constantly and busy all the time nursing her offspring? Humans are able to plan when to have their children and how many; cats (and dogs) cannot make such decisions on their own!
97 female cats were neutered in one day. If we calculate 4 kittens per litter that means that about 400 cats that certainly could not have been re-homed and would have suffered living in the streets will not be born in the immediate future. If you extend this calculation out for say 10 years, an enormous number of unwanted litters of kittens have been prevented. Despite the untiring work of LEGA PRO ANIMALE and that of other vets and organisations, there are still thousands of unsterilized cats in the streets and every day thousands more of them are born. Maybe it would be better to not wait anymore until animals become strays? Maybe it would be better to copy the decision of the Mayor of Los Angeles who ordered the spaying and neutering of all dogs and cats aged 4 months or older. Owners were also given the option to pay a substantial yearly tax if they chose not to sterilize their pets. By taking these measures, he hopes to stop the killing of hundreds of unwanted animals in the shelters that happens every day! Click here for PHOTOS FROM THE DAY
Anyone who wants to support the work of LEGA PRO ANIMALE and especially enable them to offer another “spay day” as soon as possible can do so by making a donation. Remember, AISPA will double any donation received over £250. Thank you!
SPAY DAY JUNE 2011
June 2011
The latest “Spay Day” of June 17th 2011 could only happen because of the financial sponsorship by the Foundation of the Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V. in Germany. 124 cats (77 female and 47 male) were caught in different parts of the Region of Campania and taken to the spay and neuter centre of LEGA PRO ANIMALE in Castel Volturno where they were neutered during this special day of “mass surgeries”.
July 2007 was the first time ever one of these days happened following examples in the USA. 72 cats (46 female and 26 male) were fixed. In the meantime the team of LEGA PRO ANIMALE together with numerous volunteers are able to work on up to 200 animals in only one day. Up to today and only during these “spay days” over 3300 cats have been neutered. This big number is only possible because the cats are passing various “stations” before and after surgery: check-in, control, anaesthesia, microchipping, injecting drugs, grooming and control. The vets operate on one cat after another that are fixed on little trays and already prepared. After surgery a team place the animals back in their cages in between warm blankets and another team watches them until they are completely awake. The cats remain at LPA for one night and their caretakers come the next morning to pick them up to release them immediately in their habitat. See pictures taken on the day.
EXPO 2011 USA
Spring 2011
Like every year EXPO 2011, the biggest training event for people working with animals, took place in the United States of America. This time it happened in Florida and over 1700 participants from all over the States did not only learn about the latest news in this sector, but also had a great time at Orlando’s Disney World. Click here to read what happened at this amazing event.
FETE PUPPY'S NEW HOME IN THE UK
April 2011
In June 2010, the children who attended the British Fete in Naples had an opportunity to name a puppy that was in our care (see previous news). 'Poppi' was soon adopted and has settled very well into her new life in the UK. Her new owner says she is very lively, extremely clever and funny too! She loves running in the fields and woods and has their older dog to keep her company. They are all living very happily together!
SPAY DAY & PHOTO CONTEST RESULTS
April 2011
DEAR ANIMAL LOVERS AND SUPPORTERS OF OUR WORK IN SOUTHERN ITALY,
I have attached the pictures of our last “spay day” Friday April 8th (free of charge spaying/neutering of stray cats). I hope you are as happy as we are about the success! More and more people are contacting us and ask for free s/n (finally!!), but now we need your financial support to buy more suture material. Click here to find out how you can donate.
The results of the Spay Day 2011 Online Pet Photo Contest are in! A total of $430 was raised thanks to your entries and voting more animals can be sterilised!
Thank you so much for your help and very best wishes from southern Italy, Dorothea Friz, DVMSPAY DAY FOR STRAY CATS ORGANIZED BY LEGA PRO ANIMALE ON MARCH 18th 2011
March 2011
The very bad weather conditions went against the activities of the cat caretakers: only half of the number of cats entered the traps on this special day. Therefore the “spay team” went home early this Friday March 18th, but after spayed/neutered 107 cats (71 female and 36 male) at the Spay and Neuter Centre of LEGA PRO ANIMALE in Castel Volturno (CE).
The rain came down so heavily that lots of areas are still under water and one of the care takers had been involved in an accident with the cats in traps on board. Thank God that nothing serious happened, only one cat escaped and they will try to catch it again.
Springtime and nearly all the females were found during a heat cycle or already pregnant, even those very young at the age of 5 months. Two months after breeding they deliver their kittens and we found up to nine (!) in one cat. Adult female cats can give birth up to four times a year and often the cats are already pregnant again still nursing their little ones from the litter before. Now we know why we have a stray problem in so many areas!
Without exaggerating: 71 females will not have a litter this year. Let’s assume 4 kittens per litter, this sums up to 184 little stray kittens that we prevented being born. Most of them finish their lives in terrible ways: under cars or they die from diseases. These horrible scenes can be avoided by spaying and neutering. The surgical technique is routine and the following day the cats can return to their normal life in the colonies without consequences for their health and behaviour.
We all hope that more and more care takers and especially cat owners will have the animals in their care neutered (and the same has to be said for dogs!) to reduce unwanted litters. Unfortunately there are no safe contraceptive drugs for our pets. If we keep them away from their sexual partners they suffer, because their hormones stimulate their desire. If we let them stray they have unwanted litters.
LEGA PRO ANIMALE will continue to offer free spaying/neutering for stray animals, but financial resources are needed. Anyone who wants to contribute to the work of LPA can make a donation. See our pictures taken on the day.
SPAY DAY INTERNATIONAL
February 2011
For 17 years this special day has been celebrated all over the world and is organized by the Humane Society International. This year the event took place on February 21st, but LEGA PRO ANIMALE in southern Italy organized a “spay day” for stray cats 4 days later: February 25th. And it became a real “INTERNATIONAL” event with volunteers helping from several countries: Italy, the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Africa.
115 cats were neutered (84 female and 31 male), caught in the entire territory of the Region of Campania by 45 different care takers. In spite of the low temperatures at the moment nearly all of the females were found during a heat cycle or already pregnant at the time of the surgery. Thank God that the human population in the area has seen the advantages of s/n, even for pregnant animals. Unfortunately there is no future for all these kittens, the demand for them is much lower than the birth rate.
The event had been announced on the web site of LPA, in local newspapers and through bill boards in different areas. Care takers are still calling for appointments and the next “spay day” will take place very soon.
Volunteers and staff of LPA hope to find the financial resources to continue free spaying and neutering for dogs and cats in southern Italy. If you want to help, please click on the Donation link above. Here are the pictures taken on the day.
WHAT WE DID IN 2010...
LATEST NEWSLETTERS
December 2010
To read our latest newsletter and see what we have been up to recently please click hereWORKING TOWARDS NO MORE HOMELESS DOGS AND CATS IN ITALY
January 2011
Lega Pro Animale is helping the dogs and cats in southern Italy, one by one. Oscar was a stray dog who was the victim of a hit and run accident. Luckily the driver behind stopped to help him. Click on this link to read the article on the International Best Friends network
TOURISTS CAN ALSO HELP
August 2010
We were recently contacted by a lady who had been on holiday here in Italy. She witnessed what many tourists see when they visit; stray cats and kittens everywhere, some sick and very thin. She decided she wanted to help these poor creatures and wrote to the Italian Embassy. Here is a copy of her letter. We encourage anyone who wishes to help to write to the authorities.BIG FUN RUN IN ENGLAND
Summer 2010
One of our volunteers, Andrea, together with her young son and adopted Lega dog Asia, took part in a Big Fun Run in the Derbyshire countryside to raise funds for LPA. Many of the runners were in fancy dress and the sun managed to shine until the end of the race! Her son was the first baby and Asia was the first dog to cross the finish line! Well done for raising essential funds towards our Spay Days.
ITALIAN STRAYS HAVE A BEST FRIEND
July 2010
The Best Friends Animal Society have recognised Dorothea's work with Italian strays in a recent article. Click here... http://network.bestfriends.org/golocal/international/15605/news.aspxCHILDREN AT THE BRITISH FETE 'NAME A PUPPY'!
June 2010
The annual British Fete recently took place and children were invited along to name one of Lega Pro Animale's puppies at their information stand. Lots of children wrote names down and one was pulled out of the hat at the end of the day. The winning puppy name was POPPY! People also donated generously in our donation box - THANK YOU! See more photos from the day...RETURN TO AQUILA
April 2010
In April, the Lega Pro Animale veterinary team returned to Aquila to help the feline earthquake victims... read our story and see the photographs of us at work.STARVED AND ABANDONED ON CHRISTMAS EVE
January 2010
Twiggy and Stecca were abandoned with their puppies outside our Centre on Christmas Eve. They were all extremely thin and were very afraid. Read their story...SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2009
Summer 2009
Read all our latest news and see photos in our Summer 2009 Newsletter .AQUILA'S FELINE EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
October 2009
In April 2009 a heavy earthquake destroyed the historic centre of Aquila and some of the villages in the surrounding areas. Many people died and over 70 thousand citizens lost their homes. And today, 7 months after the disaster, many of them are still living in tents. This is not a pleasure at the moment with temperatures under o° centigrade during the nights.
The meteorological conditions did not favour either the team of LEGA PRO ANIMALE when they reached the city of Aquila with their spay van and over 40 cat traps on October 25th. In August they should have started to catch the cats straying in the rubble of the town searching for their owners. They should have been spayed/neutered and released back to their feeding place. There is plenty of food and fresh water available. Since the very first days after the disaster members of local animal protection societies (LAV, RAN onlus, 99 gatti AQ) drove around on a daily basis and took care of all these cats. And naturally nature did its best to present the bill: nearly all of the females had kittens: spring and summer is the main breeding season of free roaming cats. The state veterinary services, in charge of spaying/neutering the strays, had been overworked and not even through the support of other state veterinarians coming from the neighbouring region Reggio Emilia had it been possible to catch and neuter all of these cats. Therefore the cat protection organisation “RAN onlus” that primarily takes care of stray cats on the property of the RAI television in Rome asked LEGA PRO ANIMALE of Castel Volturno for help. This happened to be in August, but it was not until the end of October when they got all the authorizations to go up and work there in their mobile spay clinic.
We (Dorothea and Giuliano, vets of the LEGA PRO ANIMALE team and Ambra a young vet from Taranto ) had been completely taken aback when we reached Aquila. Not knowing the city we naturally got lost and stranded in the middle of the historic old city that had been fully hit by the earthquake. To the right and left, houses with big cracks, completely destroyed, folded up like a house of cards; an outside wall missing showing a living room with pictures on the wall and the table cloth still on the table...
We finally reached the communal shelter and received a warm welcome by the colleagues of the state veterinary services. But unfortunately the container I asked for was not ready. I had suggested a meeting with the volunteers of Aquila before work started but this had not taken place. And there was no accommodation available for us. We had to drive 70 km to find an “Albergo” for the first night.
The next morning we reached the container that was at our disposal located next to a camp of the earthquake victims. But there was a problem. I noticed the water dripping out of the bottom of the container when we approached it. Inside it was flooded. Some military people from the camp tried to fix the problem, but it kept dripping so we decided to close the tap and bring in water from an external water supply for scrubbing the instruments after surgery.
We unloaded our trucks and prepared our equipment. The agreement had been that the local volunteers would find some cats to be neutered the first day. But there was not one cat waiting, until some time later a young man showed up who took us to some places with cats. He told us that most of them would be neutered already. I could not understand how he knew, because most of them were tigered cats and did not show any visible identification. We caught some of them. After we were done with them no further cats were brought to our surgery. I started to catch cats on my own, driving to the villages, mainly talking to the elderly people still living in the rest of the buildings, asking for stray cats. I caught a large number of them myself.
After nearly 20 spays the first day we really were not very exhausted from work (we do 50-60 cats normally when we work in the field….), but very tired. We did not want to drive another 70 km to the hotel, especially the additional daily cost for gas and autostrada fees that would have swallowed our budget. We tried to find accommodation close to Aquila but without any success. One of the state veterinarians offered us campers and the civil protection gave us a bed and a mattress. Every evening after work we pushed the working tables to the side and prepared the bed. The preparation room for surgery became a sleeping facility. We could use the showers and the toilets of the camp. I very thoughtfully decided during the night to go to the toilet, or not, with temperatures below 0 ° centigrade or heavy rain showers. Thank God we found a bed and breakfast close to our spay van for the second week of working in Aquila.
From the second day on a young man from Aquila helped us. Tiziano went to the villages to catch the cats and finally we could work. Another volunteer joined us and together with another catching team working on the territory we caught 269 animals. Two of the male cats, very old and skinny, had to be euthanized straight away. They had cancer in an advanced state and could not eat anymore. Three of the female and one of the male cats had been neutered already before, in fact we noticed only when they were under anaesthesia, because there was no external identification. Two of the female cats showed a surgery scar on the abdomen, but one obviously was operated from the flank and we opened it up again. In total we performed 264 surgeries (121 male and 143 female cats). All the animals have been treated for worms and fleas. They have been identified with a microchip and tattooed in the ear with a big green spot. Cats have erect ears therefore the green spot can be seen from far away.
Finally, at the end of the second week the citizens of Aquila found out that we were there to s/n stray cats. Cat care takers called, but we could only accept a small number of the remaining cats. There are still hundreds of cats down town Aquila and in the villages in the province. They need to be caught for neutering and released back. We hope to find sponsors to go back and help catch them in Spring, before the females have their inevitable heat cycle and thousands of kittens will be born. These kittens have little chance of survival because of diseases or car accidents.
This time these two “spay weeks” were financed by The Anglo-Italian Society for the Protection of Animals in London, UK. All of the people involved in this event and especially the cats would like to thank this generous organisation for their precious help. A big “THANK YOU” goes to the American organisation “Friends of Roman Cats” that donated the necessary number of traps that are very easy to manage and do not hurt the animals being trapped.
SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT
Who wants to help to make the next “spay event” in Aquila possible? You can mail a donation to AISPA, 136 Baker Street, London, W1U 6DU Attn. Susan Dale – secretary Add: FOR LEGA PRO ANIMALE – feline earthquake victims Aquila.
20th ANNIVERSARY CONGRESS & OPEN DAY
September 2009
LEGA PRO ANIMALE's 20th Anniversary congress was held at Castel Volturn
o.The day was a huge success, with speakers and guests attending from around the world. Click here to see our photos and to read more. Our congress was followed by an OPEN DAY the next day, when everyone was invited to come along for a fun filled day and lots of entertainment.
EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENT
ANIMAL CARE EXPO 2009” took place in Las Vegas,USA. Nearly 2000 people from all over the United States and over 100 members of animal protection organiz
ations from over 30 countries participated in this yearly event to improve skills in animal handling and care.Each year somebody is awarded the “HSI AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY COMMITMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT”. This year two people were selected: Dorothea Friz, president of LEGA PRO ANIMALE and Lilian Schnog who works in Costa Rica.
STRAYS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The students from the International School in Bagnoli, Naples paid u
s a visit as they were very interested in how to approach the stray problem and how the “production” of dogs and cats should be regulated by the “demand” for them. Together they worked on the account of how many puppies can be born from one pair of dogs in one year and they could not believe the numbers of animals produced in a relatively short time, counting all the puppies from the puppies within the years. They decided that spaying/ neutering is the best method to prevent unnecessary suffering of animals. WSPA AWARD FOR LEGA PRO ANIMALE
Dorothea Friz has worked for over 26 years in southern Italy to try and reduce the enormous number of stray dogs and cats. She has received the 2008 award “in recognition of her
Outstanding Contribution to Animal Welfare” from WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals).The celebration took place in London, during the Annual General Meeting of WSPA and representatives from member organisations from all over the world were present. Together with the award she received a cheque for £1,000.00, prize money sponsored by Mr and Mrs Compton from Australia, in recognition of the work of LEGA PRO ANIMALE.
NEWS ARCHIVES... Spay Days 2005 - 2010
To read more about our previous Spay Days click here for all our news and pictures.
ASIA FINDS A HOME! 
One of our long term residents, Asia, has found a new home at last! Asia came to us as a puppy and had been waiting many years in our care for someone to adopt her. One of our volunteers spent alot of time with Asia when she visited our centre and realised what a super friendly dog she was. When she returned to the UK she could not leave her behind.
Asia is now living with her new family in the UK. Another happy ending for one lucky canine!
Marathon Spay Day
This time it did not turn out to be a “marathon of surgeries” despite the fact that the day had been sponsored by Andrea Hunt from England who participated in the Great North Run Marathon. She run 21 km to support the work of LEGA PRO ANIMALE and AISPA, an incredible effort which was a h
uge success: Andrea managed to collect the money to
finance our 8° spay day – THANKS A LOT!
116 cats (78 female and 48 male)from all over the Region were spayed and neutered. After one night in the recovery rooms of the spay and neuter centre, the cats were picked up by their caretakers the morning after surgery to be released at their feeding points.
Lega Pro Animale
Via Mario Tommaso
Castel Volturno, Campania 81030
Italy
ph: 0823 859552
fax: 0823 859552
alt: 347 1976643
