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LFA PROGRAMS
help Mexican nationals
of limited means
to pay for
EMERGENCY
VET CARE
and
SPAY & NEUTER
SURGERIES
We also provide
FOOD FOR
RESCUED
ANIMALS
and
FELINE LEUKEMIA
TESTING
for cats in
shelter facilities
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NEW: Post Life Planning for Continuing
Animal Care
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for help in making
arrangements to
have your animals
cared for after
you are no longer
able to do it yourself

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Please take a minute to browse the emergency vet care reports below and imagine the fate of each animal had LFA not helped these low income pet owners get emergency care for their animals.
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Emergency Vet Care:
July 2010
. ..Adult dog with acute distemper – impossible to save, euthanised.
June Summary
Feline Leukemia – Shelter quarantine for intake from 3 /06 into July. 1 test, 2 cats – Negative result. Testing to resume after quarantine lifted.Surgeries:- total 23. Dogs M-3, F9; Cats M-4, F11
June 2010
. ..Spayed female cat with eye infection/ diarrhea/ vomiting
. .. Adult male dog with eye infection / limping. Treated and neutered same day
. .. Spayed adult female dog with impacted anal sack – drained and given meds.
. .. Young PG cat with 2 fractures at left knee on hind leg. Requires two or more pins, surgery highly likely to fail – so euthanised with owners agreement.
May Summary
Feline Leukemia Tests 9 kits used, 21 animals tested – 1 positive (obvious signs), 21 negative. Surgeries total 33. Dog M-5, F17;Cats M-0, F11
May 2010
. . . Adult Chihuahau in labor for several hours, 1st puppy died inside, stuck midway. Second puppy alive and delivered by caesarian, but after 2 hours treatment could not breathe unassisted and died. Adult spayed same time.
. . . Adult dog had cancerous tumor in retained testicle – surgery to remove. Neuter same day.
. .. 5 month female puppy having seizures / unstable. Vet treated for virus infection – probably advanced stages of distemper, despite lack of discharge. Likely due to lateness of first injection and chances of survival are 1 in 50 with no guarentee of being OK. Euthanised and body must be incinerated.

 LAKE CHAPALA, JALISCO, MEXICO