SLAPS Gets Over $12,000 Sandals Foundation Donation

The Sandals Foundation has reaffirmed its partnership with the St. Lucia Animal Protection Society (SLAPS) with a donation of over EC $12,000 toward the 2024 Spay and Neuter Program serving over four hundred (400) domesticated and stray animals. Overpopulation of stray animals, as a result of uncontrolled breeding due to free roaming, not only results in challenges in finding a home and food shortages, but leads to an increase in road accidents involving animals, attacks from other animals, and the spread of diseases among animals, reducing the quality and length of their lives. Spaying and neutering is not only a cost-effective means of managing stray and shelter animals, but it also helps to alleviate overpopulation, and has been proven to reduce the likelihood of certain diseases and cancers in dogs and cats, leading to longer and healthier lives. Doretta Francis, Board Member at SLAPS, says the organisation and wider community are already seeing the benefits of the 2024 spay and neuter program. “SLAPS volunteers have been able to earn the trust of the animals and bring some [mainly dogs] to us to be spayed and neutered.  After a night or two of recovery, the animals are returned to their environments....