Pererra Program
Americans can rest assured that (at the very least) homeless shelter pets across the United States are not terrorized in their final moment, but rather given a needle, which delivers a peaceful and virtually painless transition. Dogs in the perreras (Mexican dog pounds) however, are unceremoniously and brutally clamped with jumper-type cables, wet down, and electrocuted repeatedly until they finally succumb. Most could not witness this wretchedness and remain unchanged.
The bitter irony for UHA remains that euthanasia, a procedure seemingly an anathema to our stated mission, continues instead, to be an integral part of it. The truth remains that we must face the reality of the tragic, short, pain filled lives of unwanted, homeless pets; millions both in Mexico and America suffer and die needlessly.
If not for euthanasia, thousands if not millions of homeless and abandon companion animals sadly suffer starvation, injury, cruelty, and/or disease living only long enough to reproduce, thus ensuring this vicious cycle continues unabated. Via our Shelter Support Program at Baldwin park we network for permanent homes for hundreds of shelter dogs each month and are successful at finding a great many homes however, until spay and neuter becomes the norm homeless and abandon companion animals will suffer.
While we spay and neuter and find loving responsible home for as many as we possilby can and we also make it possible for those without options to pass humanely. While UHA works to educate Mexican pet owners through a monthly spay/neuter clinics, offering spaying and neutering free of charge, and as well places many shelter dogs in responsible home via our Baldwin park SSP, we also address the many thousands of stray dogs collected from the streets of Baja and brought to the perreras.
Inside the perrera thousands of homeless, hungry, injured and ill dogs are swept from the streets by animal control officials, but thanks to our supporters, the ends of their lives are not longer with fear and pain of death via electrocution.
After years of working for change in Tijuana, United Hope for Animals has become the first animal-welfare organization to form a relationship with the Tijuana pound officials.
In fact we need your help to continue helping the many thousands of homeless, injured perrera dogs of Baja Mexico. Before the Perrera Program these poor suffering dogs met their end via electrocution with two jumper cables attached to their bodies, followed by an insufficient electrical shock that usually is repeated several times to ensure death. These facts are true across Mexico and were also the case in the 6 Baja cities perrera, before United Hope for Animals developed a program for change.
However, we need your support to keep the Perrera Program operating. Electrocution is horrific, cruel and unnecessary. United Hope for Animals has been funding the Perrera program for over 4 years now and all 6 cities of Baja, Rosarito, Tecate, Tijuana, Ensenada, Saltillo and Mexicali are no longer electrocuting homeless dogs! but…without your help the perreras will have no option but to return to electrocution as a means of putting down the homeless and abandon dogs.
In December, AAUS negotiated the end of electrocutions in San Luis Rio Colorado. The Directors for the perreras/shelters in Hermosillo, Portta, Pinasco, Cananea and Caborca have now agreed to end electrocutions in their shelters as well. However, United Hope for Animals has reached our financial limitations and cannot provide euthanasia to any of these locations until we receive additional funding. Every dollar helps! If you can please donate on line (UHA donation link) or email Marlene Revelene or visit Animal Advocates of the United States if you would like to learn more about the perrera program.
Your donation will ensure the Perrera Program continues and as well, hopefully advances to Mexican pounds beyond the Baja. Your tax-deductible contribution today will help ensure that we can continue to bring a gentle passing to the many homeless, sick and injured street animals of Tijuana enable us to rescue and find homes for as many as possible and spay and neuter as many as possible to ensure that more unwanted animals don’t face the same fate next year.
To learn more, read about Cesar Milan’s involvement in the Pererra Program.
Lancelot will forever be remembered for his brave struggle to survive an insurmountable illness believed to have been a brain tumor. We rescued him near the end of his life and despite all our efforts, he grew weaker and weaker and finally refused to eat. See