On a tour of downtown Zihuatanejo yesterday, we stumbled into a great story. Sitting outside at Cafécitos drinking café helado, we started playing with a mournful looking mutt. Soon Rash, whose family owns Cafécitos, was telling us all about the Helene Krebs Posse Pet Rescue foundation, created in honor of his grandmother. Which, it turns out, is upstairs from the cafe. When we asked enthusiastically if they had any animals right now, Rash sighed and answered, “We ALWAYS have animals.”
So abandoning our coffee, we headed upstairs to visit the foundation’s current wards. The facilities are basic, but clean. Discounted spay/neuter clinics are held regularly on weekends in cooperation with SPAZ, the local SPCA. Local local residents can bring their pets to be fixed for an affordable 100 pesos, about 8 dollars at the current rate. There’s a primitive operating room, and visiting American vets and veterinary assistants come for a week or more at a time to do surgeries and boost the ranks of the regular volunteers. The clinic is entirely funded by donations; a modest jar soliciting donations sits by the cash register at Jumil, the gorgeous craft store also run by Rash’s family.
If you’d like to know more about the Helen Krebs Posse Foundation and SPAZ. go here.
Thank you for commenting on this important project dedicated to the memory of Rashid's grandmother, Helene Krebbs Posse. The project is called Sociedad Protectora de Animales de Zihuatanejo and is known by the acronym SPAZ.
I just wanted to post the correct website for the SPAZ which is http://www.zihuatanejo.net/spaz
They urgently need donations, which can be made via PayPal if you contact them through their website. They also raise funds from the sales of SPAZ t-shirts that are for sale at several of the Kreb's family's shops at Casa Marina, their family home and the same building where Cafecito's is, next to the municipal plaza on the waterfront in downtown Zihuatanejo.
Warm saludos from Zihuatanejo!
Rob
We were lucky enough to discover this wonderful organization as well. And I say lucky because we wouldn't have adopted the beautiful dog from them if we hadn't.
The dogs of Zihuatanejo have the most incredible dispositions we've ever seen and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
And it couldn't have been any easier getting her back to Canada with us.
Elliot, Calgary