Please help fund our week-long spay and neuter clinic in Cayo, Belize in January, 2026 and be a part of keeping Cayo's dogs and cats happy and healthy!

Cayo Animal Welfare Society (CAWS) works to improve the lives of animals in the San Ignacio, Santa Elena & Bullet Tree Falls areas of Cayo District, Belize. We are a group of volunteers doing our best with limited resources. During the last week in January 2026, we once again have the opportunity to welcome veterinarians from Fondation Aide Vétérinaire Internationale (FAVI) in Quebec who will spend the week spaying and neutering dogs and cats with the help of local vets and volunteers.

This past January, volunteer vets from Canada came once again and the clinic was a great success! With the help of FAVI, local vets from PAWS and many volunteers, during our January, 2025 Spay and Neuter Clinic we were able to spay and neuter 364 dogs and cats over the course of the 4-day clinic, ensuring that hundreds of thousands of puppies and kittens will not wind up starving and sick on the streets of Cayo. We couldn't have done it without your help last year! The dogs and cats and the Cayo community thank you along with the CAWS team.

This clinic is extremely important in our community. Many cannot afford to spay or neuter their animals and we are able to offer the service at little or no cost. We also have dogs in foster care or that have been rescued from the street who need to be spayed and neutered. Every day, Cayo residents send us messages about a litter of puppies they've found by the side of the road or stray dogs roaming the streets starving and sick. Many messages are from people asking for help in getting their dog spayed or neutered. They want to do the right thing but simply can't afford it right now.

We are asking for your help to raise the funds necessary to provide these surgeries for as many as 400 animals during our upcoming clinic. We need to help Cayo's animals and ask you to help, too.

We need to do this to prevent more litters and more unwanted dogs and cats, but also to prevent the spread of TVT, a deadly sexually transmittable cancer. Spaying and neutering also reduces roaming, another big problem in Cayo. It also reduces agression.

The cost for an average surgery at the clinic will cost $50 US and we hope to spay or neuter 400 animals during the week-long clinic. Expenses include local vet fees, rental space, supplies, transportation for both the Canadian vet team and for those bringing animals to the clinic and more.

While we're happy to see that people want to get their dogs spayed or neutered, we're overwhelmed with how to accomplish this goal. We are 100% donation-based, and 100% of the donated funds we get go to the animals.

If you can sponsor the cost of a surgery, please donate!

Please help us to prevent the large numbers of puppies and kittens placed in bags and dumped by the road, tied up and abandoned, neglected or even tortured because they are unwanted. Yes, there are laws against this, but they are rarely enforced.

Please help if you can, and share if you cannot!

We need to see less of this:

And more of this -- Love and care for animals!

Most photos courtesy Jordana Wright