Spay Day International 2009 Results
Overall, 38 organizations from 24 countries joined Spay Day International efforts, resulting in more than 2,000 cats and dogs spayed or neutered and hundreds of thousands of people reached with the message to spay/neuter. See a slideshow of events.
Events
Events were held in Bermuda, Canada, Colombia, Cook Islands, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Arab Emirates and the US Virgin Islands, along with the United States, which celebrated Spay Day USA as sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States. Several organizations are planning additional clinics because the demand from the pet-owning public was so high. Read descriptions of the various events.
A Slideshow of Spay Day International 2009 Events
Click here or on the image below to see a slideshow of events around the world.
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Boksburg SPCA volunteer with a friend. Boksburg SPCA, South Africa, 2009. |
Photo Contest
An online pet photo contest was one element of an annual event designed to tackle worldwide overpopulation of dogs and cats.
More than 45,000 animal lovers around the globe entered their pets' photos in the second annual Spay Day Online Pet Photo Contest. Spay Day International organizations entered photos and garnered votes to raise more than US$6,000 for their ongoing spay/neuter efforts. The top international fundraiser, Spay/Panama, raised over $2,000 for their ongoing sterilization programs.
In total, the contest raised more than $550,000 for spay/neuter efforts worldwide, with nearly half of that going to local participating animal organizations and the remaining to fund HSI and The Humane Society of the United States's spay/neuter initiatives.
Since its inception in 1995, more than 1.5 million dogs and cats have been spayed or neutered as a result of Spay Day. View a slideshow of the photo contest winners.
